Topic: The most influential people of the forum. Who are they? (Read 1350 times)

What is your reason for bringing back this thread which has been hidden for a long time under other threads that are still actively discussing there.
Who do you ask?
Whose black ass would you like to lick?
Who is the victim and who is sacrificing the reputation of others.?

I think it's useless for you to throw all your anger here without a good reason, who cares about the drama without a title that you throw here without a clear motive and purpose.
It's time for this thread to be locked because there's nothing else to cover here.

You don't need to mince words. We all know who you're really talking about.



Who what did I do this time?

I'm very curious as to why you bumped this thread and even more curious about your comment (which seems vitriolic to say the least).

Are you currently involved in some sort of drama?  I recall something involving you, but that was a few months ago if I recall correctly--and I might not be remembering it right at all.  In any case, I think your post needs to be elaborated on.

It's not just about positive contributions.

I asked who to be friends with or who to lick ass in order to destroy the reputation of arrogant bastards at the expense of these people.

People who don't talk but act. The people who have leverage here.

This might be the longest sentence I've read in my life on this forum. You mention the word influence but don't say who? why? how? I would say you are posting for sig campaign, but you're not in a campaign.

Why call you out then? Well mainly because you mention spammers n shitposters and this post of yours fits in both categories. Please try to do better.

With this i can boldly adopt anyone who's post made has been insightful, thoughtful and impactful to me personally as an influential person on the forum and we are blessed by a good number of them in which mentioning their names isn't enough in fishing them out but am rest assured that those that consistently contributes to the forum are good asset enough and influential, and also consider yourself being on the lane of giving positive influence as well if you're not in the category of a spammer, shitposter, scammer or an inactive user, then in your own little contributions made, you could stand an inspiration to someone who is reading your post someday.

I already did 😆

Try again

As expected, I saw most of those I believe to be influential on top. The only one I didn't find where I expected in the top 10 was TryNinja. That user's BTT SuperNotifier is a marvel for me.

I never knew there's a user (e_o_l_e_o) who could top LoyceV and also had more merits than them. A user who has this must be a robot then 🤗, judging by how active and contributive LoyceV has been.

Users like:
CryptoprenuerBrainboss is one hell of a dude whose forthrightness I admire. He has consistently shown leadership acumen at our local board (Oga theymos, abeg do make you give us this board). The Pharmacist, who's act of tough discipline comes paradoxically with tender love. Ahah! lovesmayfamilis and suchmoon are also distant but close users whose posts and actions I also find reassuring.

There are several of these users but for the want of space, I will rap it up here.

*Yeah, I know these ratings change with time and no one is irreplaceable.

Yeah, I completely agree, he's been a pivot here in the community for a long time, if I'm guessing right, ever since Satoshi piped so low. Although, he tends to behave like the Holy Ghost ( I have nicknamed him Ghost already ) lol. It's months gone and no response to Nigerians demanding for a local, even a lil bit of dialogue with any would be Peng. I hope Big T ( THEYMOS listens to our plight ) a Christmas present as that won't be bad though. My bad in the first post, THEYMOS IS THE GOAT

But then, THE SKEPTICAL CHYMIST! Interesting to see and read when you talk about history here in the community, bout combating B-H, you'll always talk about Vod, why ? DT 1/ DT 2 and lastly Merit system. Thank you, for supporting lower ranks like me grow. ❤️❤️

Off-Topic; Never thought I'll see Tom Kruse crying in a movie, all I saw was staunch moves and movie's. Good Recom! Arigato!

To be fair, I rewatched it recently so it was fresh in my head when I made that post.  But I'll tell ya, I rented that movie when it came out on VHS at a Blockbuster Video near me.  Anyone remember them?  Anyone?  *crickets*

You can't possibly leave Theymos out of any list of influential forumites, now can you?  As much as I've shouted into the void at him in the past, he's one of the only old, old-school members of bitcointalk I know who's still around, and that's not even taking into account the fact that he's the site's administrator.  Maybe that goes without saying, but pops definitely deserves his props.

Influence is regarded as someone having an impact on something or a person in the place where they are referred to as influential people. I've seen a lot of influential people in different sections who are good at it on this forum, and you'll definitely learn from their posts if you're interested in learning in those sections. The more influential people in this forum are the legendary guys who have positively contributed to this forum in many ways. There are many of them to be mentioned in that regards. However, I have observed some lower-ranked users whose impact in the forum was so significant that they offered new ideas to the forum. For example, PowerGlove has risen in such a short period of time due to his ideas and potential improvements to the forum software to make it more user friendly for all forum users. I greatly value his efforts and foresee him to be among the top influential users here very soon.

Most users in the forum are influential to me, the forum represent all the people here from bad people to good people. We wouldn’t get here without satoshi of course and surely bitcointalk wouldn’t get here without all the users that kept supporting and growing. I respect everyone in the forum and i try always to learn more. And i believe in bitcointalk system so every user i see here I’m sure his merit and tags talk about him.
Personally i worked with yahoo62278 for a short amount of time, he was a great person, hard working and very honest. Which i believe most of users here has the same spirit despite some issues or different believes. We all represent this forum

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I won't lie, I did go see the piece and it was blast! That's almost like 23years old now, you keep good track's of movie's then. All that came as a result of the fantasies his wife said she has bout a man who had a glance at her and she was ready to give up her marriage and 7 year old daughter if he wanted her in anyway. That got Tom Kruse traumatized, bumped into different people from that and also to he's old mate in medical school, ( The Pianist ) lol. Getting the password ( Fidelio ) got him triggered to visit and I think trying to clear out his head from what his wife said.

Mandy ( Amanda Currana ) at first ( Ziegler's party ) gave her life else he would have been ganged raped lol, Too much of Tom Kruse's curiosity got him inner that house. And the media ? They're shit! They tell you what they want you to hear, not what happened exactly and are controlled by top billionaires with them big limo's. It was finally tagged EX-Beauty queen died of drug overdose and shit. Same shit going round presently still with the internet. ( Social media ). What's more fascinating was the wife dreaming, and her husband having reality of it all. Gadamit! I loved that shit!  . I think I'll watch it again during Christmas Eve lol

Inflencial people in the forum ? Satoshi gets first place for me. loyceV,  the various moderators always busy,  lovesmayfamilis, I swear you should go work with the FBI bursting scammers lol, I admire you alot for those brilliant detective works. To C-Brain Boss , Igehh, The Sceptical Chymist, thanks for being original and genuinely supporting lower ranks grow. And to the rest I didn't mention also you all are great supporting and pushing the community forward, I won't forget Welsh lol.

Someone will be influential you depends the board you do post. And secondly some of the thread that is talking of teaching and impacting the knowledge of cryptocurrency to people mostly beginners, this people is always be remarkable to new people.

I will only suggestion people i know from the experience in the forum who are influential
  
In the service board
(1) Hhampuz
(2) yahoo62278
(3) Darkstar

For people who creates more educative post for newbies
(1) Ratimov
(2) Loycev

For data information and the forum guidelines
(1) Theymos
(2) Loycev

For fighting of spam burster
(1) lovesmayfamilis
(2) jollygood

This people are the most firm people new person will easily know within little stays in forum

The world wide web hasn't got a lot of enemies. A lot of people made money from it. Whereas Bitcoin, has the potential to make people money, but it goes directly against our fiat system which is exploited by many people due to the way it's designed. So, Satoshi returning would likely mean people would try to find dirt on them, and they might return without revealing themselves, which would be great, but the more active Satoshi is, the more of a profile people can put together, and therefore the more likely they're to finding their identity.

I think it could be bad, regardless if Satoshi hasn't got any dirt. Dirt would likely be pinned on him, and all sorts of rumours floating about, and it's much easier to do that when there's a identity to connect it too. We've seen our news system run with stories without credibility before, so I haven't got a whole lot of confidence in them to not report bogus stories if they have the chance.

It does seem highly unlikely Satoshi will return to this forum. Though not impossible it would be an odd move to reappear given that the only way to do it would be to sign known addresses but even then conspiracy theorists would not accept it.

As for the growth of Bitcoin, it is difficult to gain an understanding of whether Satoshi would approve of where Bitcoin is today and whether Satoshi would be happy with the post-Satoshi trajectory.

Even Satoshi were return and be welcomed back by the masses, the influence wielded over Bitcoin and crypto in general would probably be negligible because I would compare it to a Tim Berners-Lee situation. He is widely credited with having created the world wide web but has literally no influence over how it operates and he has no revenues generated directly from user usage.

Satoshi may have over 1 million Bitcoin but would have no influence over the direction of Bitcoin now because it has grown in to something way beyond what Satoshi expected. Satoshi could be revered, loved or loathed in various measures by various groups but will not be able influence anything crypto related no matter how many people would blindly follow.

It will be great to get satoshi back in live hoping he is around but most likely he is not around anymore. We still don't know the pseudonym satoshi was a single entity or a group of people. It will remain always mystery and it is interesting that way. Personally I like the fact that it is a mystery.

Satoshi's influence is not limited to the forum only but it's all around in the crypto space. Anyone who heard crypto, heard the name satoshi.

Probably. Although, dare I say it from a community perspective I'd imagine theymos would be more influential. I mean the probability of Satoshi returning after all these years is probably close to zero, but if they did it'd be interesting to know what sort of influence they would have not only on this community, but the general Bitcoin community. Bitcoin's changed so much, it's almost like when you were a child, and now you're an adult you're completely different to what you were back then. Bitcoin has similarly matured, and taken a path that's probably a little bit different to what Satoshi had in mind.

It'd be interesting to think about what sort of role they'd take if they did every come back too. I imagine we'd have the demographic that worships them like a god, but ultimately the question is has Bitcoin veered off too much from their original vision? And would people be more willing to follow Satoshi simply because they were the creator or would they listen to reason to the other developers which have been working their socks off for the last decade.

Forum "influencers"??
Be vigilant..

https://www.rooshv.com/how-the-fbi-infiltrates-movements-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-them

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/02/25/western-spy-agencies-infiltrating-warping-world-online-activism

https://www.discerningthemystery.com/2017/12/how-covert-agents-infiltrate-internet.html

For this community?
theymos without any doubt.
If satoshi is back (unlikely) then they will suppress theymos :-)

There are many others but let's not take their names. I will surely miss many if I mention the names and they will think they were left behind intentionally.

No, I think we are far from the subject of this thread here.

Sometimes a scam is not 100% clear or a persons judgement may be clouded. Royse may also have had strong feelings that things were gonna work out. I cannot speak for them, just speculation.

Was Royse someone who influenced you?

No I don't have any idea, but at the same time I don't think, in the most part, that major things could be improved, as far service advertisement in this forum is concerned. I believe for any society to improve there should be some form of punishment for bad actors.

In order for a community where trade occurs to improve, scamming should lead to people:
-Having their accounts tagged in some form or another to warn other people about them
-Having to pay the full price of their scam, whether be it through paying back victims or going to prison. As you can see, I don't have much room to suggest anything here.



I agree 100% with what you say here.

The only thing I find wrong is that this post is misplaced, in the sense that when it is posted to answer my previous post, it could suggest that in this instance @Hhampuz did the right thing in my case after he knew a scam took place. I can suggest another example which is @Royse777. Managers in these cases did not cease activity with the company when it was clear those companies were pulling scams.

I will say this that the members of the forum with title like moderators, merit source... And do on were influential to the forum because they have worked hard enough to have earned the titles or position, but yet we should not overlooked on the other forum members as well who have not been given any title or position but has been a good asset as well to the forum through their commited services, posts and activeness on the forum, so i will like to add that anyone who is a quality poster is a good asset to the forum provided being active and this can be a decision to our individual preference to whom we see as a quality poster.

Personally I can say that spambuster and moderators have had a positive effect on me so far and they are two of the most influential people so far. They have succeeded in forcing me to improve the quality of my posts and contributions to others whether they are too small to say or perhaps completely useless. The positive is that they indirectly helped me reach the current Legendary rank although the merit I get are mostly from The Pharmacist who I would also call one of the most influential users for me.

In my opinion, in general, the most influential forum users are decision makers or rule makers. They include moderators, DT, merit sources and other users who have a good understanding of bitcoin. Obviously they have influence, but that influence will vary for each position and ability in this forum.

When a person decides to manage a campaign for a company they are not tied to any scam that company may pull. A manager has done some research and decided to work with the company in most cases. If the company decides to scam, it is up to the manager to cease all activity for said company, 99% of the time they do just that. We cannot know that a company has a plan to scam.

Everyone is free to have their own influences. If a person who "controls" the flow of money influences you, so be it. Others might not be influenced by that person in the same way.

Say what?  I've got mad respect for Hhampuz, but the fact that he manages bounties/campaigns really shouldn't be a factor in this discussion--nor is it Hhampuz himself who's scamming those members you're talking about (whoever they are).  If a project ends up being a scam or doesn't pay out its spammers bounty hunters, that's not his fault, nor is Hhampuz the only manager who's been in that situation (even though I'm not even sure which situation(s) you're referring to).

Ah, that might explain the bitterness even if I'm still unclear on the details of what happened.  Nevertheless, I doubt Hhampuz is to blame for whatever happened to PaperWallet.

Instead of complaining 99 times out of 100 do you have any idea how to improve the system. It does not help as long as no idea generates and the admin changes anything. In your case you are judging everything from your own personal perspective. Just because your things did not go well with FJ does not mean the forum lost it's credibility. This is a place to promote bitcoin not to prevent scams and spammers.

In my opinion, from what I have seen personally in this forum:

Hhampuz should be the most influential individual. He controls most of the sponsor money and decides who gets it, which is more important than merit for a lot here. Unfortunately, it is an evil influence. People get scammed regularly in the platforms he promotes, sometimes for big amounts of money. This is what we call "selective scamming", you get to steal large balances so few people complain, but you get a high reward for your scam (at least in his mind. In my opinion it's not a good idea because he's going to hell). Even in cases of all-round scams where all users are having their funds stolen, like we've seen with Royse777, getting the support Hhampuz helps avoid the scammer losing his job.

I don't know of anyone who Hhampuz doesn't support or negatively tags, who can get significant merits afterwards or any kind of support. And this is whether be it for a flag if that person fell victim of a scam for one of his promoted casinos, or to get in a signature campaign of any kind.

The discussion of who's influential on the forum and who's not is one which i think creates ambivalent or contradicting feelings.
I personally can not point to one or two persons that is generally influential on this forum,  but I can point to those that are influential to me,  and like it's commonly said,  that a man's food can be another man's poison ,  it is very possible that those I consider or see as influential might not be seen the same way by other users because every one of us have that one or two,  or even more users that have contributed greatly in one way or another, to our forum experience.
For example - I see

• Loycev as influential because I learnt how to build forum table from several of his posts, and also, his contributions to this forum never be overrated.
• TryNinja as influential for developing the Bitcointalk telegram notification bot which I've gotten so used to today.
• The Pharmacist as influential for his sense of humor on every post, with him, there's always another side to every story,  this I love and learn from.
• CryptopreneurBrainboss as influential for his help and also being a wonderful manager.
• Hhampuz as influential for being a wonderful manager.
• ICOpress as influential for being a wonderful manager
• Yahoo62278 For his help and also being a wonderful manager.
• Darkstar_ as influential for being one of the best and trusted loan provider on the forum, and also for managing one of the longest, and highest paying campaign here.

The logic is that every rule maker, be it admin or staff are influential people on this forum but I won't exclude satoshi. They are the government of this forum and obviously they have a tremendous influence on the forum especially regarding user moderation and the system in effect. It's about who has influence for the forum, but if it's about who has influence on personal then I think the answer will be subjective to each individual user. Theymos is my choice, there's not much reason about that.

DT members and merit sources are another part of the users who are in the circle of the system. They affect the running of the system for forum users and activities involving users which in the end this system becomes a symbol for enforcement of the rules for the operation of a system. No need to be afraid of DT or anyone on this forum including merit sources, scam busters, spam busters if users do something based on the rules and don't break them. DT is not an executioner for every rule-abiding user, but the power of DT is considered a ghost in the dark by most guilty users. you know why? Because they are afraid of losing their source of income.

Did you mean Thanos? Oh, No. It's theymos. Now Thanos be like

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Scam Busters with their DT Power. Yes, I am not kidding. Suppose a guy is a Scam buster and has DT Power. He will become your influencer. You are a human, and you may be made some mistakes before in this forum, Or are likely to make some mistakes. If you did or do, You are under their control. This is how they will become your influencer.

Nice analysis--and not just because you included me in your list; few members would take the time to write out detailed explanations for a question/poll like this.  All of those people who whine about not earning merits should take note of posts like yours.  They're the ones that catch the attention of merit sources (and other members who like handing out merits).

Excluding myself, I'd say your list is pretty spot-on.  Everyone is influenced by different people, but in general those members you listed have strong personalities and make their presence known--and they have well-earned reputations, too.  I'm not particularly fond of OgNasty, but I'm not going to deny his influence on the forum.

Have you seen the movie Eyes Wide Shut?  Damn fine flick, one of Kubrick's best (IMO) and his final one, too.  If you have seen it, think of the Cycling Club gatherings as similar to the one Tom Cruise snuck into and nearly got gang raped to death.  Foxpup's role is akin to the red masked character--and I'm going to leave it at that.  Should you ever get an invitation, you'll need to find an excellent costumer.

If we start from the very meaning of the word "influence", this suggests that a person can influence someone with his decision. Isn't it? But the forum was conceived as democratic, where every person has the right to vote. Is it worth talking about influence here if DT members misuse their tags? I think no. This is not an influence; it is an indicator of how fair this person is and whether they know how to make decisions correctly or not. Probably, to have any kind of power, a person must always have a cool head. Quick and thoughtless things that can be mistaken for influence are nothing more than emotions that make their master a slave.

In another sense, those people will be influential to me who have gained respect for their correct actions, from whom you can take an example. And also for their knowledge that influences people to become better.

Still it should never be used as a measure of influence, there is a trend that if you paid close attention to on the forum you'll observe, veteran users aren't as merit hungry as the new users and they do have their influence on the forum. Infact they're the ones that do give the merits. At a point Jet Cash was very influencer on the forum especially in the beginners & help and Bitcoin discussion section but all of a sudden he withdrew his involved on the forum and same can be said about others.

Today the trend has changed, ask about influencer people and you'll see mostly campaign managers or individuals who just attack themselves names pop up on the list and it shouldn't be so. Influence should be about users actually contributing positivity to the forum it doesn't matter if they have merit reward for this or not infact those who are genuine don't even care if their contributions are awarded merits. I remembered when Jet Cash initiated the fit-to-talk project to help non English speaking users on the forum (good times).

If you want to use Merit for this, https://bpip.org/Report?r=earnedmerit is what you're looking for.

I do not think there is any reason to judge who is the most influential base on the most merit. Because there are a lot of people who got 1000 merit as an airdrop and latter didn't receive any merit. On the other hand a lot of users who came here after starting merit system and received a lot of merit even 2/3 times from those who received from airdrop.

I am with you on this @LoyceV. Having the merits cannot be used to qualify whom is the most influential on the forum. In a way it might apply to some users looking to rank up but after you rank up, what then becomes your focus? You begin to see a nothingness in the idea of merits. Maybe it would for beginners but, merits isn't really what to look out for here after all, some good posts don't get merits and at other times, just a photo in wall observer could get the most merits on the forum @50merits.

I view influence on the forum from the input most users have made on the forum. Ranging from those to whom have created instructional materials that we have as pinned posts/rules on various boards (can'tlist them all), those that have created tools to aid the forum (Loyce and TryNinj), those whose replies could result in the closure of a thread as it answers the question precisely, those whose knowledge seems to span from the genesis of cryptocurrency, DTs like Lovesmayfamilis  and other DTs who have devoted most of there time and effort in ensuring the serenity of the forum, those whom are selfless, those that take managements to a whole new level (Hhampuz, CryptopreneurBrainboss, Icopress and Sujonali1819) and those that motivates its locale on the forum (CryptopreneurBrainboss for Nigerians).

Your impacts are felt and noted!

Well, going by the list I can see nearly all of the high rank members are influential. Lol! Although I don't know what you intend to mean by influential in your post but if it is what I am thinking then, I will pick user 68 which is CryptopreneurBrainboss thou they're other members I recognized too but he's the top of my list.
Building confidence and giving hope to newbies that they can do more and they eventually do more is more than being influential.

Being influential in this context should mean the ability of a user to Influence how  others (another) behave(s) in the forum. If this simple definition is true, I will like to mention some users who I can say are the most influential people in the forum.
This is excluding admin, staff or moderators. And also excluding people I didn't actually meet in the forum but have heard about them.
Below are but not limited to why these users are influential.

• Being on DT
• Being a merit source
• Being a scam burster
• Being a campaign manager
• Personal Charisma

Without the above, anyone could be as influential as everyone .

Growing in the forum, these are members I believe are influential, especially to growing members from newbie to Sr member. The list is in no special order of importance.

• Hhampuz: The is a renowned manager who manages most of the long lasting campaigns in the forum. As a lower-ranked member, he Influenced me to make good posts in order to earn high number of merits to join his campaign.  And I eventually succeeded. So, he Influenced me positively.
• Ognasty: Because of his thread to give merits to newbie if you can sign a message or send encrypted message. He Influenced me and other newbies to learn how to sign a message.
• The Pharmacist: He is a strong voice who stands for truth no matter who is involved. When you are in trouble and he speaks for your favour, you are likely getting out of it. Then, if he isn't in your side, it's a scary story.
• LoyceV: Always with a decent and near perfect opinions and judgement at every time. If everyone wants you to be killed, LoyceV is always that person that will stand out, if there are not compelling reasons to do so. With good number of threads in meta created by him that ought to be pinned. He is influential
• Lovesmayfamilis, Ratimov, JollyGood and Nutildah are the first scam bursters I knew. They have great influence in the forum, as they are the nightmare of scammers. 1xbit spammers will always be afraid of JollyGood.  Then, Ratimov has Influence on lower-ranked members because of his thread to help newbies and others rank up. Lovesmayfamilis will tell even a newbie a blatant truth, whether bitter or sweet, which gave her a voice apart from scam bursting.
• yahoo62278 and Darkstar_ : Yahoo62278 is known for checking methods of Posts, maybe with lingistic, this makes new users pay attention to their posting pattern.  Darkstar_ is influential due to the prestigious chimpmixer campaign and his loan services
• DdmrDdmr fillippone and CryptopreneurBrainboss: DdmrDdmr is always that user that will leave 1 or 2 merits on almost every of my post. I had to visit his profile to see the type of Posts he likes. Fillippone made me start researching, I just believed that research was only for high school till I met him. CryptopreneurBrainboss has a high Influence as a bounty and signature manager,  and also to Nigerians. He and Ratimov love topics teaching newbies to be successful in the forum and I created a number of those topics and they merited them

These compilation is a personal list as a result of boards that I post, especially Beginners and help, Meta and Bitcoin Discussion. I know there are other influential users in boards that I don't frequent, I might not have encountered them.
Thanks for reading.

I'm just gutted you guys don't have special guests on occasion, unless I'm just not up to the standard of those guests, which would be totally understandable.  

Basically true for every walk of life. No one's replaceable, and life continues to go on despite what happens. That might be a morbid way of looking at things, but it's the reality. Would I miss key users of this forum is they discontinued contributing? Absolutely, but it's not like we're going to shut up shop because of it.

Some users have carved their way into history though, and their legacy will live on as long as those that remember it live on. That's something at the very least.

Absolutely true, indispensable is the key word.

It is all about rotation. Members come and members go... some move on and never return whereas some return rarely or intermittently. Others sadly pass away and that is life, that is the irony. In that process, the forum continues where new members come or not and/or whether existing members continue to frequent or not.

The ecosystem is in itself an amazing thing and that is it... remove the forum and there is nothing but remove the members then others will register.

Having said that I think the OP asked the question with a different intent to what was stated because he later redefined why he asked the question.

Congratulations on your amazing statistics  

Not a single active poster on this forum in indispensable. Obviously legends like satoshi & Hal have walked amongst the mere mortals like ourselves here but this forum will go on for a long time. Not a single active poster here is too important or too influential.

You can talk about Activity, Merit, Trust Ratings but none of it is important. This is coming from somebody with these stats so I have no reason to hate:



Even theynos is replaceable, so my answer to the question in the OP is that nobody in the most influential. We’re all here for our own reasons, I love this forum, without it I wouldn’t have kept buying so much bitcoin in the early days but whatever, nobody is so influential that it means much.

Peace.

1. My first user is JayJuanGee: this user is a personality I've studied with my little experience while in the forum to be a straight forwarded person, he's an active and a consistent quality poster, his posts were full of taughts and he addresses discussions from live experience just as the real situation is, i also observed him as been versatile in carrying out task, this were lessons i learnt unaware to him through his discussions on the forum.

2. My second user is Ddmrddmr: i was first attracted to this user when i came across a thread created by @fillippone that says [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human? then i also give a glance on his profile and since then, I've always respected his abilities beyond doubts in giving out the best to the smothiness of the community, i also wonder if he never get tired and how he multitask himself to arrive on achieving outstanding results, he has many threads that involve taking time in extracting data form the forum such as that of Bitcointalk Ranking-up pipeline- Those close to their next rank (lacking Merits) which is consistently updated.


3. My third are these two wonderful set of users: Fillippone and Ratimov, i intentionally bring them together because there's similarities in their thinking approach and creativity, i love to read their threads because they always bring in new ideas in doing things, they take alot of their efforts in doing research about a particular area, they picture a particular need and create a fill on the vacuum space, i wish to develop upto their abilities in the nearest future.

Not beer; Scotch whisky.

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The real answer here is achow101. As the only Core maintainer with an active presence here, he is probably the most influential person here in terms of bitcoin's development and future.

Anyone can destroy your reputation if you are doing shady things. It doesn't matter if it's some newbie account or me, if you are being accused of something with proof your account can potentially be ruined depending on the offense.

As far as whom to avoid, don't avoid anybody. We are all just people and shouldn't be feared. You ask me a legitimate question whether in a thread or a pm, I will likely give you an answer as long as i'm aware of the question. I'm not looking for anyone to kiss my ass or anything, just be nice in our interactions and you'll go far with me.

I cannot say that merits received are an appropriate barometer to indicate or ascertain influence. By the way, we all probably define or interpret the word influence in different ways.

By the way, your account was created in 2018 therefore in November 2022 it will be 4 years (not 7 years). Which accounts have you been operating for the other 3 years?

True.

Nearly all of those posting in the technical, scam accusation, reputation and lending boards are not posting in the gambling/gambling discussion boards and vice-versa. Each are capable of having their own impact on those frequenting those particular boards.

I do not know why the OP created this thread but there seems to a little more than curiosity.

You created this airfinex account in 2018, I think you are very well aware of certain names yet you created this thread starting with a misdirection only hoping it leads on to the path which your real motive and question is now based on.

Yeah... for me influential means... to be somebody I can always learn from, somebody I wish to be like that person.
This is a forum. You can always make a new account and start fresh. While it's best to be friendly and try to be part of a great community.. licking this or that ass for "being secure" may not get you far. I guess that if you want to be part of this or that mafia/gang you'll have to ask at the street corners, not asking loudly 

I just wanted to know who better not to mess with to avoid problems. Those who, through their influence and pressure, can destroy your reputation on the forum. Someone to be feared, or at least someone who should have their ass licked to be your friend.

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I don't think he has any influence here. While it has made some serious progress, (it has evolved from a translation spammer to an adequate poster).

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Theymos is a tough one: on the one hand I feel like theymos is the least influential person here, because he gives people the freedom to do almost anything they want. But on the other hand theymos influenced me quite a bit into appreciating freedom of expression, even when I don't agree with the opinion. It's part of what made me thick skinned.

Sorry, but without the technical details there's no bitcoin.
My list of influential people are people with very good knowledge in Dev&Tech or Mining.
Since you don't care about those, I have no list to give you.

Although I highly esteem also some non-technical peeps, I have a feeling you prefer a list of drama queens and forum policemen, and that's... not really influential for me...

Not yet, but I will. See how influential you can be? 

On a more serious note, I was thinking of active members. Satoshi is not active anymore.

What about Sir theymos? No one is going to mention Sir theymos? I suppose that if he is not mentioned it will be for the same reason as Satoshi, although he is active, he doesn't write much.

Btw, I hope someone will give some merit to airfinex, I am out atm, but I think he deserves at least one because after so many drama threads lately, a thread that can have a funny touch is appreciated.

satoshi

Without satoshi, none of us would have been here.

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I disagree. I may be on top of that list (while it lasts), but that doesn't mean I could influence people. I may be able to convince some users in certain ways (such as how to use the Trust system correctly), but in my book being influential means you can influence people in any direction. I don't think I'd be able to get people to use some shitcoin for instance (nor am I willing to find out).
I like to think of it as "I can only show you the door, you're the one who has to walk through" (quote taken from Morpheus, but I sure hope you knew that already when you read it).

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That doesn't make me influential. Please go buy pink shoes. I said please!
Did you do it? I sure hope not

Different people have different influence in different sections.
There are a lot of people here who I will read and trust and accept what they have to say in certain areas. Say here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0 but when thy are discussing things here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=228.0 I just about ignore everything they have to say.
I don't know what I don't know, and I really don't know what other people don't know until they talk about things I do know.

Are there people who have more influence yes, but even someone like o_e_l_e_o who I think has a lot of influence in certain areas due to his beliefs / eloquence in the way he talks about things / knowledge in a lot of areas would have a really hard time influencing things in the mining hardware section or the altcoin mining section. Because even with his post count and merit and everything else. He is not known there. He could read it every day but we would not know that. Heck I'm even like that I made my 1st post in the gambling section today in months. Read it a lot, just don't talk about it so to speak. So although those stats are good as an overall view as you drill down it gets a bit different. Or at least it does in my opinion.

-Dave

Baaahhh-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!  (I'm laughing about the trailing criticism gang thing)

Foxmaster's club is indeed exclusive and shrouded in mystery, but it doesn't mean there's ever a concerted effort to reinforce Foxxy's opinions by stifling dissent.  I hate to admit this, but since I have avatars on ignore I'm not even sure who my fellow cyclists are.  That should tell you that there's no collusion happening behind the scenes (or that I'm just excluded from it, although I'm always invited to the witching hour sex parties gatherings, where identities are hidden with some extremely creative masks).

I agree with you about Lauda, though.  If we're talking strictly about influence on members of the forum, Lauda was right up there with Vod, OgNasty, TECSHARE, and Bruno.  There are others, but at the moment there seems to be a dearth of very strong, outspoken personalities who acquire a cadre of acolytes.  Leaders, in other words.  Or maybe there are and I'm not paying enough attention and missing them--or my definition of "influence" is too strict.

Not believing in the Merit Cycling Club will put a member's name on a secret list, just FYI.  I think you're underestimating just what our club does and what resources it has access to--and that's to your detriment, my friend.  *lulz*

The most better thing is to choice your own road, have a correct behavior, respect everyone, and don't mind about club, sect or other; with a correct behavior no one will have something against you, especially, always fight scam, community must be protected from it. This place have to be always clean.

Anyway, here is my list of most reputable user of forum:
- LoyceV
- The Pharmacist
- yahoo62278
- icopress
- Ratimov
- filippone

How can a member create a club in the forum, it is not like they can go to the pub and have beer together discussing how best to further strengthen the club, i will not believe in that theory. Any member can dispute whatever they want if they do not agree with it, i understand there is free speech in the forum, you can likewise criticize what you do not like. Leaving tags, whether positive, negative or neutral is for every member of the forum, distrusting people too, so we all can use it.

Hell if there is even a way to create a club anybody should go ahead and create theirs if they want, FREEDOM!

I have disagreed with him, in ideological or political matters because he is quite left wing, but I don't think we have ever had a direct discussion, I think he ignores me or something. Better. The time I spend on the forum I don't want to spend it angry, that's why I haven't been in the political section for some time and I tend to avoid discussions on other boards if I see that the positions are entrenched.


You just answered the question yourself. I would extend it to those in the top positions of not only earned merit but also most trusted and most recognized.

For me in particular LoyceV would be number 1 not only because of all he knows about the forum but also because of his thick-skin mindset.

Foxpup - Influence 8 out of 10.

Foxpup has created a unique closed club, whose members represent the cream of this forum and no one in their right mind will dispute his tags and will not argue with him publicly, because whoever does this will be subjected to a flurry of criticism from the members of the closed club (and those who trust these people).

In my seven years of existence on this forum, I have seen many people, and in my opinion Lauda was one of the most influential people here. I take into account only ordinary users, those who are not related to Bitcoin Core. I'm talking about those people who have influence on the public.

Tell  who you think is influential and why.

https://bpip.org/Report?r=mostmerit

Users from this list best fit the description.