Topic: Abolish the Merit system and bounty threads (Read 633 times)

I agree with you. Merits are a very good criterion that separates the good from the bad posters on this forum.
If a member gets hundreds or thousands of merits on this forum, it means that his reputation on this forum is very good and that he has helped many forum members with his posts.
When merits were introduced I was skeptical about it, but now I think it was a very good idea because it prevented spammers from advancing on the forum without quality posts, just based on activity.
Of course, there are also older forum members, who got their rank before the introduction of merits, but that does not change the fact that merits helped to create some order on this forum and separate the good from the bad members.
Everyone can have a very high opinion of themselves, but in the end it is decided by the forum community in a very clear and transparent way, through the merit system.
I don't follow bounty threads, so I can't comment on that.

Why don't you report them instead of blaming the system ? It is like saying jails should be closed because there are people fooling the law.

No he hasn't earned any merit in the past 120 or even 150 days and only has 14 from @nutildah in this thread only as per his BPIP record so you can think how much valuable his posts have been and earned only 6 merits as at the time of merit system implementation he was senior member and now expressing his feelings about the system as he can't earn merits.

Sometimes, users just move on after reporting many posts and nothing seemed to have been done. I would do same too; just move on. Gradually, such users cease visiting those vexatious sections and before we say Jack, those sections become bereft of constructive posters. I think it's an admin thing to do. There should be a marching order that ought to institute standard there. Users can't continue to report to mods and nothing seemed to have been done.

Precisely (emphasis mine). If one comes across Trash, OT, or the "Low Quality Post" -- report it to the Mods - not just bitch about it elsewhere.. And um, been here since 2014 so... God only knows how many I've reported, I stopped looking at that stat long ago. I do know that >99% were 'accurate' and acted upon  

The way he addressed Charles-Tim and Rikafip was surprising to me. He considers himself to be a valuable poster on the forum with only 1 merit in 120 days while he is called bad to those whom merits are uncountable at a single glance. He failed to know that merits are given to the quality poster only and it is almost impossible to manipulate it with alts, without being noticed.

By the way, I am against those who want the merit system to be Abolished and also I am against those too who want bounties and signatures to be eliminated too. We can improve things without losing any of these.

While I wouldn't want to get into the merit stuff OP talked about because I think meriting posts is a subjective issue, I want to comment on the bounty thing. Yes, I support that bounty threads be moderated (not abolished, anyway). What goes on there is a complete eyesore. If other sections of this forum were like the altcoin section, this forum would've long gone down. The reason other crypto sites that imitated BTT haven't been surviving is the preponderance of spam posts which couldn't be moderated on those sites. When you allow people post trash, the genuine posters will leave. Again, I would love to see a time when all bounty reports will not be posted on thread topics but on Google sheets.

The fact that even those who joined 2018 until now didn't even take too long just to get hero rank or even legendary rank. I don't believe that all legendary or hero member bought merit online or sending merits from an alt account. As you can see, I joined the forum on 2018 and I was unlucky that implementation of merit is happening during that time. I thought I won't be able to increase my rank just by posting alone with no merits needed. I was once like you angry at the world (but not drunk) because of merit implemented in the forum but I didn't stop until reach this rank. If you think that you actually did contribute in discussions then better start contributing in the forum by posting in different board and see if you can reach 1k merits but you are right that many of the post are mainly because of hitting quotas but it's less compared before because of merit system.

It is hard to argue with that view because most of the posts being made in the forum generally are related to hitting quotas in order to earn signature campaign fees or bounties. If the OP had maintained some balance and composure he could probably have articulated those views in a more acceptable manner to the masses he might have managed to get more support behind his views.

Many of the posts in various threads across the forum are pure drivel. The forum has changed over the years I have known it and it is constantly changing but not for the better. I suppose this is something that will continue and no action will be taken in an attempt to halt the decline.

I don't think it's as laughable as It was used to be when the forum was run on yobit ads and users were able to rank up quickly to participate in the campaign and spam the sh*t out of the forum, you get my point now.


Before it took someone nonconstructive posts to reach legendary status without putting much effort into their posts in around 3 years but things are different now.


I agree with you to some degree but neither I can do anything about it. But I disagree with the point that it made the forum low quality.
I'm seeing quality posters are leveling up fast but users with not good in the English language will face a hurdle because those users will be limited to their local board and thus forum needs more merit for sub-forum.

You can gain activity easily by remaining active and making shit kind of posts also as every fortnight 14 points of activity is distributed among active members so you see it was not a big issue but the problem came when merit system was implemented for them as they can't rank up now with the low quality posts they were writing on the forum as you can can clearly see from his post history.Now he is trying to make some false statements and out of jealousy has started this thread but if he has focused on learning useful stuff over these years he would have ranked up easily by the time now.

He makes some good points. Nearly every reply in this thread for instance is drivel written purely for the sake of filling weekly post quotas. Everything of value that was once added to this forum is now buried under an insurmountable pile of shitposts. 95% of the forum is unnavigable and not worth reading. Most people posting in it only read it because they get paid to post here. For everyone else, it makes little sense to waste the time.


This is funny. I almost merited the same post he was trying to bring to your attention as it stuck out as informative amid the pile of usual b.s., but then I realized I don't care about Aptos. And not everyone is going to take the time to see if a post was copy/pasted from elsewhere. OP was simply trying to bring what they thought was a good post to your attention, yet you saw it as an attempt to "pump and dump shitcoins."  

 @stoat My question to you is I am providing proof why you could not change your rank. Because although you are my senior but I have to give proof.

Since you have been Inactive for a long time, you don't have many posts on the forum and I haven't seen any informative posts. And if there are no informative posts in the forum from the past and the activity is not applicable then the ranking will not change.

I assure you that you can understand the question yourself.












He has not joined the forum for a long time due to which he could not change his rank. But if you try hard enough and post informatively, you can solve your problem yourself.

None of the Legendary are less than a year old from registration, but you may find some users get 1000 merit in less than a year since they joined. That's something different because basically the merit system has pushed more users to post something quality regardless of whether they have other accounts.

You sleep too long, you need activities to earn merit and activity points so you can rank up. If in January 2018 you had 775 activity, then I don't think you would be this angry. But sadly you stopped for too long, and now you start blaming the system after more than a year since May 23, 2021, 07:59:27 AM You only have 7 posts till now.

But I'm surprised, Are you still angry about this?

Consider yourself as one of those to join them sooner as long as you're moving up with the ranking, also know that legendary rank is the last stage for now so consider everyone to arrived there after ranking up.


Though I can't argue this fact to an extent because it may be happening for real but have you considered the rate of those involved with those that still maintain their integrity to the forum, i don't think it's that easy after one would have been through many thick and thin huddles of the forum and in presenting something worthwhile to have gained enough merits upto legendary rank doing good will now decided to turn in for bad post or becomes a shitposter, does that mean all efforts rendered in the past were just wasted, a seriously minded individuals couldn't have done that, the account would have been inactive than posting shits after attaining legendary and if found doing that, no campaign will be willing to accept such user not even to talk of meriting the account.

I can accept that people used to follow for merits so they are doing something just for the sake of merits but nothing is perfect in this world so the introduction of merit system is serving its purpose, imagine how much legendaries will be now if there is no merit system being introduced including me because back then user only need activity which is simple to get just post something and increase your rank but now it becomes harder which stopped bots and spammers from growing to the great extent.

Just get used to it, this has been here for the purpose so yourself as a user has to adopt it or create your own.

The whole OP seems like it was written by a person who was drunk and angry at the world at the time.

Are you talking about all users who wear signatures or are you singling out only those that belong to altcoin campaigns? I would say it depends where you post and what you read. I don't see bounty hunter spammers in the sections I am active in, and that's in discussions about Bitcoin. I don't go near the altcoin boards anymore, and I agree with you that part of the forum is a disaster.     

Except it doesn't work that way. That's how it was in the past, before the merit system was introduced. You rose in rank just with posts and activity. But now you need to add merits in the mixture. And unless you contribute to the forum, you won't be earning merits.   

Not necessarily. It could also have meant that the person posted a big amount of posts but without any quality at all. Now, other people need to like and appreciate your contributions for you to rank up. Quantity alone won't get you far.

It takes more then a year to become legendary if you are active during every activity period. Try 2 years. You are a senior member because you weren't active enough in the old days to rank up when it was easier. And since the merit system was introduced, you are also lacking the needed merits.   

This has got nothing to do with your rank, the rank of others, or how the merit system works. What you are saying here is that the merit system doesn't work and it results in too many members ranking up too fast. So, do you think it's better to go back to the old ways when you didn't need any merits at all, and all you needed was a large enough post count that no one needed to read or appreciate in any way? Don't you see the lack of logic there? You want to get rid of a system where it's harder to rank up to reinstate one where it's easier to rank up, so that the forum would have less legendary members.

Am sorry,I know am not suppose to drop a comment here since am not as old as you are in the forum. A newbie can not become a legendary in a year time due to your activities. This forum is designed in a way that only legendary members are equal in rank,the only difference is the number of merit acquired by them.

From Newbie rank to Hero rank activities determines your upgrade to your next rank i.e how frequent you post and been active in the forum. For example, a member rank can have 502 merits based on his contributions and helping others out in the forum,this doesn't mean that he will become a Hero member before a Senior Member with 400 merits. The earlier you registered into the forum the more numbers of activities you have than some that came into the forum yesterday.

I will disagree with you way back 2015,Bitcoin was still spreading sluggishly and very few number of people have the knowledge compare to the number of people today. Most Newbies joining the forum today,already have a knowledge of Bitcoin before joining the forum,this will boost up their merit digits when assisting or sharing knowledge on bitcoin related issues. You might be old in a place but someone new can understand the way things is done there better than you because of his experience or research.

That summaries his whole point of creating this useless and baseless topic regarding merit system as he was not able to get some of it with shitcoin promotion and now due to jealous factor he is trying to express his thoughts on the whole system which don't make sense at all.

He has tried to benefit himself by offering his service only and writing one sentence as a post on altcoin discussion board and thinks he has contributed well enough but still not recognised over the forum but didn't look at his post history for once also.

Mate!!! I can see the reason why you are not yet a hero member talks of legendary. You'r not here to learn because you have known (well educated) and you don't want to educate people what you known from outside before coming to the forum. I believe there are two things every user does in the forum to earn merit to rank up. You learn what you don't know by probably asking of questions and also You educate users or people what you have learn. But like this I don't think you can climb up.
I came to this forum December last year and this Charles-Tim has educated and contributed a lot to my threads (questions and others) but you claim to be a old user, but I have not see you in any of my threads (post). What I am saying, you are not a serious user but here to accuse legendary member that why they are there and you are not there while you came before most of them remember a popular saying that "over taking is allowed", if you are not serious then those who are serious would over take you.

Please Charles-Tim is not a merit farmer go and check his post. He has won bonuses from his quality posts from the campaign he is. And he deserves to be a legendary member. Be a good post then you will see yourself soaring like an eagle. I have seen a member rank user that had 260 merits. Also look at this user https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/identifying-the-op-at-a-glance-smf-patch-5412983
Please remove blame game and be serious