Quote from: hilariousetc on August 28, 2018, 11:16:11 AM

Quote from: HellRey on August 28, 2018, 10:56:43 AM

Quote from: theymos on August 21, 2018, 12:18:08 AM

More admins or demi-admins added to help with account recoveries and other admin duties.

Quote from: hilariousandco on August 21, 2018, 08:32:06 AM

Why don't you add another? This seems like a quick fix for a few things. If there was more staff and admins added you and cyrus would be bothered less and less. You would be less annoyed by the barrage of PMs and users would be less frustrated and every other Global will then stop being spammed with the same questions for things they don't have the authority to do. It's pointless you two even being messaged about certain things like account restorations if you're not doing them at all which currently seems to be the case. I could even do admin duties full time here if you wanted and I'm practically on the forum all day anyway, but something tells me if I was going to be made an admin it would have happened by now. If you don't trust me to do it for whatever reasons then fair enough but there must be someone else who can do it on staff - Mprep, rickbig, Mitchell or one of the other long-standing mods. Maybe even ask one of the veteran/trusted users here like vod or whoever (in b4 quickseller complains). If none of us are suitable have you spoken to BadBear recently? Maybe try email him asking if he'll come back. You mentioned a while ago that you've considered hiring someone to run the forum so why not hire BadBear? It makes sense for him to do it over some Marlon Rando. BadBear was a great admin as you also said and he knows how the forum works, which would make sense rather than hiring someone external who has to learn all the ways of the world here which wouldn't be easy or something you can learn in a short time.

hilariousandco says very correct things and are necessary as an air to the forum in all his post, but at the moment I am only interested in the part of him that I quoted.
Since I fell out of the forum for a long time already (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4654337.0) and there is no administrator who would pay attention to this and help me get back on line, and from this temporary account I do not want to write on the forum.
Several times I sent letters to administrators responsible for the restoration of accounts in PM, but the answer was never received.
So if you do not have time to deal with these questions then why do not you transfer this work to other people, especially hilariousandco himself says that he is ready to take up this work - so give him such an opportunity. Already a lot of members of the forum are waiting for you to help, how much longer do we have to suffer in anticipation.
I myself am ready to take up this work, I have as much free time, I would solve these user problems in 1-2 days if I correctly assess the scale of the problem, but this is realistic, we are ready to participate, help in this . We understand that you have a lot of work and you do not manage everything, so at least give this part to someone.
Please consider this opportunity.

Realistically, more admins and staff are going to need to be added at some point to keep up with the growing userbase and workload so I don't understand why that time can't be now (or soon). Most staff are already swamped and there are others that could help but can't do much about anything because they don't have the power or ability to. More mods and admins can be added at the touch of a button, and it doesn't even have to be me who does admin duties or account restorations either if theymos doesn't trust me with that for whatever reason, but someone needs to be doing it. Plenty of simple things that would greatly help improve the forum are just being needlessly ignored like assigning sub board mods etc and the forum continues to circle the drain in the process whilst we stand by and watch helplessly.

Quote from: khaled0111 on August 28, 2018, 10:59:37 AM

I am not against the merit system and I am one of its supporters since it helped alot in stopping abusers and spammers, but I am still convinced that it require some improvements (members are not generous thus this system can't be 100% fair).

It does need some improvements as I've already addressed, but have you suggested anything to make it better?

For example a Junior Member needs 10 merit points to become a Member while a Sr.Member needs 500 merits to rank up, I think it should be the opposite, if the aim of the merit system is to lemit the number of spammers then a new registered member should provide more effort to prove himself.
If he succeeds to collect a high number of merit and ranks up, that means he is not a spammer and ranking up should become easier.
What do you think?