Topic: Joe's Signatureless Challenge Archives - page 16. (Read 10707 times)

The round begins on Sunday, but when I do my count at the end of the round, I tally up the posts from the participants' applications post. So even if they apply for the challenge after the round begins, all posts from the start of the round will count towards the current round.

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Do you have a preference as to how you would like to split up the merits, and for which rankings? Please let me know, and I'll include you as a merit sponsor for Round 2! Thank you.

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That is correct; merit away!

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I'm going to require that the winners of each round post their most meritorious post as a way to claim their winnings. Otherwise, you're free to view the participants' post history and award merit for whichever posts you feel are meritorious. Thanks for doing this!

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Yes, as it does not belong to a paid signature campaign. Thank you for the merit; it's much appreciated. What would you like to do with the cash reward if you place for this round? Keep it in escrow? Roll it over to the next round? Donate it to charity? Please let me know!

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I definitely do not mind

Thank you, Geraldo! I will update the sponsors and top post now!

Welcome to Round 2!

In total, we have 25 participants for this round, which means that there will be a CASH PRIZE for 3rd place, as well (sponsored by @bill gator)!

Good luck to all for Round 2!

Can I participate with my alt like nullius and others? you should pay people and ask them not to post at all. facking lol, there is a participant named Sellingaccs. OP's activity and merits are the same. account and merit farmer. second facking lol. you are literally selling merits. nullius with his godlike avatar could join with his alt and farm these merits. after having enough merits for a senior member rank, he could sell the accounts and share the profit.

If you replace nullius with OP, you'll have a merit farmer who is also getting paid. if anybody on this campaign is receiving merit and money for the same post quality of other people who'd receive no merits for their posts. if they have substantial post quality, let them earn merits like everybody else with substantial post quality.

If a merit source is enrolled in a signature campaign, he shouldn't merit any member from the same campaign. if you are not a merit source, apply to become one. if you haven't been selected as a merit source, don't act like one and don't create a service to have merit sources as sponsors. it is like being denied to become a source but then going and making a thread to tell merit sources what to do. doing it your way. (I know you are not forcing them to be your sponsors).

Thanks, DarkStar_.  That post was my Newbie-ranked debut in the Development & Technical Discussion forum, made three days after I started actively posting.  It defends Segwit, and tears into one of the major ulterior motives of the swindlers who lead the Btrash idiots.  That post has a special place in my heart.

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I myself find that I do best when I don’t think like that.  It can result in what is commonly called “trying too hard”, a sure mark of a junior hack in the world of professional writing.

That being said, I was always conscious that my posts had (I hoped!) a readership who would be “looking and judging”.  That is why, if you check my post history, you will find that my post quality and style are unchanged since introduction of the merit system.  I still talk tech the same way as before, post long “diatribes” the same way as before, insult idiots the same way as before, etc.  The only difference is that my forum presence and subject matter have expanded and evolved, which I think is natural for a new user.


I sometimes do 24–36 hour posting marathons, for the principal purpose of concealing my time zone.  Otherwise, I jet-lag around my sleep schedule.  When user stats were enabled in December, I managed to keep a fairly smooth top across the bar chart of posts by hours per day.  Such is the nature of life in the.nym.zone!

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Indeed.  Bech32 is awesome; and native Segwit is beneficial to both your fee savings, and the network as a whole.  But you are brave to now use the address format of the future, when so many obsolete products and services are still stuck in the past.  I tried that.  Gave up for now.  Though I have seen some advanced users seemingly use Bech32 addresses as a mark of eliteness amongst themselves.  Anyway, I am hoping that 2018 will be the year of Bech32 adoption.  Here’s hoping that by the beginning of 2019, we will all be using Bech32!

Most clients and exchanges have some intense dislike for native segwit addresses. You'll probably need to use either I think either Electrum, Core or a hardware wallet to send it. That being said BTC.com supports reading transactions with native SegWit addresses so I presume their online wallet should support sending money to bc1 addresses aswell

I tried sending the $10 directly to Blue Tyrant's address, but for some reason my client doesn't like the bc1 addresses. Since I was unable to send the funds directly I have sent a little more than $20 to the escrow address for this challenge. That way Joe can dish out the funds for me, and next weeks sponsor money is already in the escrow address. I apologize for being about a day late here, but I've been very busy lately.

TXID : 6f3a8961aeb2a81e46f60325fccd1fbed130ca3a8464c1aef55fd38a697c2a55

Let me know if that's okay, Joe.

Hi Joe,
Two Merits for the 3rd place seems fair enough, and I'll provide it in the 2nd round if you don't mind.

BitcoinTalk Username: Jack Dragon
Starting Post Count (including this one): 183
Current Rank: Jr. Member

I finished last week at post count 182.

Oh i did not know i have to submit my entry again for Round 2?
Can still participate?

Thanks for round 1!  

Its quite a different thing writing a post KNOWING that people will be looking at and judging the contents then just typing at will. (yes I actually had to think about my posts).

I can't image where nullius gets the time to generate that output with that quality level, averaging more posts in 1 day than I did in a week.

Thanks for being generous with my score, and the merits!

2 more hours to get your applications in for Round 2!

Round 2 is already underway and will go until Sunday evening. Remember, a minimum of 7 posts is required. No maximum. You can post anywhere you like, as long as it's an English-speaking board (posts in Local sections will not affect your overall score, as long as minimums in English-speaking boards are met). You can wear whatever signature you want, as long as it is not a paid campaign signature.

Good luck, all! Spreadsheet will be updated tonight, and I'll reply to all of your questions in a bit. I'll also update the top post with new regulations.

BitcoinTalk Username: Jack Dragon
Starting Post Count (including this one): 5
Current Rank: Newbie
BTC Address: 39ZyszafxVpF3RHfnAoWE6otpMu3TSWwuD

cool idea bro.

I gave 8 merits to nullius. (reference) He specifically requested that post, which was why I gave it merit.

Waiting on Blue Tyrant to see if there's a specific post he'd like me to merit. Edit: given, (reference)

I hope to join this challenge. It is a great challenge to get everyone to post in high quality.
I will do my best to post only quality post.

sent you 25 merit.

BitcoinTalk Username: vlom
Starting Post Count (including this one): 2574
Current Rank: Legendary
BTC Address: 1Atc4zkniTL5kPeUhc3Vg6heKi4LQ41KTh

BitcoinTalk Username: buyandsale
Starting Post Count (including this one): 108
Current Rank: Jr. Member
BTC Address: 3Ap8HXGp5oRxk3fTsMoktTAkLBrfPoTBRo

I appreciate your initiative! Merited!

I would like to apply but I'm not interested in the cash prize.
Let me know if I can join and keep my current signature (advertises my service on this forum - unsuccessfully though ...   ).

BitcoinTalk Username: vlad230
Starting Post Count (including this one): 157
Current Rank: Member
BTC Address: N/A

And it should be linked in the OP or the spreadsheet for quick reference. Yes, I'm lazy.

Edit: for now I just sent some merits to posts in this thread.

I guess for that purpose it would be pretty neat to implement what @toughit requested


That way it would be better for the merits to be handed out to the "best" posts of the week rather than an application post which kinda seems against the spirit of the merit system (after all it was meant for quality posting and not exactly meriting applications for campaigns)