After I made this post
Test your forum knowledge People did not contribute much because I did not do it well. I did not put the questions in objective form. So I was determined to make research. I decided to start from outside the forum to know what people outside the forum say or know about the forum. I separate different websites and outline the important things they said about this forum. I tried to put some important things they said in quote so that we can note them. I also ask questions in red colour anywhere I was confused.
Coinmarketcap.com 1. It did not recognise Bitcointalk as the largest Bitcoin Forum.
The commonly used cryptocurrency-trader meme "HODL" originated from a 2013 bitcointalk forum post.
Could it be this thread?I AM HODLING 4. It raised the concern about scam and said that traded accounts are used to scam people.
A 2016 study by researchers from the University of New Mexico, and University of Tulsa, Oklahoma identified 1780 scams, based on forum reports. There is a demand for more privileges for older user accounts. Traded accounts were reportedly used to scam people
Meet bunch.com1. It says that most ICOs promotes their projects here. That bitcointalk is ethereum first announcement platform. (happy and wonderful to me that I discovered this)
As a crypto community, here is where most ICOs promote their projects and start building their communities. For example, Bitcointalk is Ethereum’s first announcement platform.
2. It describes the forum very well. It talked about
merit, activity, trust, spam reduction, signature and bounty campaign, evil fees, copper membership, ANN threads and more. 3. It said something about the importance and dangers of seed account but I don't understand what seed account means even after the explanation below.
helpSeed accounts are double-edged swords that can give great competitive advantages but with some headaches. These are also commonly used in the online marketing space in generating initial momentum when launching a campaign to trigger virality that will later be sustained by organic growth. This is also similar to "fake accounts." The benefit of having seed accounts in Bitcointalk ANN thread is the retention of the ANN thread on the first page of the forum. Having a constant pump of the thread would help the ICO announcement reach more audience in the community and keep it trending. If the thread has more views and comments, it will attract more audience in which Jr. members, Members, and Full members can comment to increase the visibility of the ANN thread. Having seed accounts is an effective way of being proactive in the community and thus, triggers discussions to keep the thread in the spotlight.
The risk of using seed accounts is the possibility of getting banned from the forum for the accusation of excessive spamming or bumping of the thread to keep it on page one, but having a legitimate dialogue among other users using the seed accounts will keep the thread active and visible. Using a seed account is a growth hacking activity that requires cautious execution of plans to avoid the possibility of getting banned from the forum of the entire project’s thread.
Exposing the usage of seed accounts to the public may cause some harm in your reputation. But hey, you’ll be surprised by the number of crypto projects employing this kind of strategy. With the right moderation, getting completely banned will be avoided.
4. In conclusion it agrees that bitcointalk is the oldest forum and that it is still reputable till date.
Bitcointalk is one of the pioneer crypto communities that launch ICOs and crypto-related projects. It is the place where crypto space began to sprout and led to other crypto channels. Even with the presence of other channels, Bitcointalk remains a reputable platform every crypto project must consider building a community on.
Bitcoinwiki 1. It says Theymos is the admin but the domain name is owned by Sirius.
QuestionIf Sirius decides to take his domain as the owner, can he or he can no longer temper with it, just as Satoshi can no longer temper with bitcoin?
2. It said the forum had before being hosted as bitcoin.org/SMF. In July 2011 it was moved to Bitcointalk.org to make it unofficial. But there was still a strong marriage of link between Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk.org until recently.
The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage was made to simply return the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums". This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms. None of these alternative forums have yet reached the size of Bitcoin Talk.
Later, the "forum" link was simply removed, further distancing Bitcoin Talk from the official bitcoin.org. As of April 21, 2012, Bitcoin Talk remains the first search result on Google thanks to its high page rank.
On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one millionth post.
References:https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/bitcointalkhttps://zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Bitcointalkhttps://www.meetbunch.com/the-bitcointalk-guidehttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinTalk
Acknowledgement:I acknowledge everybody that encouraged me when I made
Test your forum knowledgeNow I have known what outsiders say about bitcointalk.org I will continue another phase of research.
