L1 Support Agent #64
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@alexej996, I've assigned you to this new role, as you have in fact been doing this kind of 'Support Staff' work in addition to your Forum Operator (#19) role. As mentioned in the description above, it would be good if we can get an additional couple people helping you with this work in a dedicated way. If there are frequent forum contributors you'd like to invite to take this on, please do! |
2018.01 reportThis month was all about support. With the timeout and transaction broadcast failure bugs in v0.6.3 and v0.6.4, we had around 60 total reimbursements to handle over the last month or so. In the process, we created the https://github.com/bisq-network/support repository, including the reimbursements project board at https://github.com/bisq-network/support/projects/1, all of which made a big difference in managing all this stuff. We came up with the process detailed in https://github.com/bisq-network/support#35 for how to deal with these reimbursements in a very efficient way, and in the end I think it's safe to say that users have been happy with the service they got. I've been keeping a collection of the heartfelt thank-you emails I've gotten after people got their reimbursements back. I have about a half-dozen now, which sort of makes it all worth it. I figure for every one of those I get, there's probably another few people at least who are really happy, but just didn't write anything about it. There have been zero upset or dissatisfied users in this process, so far as I know. I won't be able to do support like that for much longer into the future, and hopefully we won't need it in such an intense way any time soon, but it's a good thing that we have systems and processes in place for dealing with this stuff if and when it does come back up. As Bisq really grows, we'll need people doing one kind of support or another all day long. It would be great to have some of those people get started now. I've been thinking actually, that we might want to reach out via Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere to up and coming Bitcoin developers who want to get their hands dirty with a real Bitcoin project by helping support its users. I still learn stuff every day when I do this work, it's an amazing education, really. |
2018.02 reportThis month was much lighter support-wise, but there were still a handful of reimbursements to process, and I still haven't gotten to them. There were also several out-of-the ordinary support requests that took special handling from me and @ManfredKarrer. In general, I struggled to keep on top of support issues this month, and I don't foresee the situation getting better. This role needs to be transitioned soon to people who can care for it. By this time next month, I will get out a recruiting communication out about the opportunity of contributing support work for Bisq. In particular, I think we can reach out to smart and capable, technical people who are still relatively new to Bitcoin but want to get involved deeply with it. These people would have a lot to gain from doing support work for Bisq. They would be required to learn about Bisq (and therefore many aspects of Bitcoin) in a deep way—so deep that they end up being able to address virtually any problem that comes up for users. This would be an excellent, apprenticeship-style approach to building technical skills with Bitcoin. The ideal arrangement would be working with young developers who naturally evolve from doing support work to fixing simple bugs that they encounter in support issues, to taking on larger and larger development responsibilities, eventually training other new developers how to do support and transitioning themselves on to dedicated dev work. |
2018.03 reportFrom last month's update:
I sent out the following tweets to this effect, and we'll see what comes of them. About 10 people joined our Slack workspace right afterward, and some conversations have started. From https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/981216134220468224:
Otherwise, support efforts were fairly light this month. There have been 10 or so new reimbursement issues, and I'll issue the next batch reimbursement for them in bisq-network/support#76 later this week. Many thanks to @alexej996 for continuing to do excellent first-line support on the Bisq Forum. I very rarely have to check anything there myself these days. |
2018.04 report@cbeams serviced a batch reimbursement (bisq-network/support#76) this month. @alexej996 continues to do first-line support via the Bisq Forum, and for the most part, I never see escalations, which I take to mean that he fully resolves most issues that come up there. @alexej996, going forward I'd like to draw a clean separation between the Forum Operator role (#19) and the Support Staff role. You're playing both of these roles, and you've been reporting on the Forum Operator role every month, which is great, but could you begin reporting here every month too? I think what we want to see in from reporting on this role is information about how many support requests we're getting every month, what kind of common issues people are running into, etc. I realize this isn't very specific what I'm saying here, and we can talk further about it, but my main point is that since you're actually our main support staff right now, it would be good to have you reporting on how it's going here, and helping raise awareness about what's missing / what's trending / what we need. I'd like to have you take the primary position here, and I'll take a backseat as secondary, and stop doing monthly reports on my side. Let me know if this works for you, thanks. |
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Sure. I will think of something when it comes to writing monthly reports for this role in the future. |
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Thanks, @alexej996. I've updated the description to reflect that you're primary now. |
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See my comments on this role in the context of @alexej996's current monthly compensation request at bisq-network/compensation#60 (comment) |
2018.5 updateOne of most common issues users always seemed to have on the forum are timeouts when taking offers and lost trading fees as a result. Since these times of issues are handled and refunded by Chris, I usually just advise them to contact him, although Manfred stepped in for one of these this month. There were multiple users on the forum getting exceptions regarding duplicate transactions in their wallets. Manfred also assisted on this one and these users seemed to recover their funds successfully. There were some general questions about some payment methods on the forum this month that @alfsbs agreed to answer, since I wasn't familiar with them. He was really helpful about this. We also had users trying to recover their funds from their older Bisq wallets that used Dash as a base currency. We also had some people asking general questions about development and running on CentOS. Users also seem to be asking for some features commonly, such as fiat fixed offers and chatting between traders. There is also one user on reddit asking about identity verification during the dispute process and why it is necessary, I wasn't really able to answer that question for him as I am generally not that familiar with the fiat side of things. |
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Hello support staff !, |
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That sounds great to me :) Come and help out whenever you can and you can request a compensation at the end of the month. I don't really have any specific times I am not available, but I am usually around in the 12:00-02:00 GMT interval. |
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As a general note to @HarryMacfinned and anyone else who wishes to perform support services in the future, there's really no permission required. Simply help people out in whichever forums and channels you choose, and then submit a compensation request at the end of the month with links to your work. The first few times around, you'll want to be explicit in your compensation requests, linking to as many of your support interactions as possible. As the months go by, and you build a reputation, it will be less necessary to link to everything, and you can start to report more in the aggregate, much as @alexej996 does now. In the beginning, though, everyone will want to know whether the kind of support you're providing is the kind of support we as stakeholders want to reward with BSQ, so folks will want to review your links as a way of figuring that out. |
Cycle 62This cycle was quiet for me. Not many support queries dealt with. I supported 11 users on Matrix Attended team meetings this cycle. Still need to action
Additional infoReport06.08.24 User with bank questions |
Cycle 63List of 109 Bisq1 support actions
List of 68 Bisq2 support/moderation actions
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For Cycle 63 Summary of contributions
Detail log of support workSeptember 5 Telegram: Bisq Bisq 2 vs Bisq 1 discussion September 5 Bisq 2: Private Chats Question about error while taking offers September 5 Matrix: Contrib Internal Attended contributor call September 6 Matrix: General Signed account issue September 11 Matrix: Support Call Active on weekly support call September 11 Matrix: Support ignored peers September 11 Matrix: Support concern about bank warning September 13 Matrix: Support Zelle issues September 14 Matrix: Support finding closed mediation in history September 14 Matrix: Support trade time question/dispute process September 14 Matrix: Support Concern about slow trader/trade time explained September 15 Matrix: Support banking issues September 16 Matrix: General finding your mediator September 18 Telegram: Bisq Warning about scammer September 18 Matrix: Support Call Active on weekly support call September 25 Matrix: Support Call Active on weekly support call September 26 Matrix: Support trade time question September 30 Matrix: Contrib Internal discussion about potential mobile user base October 1 Matrix: Support spv resync / stuck trade October 2 Matrix: Support Call Active on weekly support call October 3 Telegram: Bisq Issues verifying PGP signature after download October 3 Telegram: Bisq Concerns about scammer contacting user directly October 3 Telegram: Bisq Questions about Bisq 2 safety October 3 Telegram: Bisq Running 2 instances on 1 machine October 3 Telegram: Bisq Questions about deposit for trades October 3 Telegram: Bisq Bisq 2 Backup/restore October 3 Telegram: Bisq Concerns about CPU usage on BIsq 1 October 3 Matrix: Support Failed trades October 3 Matrix: Support min deposit / bisq 2 / xmr trades October 3 Matrix: Support spv resync / failed trade October 3 Matrix: Support btc node connection issues October 3 Matrix: Support DAO sync issues October 3 Matrix: Support concern about possible scammer October 3 Matrix: Support SPV Resync October 3 Matrix: Support Warning about scammer dming people October 3 Matrix: Contrib Internal Attended contributor call October 4 Matrix: Support SPV Resync/New data dir October 4 Matrix: Support Cancel trade after taken October 4 Matrix: General Buyer unable to send fiat/dispute process October 4 Bisq 2: Support->Assistance seller questions/reputation October 5 Matrix: Support Sending sepa rather than sepa instant October 5 Bisq 2: Support->General Linux popup size issue October 6 Bisq 2: Discussions->Bisq gaining reputation October 7 Matrix: Support Trade not progressing in the UI October 7 Matrix: Support Concern about names not matching on sepa transfer October 7 Matrix: Support Dispute process October 7 Matrix: Support Bisq 2 user profile question - Continue to monitor and assist users in Matrix support chat room - Continue to monitor and assist users in Bisq telegram group - Assist in other support groups/channels/forums as needed - Clean up some wiki pages, as noted from recent browsing (typos, etc) - Attend weekly support calls |
For Cycle 63A normal cycle, except I reported 2 chargeback attempt claims to mediators but I haven't followed them. Items5 |
Cycle 63This cycle was still fairly quiet for me. I supported 24 users on Matrix Attended team meetings this cycle. Still need to action
Additional infoReport07.09.24 Message deliverability issues |
Cycle 63
Here is a more detailed review of my work: Click to see report06.09.24 - Matrix: User needed help reaching his mediator |
Cycle 64List of 95 Bisq1 support actions
List of 81 Bisq2 support/moderation actions
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Cycle 64
Here is a more detailed review of my work: Click to see report08.10.24 - Matrix: Problem with mediation |
Cycle 64I supported 49 users on Matrix Recreated my account on Bisq Forum to answer questions there. Attended team meetings this cycle. Still need to action
Additional infoReport09.10.24 User wanting to know what is the purpose of 'account owner full name' in a payment account |
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For Cycle 64 Summary of contributions
Detail log of support workOctober 8 Matrix: Support BSQ transfers between wallets October 9 Matrix: General Unable to take buy offers October 9 Matrix: Support Trade time questions October 9 Matrix: Support Call Active on support call October 10 Matrix: Support XMR trade questions October 11 Matrix: Support Dispute resolution policy October 16 Matrix: Support Trade TX questions October 16 Matrix: Support BTC not showing in wallet October 16 Matrix: Contrib Internal Customer/Bank interaction discussion October 16 Matrix: Support Call Active on support call October 17 Matrix: Support Trade time questions October 17 Matrix: Support Question about account names on SEPA trade October 17 Matrix: Contrib Internal Attended contributor call October 17 Matrix: DM TX not published / help with starting mediation October 22 Matrix: Support Bisq 2 Mediation question October 23 Matrix: Support Wire payment discussion October 23 Matrix: Support Call Active on support call October 26 Matrix: Support SPV resync October 26 Matrix: Support Scamer concerns October 26 Matrix: Support Zelle trade discussion October 30 Matrix: Support Money order trade questions October 30 Matrix: Support Call Active on support call October 31 Matrix: Support Multiple money orders for trade concern October 31 Matrix: Contrib Internal Attended contributor call November 1 Matrix: Support Message delivery questions November 1 Matrix: Support Trade stuck/SPV resync November 1 Matrix: Support Zelle issues November 2 Matrix: Support CBM offer questions November 3 Matrix: Support Help with sending funds from wallet November 4 Matrix: General ACH trade information November 6 Matrix: Support Call Active on support call November 7 Matrix: Support connection issues with btc nodes November 7 Matrix: Support Zelle payment issues - Continue to monitor and assist users in Matrix support chat room - Continue to monitor and assist users in Bisq telegram group - Assist in other support groups/channels/forums as needed - Clean up some wiki pages, as noted from recent browsing (typos, etc) - Attend weekly support calls |
Cycle 64Another cycle with no big issues: Items8 |
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Approximated event volume over last 6 cycles (from older to newer, 4679blocks ~ 32.5days per cycle going back from today): Based on #64 (comment) I will be adjusting CRs for both roles based on the increased volume recorded in my logs: Cycle 65List of 194 Bisq1 support actions
List of 124 Bisq2 support/moderation actions
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Cycle 65
Here is a more detailed review of my work: Click to see report06.11.24 - Matrix: SPV resync required |
Cycle 65I supported 51 users on Matrix Used Bisq Forum to answer questions there. Attended team meetings this cycle. Still need to action
Additional infoReport07.11.24 DAO out of sync issues |
Cycle 64This cycle I have been less available than others during some days, but also there has been an uptick in support tasks so the general amount of work I've had to do has been the same. Items10 tges usdt and usdc trade on erc20 forum use your own node less than 4 peers11 13 |
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For Cycle 65 Summary of contributions: Detail log of support workNovember 8 Matrix: Support ACH Transfer issues November 8 Matrix: Support Trade error / SPV Resync November 8 Matrix: Support payment for trade not yet received November 8 Matrix: First BTC Room large trade recommendations November 9 Matrix: Support CBM trade discussion November 10 Telegram: Bisq waiting for confirmation/SPV resync November 10 Telegram: Bisq Bisq 2 not showing payment confirmaiton button November 11 Matrix: General Money order trade questions November 12 Matrix: Support DAO resync/seed node discussion November 12 Matrix: Support issues getting 4 BTC node connections November 12 Matrix: Support unable to send payment/seller account closed November 12 Matrix: Support spv resync stuck / no BTC connections November 13 Matrix: Support moving data folder from win to ubuntu November 13 Matrix: General ACH discussion November 13 Matrix: Support Call active on support call November 14 Matrix: Support banking issues with trade November 14 Matrix: Contrib Internal attended contributor call November 14 Matrix: Support sent payment from wrong account November 14 Bisq 2: Support->Assistance burning bsq/dust limit November 15 Matrix: DM bisq 2 vs bisq 1 discussion November 15 Matrix: Support revtag question November 16 Matrix: Support finding mediator November 16 Matrix: Support seller wants to cancel trade November 16 Matrix: First BTC Room bisq 2 vs 1 discussion November 16 Matrix: General scammer November 16 Matrix: General support room link November 17 Matrix: Support connection problems during spv resync November 17 Matrix: Support null deposit tx showing up November 17 Matrix: Support zelle issue November 18 Matrix: Support finding mediator November 18 Matrix: General vlcash by mail discussion November 19 Matrix: Support locate app dir in win November 19 Matrix: Support reserved funds question November 19 Telegram: Bisq spam November 19 Matrix: Support finding your mediator November 19 Matrix: Support bank not displaying name from payment November 19 Matrix: Support connection issues November 19 Bisq 2: Support->Assistance reputation discussion November 19 Matrix: Support scammer warning November 20 Matrix: Support Call active on support call November 22 Matrix: Support scammer discussion November 26 Matrix: Support unable to complete zelle trade November 26 Matrix: Support xmr trade stuck on step 1 / spv reaync November 26 Matrix: Support version 1.9.18 info November 26 Matrix: Support Call active on support call November 27 Matrix: DM bisq 2 password December 1 Matrix: Support strike as a payment option December 1 Matrix: Support Linux bugs on 1.9.18 December 1 Matrix: Support incomplete spv resync December 1 Matrix: Support zelle account names December 2 Matrix: Support dispute/finding mediator December 4 Matrix: Support suspected scammer December 4 Matrix: Support Call active on support call December 5 Matrix: Support missing deposit tx December 5 Bisq 2: Support->Assistance only able to take offer once December 5 Matrix: Support reputation December 5 Matrix: Support arbitration December 5 Matrix: Support zelle issues December 6 Matrix: Support dispute process December 7 Matrix: Support tails install December 9 Matrix: Support sending bsq to another instance |
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