My reasons for asking these questions is because i am amazed at how well organized and unique the forum is, even though it doesn't have an owner again.
The owner of bitcointalk is theymos. So, do not say anymore that Bitcointalk doesn't have an owner. ...
Well, basically this forum doesn't belong to anyone, that's why most of these managements were transfered to those who most trusted person in the community and forum's staff, then become head admin by only intuition of the current admin and staff. Well, if theymos can explain this things on how staff getting promoted that would be awesome.
I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.
Do not just quote verbatim what was said. Even if theymos said that the forum belongs to the bitcoin community, I still believe it belongs to theymos. As I said earlier, I don't have any issues with that because the community receives the dividends. Even if the ownership will be transferred to another person tomorrow, that particular person will be the current owner.
- Staff is selected by theymos
- Merit sources by theymos
- Domain hosting and renewal is theymos
- Mixers no longer advertise here is theymos
- There's no senate or so that makes decisions.
If he wishes to take the forum down, he can do. Even if the admin (ownership) is transferable, for now theymos is the owner of the forum.