Think carefully, what is the reason for implementing the merit system?
It is to fight with spams, but now, has this battle been won? In all fairness, the outcome of this battle is far from meeting its expectations. When we browse the forum, we can always see a lot of meaningless posts in any section and this posts were born very fast, often when we read a topic over and want to read the next topic, we will find that the next topic can't be found. when we try to find the next topic, it has been squeezed into Page 2, even after page 3.The fact is that there are not so many people in the real reply, but because a large number of jr.member are completing their signature bounty missions.When you check posting history of these accounts, you will see that many accounts have more than 100 active, but 99% of the posts are airdrop proofs or social media links, are there any posts in these posts that communicate with others? No, none of them.Because these accounts are only for bounty/airdrops, they have no soul.
Therefore, they are not worthy of the benefits of bounty/airdrops. To some extent, bounty/airdrops are a boon to the BTT Forum for qualified members. So, for members who really love the forum, it is not difficult to get a merits, and those accounts that are crying, if you don't want to leave the forum, please stop crying, improve the quality of your posts from now on.
Wauw, was amazed to read this line. So you decide who's worthy of rewards now?
The Bitcointalk forum has a section for bounties and airdrops and has been massively abused by multi accounters and spam the rest of the forum for signature rewards.
I joined the forum about 6 months ago but was already involved in crypto. Have over 10K followers on LinkedIn and Twitter who apparently appreciate the content I share from the projects I choose to promote. I am not a regular poster, besides my bounty reports, but do feel that Bitcointalk.org is a platform for me, where I can find good projects to promote, help the right ICO's to succeed and build up a little portfolio for my efforts.
You make it sound like all rewards are only for high ranked, first adopters who joined the forum ages ago.
I have been reading a lot here and noticed that a lot of Hero/Legendary members are fed up with shitposts from other high ranking members also. These members never had to 'earn' any merit for their status and just ranked up over time spamming the forum.
Now with the invasion of account farmers and Jr. Members that multi-account signature campaigns, shitposting got out of control. And the recent change for requiring 1 Merit to become a Jr. Member won't stop the account farmers, account buyers and multi-accounters. Make a change where only quality members can wear a signature IMO.
But please don't come here and say that people who genuinely promote projects, with a single account have no soul, who are you to judge?! Besides this, many of these people start off with doing airdrops and bounties because they believe in crypto, don't have the experience and knowledge that other members have because they just joined the crypto community and this is their way of getting started and in the end helping the mass adoption, which would benefit us all.