Why bitcointalk.org is so popular? - page 2.

DdmrDdmr

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And yet, besides its ties to Bitcoin origins, the campaigns, it’s members, the historical content, and so forth, there are local regions where Bitcointalk possibly surpassed in popularity by other more local forums.
For example, the Spanish local forum "competes" with forobits.com – a Spanish based forum that has a poor yet simple design, lacks campaigns, but generates more content in Spanish that our local forum on Bitcointalk. We’re really talking different demographic dimensions here, since the Spanish section on Bitcointalk is participated by people both in Spain and LATAM, whilst Forobits is mainly participated only by Spaniards.

Bitcointalk could be thrashing Forobits, but for some reason it lags behind a bit in interest (at least that’s what it looks like if we take a look at the number of posts created on both forums (local Spanish), and the comparative results on Google Trends – taking the latter with a bit of scepticism).

The image above is in relation to the last two years, in order to narrow down the peak 100 reference.

TheBeardedBaby

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I'm sorry to say it but probably 85-90% of the traffic is because of greed.
All those signature campaigns, giveaways, airdrops some sort of "free money", attract more and more people who have come here to "work hard" and make as more as possible.
Then comes the bots, alts and scammers, together with the FOMO-ed newbies trying to invest now and be rich in a year, because someone told them so but got fooled very easy and then shouting around that bitcoin is only for criminals, it's scam, ponzi, bubble etc...

At the end we are all here only for the technology :

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In addition to the above mentioned that this forum is created by Satoshi Nakamoto, I can only say that there is no better place to be if you are interested in cryptocurrency. During the years I was active member on maybe 4-5 forums related to crypto, but today some of them are closed, others have very few active users.

Bitcointalk.org is also popular because of signature campaigns, many new users come here and their first question is how to earn from this forum. Although this is a wrong approach, we can conclude that new users come partly because of possible earnings.

This forum is also popular place for advertisers, they can buy ad-slots or create signature, Twitter, FB campaign, and given the large number of users they have great visibility for their projects.

AdolfinWolf

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Probably because it was the first of it's kind, and due to all the "OG's" using it.

I also think that, despite all the hate signature campaigns get, they played a major role in attracting both companies and other users to bitcointalk.
Whether that kind of popularity is a good or a bad thing -- you tell me, but it sure did increase BTalk's traffic stats & posts.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bitcointalk You can see that a lot of traffic comes from people wondering about bounties.

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It is because of the guidance of our Dear Leader Theymos Grin

Welsh

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Various different reasons, besides the ones already mentioned its surely partly down to the community, and a few individuals within it. Look at TMAN's replies for example I'm sure that gives a few users a good laugh. I personally don't like the system that reddit uses with upvotes, and I hate the Twitter interface, so its always made sense to use the forum rather than any of the alternatives.

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Quote from: khaled0111 on July 10, 2019, 05:09:12 AM

The main problem with forums is that great posts like the one you quoted can go unnoticed and get buried under hundreds of shitposts. OP (Cøbra in this case), simply, can't do anything about it.

That's why I quoted it

There's also Top-merited recent replies and Top-merited replies, all-time, but those lists are still heavily polluted with posts that don't deserve the ~50 Merit they received (AKA Merit abuse).

Oyarebu

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Basically in my opinion, I would say the popularity of Bitcointalk.org was as a result of the first hand information an individual can gather from the forum. There are heroic knowledgeable individuals on the forum and staying on the forum for around a year or more will make such individual are bunch of cryptocurrency teams and not only that, been a good adviser to investors of cryptocurrency.

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Quote from: LoyceV on July 10, 2019, 02:58:46 AM

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Cøbra explains it much better than I ever could:
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The main problem with forums is that great posts like the one you quoted can go unnoticed and get buried under hundreds of shitposts. OP (Cøbra in this case), simply, can't do anything about it.

I am also confident that after many years from now, whenever you talk about Bitcoin, you will have to talk about bitcointalk

eternalgloom

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The fact that it was the first ever Bitcoin forum around and the fact it's so libertarian (pretty much anything goes, except for highly illegal stuff).

Oh yeah and obviously aliens, shapeshifting reptilians to be precise. David Icke & Alew Jones wish they could get to the bottom of it, but Theymos has always been one step ahead of them.

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Quote from: LoyceV on July 10, 2019, 02:58:46 AM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on July 10, 2019, 02:52:18 AM

It was the first forum to discuss bitcoin that still exists today, and it was used by satoshi.

Even better: it was created by Satoshi!

No way

that's sick

FlyingDrozd

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Quote from: Vod on July 10, 2019, 02:51:32 AM

Quote from: FlyingDrozd on July 10, 2019, 02:49:01 AM

Makes sense, but recently it has changed. I saw that now even giveaways are banned here. Doesn't sound very liberal...

Spam is not allowed on most useful forums. Giveaways are nothing but a lame mass advertising attempt.

As a user, I don't mind free money

even if it is 10$ or if I have to do something small to get them

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It was the first forum to discuss bitcoin that still exists today, and it was used by satoshi.

Vod

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Quote from: FlyingDrozd on July 10, 2019, 02:49:01 AM

Makes sense, but recently it has changed. I saw that now even giveaways are banned here. Doesn't sound very liberal...

Spam is not allowed on most useful forums. Giveaways are nothing but a lame mass advertising attempt.

FlyingDrozd

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Quote from: Vod on July 10, 2019, 02:40:44 AM

Fundamentally, I believe it's because the admin (Theymos) is very liberal with the rights he gives to the members.

Basically, most anything goes. He allows members to police themselves and that gives pride and purpose.

Makes sense, but recently it has changed. I saw that now even giveaways are banned here. Doesn't sound very liberal...

FlyingDrozd

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Quote from: hilariousandco on July 10, 2019, 02:38:42 AM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-study-about-history-of-bitcointalk-forum-2905330
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-most-iconic-bitcointalk-threads-history-on-bitcointalk-4322078

Wow these links are super useful thank you

Vod

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Fundamentally, I believe it's because the admin (Theymos) is very liberal with the rights he gives to the members.

Basically, most anything goes. He allows members to police themselves and that gives pride and purpose.

Or... Aliens. Wink