You speak so confident about Cyrus and Theymos that gives me the sense you know them well. You said they are smarter than you and you trust them, I believe you but they are human beings I assume they have a job, a spouse, kids, a personal life & issues to handle that are a much higher priority to them than the management of this site that started as a hobby in their spare time. I don't know who put them in their position but they are not suitable for this job anymore [unless they prove me wrong then I retract]. Better to assign the steering wheel on some fresh hands of some well-known trusted users willing to commit to this project.
By the way, may I ask you how do we know if they are still alive / mentally healthy? which are the proofs of life, sanity, and competence they provide to us? if they are not, then how do you trust them? do you see them in person regularly? because most of us including I, don't.
By the way, may I ask you how do we know if they are still alive / mentally healthy? which are the proofs of life, sanity, and competence they provide to us? if they are not, then how do you trust them? do you see them in person regularly? because most of us including I, don't.
I know neither of them personally or very well at all. I don't know whether any staff members here are employed or unemployed and have wives and children or are all basement dwelling virgins who spend most of their time jacking off to camgirls and watching hentai. Most staff are completely anonymous to each other and I prefer it like that (though theymos' name is publicly known, but most other's aren't). All I know of them is from their posts here and a few other limited interactions via PM etc but we don't talk socially. Theymos is the defacto owner or operator of the board and he chose cyrus to be an admin to replace BadBear (who walked away). Workload should be distributed more between staff in numerous ways. We probably need at least one other full time admin and there are many sub boards with no dedicated staff member assigned at all. More staff probably need to be added to meet demand as the board grows as well, especially when a lot of staff members seem to leave or gradually become less and less active until they fade away. As I said before, there really probably isn't anyone better than theymos to ruin the ship for numerous reasons, but he is swamped and so is cyrus (and/or he just can't be bothered) and something needs to be done about that, or he finds a way to do admin duties full time (which I've suggested he do), but maybe he does have work/family/camgirl/hentai addition that takes up most of his time
.Personally I like the format of Reddit much more, Steemit & Medium are another great alternatives.
If there are better options then surely they will surpass this one in popularity. Personally, I dislike Reddit in numerous ways and don't use it at all, but people should vote by using whatever they find superior. If everyone abandoned this ship for another then maybe that would be noted. I can't see that happening though.
Nay, stop the ads slots that's the main problem of low quality posts + spam. Donator ranks sure but first donators must perceive some added value / high quality staff.. a good service = improved UI/UX. ICOs and other startups could purchase spaces as long as there are any valuable users / customers / investors remaining here, at the end it is a matter of ROI measurable according to the Conversion Rate of the money BTCtalk users are spending. If spam bots / scammers / hackers / merit abusers / Legendary purchased accounts / crappy posts / etc. are displacing valuable users / mods to other hubs then who is going to remain affording it cost?. But this is a matter of discussion in another board.
It's not the ad slots that are the issue. It's paid sig spam, mostly from ICOs who couldn't care less about spam. In fact, more spam is better for them. More posts = more ad impressions. This needs to change and I've suggested numerous ways to combat it, most importantly badly run campaigns should be punished. They would soon clean up their act then.
Mapuche, I am in the same situation. I just messaged Cyrus a signed bitcoin message from an address used in my account as described by Theymos in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0 and if in two weeks he doesn't respond I will message Theymos with a signed bitcoin message to reset my account.
Send me the signed message on my hilariousandco account or post it here and if it checks out I can ban the account. Only admins can restore access to you though so you'll still need to wait for that to happen.