Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements - page 25.

Steamtyme

legendary

Activity: 1554

Merit: 2037

Quote from: mudyak99 on September 17, 2018, 06:48:48 PM

Sad, this is my last week signature campaign, then after my rank change to newbie, i can't join their project again Embarrassed

this waste my time, maybe next time i can join any bounty with newbie rank

Or here's a thought, you could just be better. I get it that's a long shot.

You are exactly what is wrong with the forum, and a great sign that the steps Theymos is implementing do have a positive effect.

If you feel your time has been wasted, you now know how anyone who took the time to read your posts felt.

mronezigger

newbie

Activity: 154

Merit: 0

Though it was surprising for real user in my capability of how long I have been on the platform without a accolades of even 1merit but logically it will be touching for we user that have put much to see we get to another but what can I say or do rather than to up my game and quality to the required test of the delegated board of admin,they new development will surely make the platform my organic and meaningful and I believe that I no time I will still bounce back to another level of rank.

solkinsolali

member

Activity: 154

Merit: 17

This is a very nice step in the right direction. I believe it will make most of us more constructive and purposeful with our posts. So many people are fond of posting meaningless topics or replies just to raise post counts towards signature campaigns.

I strongly believe this will curb spam in the forum.

You may also read my post below if you are still not satisfied with the new ranking rule.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42475237

mudyak99

jr. member

Activity: 304

Merit: 5

Sad, this is my last week signature campaign, then after my rank change to newbie, i can't join their project again Embarrassed

this waste my time, maybe next time i can join any bounty with newbie rank

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Lafu on September 17, 2018, 05:02:35 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 17, 2018, 04:53:42 PM

and not to complain but no one answered me what does a copper membership cost?

A Copper Member cost is :

-Copper - 0.00208333 BTC

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

Thank you

So knowing human greed selling that 1 merit for 0.0010 will happen from time to time.

Thermyos sent me a pm told me list is well over 1000 people.

I am willing to look at list and read posts from now until dec 24th.

I will come back here and update.
I will not give merit to anyone that asks for merit.

JayJuanGee

legendary

Activity: 3892

Merit: 11105

Self-Custody is a right. Say no to"Non-custodial"

Quote from: actisstupidname on September 17, 2018, 05:56:49 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on September 17, 2018, 05:53:05 PM

Quote from: Oliviatee on September 17, 2018, 05:06:51 PM

Pls can anyone tell me how I can be getting merit on this forum?

Participate in threads that are interesting to you, interact with members posting in the thread and topics that they raise and/or thread related topics that are raised by you, and attempt to provide substantive and meaningful posts.

LMAO

And? What is funny about what I said?

If you are a real person and not a bot, a shill, a spammer or a scammer, then what I suggested should work well for genuine folks who are interested in earning merit over time, right?

abduramann

jr. member

Activity: 105

Merit: 1

Quote from: theymos on September 17, 2018, 06:28:35 AM

Quote from: abduramann on September 17, 2018, 06:09:27 AM

I think this decision does not fit the rule of law.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -Lord Acton

KonstantinosM

hero member

Activity: 1492

Merit: 763

Life is a taxable event

No-one is entitled to rank up without paying their dues. You don't contribute, you don't rank up.

I was surprised that there wasn't a merit requirement for people to rank up from newbie to begin with.

It's the right choice.

A lot of my posts are of questionable quality and I've managed to get a few merits sent my way. It feels good when you're writing a good post and even better when you get merited for it.

Sometimes you'll have to either stumble upon a great idea that people haven't heard a billion times before, sometimes you'll just have to take the time to understand the topic and the thread and contribute to it.

It's not so hard. Unless you're a spammer or a bot.

actisstupidname

jr. member

Activity: 67

Merit: 5

Quote from: JayJuanGee on September 17, 2018, 05:53:05 PM

Quote from: Oliviatee on September 17, 2018, 05:06:51 PM

Pls can anyone tell me how I can be getting merit on this forum?

Participate in threads that are interesting to you, interact with members posting in the thread and topics that they raise and/or thread related topics that are raised by you, and attempt to provide substantive and meaningful posts.

LMAO

JayJuanGee

legendary

Activity: 3892

Merit: 11105

Self-Custody is a right. Say no to"Non-custodial"

Quote from: Oliviatee on September 17, 2018, 05:06:51 PM

Pls can anyone tell me how I can be getting merit on this forum?

Participate in threads that are interesting to you, interact with members posting in the thread and topics that they raise and/or thread related topics that are raised by you, and attempt to provide substantive and meaningful posts.

CryptoXis

newbie

Activity: 56

Merit: 0

I’ll take it as a challenge to contribute to this forum. For us newbies, It will take sometime but I will do my best to make significant and contructive post in all aspects of this forum. May merits be in our favor Cheesy

actisstupidname

jr. member

Activity: 67

Merit: 5

Very nice!!!

We are getting closer to banning newbies altogether! Keep it up. Make Bitcointalk great again!

Rippou

jr. member

Activity: 110

Merit: 1

It feels like merits are more common on English boards compared to local ones, so I think this change is going to have a bigger effect on local forums. Are there any statistics on what percentage of merits are given on local boards?

Bthd

legendary

Activity: 2352

Merit: 2592

Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks

Quote from: theymos on September 16, 2018, 11:27:20 PM

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.

But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.

With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

Dear sir, sorry for my English. i'm learning it since 1 years for understand crypto world better. (using google translate sometimes).
will there be more merit sources for other languages forums ? it's too hard to get merits on other languages forums, and not enaugh sources. we have to use dns or vpn for joining bitcointalk in my country. But i think bitcoin is for everyone and for kicking all restrictions.

And.. Please analyze bounty threads. Peoples gives merits to bounty managers for bounty threads. İn my opinion its not fair.

for example: 17 merits for a classic bounty thread ? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bounty-vogov-love-crypto-and-porn-4598087

and than they gives merits for other bounty thread managers.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1017137

may you can deaktivate bounty messages for merit.

regards.

abduramann

jr. member

Activity: 105

Merit: 1

Quote from: Delphinus on September 17, 2018, 06:17:28 AM

Quote from: abduramann on September 17, 2018, 06:09:27 AM

I think this decision does not fit the rule of law. A new act cannot be applied to the past. However, I think the rights of the existing Jr. members should have been kept. This decision is really unfair. Ok, I understand the issues such as spamming, multi-accounts etc. The administrators should find other ways to prevent these issues, decreasing ranks is not ethical and will not be a solution. I think the cryptocurrency world has (or had) an ideal defending equality. This type of discrimination is against this ideal, too. I hope the administrators reconsider this decision.

Based on your account history, you've only made posts for bounty entries since April (5 months) and started participating in other threads since the 12th of September. If you keep that up for a couple of weeks, I'm sure you'll get merits soon enough.

I was talking about morals, ethics, laws, ideals, justice. I was NOT begging to anyone. Your style which tries to look down on me and others is disrespectful. Go and learn some respect. Until then, do not reply to my posts anymore. OK?

iamike

jr. member

Activity: 314

Merit: 1

Quote from: theymos on September 16, 2018, 11:27:20 PM

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.

But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.

With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

This is really a great idea but I suggest the merit needed for a junior member to move to member should be reduced to 5. The 10 merits is quite high to come by easily and besides people hardly award merit. So please try and take my suggestion into consideration.
Thanks for your unrelenting effort to push the forum to a new height.

SPdiginomads

newbie

Activity: 224

Merit: 0

This is a strong point for us newbies. What we should take away is that we have given a tasks eagerly to contribute to this forum. Avoid unnecessary and insignificant threads so soon Grin

iKar

jr. member

Activity: 219

Merit: 1

Quote from: Oliviatee on September 17, 2018, 05:06:51 PM

Pls can anyone tell me how I can be getting merit on this forum?

to inform (write) about something new, give efficient advice to another user and maybe somebody will reward Roll Eyes

Oliviatee

newbie

Activity: 350

Merit: 0

Pls can anyone tell me how I can be getting merit on this forum?

Ludji

jr. member

Activity: 112

Merit: 5

Anyone notice the added benefit of this change - linking alts will be much easier? Think about it, due to the new requirements you can bet that users will start transferring 1 merit to alts and we all know how efficient our investigators are on this forum lol. I've seen very complex linking between alts in the Meta/Reputation forum and I look forward to uncovering them. But, as I've said, if possible I would just add a requirement for posting in Meta. Too many newbies posting here thinking the merit party is here lol.

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