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Quote from: coupable on July 19, 2025, 10:07:23 PM

Nice to see more creatives around. However i want to ask what's the difference between Agora and bitcointalk Marketplace section. I know that BTT is the most active space for crypto trades/deals because of forum popularity + other forum features enabling fast and reliable deals. How you plan to compete with BTT forum? I think this is a major question to qualify your service. Do you plan to make ads here? Will never be surprised as we saw another forum promoting itself using promotional campaigns in another forum (here in btt and other forum lunched by Yobit scam exchange).

Never thought about advertising here, it could be an option! I personally don't see it as a competition, more a collaboration, as I assume we are all driven by same values and have the same mission: allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution (govt included).

I jump in BTT because I know there are plenty of experienced traders and people around here we could learn from. Especially on how to build trust and how to make a marketplace successful. Community management and moderation best practices are another of those skills we aim to master.

If I need t think abut differentiating pints between SN and BTT, then the majors important ones are;
- No need to create a SN account: Users can posts anonymously (at a cost)
- Pay2Post drastically reduce spam posts and automated bots, even with symbolic amount of 1 sat per comment
- Community moderation offer the benefits to make more visible posts that have been upvoted (with zaps) and less visible posts that have been downvoted (downzap = pay to push visibility down)
- Different moderation approach that tend to lower visibility of spammy/scummy posts instead of censoring and deleting. Content stay, it just less visible or not visible at all if it has low community reputation.

It's a little bit different from Btt approach but i still see bitcointalk model more convinient. I would like to comment some of the hints you mentioned:

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- No need to create a SN account: Users can posts anonymously (at a cost)

Bitcointalk is psydoanonymous (i guess SN also collect navigation data so it's not fully anonymous) and all you need is a new fresh email (to not link with your official one) and you can start posting without any cost.

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- Pay2Post drastically reduce spam posts and automated bots, even with symbolic amount of 1 sat per comment

Totally the opposite. The pay-per-post model encourage spam especially with low rates. Never compare it to btc paid signature campaigns because managers care hiring quality posters, but i suggest you visit the "Bounties" sub-board and see mashrooming spam which even forum mods find it difficult (almost impossible) to fight especially the altcoins board. You can also check a spammy forum called Cryptotalk used pay-per-post just to advertise Yobit exchange. (Not sure if it still running)

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- Community moderation offer the benefits to make more visible posts that have been upvoted (with zaps) and less visible posts that have been downvoted (downzap = pay to push visibility down)

I suggest you compare it with the merit system here. There is no downzap=downvote here, just merit points for quality contributions. If you don't like a poster, just ignore it. If you think a post is spam or low quality, just report it to mods.