It is understandable that Satoshi Nakamoto left the forum at freewill but the head administrator of the forum, is it by the person with most activity, by election or by appointment?
There wasn’t an election or public appointment; it was more like an internal agreement among them. The activity isn’t super significant, but it’s safe to say they’re the backbone of the forum. And Theymos is still overseeing everything, making sure this community-based forum keeps running smoothly.
If there was an internal agreement among them.... then there must be a thread where this discussion was taking place. Or was it discussed outside of the forum? This will only mean that Sirus communicated with Satoshi and Theymos as well.
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.
Indirectly you sound a bit scared about Theymos making most of the decision in the forum. Perhaps he could one day wake up and decide that the forum should be brought down. Theymos is only a global moderated, he supersedes other moderator in the individual board.
But the forum lacks one thing, which is the voting system when it comes to chose moderators and other representatives in the forum. Although the voice of the community is being heard at all times but what happened to community vote and not just voices.
Theymos is more like a member with the highest shares from the bitcoin forum lol. One with the highest shares has the highest voting power. With uncertainty Theymos could ive 90% voting power while the community has 10% which means at the end of the day, his decisions stands out.