Topic: What Would Be Your Reason to Leave Bitcointalk? - page 6. (Read 2717 times)

You probably wanted to say that more merits than activity looks nice, right? I have always thought the same. And if you look at the best posters (in terms of earned merits) and those most knowledgeable about bitcoin (who write in threads of technical nature), you will notice that they usually have more merits than activity points. From the top of my head, there is pooya87, yourself, NotATether, HCP, o_e_l_e_o, and many more. Feels weird to single only a few ones out. In cases like that, merit is the benchmark of the quality they bring.     

Huh, quite a bold statement.
Didn't you mix up your accounts? Newbie with two posts, already influencing many people on this forum?
Tell us your name, wizard?

I never see reason that will make me to leave this forum and I don't pray for any reason of such because I have had a lot of the positive effect of this forum to many lives out there.

I was introduced by friend to join this forum and that friend till date is still in forum and have not quit. He has made a lot of money and investment too through this forum. For this reason I make it promised to remain and not to quit for any reason.

Only a few people have been able to do this, for instance theymos and gmaxwell. Some people did it by only making one post that received Merit, and some people got there by deleting most of their posts. Most people won't even get close. See: Percentage of Merit received on old posts, deleted posts, and average per post.

But it's not needed to earn 1 Merit per post: to rank up, you only need on average 1 Merit per Activity. If you post a lot, that means 1 Merit per day. More Merit than Activity looks nice, but there's no point other than bragging rights.

Agreed. Merit is supposed to get rid of spammers, not good users.

I don't think merits should really become the purpose of writing on this forum.
I think this forum should become a relaxed place where friends and crypto enthusiasts can meet and share their thoughts and experiences about bitcoin and crypto.
Merits should only be an added benefit for those members who, with their knowledge and experience, can help the community more.
We are all here actually equal members and we are free to write about bitcoin and crypto topics without restrictions and we don’t need to have merits to be able to write.
Merits are only important here because of the possibility of making money on this forum, which is a completely different story.
I'm glad you decided to return to this forum 

Let me present you the most ridiculous reason ever!!

I left the forum 2 years ago, the reason was I became a perfectionist!

I created this account when I was in the university and I was obsessed with merit system at that time. Luckily for me I got merits for few posts and I needed to achieve merits for each and every post and It grew in to a headache, I put a lot of effort and thought most of the posts. I wanted to have a post count which does not have a mile difference with the merit count. Later this became stressful and I learnt that I do not know enough knowledge about Crypto in order have such high expectations.

Then I left the forum, stopped logging in, stopped worrying about merits nor posts.
Finished the degree, started a good job and just today I logged in and posting this!

Now the obsession is over, I am here to freaking stay!!

Only when my head hurts

What button? I just type the bbcode.

I'm still here on this forum, things aren't as fun as they were in 2017. New technologies have been developed and we've got enough dodgy in the blockchain space. I notice the altcoinstalks forum is getting more active with more local topics but they will probably never be as professional as here. I'm here and when I'm tired I'll leave but it might take a long time.

I will be active in this forum and would be posting here as long as my soul doesn't depart from my body, well that's really a long way to go but I am very much interested to see how this forum will evolve over the years/decades. I might be inactive at times (may be a day or two without logging in or a month or half without posting) and that will continue to happen as long as my account is active because taking care of personal stuff is far more important than being active over here.

I have been part of famous torrenting forums since 2010 and some of them were closed recently for various reasons (may be because of sharing pirated content for over a decade) and I firmly believe a discussion forum like bitcointalk would never become unreachable at any point of time unless and until theymos or any future admins decide to sell the forum for a hefty btc value!

Another discussion forum which I was part of since 2014, became a paid membership just like what Jet Cash said in his post but that being said, even if bitcointalk is converted into a paid forum sometime in future I will pay the btc fees (provided they aren't high) and join again  Bitcoin is young so does this forum too and on top of everything I personally would like to see this forum grow with various advancements in the aesthetic look.

Just like how Voyager 1 and 2 is travelling in the deep space looking forward towards reaching Alpha Centauri in a few millennium, I will be travelling here looking forward towards the changes happening in the future decades.

Let me fix that for you. Here we go:
It's good to see that LoyceV can make a mistake every now and then as well
That reminds me of my thread Why does the hyperlink button create a hyperlink in that format? If the = sign was included in the hyperlink button from the start, our dear LoyceV wouldn't have to make mistakes like this.

To me also the idea that some relatives of theymos inherit the management of this forum does not seem too likely and possible.
After all, theymos was not originally the main admin (but only the global moderator) of this forum, and after the departure of Satoshi and some other admins, there was no vacuum here, but theymos took over the management of the forum.
In the same way, if and when theymos leave this forum someone other from the current staff will naturally replace him.
There is no need to worry too much about this issue.

I thought it would be the safest to leave at least some to his immediately family member(s), guess he has his way of managing the funds.


Even 10 Bitcoin would do, let alone over 1,000

It makes no sense to turn Bitcointalk into theymos' "family business". As for private keys: there are forum treasurers in place to ensure financial security for the forum. Theymos holds at least 750 Bitcoin, the treasurers share access to 500 Bitcoin. That's enough to fund the forum for a very long time.
Passing on half the private keys makes no sense. I assume Cyrus has access to the forum's database.

No, they don't. Siblings are brothers and sisters, it's not the same as your next of kin. Your wife/husband and children are not considered siblings.   

Whoever deserves it the most due to his contributions to the forum and the work done in the background. The stuff we can't see from posts and sharing on-forum content.

He didn't wrote anything about his siblings doesn't change anything. Everyone has siblings including him.
No one needs to write personal stuff here.



So if he does not want to inherit, who will be the owner of the forum   

What makes you think he even has siblings? Unless he wrote about it somewhere on the forum. Considering how private of a person theymos is, I doubt he did. I don't think Bitcointalk is something those close to theymos will inherit. He didn't inherit it by being the child of the previous admin either. Passing it on to children or siblings should not be something he would seriously consider unless they have a major interest in bitcoin and forum management, and they are already on the forum without us knowing about it. 

I left the forum about two years ago due to life and personal problems. Since I don't know much about crypto, I decided to left the forum for good and focus on the real life in front of me. For some reason, I still found my self visiting the forum sometimes with the curiosity of "how's Bitcointalk doin?, are there still spammers left?" but to be honest, it appears that Bitcointak doesn't changed a bit. The same problem from spammers back then still arises after all, well it's not really something that will disappear just after a couple of years.

Back to the the story, I actually planned to return before I left cause I really wanted to start my own service but, due to some failures I don't have the confidence anymore. I don't even post very often as well fearing that I might only spam the thread (I don't know, I just felt it that way) and speaking of posting, this shitpost took me about 20 minutes and I even hesitated whether to post this or not but since you're already reading this seems like I just hit "Post" and there's no turning back. Now that I'm still posting even a single post per year, just like hilariousandco and the others, I think death is also the first thing that will make me leave the forum permanently, I have no plan to haunt the forum.

He must have already passed the half of the private keys to his next of kin. Always on standby in case something happens

Theymos would never auction this forum. I think this form will be taken care by the siblings of theymos. As with all the business, their ownership is never transferred to the external shareholders.