We've got alot of dormant accounts; not because the forum suddenly became unbearable for anyone but you seeeee....we all have our private lives and plans to put into materialization so for this reason, alot have decided to refrain from the forum. Some haven't even had the chance to decide whether or not to stay; as dead quietly bully 'em into endless slumber.
I don't think peeps in here get any direct informations from anyone that goes inactive for a while; apart from some that knows virtually, an important personality in here, that's been trusted over time. If informations are given from sources like that, about a user inactivity, then we'll get to believe 'em.
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Topic: Why are there lots of accounts that seem abandoned? - page 2. (Read 503 times)
Many accounts that may be abandoned are from long ago... we might assume the account owner has a large balance of cryptocurrency and abandoned their old socials as a safety precaution... Many old accounts are also locked and it is very hard to get an account unlocked, especially when untouched for years.
I believe many persons here have pointed notable reasons why an account could be abandoned but I just want to add that some might be maybe that the user of such account might have been engaged into something bigger and time taking that do benefit them alot and such a person couldn't just be at two places at same time and decides to let go of the account .
Perhaps, it could be a dream job and that has made them got weary of the forum.
Perhaps, it could be a dream job and that has made them got weary of the forum.
I've been going through the forum lately and I've seen alot of accounts that seem abandoned and I've been tempted to know what really happened to them.
I've been seen some high ranked up to hero ranked accounts and so much low ranked accounts that seem abandoned with last login showing over two to three years ago and I really wanted to know if the forum has any provisions to check up on its members either through email or whatever means if a member suddenly stops appearing online.
People sign up on the forum for a lot of reasons. You may be surprised if you carried out a poll the answers you would get. And at some point when their objective is achieved, they stop visiting. I will focus on the techies and founders who sign up to get answers their technical questions and once they get a satisfactory reply they stop visiting the forum. I have also seen folks who sign up to get participants for the grad school research. Once they get the participants to answer their survey, they stop visiting the forum. I can go on and on but I believe you already get the point now. I've been seen some high ranked up to hero ranked accounts and so much low ranked accounts that seem abandoned with last login showing over two to three years ago and I really wanted to know if the forum has any provisions to check up on its members either through email or whatever means if a member suddenly stops appearing online.
for your thinking about this forum as some kind of crypto-currency center, I think that is not correct considering how many active members we have that give some value to the forum compared to all those bounty hunters who together are worth absolutely nothing.
For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.
For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.
You are probably right. Forums were the place to go for years and are filled with a ton of valuable information to back it up. Unfortunately, they are nowhere near as influential as they used to be. Though that doesn't mean that forums are completely useless in 2022. There are various social networks available on the internet, but imho, the best way to get advice on a given topic is by using forums. You just can't find the same level of quality and information elsewhere. People take their time to write a post, or reply to one, which means that the quality of the content is usually better than on other sites. You can go back and read their posts at a later date, which is another advantage of using forums.
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I think everything will change when we get a new forum, we just need to be patient a little more
I think everything will change when we get a new forum, we just need to be patient a little more
On the other hand, I agree with you about the new forum software. It's about time that the forum get a new, modern design. The current one looks like it was made in the early 2000s. It's boring and outdated, which is not at all helpful in making the user interface appealing to younger generations. I hope that the new design will be more modern, engaging and intuitive. I also hope that the new design will help to increase the activity on the forums, as it's something that we all want to see happen.
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This is the philosophy that the content is not so important, if it is not integrated into something colorful, shiny with hundreds of emoticons and the possibility that you can delete each of your messages and of course all this on your smartphone. There have been tons of inquiries over the years on the topic of mobile app for this forum, which only proves that we will have a hard time attracting some new kids to join us if we don't provide them with what they want.
I think everything will change when we get a new forum, we just need to be patient a little more
For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.
True. Not just from the "concept" but also from how the site looks overall.I might go a little off-topic here, but I am 90s guy and I had used old sites before like MySpace and Friendster. Surely new generations would not really like those sites since they do not really look "modern" unlike what we have these days. This forum felt like the OG sites before like I mentioned that I would endlessly appreciate.
Knowing that this forum is also focused in crypto is a plus for me and not just because it is sort of giving me nostalgic feeling of the OG sites.
It reality it depends on the person behind that account because the last decision in the owners of the account and also we all know that there are many reason why they abandoned that account like they are busy in real life which they don't have extra time to focus on the forum or else the user of that account don't have any interest in this community, and also what other said above the owner of that account died.
There's nothing wrong with someone losing interest in an online platform. People lose interest in things at different paces and for different reasons. However, one thing is for sure: the cryptocurrency market is growing, and forums like BitcoinTalk are still at the center of this market.
It's not just a loss of interest, but various life situations that simply force some members to change their lifestyle and redirect their time and energy elsewhere. The OP is thinking in a way that is wrong in the sense that someone created their account just to profit from the forum, and then suddenly abandoned that account. And at the same time, he does not take into account that not everyone is here exclusively for profit and that most of the accounts he mentions were created long before the merit system - which means that their owners did not have to invest in them anything more than their time.
As for your thinking about this forum as some kind of crypto-currency center, I think that is not correct considering how many active members we have that give some value to the forum compared to all those bounty hunters who together are worth absolutely nothing.
For the new generation, the concept of a forum is not something attractive, and that is why most of them spend their time on various social networks where, frankly speaking, they will not learn much and have a much higher chance of becoming victims of a scam.
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This is an independent forum and it is also like a marketplace where people come and go when they reach a certain destination. Therefore, it's hard to know the reason why a certain high-ranked user account was abandoned years ago if the user is not your friend or someone from a local thread who decide to share some of its private information that will lead to her absence on the forum just like how Pandukelana2712 did.
Having said that, we both know the world was hit by the Covi-19 during the interval mentioned by the OP which lead to the loss of life of many people worldwide.
Having said that, we both know the world was hit by the Covi-19 during the interval mentioned by the OP which lead to the loss of life of many people worldwide.
This sometimes draws a lot of attention, because the previous owner of the account does not always return from an awakened account.
I think if such happens, there are some thing to be considered although I don't find it to be a genuine reason which are:
1. Posting partain
2. Posting in another local thread from the previous
3. Lack of spelling or inappropriate information
4. Posting to gain merits ( which I call it to be eye service)
5. Random meriting
6. Partially change of mails or password (which are not enough reason because the real own might change password or emails)
There's many reason why they're abandon their account, it could be they got negative tag because they're cheater, illness, dead, busy, migrate to shitcoins etc. Of course you can't know the reason except the account tell it to everyone or you contact them in personal message, but what's the reason we need to know their reason? life goes on, there's an old users will leave this forum and at the same time there's a new user create an account in this forum.
Illness can make a user not active as some illness are lifetime illness, private reasons and lost of password as aforementioned can make the user inactive both high rank and low rank.
As for newbies some of them lost interest due to in the urge of getting merits and if it didn't work out the way they thought this can also discourage them since they came to the forum thinking is a place to make money. OP are you thinking of leaving someday the forum is an open community where people come in and go out when they are tired of the place. In this forum privacy is first
As for newbies some of them lost interest due to in the urge of getting merits and if it didn't work out the way they thought this can also discourage them since they came to the forum thinking is a place to make money. OP are you thinking of leaving someday the forum is an open community where people come in and go out when they are tired of the place. In this forum privacy is first
There are many reasons why bitcointalk forum accounts can get abandoned, it's either one of the follow or there is more...
1. They moved on with their lives.
2. People die every day around the world.
3. They give up on crypto, I believe if they are still into crypto their accounts will be functional.
4. They lose access, lost password to the email account they used to register the forum account.
It is not the forum's responsibility to check on the users so I think you should let go, in 2020 for a whole year I uninstalled my WhatsApp and reinstall in February of 2021, needed some time alone and Whatsapp was a distraction.
1. They moved on with their lives.
2. People die every day around the world.
3. They give up on crypto, I believe if they are still into crypto their accounts will be functional.
4. They lose access, lost password to the email account they used to register the forum account.
It is not the forum's responsibility to check on the users so I think you should let go, in 2020 for a whole year I uninstalled my WhatsApp and reinstall in February of 2021, needed some time alone and Whatsapp was a distraction.
I just imagined a situation where a user decided to leave the forum, and before that, he left an explanation letter in which there was a reason for his departure. OP, this seems ridiculous. No one is obliged to visit the forum every day; everyone has a different attitude toward the forum. But yes, after the pandemic, many people who were famous users disappeared from the forum. We learned a lot of bad stories, so it's a pity that these people are gone.
But in all other cases, you should not be bothered by the lack of people. Another question is when users suddenly appear on the forum after many years of hibernation. This sometimes draws a lot of attention, because the previous owner of the account does not always return from an awakened account.
But in all other cases, you should not be bothered by the lack of people. Another question is when users suddenly appear on the forum after many years of hibernation. This sometimes draws a lot of attention, because the previous owner of the account does not always return from an awakened account.
There's a lot of newbie came here with different purpose some of them want earn through the signatures and services and some of them want to learn more regarding with the their current issues and learning progress which is good because sooner or later they will contribute for the benefits of all. That's the common action here in the forum but we cannot deny that not all the time we can focus here in the community because we need to deal with in real life too like tons of works, problems and more so they need to conquer those that they need to seek something for their life.
BitcoinTalk is the biggest forum in the industry and I feel like a kind of living museum, or a tombstone of sorts, for all those who participated in a specific period. You can see how the project evolved, compare different views of users from back then to now. You can see all the different points of view from different people, from miners to investors and developers.
There's nothing wrong with someone losing interest in an online platform. People lose interest in things at different paces and for different reasons. However, one thing is for sure: the cryptocurrency market is growing, and forums like BitcoinTalk are still at the center of this market.
There's nothing wrong with someone losing interest in an online platform. People lose interest in things at different paces and for different reasons. However, one thing is for sure: the cryptocurrency market is growing, and forums like BitcoinTalk are still at the center of this market.
I've been going through the forum lately and I've seen alot of accounts that seem abandoned and I've been tempted to know what really happened to them.
We have many reasons that could be the possible guess to why those accounts were left been inactive, some were actually alts and the user may find it not in need of it anymore, sone were tagged and left by the user, some were from deceased user, some accounts were also created to serve a specific purpose of which whenever this aim is achieved they left them, some were as a result of lost password or inaccessible of the user and so many reasons, this is a platform and a community that brings people together across the world to discuss bitcoin and creating a profile can be a permanent thing as long as the user isn't against the rules, one can come back active regardless of how long as far as you can have access to your created account.
Natural variation of a online forum or even a hobby. Users lose interest, they lose Bitcoin, they lose their accounts or they've become millionaires sat on a beach. There's a ton of reasons, and most of the time they aren't disclosed publicly. Although, a bunch of the accounts you've probably looked at have also probably been banned. A huge percentage of the accounts that aren't active any more are banned.
I beg to differ on this one. An account has a lot to do with the person that runs the account. Having the account run by a second person after death, though technically feasible, could seem rather odd and even potentially deceiving, since likely the former owner and the, lets say heir, are likely going to differ in ethics, style, knowledge and interests. An account on Bitcointalk is likely not going to be top of mind amongst the things to deal with in the aftermaths of one passing away though.
The exception, perhaps, would be a business account, which one might want to keep on running after the owner passes away, although here we are potentially walking on a tightrope, since the reputation built by the former owner, and associated trust (not strictly speaking of the forum’s Trust here) were earned by the former, and one wouldn’t want for it to be abused or side-tracked by the latter.
I'm more in line with the idea that people should create their own account, and not mess around with buying/selling/inheriting for the most.
Yeah, business accounts make sense. However, any other account really doesn't, and as you say it should probably only be continued by a partner that is also part of the business or for example if the business had an employee running the business account on here. Other than that, it's probably not really a business account. The exception, perhaps, would be a business account, which one might want to keep on running after the owner passes away, although here we are potentially walking on a tightrope, since the reputation built by the former owner, and associated trust (not strictly speaking of the forum’s Trust here) were earned by the former, and one wouldn’t want for it to be abused or side-tracked by the latter.
I'm more in line with the idea that people should create their own account, and not mess around with buying/selling/inheriting for the most.
<…> It doesn't seem right to me if an account that has been grown with so much efforts upto a hero rank and it will be abandoned because of death.
I think sure account is worth inheritance and could be passed to relations left behind.
I beg to differ on this one. An account has a lot to do with the person that runs the account. Having the account run by a second person after death, though technically feasible, could seem rather odd and even potentially deceiving, since likely the former owner and the, lets say heir, are likely going to differ in ethics, style, knowledge and interests. An account on Bitcointalk is likely not going to be top of mind amongst the things to deal with in the aftermaths of one passing away though.I think sure account is worth inheritance and could be passed to relations left behind.
The exception, perhaps, would be a business account, which one might want to keep on running after the owner passes away, although here we are potentially walking on a tightrope, since the reputation built by the former owner, and associated trust (not strictly speaking of the forum’s Trust here) were earned by the former, and one wouldn’t want for it to be abused or side-tracked by the latter.
I'm more in line with the idea that people should create their own account, and not mess around with buying/selling/inheriting for the most.
Edit: It would be nice to get an update on this analysis I did years ago, but I lack the data. Amongst other thing, it showed the number of "abandoned" accounts per year and/or rank, though obviously not the reasons.
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