Hi guys, I'm Alex, I hope your bitcoin hangout helps me with one question.
I am writing a guide for a event related to the bitcointalk community (the idea of the annual Crypto Community Award),
which will include 20 nominations with the possibility of voting.
For example: Antihero (A contender for maximum hostility from members of the forum) or / Scandal of the year / Event of the year / and so on. When I finish, I will be happy to discuss possible additions and will not refuse help with moderating the Crypto Award. In the meantime, I want to know your opinion on this idea.
I would like a title that recognizes my contribution as being worth more than giving stolen coins to others (apologies to the honest donators who don't go around calling attention to their donation). I think a good title would be Inventor. Short, simple - I didn't give financial value a time the forum needed it, but I gave other value - the same kind the forum itself does to a community. So I will lock this topic and hopefully wake up one day with a custom title. Smiley
After the announcement of the results, it would not be difficult for
theymos to add the winners their well-deserved titles, for example
(Moderator of the Year, Antihero, Guru, etc.).
Vod would be happy to get a headline describing his contribution or, for example, the Vod/OG scandal of the year. Perhaps
Lauda will become an anti-hero due to thousands of feedback messages, and
The Pharmacist will be a Bitcointalk guru.
best regards
~icopress
Seems to me that you should start a thread (or threads) on this topic in order to attempt to get feedback, and also to gauge how popular your topic is in order to stand alone and/or to get members to participate in the thread. Furthermore, you can surely link such thread(s), once you create it (them) in threads like this, in order to inform members of the existence of such thread(s).
Seems to me that just the creation of various titles (even if temporary) might end up being controversial.. unless those titles were voted on with a broader swath and the participation of "somewhat established" forum members.. so maybe you would need either a poll within your topic or separate threads for different titles that would be considered (or nominated).
I personally really cringe at anything that attempts to categorize crypto as if it were some kind of broader category and that bitcoin fits into such category as if it were an equal to the various shitcoins - even though technically "crypto" is likely an accurate description, even though it still irritates me because frequently shitcoins are trying to suggest that they are some kind of equal to bitcoin - even though none of them would exist without king daddy either providing cover for them and/or actual open source hashing power security for the whole space..... that includes a variety of scams and deceptive projects - that largely in the long run to the extent that any of them might contribute value would be absorbed into bitcoin or end up running on bitcoin as a second, third or fourth layer. There are quite a few forum members that are bothered in a variety of ways by describing crypto or the use of such categorization that involves bitcoin in it, when bitcoin seems to be a category in itself in terms of how to think about the space.. Many of us know the description: "there is bitcoin and there is 'shitcoins'. "
Anyhow, point is that titles tend to be controversial, and likely you would need to have a pretty open process, and I doubt that theymos is even going to get involved in endorsing such titles unless you either get him to agree in advance or you have some kind of overwhelming participation of "somewhat established" forum members that cause theymos to want to endorse such system once you have already established it.