Topic: What's minor thing that you find appreciative on Bitcointalk? - page 3. (Read 807 times)

I will say right now, it's simplicity and access.

Last Saturday, my main machine broke up so I have to bring it to have it fix. So I have to pull out my old laptop as the back up. I set up up with LinuxMint. This is a 10 year old Samsung 10.1 inch netbook. It still has the Windows 7 and Atom Inside sticker, hehehe. It connected to my wifi but the power is just like 53% connected. And yet it was enough for me with this old machine and wifi to connect to this community and browse and post with just minimal laggings because the design is so lightweight.

Availability of Local boards

This is something I find really appreciative in Bitcointalk. The forum does not limit you from participating because you neither write nor understand English. You can decide to be on your local boards and still understand things about the forum. I believe the availability of locals is one differentiating factor between btt and order old forums.

Some times I will just log into this forum and decide to buy a visa to different countries You can't imagine how cool I feel checking posts in some locals and having to translate them to English with a translator, especially posts that have cool number of merits on them.

I like how bloody simple it is. If you want to change things on your end, i.e user interface CSS/UserScripts it's fairly straight forward. However, it also doesn't change, whereas plenty of other forums change their software every other week, which ends up breaking things you might've added. I don't actually participate in other forums, only for question usually, and then I leave. So, Bitcointalk just does it right.

Plus, while our community can seem divided at times, we do sort of pull together for the big things, for example the Bitcointalk Discord (which I should probably poke my head into), and things like the 10th anniversary, while these events do bring drama obviously with a community this big, it was generally a good atmosphere around them.

Also, this goes for the first point, but the lack of white space. Do you know how much I hate white space? Seriously, why has modern demands made it harder for me to find content, and instead spend my time scrolling a lot more. I generally use older laptops or computers which don't use much energy due to travelling a fair amount, and therefore I have smaller screens, and lower resolutions so some sites can be an absolute nightmare to actually browse.

Finally, lack of Javascript requirement. Bloody hate when sites inject javascript when it's not needed. Usually, the fancy things up. Function over fashion is the way to go.

Merit system, because it is something I have never seen on other social media. (It is like hearts/likes on steroids)

I also like the fact there is an option to log in without completing the catpcha, for us with a problematic internet connection. it is a little detail that matters much for some.

I like how people are okey if one's english is not completely good, I have seen threads or discussions where someone commits some grammatical mistakes and yet everyone focuses on the topic itself instead being rude, super wholesome.

he meant that the post won't be shown that it has been edited (even if you hover your cursor on the date of the post) if you edit your post seconds or even several minutes after you posted it. also, if I remember correctly, the post will only be shown as edited if you edit your post after 10 minutes have passed.

Knowledge - it is appreciated. The products of that knowledge are infinite in number as I believe it will continue to increase. Not infrequently the little things from him are appreciated, it is very relative. But not infrequently it will be big because the impact it produces is large. Next up - effort is something that is also appreciated. Starting from small things that can become big if done continuously and consistently.

In what way do you appreciate it?

I'll go one further and say it's most likely because businesses and brands are only willing to pay for posts if the forum it's made on is a reputable one. I have been on forums which tried to recreate the signature and avatar design on the forum to build traffic, but discussions cannot be built on that, rather there needs to be an existing discussion platform, before that traffic can be monetized in any way.

Also, majority of forums out there do not actually care for preventing spam, many have even encouraged spam here; remember Yobit

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's because other forums consider spam as a problem to be solved, rather than as something to be actively encouraged because "muh freeze peach". Remember what I'm paying you guys for!

Definitely not a minor thing, but it's unique as far as I know.  I've often wondered why other discussion forums don't adopt that model, even if it's just for traffic.

OP, I don't know what you consider "minor" but I appreciate the fact that bitcointalk has basically kept the same format since its inception.  And that's not because I'm opposed to anything new, or that I'm somehow stuck on things from the past 13 years.  It's because it reflects the fact that this is how the forum was when bitcoin was created, and it's also consistent with the nature of bitcoin, i.e., that its code isn't going to get changed by its dev team to make it worse--and that's happened with altcoins many times.  Sure, there have been bitcoin forks but those aren't bitcoin and never will be.

I can’t call it a trifle, I discovered the honesty and decency of many people. This is rare on the internet. After all, we can be anyone, but sometimes I am surprised at the kindness, and wisdom of the people who are present here, all that every day is difficult to see in real life. Today the world is rough, everyone thinks only about their own skin, but here is a different world, with the reading of which my day begins and ends.

Not really related to any forum features, but I appreciate having random conversations with random users here sharing their own experiences. Regardless if people share a true experience or not, I appreciate some user taking their time to write and relate to someone else's reply in a thread out of all those users that seemingly just reply to the OP's title or just the first line of OP's thread content.

It kinda gave me the Discord conversation vibes, although I do not use Discord that much that's related to crypto for personal reasons.

Feels good that someone would take time to show appreciation to your post, so I feel ya there!

I can think of major things, but if it's just a minor one: Stable, smooth forum software.

It does. You just have to wait a little after you submit it, and then edit it. Here's a post of mine: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.57121263. Hover your mouse on "May 30, 2021", and you'll see when was that I edited last time.

The Merit system, I guess. Whenever I see the count increases, it makes my day

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Editing your post after launching it then it's gonna be okay if you put an effort because we are not perfect sometimes we encounter some minor issues like we want to reply 2-3 topics but we only quote 1 author which needed to be edited to became a good reply not a spam one. But if a user post like this (.....)(reserved) or any useless things to complete a weekly quota for the campaign then edit later on which not good as a habit.

Bitcointalk is literally known for that, I wouldn't call it 'minor thing'.

I like that many people here get paid to participate.  What other website can you make a post from the toilet and earn a few dollars?  It's a shame that the quality of content isn't taken into account in these payout structures, but it's still a cool thing.  Granted, it could be improved upon a great deal and benefit more users if it were managed by the forum, but it's still the reason a majority of posts are made here and that keeps things humming along as the information base continues to grow and gives users a chance to support projects and products here by purchasing them with funds from forum participation. 

It's good to be thorough when posting, but you can't completely prevent typos when your eyes are really tired after a long day in front of a screen. I think the preview feature before posting is useful, but then again it won't completely prevent minor errors for 200-500 character posts.

Editing a post is never a problem if not to trick the campaign manager when you can't meet the required number of requirements before the deadline. But if it's just written like (~~~) or (...) and edited after a few hours, then there's something of a purpose that's not really worth counting.

The fact that I can easily use Bitcointalk using Tor, because Bitcointalk is not some super unnecessarily modern feature-filled website that would take forever to load and that would take a lot of unnecessary resources.

I like that it doesn't count post 'edited' if you edit just after posting the comment/topic.

It could be available on other forums too, but I came across it first time in here.

What about you?