not very clear what "sign message" feature is for #1186

It's not clear to me what this feature is for or when I'd use it. I fear that this may be the case for other users of bitcoin-qt, and as such they must be missing out on what is obviously (given its prominence) an important facility. Can something be done to raise awareness of the purpose of this feature?

I don't think many people need it, and I don't think it should be prominent (you consider one menu entry prominent?).

If you don't know what it's for, you don't need it. Currently it's basically a login tool for some mining websites. It could be used for other things where you need to authenticate that you possess a certain secret key.

Is it really neeed to open an ticket for such thing? You could easily ask this in the forums, as it is no coding glitch.

@Diapolo, I originally commented in the relevant issue for the pull request for this code, but luke-jr said I should raise a new issue, presumably because the old issue had been closed.

I'd love to ask this in the forums, but I don't have post access - if you can tell me how to obtain this I'd be grateful.

I think you get forum post access after a while. They have a probation period of a few hours in which you can only post in the newbies forum.

Closing this issue, nothing to fix...

@laanwj I joined bitcointalk a few months ago now.. still no post access....

You need some amount of postings in the newbie section!

@Diapolo aha! Thank you! I guess I'm such a noob that I didn't realise that :)