Quote from: esmanthra on August 19, 2018, 07:48:14 AM

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Good catch, will work on them.

Quote from: iasenko on August 19, 2018, 12:29:36 PM

Great guide, man. I think now we need what Vod suggested earlier, a separate section only for guides, we have have enough guides to support the suggestion.

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on August 19, 2018, 05:31:08 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on August 19, 2018, 05:15:21 PM

Wouldn't a sticky thread with links be better than a child board? If one person maintains it with updated links to all new guides, the guides don't even have to be on the same board.

Perhaps. Nevertheless the way it is organized on the Italian board seems easy to find too. If only one sticky acts as an index, and is maintained by a specific user, then he/she can sort of "supervise" the guide quality/utility before adding it to the sticky post. On the other hand, the Italian solution allows for a decentralized approach, where all guides are concentrated under one child board. The downside to this is what I mentioned previously: not all guides there are good really, but anyone can add a guide to something there.

I guess that, from a quality point of view, the single user managed sticky thread would be better, but from the freedom to add a guide point of view, then the latter option is fine. One option is like an index, and the other like a directory.

Actually I had the same idea of the index thread and opened it in Japanese local board collecting the links to the guide threads in Japanese board with basic FAQs for Newbies, which has been pinned and seems to be working well. While the index thread is sufficient for Japanese local board rather than guide section as it is not so active board but for English main board I am not quite sure which option suits better. One thing is that for index thread we could also discuss the qualities of guides using replies to the index thread so not necessarily completely depending on one person's decision.

Quote from: LTU_btc on August 19, 2018, 09:28:17 PM

Thanks for making this very detailed guide about Bitcointalk account security. I hope that people will use your advices to secure their accounts.. I see that you mentioned my name in your article

. Well, I'm so happy that Cyrus recovered my account so fast. But at the same time I'm feeling so sad for users who are waiting long months or years for account recovery. I hardly can imagine their feelings. Unfortunately, in recent months I haven't saw users who regained access to their accounts. It seems that admins stopped to recover accounts. But theymos said that he are making automated account recovery system, I hope that he will release it soon and users will get chance to get their accounts back.

You were extremely lucky and yes the recovery of the hacked/lost accounts is one of the biggest issue so I hope the guide thread will work and partially remedy the problem.