If you was register from 1 or 2 years ago, you will got fucking free merit.
So older members didn't deserve any recognition?
Unfortunately, what has also happened is that a lot of the older spammers/shitposters got given a bunch of free merit which has subsequently been given to either their alt accounts or "sold" to other new spam/shitposting accounts
Thankfully, this free merit is limited... So this situation will eventually end and we'll be down to merit coming from merit sources only.
The sooner all the scam ICOs and related "bounties" disappear, the better as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully then all the "will shitpost for pennies" bounty hunters will disappear with them...
from what I noticed, the whole Altcoin Discussion section seems to only consist of people bumping old threads with a random reply,
although I'm guilty of doing the same if the topic is interesting! But then I realised that noone ever really responds, so where could one go?
I tried making a thread in Altcoin Discussions but it disappears right away due to the spam, and it seems like most people aren't interested in contributing to the discussion itself
Sure I did join initially for bounties aswell but there are very many knowledgeable people here I noticed, so now I like to discuss regular topics instead.
I started posting in Bitcoin Discussion and so far it seems like the quality of content is higher there, so if anyone is looking for interesting discussions I suggest go there