Round 4: Notes & CritiqueHere are my notes for all of the participants. Please remember that this is my personal opinion, and in no way reflect the views of the moderators, staff, or any other members of this forum. If you don't like it,
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butka: Look at you! Generating private keys by hand... Your dedication to Bitcoin has REALLY shown through this round, and I'm glad that this forum has a member like you. You've asked all the right questions (designed so that the answers that others leave will help everyone reading, not just you), posted some of your findings and research, provided guides for newbies, and have received criticism very well for your posts. I'm going to brief in stating that you are the model participant of this challenge. The only criticism I have for you is to be careful not to partake in megathreads ("Do you trade crypto?"), as they are designed solely to produce spam for the purpose of ranking up member accounts and activity. I didn't mark you down too much for your post there, as you obviously posted before it became multiple pages, but once you spend some more time here on the forums, it'll become easier to see which topics are posted for the sole purpose of spamming the boards. GREAT job this week!
bitmover: Another SOLID week for you. First of all, enjoy your journey into your new sig campaign; bustadice is lucky to have you. I hope you can visit us again in the future. You have some great findings from this week, and I consider you to be a great contributing member to the forums. From privacy to guides, this week shows that you can consistently post great content and be relevant to the areas in which you post in. Great job!
vlad230: You have definitely spent a lot of time on the forums this week, and I applaud that! From offering your service of looking out for thoughtful members to suggesting new features for the forum, it's apparent that you've taken a genuine interest in the BCT forums. You've been very helpful this week, and I look forward to seeing more of your posts in the future.
flip4flop: While I appreciate that you've branched out of your "comfort zone" of Altcoin Mining boards on the forum, please be careful not to contribute to megathreads with dozens of pages of answers before you. Even if your reply is genuine, chances are that none of the thousands of participants of that thread will every take the time to revisit the thread, especially not the OP. Your post ability is great, but this week, I find that your posts lack overall quality compared to previous weeks. Maybe because you've been busy? I would propose that if it's too difficult to start branching out to other boards, just focus on the ones you're comfortable in. Overall, good posts, but I know you can do better!
shahzadafzal: Good posts! It's obvious that English is not your first language, but you do a great job with portraying your message without any hinderances due to language barriers. It shows that you have done a good amount of research for many of your posts, which is a huge plus. You've chosen decent topics to post in, and I'm glad that there weren't any megathreads. I just wish that you would backup your statements just a bit more than posting examples or someone else's quotes. If you make a statement like "you should never trust banks", you should embellish your response with a bit more persuasion. Overall, great round,a nd I look forward to seeing what you produce in the future!
r1s2g3: This week, it seems as if you've taken a genuine interest into how the forums work especially with the merit features. It's a good thing, however, because you've chosen the opposite route of members that are just fishing for merits. Your posts are contributive, and you've definitely done a lot of research for many of them for this round! Great job! For the future, I'd love to see you take more of a direction of finding threads that have to do with Bitcoin and Altcoins, rather than just meta and merits. It was hard for me to critique you this week, as the majority of your posts were in those boards. Overall, however, great job. You're definitely above average.
dmonrey002: You're obviously familiar with trading, which is always a good addition to the forums. However, I noticed you posted in a megathread, which you should be weary of. While your post may have substance, those threads were only designed to farm member ranks and activity, and your post will easily get overlooked there, ultimately becoming spam for the forums. Feel free to venture about the forums and discover other boards. You've done some great research and showed that you can post some awesome quality posts, so let's see more of that moving forward. You show great potential!
Meretrix: Wow. When I learned that you were going to use this account as a fictitious character to base a novel on, I had no idea that your writing ability reached out further than just technical jargon and succint evaluations of bitcoin, this forum, and its members. I'll be honest. When I first started reading Chapter 1, I thought to myself "this is going to be an awkward relationship of love between Bitcoin and Meretrix." and I was right. Can I go as far as calling this a fetish? Here's the thing; I actually can't wait to read the next chapter lol. While this is a great piece of entertainment, and I'm glad that it's being played out and released on the forums, it doesn't flow well with my criteria. While I want to give you high scores, I need to make it fair for others who are posting based on their commitment to my suggestions, so I'm going to follow the same criteria for judging your posts this round. The score does NOT reflect your writing ability, which we all know is, simply put, amazing.
charlie137: You've had a few diamonds in the rough this round, but the overall vibe that I got from your posts this round were that of laziness that required minimal thought. A few of your posts are good, but the majority were in topics where your reply would not have made a difference whether you posted or not. In the future, try to add more substance and references to your posts that need them, especially when stating things like "did you tried other browsers? it looks okay on my safari. usually safari is the one you having problems with) also whois returned Brazil" or "keeping a few. after eip #867 and followed events.... its not a blockchain in its meaning". You could easily add just a few more words to those posts to make them substantial versus just one line answers. Overall, you've got great potential, and I look forward to seeing what kind of quality you can pump out in future rounds!
Blue Tyrant: Aww, I'm kind of disappointed with the level of quality of your posts this week, but understandably, you did state that you were busy. Although your posts were contributive, they seem a bit lazy, to be honest. I don't have too much to critique, because I know that you know that your posts can be much better than what they've been this week! I hope to see some better content in future rounds.
marcelo01: All right... Not bad. You're obviously a newbie, not just to the forums, but Bitcoin in general, and I'm glad that you chose to participate in this challenge. I like where your head is at. Your post quality is very decent, and it's fun to watch the progression of quality throughout the week. While most of your posts are in the Off-Topic board, I gather that's just because you're new here. This week, I want to push you to start looking through the results of the top 5 winners of Round 4, and view their post history. You definitely show potential to being a top-ranked user here; just do a little more research, and try to find boards that you're comfortable with posting in. I know that it can be overwhelming for a newbie, but I can see potential with you. Keep up the great work, and I hope to see your score rise every week!
DREWSKIE: While some of your posts have good content, you've chosen to post in megathreads, which ultimately render your replies useless, as those threads are not contributive to the forums. They were designed to farm account ranks, and support members who only wish to rally up their activity in order to rank up. It's unfortunate, because you do have the ability to post relevant content. Just please avoid the megathreads when posting in the future. Try to choose more relevant and topical conversations to become a part of.
Daboy_Lyle: You have a lot of blanket statements that are definitive, such as "I have a chart here that will prove that this time is the best to buy bitcoin." but there is no substance or facts to backup that claim. I consider posts like yours as "shit posts". They don't contribute at all to the overall thread, and your post would make no difference whether it was there or not. In the future, please consider spending more time and thought into your posts, and if you plan on stating something "factually", try to back it up with some documentation.
kiemnhieutien: With the exception of just a few posts (and obviously the posts in bounties threads), your posts are unsubstantial. The couple of good posts you have, you instruct others about how to join bounties or earn money from the forums, which shouldn't be the sole purpose for joining the forums. If I'm going to be honest, I consider you to be a shit poster, simply because it's obvious that you have spent more time on the threads here designed to earn an income than the ones that are generally about Bitcoin/cryptocurrency overall. If you're serious about wanting to help improve the forums, I'm going to ask you to partake in more discussions related to the crypto industry, rather than just bounty threads and merit threads.
Danstan: I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you're just a little bit above the average shitposter. Your posts are in mainly megathreads or topics that were designed specifically to farm member ranks and activity. The topics you posted in (and one that you created and then abandoned) are completely unsubstantial, and your posts are also non-contributive and show little effort. While it's obvious that some of your posts took a lot of time to write, just remember one thing: Just because you post a lot of text does not mean that your post is substantial. Please try to partake in conversations that are more related to Bitcoin and Altcoins in the future.
EzBreezy: Your posts are generic and blanket statements. You haven't researched ANY of your answers, and have provided purely speculative posts (with the exception of your merit abuser post). This is very unhealthy thinking, and you shouldn't post just for the sake of posting, especially when your replies don't have any substance. Try to avoid megathreads, or topics that are based on a question or speculation, as these are filled with spam posts simply designed to farm member ranks and activity. In the future, if you're going to give such speculatively definitive answers, such as "I think both are good because they are all profitable. There are only difference when it comes to working on it investing is just sending your fund...", show some examples of the difference, rather than just stating "both are good". I think it would benefit you to browse around the forums and read more than you post for the time being. Just because you post a lot doesn't mean that any of the posts are good.
fortuneteller: Because you're new, it's easy to post in megathreads, as they're designed to look like they're substantial. In reality, they are not, and by contributing to those threads, you're ultimately adding to the logs of spam that we have littering this forum. While I know that it's hard to partake in healthy conversations about bitcoin and crypto as a newbie (to both bitcoin and these forums), I would advise you to start asking questions. The right questions. Stay out of posting in Bitcoin Discussion (while you're more than welcome to read the posts; you MAY find some valuable information in there). I will state that your post quality has gotten a LOT better from the duration of this round; MUCH better than prior to you joining this challenge, but feel free to browse the entirety of the forums, and not just the Bitcoin Discussion sub.
newBIeT: You've done what most newbies to Bitcoin and these forums have done. Posting in generic speculative topics and megathreads that are designed to simply farm member activity and ranks. While your posts make sense, they are heavily opinionated and positioned in a way that sounds definitive. You post without providing any kind of references or sources for your statements, which immediately invalidates your opinions. These types of posts are highly non-contributive, and in fact, unsubstancial. Your posts could easily be deleted and still would not shift the direction of the topics they were posted in. Please try to avoid posting generic answers that have already been answered somewhere within the dozens of pages before your answer. This is considered "shitposting", which goes against everything this challenge stands for. Try to hang out in more relevant and topical discussions, and don't be afriad to ask questions if you don't know the answer. Better luck in the future!
Lorin: I'm going to be very blunt and direct with you, simply because you're a Full Member and have been here long enough to know this. You are a shitposter. EVERY single one of your posts are in megathreads and your answers are extremely unsubstantial. Your posts have made absolutely no positive difference to the topics they were posted in. If you want to remain in this challenge with the current style that you're posting in, I HIGHLY advise that you take a look at our past winners and model their post quality and history. As it stands, you are the lowest scoring non-disqualified participant in the history of this challenge. If you're serious about wanting to make this forum a better place, let me know. Otherwise, I can assure you that you will never place in any rewarding spots of this challenge.
Sellingaccs: I hope you return for Round 5. I wasn't sure if you wanted to remain in this campaign for Round 4 due to your statements throughout the week, and I see that you've applied to a sig campaign. But I would love to see you here; you're welcome to join anytime, @Sellingaccs!
Disqualified ParticipantsMichael CF: You're obviously here on the forums to make money. This is fine, but try to be more contributive in your posts (that are not related to bounties). One line answers are fine, as long as they portray a strong message, and isn't just a repeat of someone else's answer. I'm going to disqualify you this round, as you haven't had enough posts that were gradeable and outside of bounty threads. Oh, and another thing, please do not ever use the word "sir" again in any posts. I know that you view it as a term of respect, but the first world views it as a title that is only used by shitposters.
MyLitecoin: Does not qualify. Only 4 posts made this round
detector: Does not qualify. Only 6 posts made this round.
Wabaman: Does not qualify. Only 6 posts made this round.
max2607: Does not qualify. Only 4 posts made this round.
yazher: Disqualified. Applied for paid signature campaign during Round 4.
samidhu1: Disqualified. Wearing a paid signature.
samidhu1: Disqualified. Wearing a paid signature.
Banned Participantszangleerb: Disqualified and banned. 95% of your posts are in bounty threads, and the remaining don't have enough substance to score. Obviously, you're missing the point of this challenge. You are now banned from it, as your ONLY intention was the chance of earning cash. And it's blatantly obvious, given your post history.
All's well, just one of those days you're busier than usual because of some or the other commitments and projects (arguably I could have accessed BTT on mobile though being exhausted combined with the fact I was too lazy to solve captcha for the over 20 minutes thanks to Google's love for Tor didn't help) 
