Topic: Legendary Members Spread Completely Fake Information - Merit System Do Not Work (Read 984 times)

that is why I said I am not sure he is simply faking it all to get people to talk back or post back to him.

He is interesting to say the least we can leave it at that.

Not sure it would be fair to call someone crazy because  the stuff they share around here. I do not personally know him, but would rather lean myself on believing he is just into very conspiratorial subjects and also very conspiratorial medicine theories. Regardless of it,  the quantity of merits he has received sounds about right keeping in mind the amount of time he has posted here, if I would even bet most of his earned merits were either gotten during Trump campaigns or when he did not discuss completely about politics and more about conspiracies, from some old participations I have seen in the Politics and society section, it would seem to be that place was more appealed by conspiracies than it is now.

Well BaDdecker is crazy as they come. I am not quite sure if he is real or more like Steve Colbert was on his older show. A left wing playing a right wing.

As you can see, I meant it for the legendaries who did not earn many merits in their forum life. I was giving him an Idea that even though they are Legendary members, it does not mean all of them are knowledgeable enough. I have seen a lot of Legendary accounts that failed to earn 100 merits in the last five years. They have lower credibility than a Full member who earned 100 Merits in the new era.

Now, if you talk about Badecker, he has earned around 355 merits after the air-dropped merits. Now, look at the number of posts he made in this forum. It's almost 40K. Earning 355 merits against nearly 40K posts is not too much. I am going to hit 1600 Posts this week, and I have earned almost 500 merits, and I still think sometimes I write shit.

Why did you raise this up from last month. I thought we pretty much beat this topic to death. I guess somehow you missed reading it.

At learn bitcoin he was dissing badecker. Baddecker has a lot of real merits.

When I saw the title, I thought the merit button did not work for him. Also, he said Legendary Members spread fake information which means many legendaries are involved in spreading fake information. The first thing is, when you see legendary members, their merits are always not earned merits. Some of them got the merits from airdrop and then they were unable to manage earning at least 50 merits in the last couple of years. They are just like another newbie member with thousand activity and zero merits and they writing shit. You can use bpip extension to see if those merits are earned or airdropped.

Incase you don't know the weight in what you've just said here, let me analyze them for you one after the other.

1. You're talking about legendary members spreading fake news, but you're not one yet, should we also assume that when that time comes and you becomes a legendary member, you're also going to feed us with fake news?

2. If your response is no, then know this that you're not expected to treat a single person issue or challenges to affect every other persons.

3. You don't have the enough reason to say that the merit system does not work with here.

Spreading misinformation is not against the forum rules as far as I know. Who is going to decide if the information is legit or not anyway? Fact checkers? Nice joke.

The OP is trying to say something and at the same time he's getting the whole issue mixed up.
I think he's having a bad day with the merit system and at the same time a legendary member with a topic that has fake information (so he said). My question is why didn't the OP just drop his opinion on that or ignore the post relating to the fake cancer information and move on? Or if he's having issues with whatever he's pointing at why not go straight to the main issue that bothering him? And the merit system doesn't work, how?🤔

Hah, I didn't know that this topic is still alive.


While I aggree that he doesn't deserve attention that he is getting, I disagree on ulterior motive part. This topic is reult of OP's ignorance, and its not the only nonse topic that he created in these last few months since he registered here.

I think the OP has ulterior motives for creating this thread therefore I would not bother giving him attention beyond this post. In total he has made 36 posts after he created this thread yet he did not post here again. He seems to be trying to make a name for himself by attention-seeking but his plans have now ended because his last login was on the same day as when he received a negative tag.

I noticed the OP some weeks ago because he was posting in threads and boards that usually do not attract newbies unless they are alt-accounts pretending to be newbies. To me, it was quite clear he was trying to get a higher rank and that was probably to achieve a nefarious end.

The OP has given up on trying build his Joeyp account therefore he will concentrate on his other accounts and this time will probably stay away from the Reputation and Meta boards as well as will avoid using any of his accounts to scam at least until they seem trustworthy.

@Joeyp
Actually, the merit system works really well, and also the overall community response to that thread was positive. He didn't receive a single merit for it, proving that no one thinks it's a quality contribution. And absolutely no one, besides yourself, posted in that thread to either support or show opposition to his claims. Everything is as it should. 

You don't use one mistake or false information he/she shared about cancer and question the merit system that has been established and adopted by a reputable forum like bitcointalk.org. You don't make an unverified accusation. You don't generalize things, learn to be specific on a particular person you are dealing with. So how do you balance your claim with those that has thousands of merits that has been sharing helpful and credible information here in the forum, since you are saying the merit system doesn't work?

He also has a neutral trust from Icopress for spreading false statements/misinformation. Thanks for letting me know there are crazy people out there on the forum.
One more thing about shitposters is that there is a stake campaign running that only allows shitposters to post high number of posts per week. Most of these shitposters spread spam without much research to complete their post count.

I truly appreciate and commend your commitment to combatting misinformation, especially in health-related topics. However, as some other members have already pointed out, the merit system was not designed for these matters and is, therefore, irrelevant. Have you considered the possibility of applying demerits in such cases? If not, it means that, for now, no users can receive demerits. We should also be mindful not to believe everything we read; it is everyone's responsibility.
So to conclude, your claim that the forum's merit system is useless, is not valid. I hope you understand that. Once again, kudos for your concern; I have great respect for people like you.

If you ever come across misinformation, please don't hesitate to report the post. Moderators will review it on your behalf.

OP, where are you driving at?
Because from what you're saying, you're complaining about the information that was given wasn't solid or true about cancer, that's ok. Why not stick to that and concentrate on that issue, I don't know what the merit system has to do with this FAKE INFORMATION.
If you feel the merit system isn't working or whatever you feel about it, just open a new thread and give us what you have observed about it, because to me this isn't getting anywhere. First you said a legendary member gave a fake information and  merit system doesn't work, I still can't get how they both connect OP.

Did you say its useless? Or you saying those who implemented the merit system do not know what they are doing?. Please do not say that unless you have quality proof to back up what you are saying. Previously it was so easy to rank up, all you need was some good number of activities ad boom your moving to the next rank. That means if you have about 1k to 2k activities in a week you probably could be a legendary member in a week.

The main reason for the merit system is unique and its proven to be functionable. It has helped reduce the high number of shit posting, regulate the merit ranking to system to the individual local boards and so many other good benefits. I think you should read a little history of the merit system of the forum, ill share the link and I hope you find it helpful to convince you that the merit system still works.

History of bitcointalk's ranking system

In retail pharmacy you're free and you provide guidance to many people about drugs but in that field most of the pharmacists are for revenue purpose I guess, but as a hospital pharmacist we basically help people with our education and support them with drugs for free as the drugs are funded by government. I'm quite sure the hospital pharmacists are doing the same thing all over the world.

Man, retail pharmacy is also a good job I guess because there are less restrictions in that area and we can have some rest every once in a while but as hospital pharmacists we'll have to serve patients at hospital. Sometimes a hospital pharmacist has to serve patients on festival days when the hospitals are officially off, but the emergency work is always there for hospital pharmacists. Let's discuss further about it in PM as it's going somewhat off-topic here!



Well, that's true and basically the merit system was implemented to ward-off the account farmers and spammers and it has nothing to do with a member's rank. The ones who receive air-dropped merits were basically active members of the forum before the merit system was implemented and the received those air-dropped merits as reward for their presence and activity on the forum.

The OP seems to be highly against the merit system but he/she doesn't know that how good the merit system is and how much it improved the forum. It's because of the merit system the account farming stopped otherwise we might still had so many account farmers who would be posting useless spam or 1 liner posts in order to rank their accounts up. Ah, actually in present days they wouldn't be doing that spamming themselves but set a number of bots that might be doing that shit for them.

As much as the merit system has been brought in the spotlight, this thread did not get any merits for it .
And the fact that the OP isn't a medical doctor either (by assumption) this should mean the OP was simply expressing their opinion and not giving expert advice , hence DYOR to get facts or seek medical advice in relation to the topic. Btw, that's why medical doctors actually discourage self prescription because there is so much information out there which is good & bad and an ordinary person won't sieve out the bad information and we are advised to see a doc.

And with this, we have to appreciate how the forum is structured to allow users to express their opinions freely , BCT is the place to be #true_freedom

Probably that's the board he finds his strength and joy, like some users only post in mining or Bitcoin technical support or  gambling for instance etcetera

Hell yeah!!  I could never stand retail pharmacy, and my best years were as a hospital pharmacist.  Now this is a rare situation, because I've only met one other person in the profession and he did or still does work for a chain pharmacy.  Most do, I suspect--but I also suspect 90% of them are miserable.  In the hospital setting you actually put your brain and education to use.  Way off topic but I'm gonna hop back on right now:

But it was the case, and the point is that BADecker didn't earn 1000 of the merits that he has, nor did I.  I was just illustrating the fact that it would appear to newcomers or those who don't know about how the merit system started that he earned far more merits for his posts than he actually did, and that would lead some to assume that more people agree with his ramblings than is actually the case.

Yes, professionals make mistakes all the time.  That goes along with being human, and except for the AI-posting lunatics we've got polluting the forum we're all in that same boat.

Hear, hear.

The rate of success that has been achieved with the merit system since introduction is higher when compared to the rate of wrong usage of it, and never expect it to work 100% in the sense that no matter how good a system is, so far, there are humans involved, there is always a small percentage chance that they'll tend to abuse it, and it will seem to be the system's fault and that's just the fact with your view about the system right now, so for me there is nothing the merit system has to do with this shit posting.

Lastly, despite the fact that the ranking system makes it seem like the higher rank members are more experienced in the forum, pay more attention to the quality of information they spread or covey.

You're entitled to what you believe when you read through the forum ...I can't assure anyone about having 100% authenticity of everything they read in here... It's imperative that you make wider research on your findings in here as that can broaden your initials on the said subject and deduce the tendency of misinformation.
It ain't got nothing to do with the merit system though, I understand how you may be thinking.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Let me first understand what you really want to say? Please correct if I misunderstood, so your main points are:

- Fenbendazole is not for humans and it's used for animals?
- Legendary members spread fake information
- Meri system don't work

Ok so now I must read what BADecker is saying in topic?

- Potential use of Fenbendazole and Ivermectin, as a combined treatment for cancer
- BADecker questioning why there's no more medical research and investigation into this potential treatment
- Fenbendazole is not approved by the FDA
- Benzimidazole have been used for many years to treat parasitic infections in humans and livestock.

Now your main Subject Legendary Members Spread Completely Fake Information - Merit System Do Not Work

How is this all related to Legendary Members and Merit System, you must confusing or mixing some other topic or points with this. right? Anyway I will ignore these but they have nothing to do with your post or his posts.

Ok I see your point or rather let say a claim is Fenbendazole is not safe and is not for human but you didn't provide any proof or source for you claim.

I would say to me the the poster (BADecker) didn't try to promote a drug at all, he just put some references and links that suggest or rather questioning why there is no medical testing about these two drugs as a combination for a cancer treatment.

You only gave one example of one topic and one legendary member. There are many other legendary members in this forum who dedicate their time to only sharing correct information and not involving themselves in discussions that they do not know much about. The number of these kind of legendary members far outnumber the unconcerned ones sharing wrong information and talking on topics where they have little knowledge.

It is possible the merits were gotten from other topics and discussions where they shared correct information that was helpful.

Don't judge all the legendary members and fault the merit system based on the actions of one legendary ranked member.

How one usage their sMerit is completely up to them. You cannot say merit system is useless based on some fake threads. Member rank and merits is two different thing. And being legendary doesn't mean you are all known. A simple sr or hero member can know more then a legendary member. If you think, someone is spreading fake news, then report that to the moderator. I'm sure they will take action. You don't need to create a thread for this. Don't just blame the whole merit system for one man's deed. I'm sure you understand what I mean.

Rank does not depend on a person giving information or giving sound advice. Because I saw in forum rules that merit system has come since 2017. But in the past he has improved in rank based on posts. So I want to say that I am a new member so I can't give proper advice of course (everyone wants to give proper information you can also). But the information I give must be expressed by you, so if there is a mistake here, other people must correct it. Because I don't see any argument that a person of high status should give correct information. Because later those who have registered in this forum must be knowledgeable otherwise they could not have improved their rank. If you also publish information contrary to what a person would provide then of course the unique audience will judge which is correct and those in high status positions like moderators, DT1, DT2, and unique know-how must keep in monitoring.

yeah it is less than perfect but I estimate it reduced crap by at least 50%.

Trying to let free speech flourish is hard to do.  That's why keeping guys like bedecked around is fine with me.  And turnabout is fair play calling him a legendary troll would be free speech right back at him.

This is the first time I am hearing of this. It seems like a very easy way to tell people that many other users find posts by someone upsetting and chose not to see them; you might want to consider doing so after going through their posts.

I really do not understand why such a feature will be removed. I understand there is a desire by the admins to not want to create prejudice around certain users like with the trust display, so it does not change the public perception of them. But at some point we have to stop prioritizing the feelings of the trolls or scammers.

- Jay -

The merit systems works, we see less crap on the forum because of the merit system. Prior to the introduction of the merit system, anyone could build their account to legendary rank without doing any real work or make any positive contribution. They could just jargons and rank up, some high rank accounts of today are from the old system and the owners may not be as knowledgeable on bitcoin as the rank suggests. In this case, the user made the post in off topic board, I rarely visit there because it has nothing to do with bitcoin. You shouldn’t be so worked up about it, an expert in bitcoin could also be a noob in medicine or politics. 

Ranks, Merits and Trust systems are of the forum and always inferred, don’t have a direct subjectiveness to it but, remains objective based on users perspective and taking too much to it would be you getting yourself in deep shit.

I get it that, it raises concern when your labeled in ways that aren’t very connotative of what actually is but, get off the forum and you would feel alive in every way.

A ranked user on the forum saying something that is basically untrue to you and then you using that to cramp every other ranked user as a bunch in this crap don’t make any sense. More over, from BADecker who is more is more religious than the rest of us. I can almost argue that BADecker doesn’t believe in science especially, the biological science and having the user here taking a page from the medical field, you can expect some out of the ordinary statements.

Good thing your familiar with the drug and seems to know what your saying so a lot could be corrected.

Using what someone says as a variable to contradict the "merit system", for me, I think is a very wrong approach, and most especially when it doesn't have to do with Bitcoin-related discussion, because though the fact that this user might have been knowledgeable with Bitcoin discussion on this forum which aided his/her growth and later in the future shared a false information about "Cancer" which he/she has little or no knowledge, that doesn't generalize the fact that the merit system is useless, as it did helped differentiate between shit posters and quality posters, and great forum contributor by the amount of merit he/she has.

No Tom has far much could be true in some of his threads 🧵.

Badecker and notBatman are way more out there.

@Rikafip

You got the Mel Brooks joke nice.

Theymos will say something about not impeding free speech, that it's easy to abuse and will not bring it back just like the scammer tag or the newbie jail, not going to happen.


If you think that's brilliant:
NSA, CIA, IRS, DHS, ATF, FBI, GCHQ, Federal Reserve, ISIS are Terrorists
Ongoing Civil War in U.S.A. corporation
Warren Buffet is a high level luciferian

Badecker is just an amateur compared to Tom.
And every single one of those topics shows why we must continue to allow unlimited free speech on this forum no matter what drugs the user in question is on! /s

Hah, first time I hear about this. When exactly was removed, and why? Not sure that would help though as people have issues using ignore button and on top of that members like BADecker would wear it like a badge of honor.


Conspiracy Theory? Not a bad flick.


That's what I would like to see, conspiracy movie made by Mel Brooks.  

That is not bad, but come on BADecker has some brilliant threads 🧵 .

He makes the actor in that movie conspiracies look tame.

Fuck cant think of his name.

Oh got it Mel Brooks

no wait Mel Gibson.

@OP there's no correlation between merit and someone else brain, that's why everyone in this forum shouldn't underestimate or think a newbie is dumb and at the same time think high ranked member has a high knowledge.

Some users usually leave a neutral feedback when the user is troll or can harm the forum, in this case many people already left it to BA Decker's profile.

This is new for me, it looks good if the forum have such feature.

back in the day the ignore button under a users name would glow bright yellow when that user was ignored by members.. the more people that ignored them the brighter the word ignore glowed.

so bring it back. it did serve a purpose, like warning unwary people that that person is likely a nutter. might help in matters like this.

Do I understand you correctly, that if on a medical forum someone starts talking off-topic about some nonsense about string theory or black holes, which will be completely inconsistent with scientific ideas about this, then such a person's medical degree should be immediately taken away? I am not a doctor and do not intend to understand the medical aspects of this issue. But we are on a forum about Bitcoin, and it is strange to expect from those present here that they will all be well versed in medicine, the principles of the Roman legions, Victorian poetry and the work of the hadron collider.

I’m not even sure that all those who have reached the Legendary rank on the forum necessarily have deep knowledge in any aspect of Bitcoin and will be able, for example, to write the same code from scratch on their own, based on the data they already have. Is all this really required? As has been written repeatedly, the merits were introduced not to assess the level of knowledge in medicine, but to ensure that there was less spam on the forum.

We're just talking about forum ranks. If anyone expects Legendary rank to be some kind of degree in science, I would say that is simply a misconception of what forum ranks are.

You jumped like someone getting raped by a hedgehog the moment I told you to actually look at what that member is posting and you talk about cooling down? 


Oh yeah, I'm sure of that Your Highness!


No, I don't care! I asked you what BADecker has done good for the forum, you got triggered to level 100 because you just realized you don't have a clue what we're talking about here and started with your generalistic bs. You know what a discussion forum is? You discuss things and not only answer the question in the title, so if you come and say something be ready to have that discussed by other members who don't agree with it.


I see it works, check your temperature!
But don't take fenbendazole, doesn't work, trust me! 

Calm down and use an ice block to cool your nerves. Finding faults in people's posts is your speciality instead of sharing value but that can't work on me unless you don't know what you are even saying. For your information, your posts are full of faults too, I see them often, but I don't have time to tackle you when I have better things to do with my time.

Care to look at the excerpt from the OP below?


The OP generalized things for legendaries and faulted the merit system before giving an example, right? Did my post exonerate BADecker or did I ever mention the name? I generalize my post for legendary ranks. Don't blame people for what you don't understand. Now, we see who is "grabbing popcorn as I imagine your face when you actually read his(my) posts!."

Ok, I just have to ask, what good work has BADecker done on this forum?
Care to share some examples? Grabbing popcorn as I imagine your face when you actually read his posts!


I was going to say the same thing, and I'm quite intrigued that SanRemo wants to have a more elaborate discussion and has overlooked the main things here, the possible inhibitory thing and the fact that it was all culture cells, I can't wait to see a human thrown in a freezer at 4C then heated to 37C, washed and lysed (well this might be the end of him but..), after recreating him from the supernatant in a gingerbread cast in some over have him sent healthy and cured back to his daily life.

But still amazes me how someone like BD who says that covid is a hoax and vaccines don't work suddenly has a taste for some drug created by the same reptilians and evil money grabbing pharma.

It is one of the mysteries of the forum that is still unsolved, and the only thing we can conclude from it is that this member has some kind of special status that allows him to do things for which others would very easily get a permanent ban.

As for ranks and merits, the fact that the OP opened this topic only confirms that some members believe that rank in itself means something, but if the member in question appeared on this forum after 2018, he would not even be a Hero member today.

The only thing that the admin should have added to the merit system is an addition that would allow lowering the rank if an active user fails to prove within a certain period that he is worthy of the rank he achieved with airdropped merits.

I quite understand your plight, but for only the misinformation, such a member could be corrected and warned. But you can't outrightly overlook all the good work of a member due to that, it might be a mistake this time.

The truth is that I've seen a couple of high-ranked members who didn't know what they were saying. It might be that they were not good in the aspect they forced themselves to write something, however, this shouldn't be the sole reason why their ranks should be viewed as undeserved.

Many deserve their ranks but need to stop misinformation and dishonourable acts, or else face sanctions.

• Based on BPIP (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=149737), that user actually receive 355 merits.
• The first 1000 merits was airdropped when merit system introduced.
• I don't understand why should people with many merits should get a degree. You can't convert received merit to money and Bitcointalk doesn't offer scholarship either.
• As other user said, just ignore that user.

If you're going to present evidence, at least perform non-random sampling among user who receive many merit (https://bpip.org/Report?r=earnedmerit), perform detailed analysis on selected users and them present result of the analysis.

Your best bet is just to put BADecker on ignore.

For reasons known only to the forum administration, he is given carte blanche to break all the forum rules, including ones which get other users permabanned without a second thought, such as plagiarism and death threats: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60248138. This has been discussed at length before, and still he is allowed to break rules with abandon.

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I don't really want to get dragged in to any more of BADecker's nonsense, but this nonsense about fenbendazole is the exact same nonsense that he peddled for ivermectin or bleach (yes, he actually suggested people drink bleach). Yes, there have been studies that show ivermectin can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in a Petri dish in a lab. And yes, the studies you linked show that fenbendazole can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in a Petri dish in a lab. And unsurprisingly, if you pour bleach on to cancer cells in a Petri dish in a lab, they'll die too. The same is true for arsenic, or mercury, or dynamite. All very good at killing cancer cells in a Petri dish - not so good at killing cancer cells inside a human.

For all the nonsense he suggests, there is either zero evidence that it works in humans, or more frequently (such as with ivermectin) there are mountains of evidence of show that it doesn't work and/or is actively harmful and dangerous.

The said post by that legendary member is not completely false as you claimed. Besides the post also admits that the drug is being use by both human and animals. I did some brief research about the drug and discover that it's effective for human as well but it is not scientifically approved for human consumption yet. You can say the drug is dangerous for human consumption since it's not scientific proven for human use but discrediting his claim and tagged it fake information while research is still on going about the said drug is inappropriate too. Two wrong can not make a right.


Sounds like someone who is not comfortable with the merit system, perhaps finding it difficult to get merit. I know some high rank members would have still been stagnant in lower rank if not for the merit airdropped they received. However, you should not judge the effective of the system by few individuals who are favor from it. Besides the post did not receive a single merit.

Forum is a bitcoin discussion place just like other medias with different people who have different ideas and opinions. It's absolutely at your own discretion to chose what to believe and who to believe. You're also entitled to your own research and opinion.

It is strange to find an old legendary member present in the most important Bitcoin forum since 2013, and yet it is rare to find any post from him related to Bitcoin?

BADecker only writes in the Politics and Society section. Personally, I have not read any of his posts outside of this section. I am surprised if he is only interested in politics, why does he choose the Bitcoin forum to post in?

But regardless, this is a global forum open to everyone, and no one can confiscate freedom of opinion and expression. As for spreading misleading information, this falls on the responsibility of the members who believe everything and do not do their own research.

The OP-mentioned posts haven't got any merit, as far as I can see and it has nothing to do with the merit system. I understand the OP's concern. He must be thinking about how this person became a legendary member who shared this kind of misinformation! The truth is some legendary members became members of that reputable rank by merit airdrop. If you check their recent merit section you will notice they haven't gotten many merits recently.

Also a user spreads misinformation, but that doesn't mean he is bad at every field of expertise. They can be very good on other boards. However if that information is not 100% correct then why don't you criticize it on that original topic and correct the misinformation he spread? It doesn't make sense to create a new topic in meta by telling everyone the merit system is bad.

Sounds intriguing, my friend. I'll definitely drop by, and who knows, maybe that'll get badecker to check out your thread. Let's see what he's got to say.

Whether information is right or wrong is subjective, plus what's right today, could be wrong tomorrow and vice versa. We see this happening all the time in research fields.

Guy you talk about was airdropped 1k merits (just taking it from prior comments, haven't checked myself), even if that weren't be the case, his merit could have been attained by his ideas in different subjects, that doesn't make him proficient in anything. Even professionals make mistakes in their field of expertise.

I opened a new thread 🧵 I suggested badecker get the legendary troll designation for his designation.

It would be well deserved.

It appears there might be a slight misunderstanding regarding how the merit system works. Merits aren't solely based on a single post's content, and they can accumulate gradually over time. If the poster has contributed positively in the past (I haven't personally verified this), that could explain why they've received merits. Once merits have been awarded for past contributions, they typically can't be revoked, even if a misleading or incorrect post surfaces. That's the fundamental principle, my friend.

Now, it seems your concern doesn't necessarily pertain to the merit system, but rather to the reputation system. Keep in mind that a member's rank doesn't always correlate with their reputation. A Full member might have a better reputation than a Legendary member who has received negative feedback. So, exercise caution when making judgments, and it would be wise to familiarize yourself more with how the forum functions.

If you believe the poster is indeed spreading false information, you could consider providing negative feedback. However, it might not be immediately visible, especially if you're not part of the DT members. If the DT members find your concerns reasonable, they may assist in flagging the account as well. These are just potential scenarios, as accounts and posts usually require investigation before making the appropriate action.

personally badecker is fucking nuts and writes nonsense on a constant basis.

The op is not aware that BADecker is like a class clown 🤡. I have no issues that he started this thread.

At op good work you spotted one of the forum’s nuttiest people.

NotBatman had a crazy flat earth thread going for a long time.

We can have long conversations if those are related to drugs because as a pharmacist it would be a pleasure for me to have conversation with someone having same background. It's first time I'm hearing that o_e_l_e_o is a doctor and I'm happy to know that we have some people from health department on this forum. I have never said anything about my profession before because I thought that it would be totally off-topic for Bitcointalk members, but today the OP left me no choice and that's why I had to share details about my profession.

I'm proud to say that I'm a pharmacist and I'm proud to say that I'm a member of this amazing forum. I have been serving as a hospital pharmacist for more than two years now and I think we can have great discussions about drugs or our profession which could be helpful for both of us. We can also have conversations related to our field in the form of private messages and it'll be a pleasure for me to learn something from a senior pharmacist like you. I'll be eagerly waiting for o_e_l_e_o's reply so we may get some better information about Fenbendazole's anti-cancer activity.

OP, I second this.  I had to check when BADecker registered on the forum, and it was way before the merit system came into existence.  For the time he's been an active member here, he actually hasn't earned many merits at all.  Assuming he was already Legendary in January 2018, he would've been airdropped 1000 merits as did every Legendary member when Theymos created the system. 

In other words, his posts aren't very popular and the merit system wouldn't have been able to suppress his nonsense anyway.

No kidding!  Why did I never know that?  We could probably have long conversations, even if we live in different countries (which I'm unsure of).  And I know of at least one doctor here (o_e_l_e_o) who would be able to debunk any medical claims falsely made by BADecker or anyone else.

This forum is all about freedom of speech, OP.  If someone writes bullshit, you just have to counter it with facts or ridicule and let the community judge for themselves what to believe.  The merit system has nothing to do with any of this.

Everyone must not give accurate information in this forum the ability for you to do your research matters alot and you should also do your findings without relying on the people who shares it, that is why the forum mostly required some user that are sharing information to also include source link. Have you checked on the rank to know if it was airdropped to the user to go this far in rank, and most times those where airdropped never knew how hard it's to have a credible rank like Hero or Legendary rank. But however not every Legend are low poster as you may described them and the merits has nothing to do here besides you don't need to point out to someone who doesn't have a deep knowledge in that area of study.

1. Just because someone has a legendary rank here does not mean they are Knowledge in all fields. Even a member with a newbie rank can correct a member with a legendary rank. This is just a forum rank not a knowledge rank

2. Merit spending is subjective. Someone can receive 400 merits for posts that are just from art contests, fun etc. and not necessarily knowledge sharing. So how do you end up saying that the merit system does not work?
The aim of the merit system was to fight spam, and it worked just fine.

Just because there's a merit system doesn't mean a forum member's post is correct or it isn't fake/false information that is being posted here in the forum. Merit system is used to reward forum members who posted good/high quality posts that deserves a merit and merit is also needed by forum members who aren't legendary yet to be able to rank up. If there's a newbie who only wnats to rank up and didn't even bother to post high quality post won't be able to rank up at all.

It’s a good thing you know something about medicine (Anthelmintic drug) which I don’t even know what that is but, you need to learn something about generalization like the sort you did in that quote and affirming something that haven’t got any relativism with merit system to merits.

You can’t try or hope to make something right by using the wrong moves. Maybe I can’t tell you anything about Anthelmintic drug but, I can tell you that you’re wrong on the part where you have to generalize legendary members to be spreading fake news. That’s, false.
The merit system only rewards quality posts and that’s just about it. It doesn’t decide on what’s true or not and it only tells the perspective of a person and that’s the one meriting. Get over it:

Also, you could as well note that, not all you see on the internet is true. Choose what you would believe after doing proper research to it and pass on the rest.

First of all, I recommend you to learn proper quoting in this forum before saying such things and when it comes to medicine degree then I must tell you that I'm a pharmacist by profession and I'm currently working in health sector. The research on that drug's anti-cancer activity is going on for sometime and it will take sometime before it'll be officially recognized as a anti-cancer drug. I think you really don't understand medicine deeply and that's why you're saying such things.

When it comes to research then I can surely say that there has been some research on this drug's anti-cancer properties and you'll have to read those researches yourself. Once you read those researches then you'll understand that the doctors or someone else who's saying something about the anti-cancer properties of this drug aren't spreading fake information.

I will include some links of the researches that has been done on this drug and when you read those researches then you'll understand that the drug has shown some anti-cancer properties in those researches. I hope that after reading those articles you'll understand that research is already being done on that drug and there are some chances that in future we may see it in the list of anti-cancer drugs when enough researches show its anti-cancer properties.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30158-6

https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/82/12_Supplement/2313/701049/Abstract-2313-Fenbendazole-induces-cell-cycle

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468294222000910

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437363/

Hey doc, why don't you say these stuff over there? If it's misinformation/ false, go there and prove him wrong by providing your evidence, imagine you are a moderator of medicine related topics, lets see if you can enlighten the minds of people reading your counter arguments, meta is not the place for this discussion, so please if you like, you can lock this and continue over there.

The merit system was introduced to put the brakes on shitposters moving up the ranks on here.  It was never meant to be some kind of fact-checking mechanism.  

Take you for instance - before we had merits, you would  probably be on your way to Sr Member already by now!  so I would say the merit system is working just how it should.

Anyway, how much merit did that post even get from the higher-ranked members? None!

You mean this legend?

That's not our fault, before Satoshi even release Bitcoin, BADecker was here posting such stuff.😉

It has nothing to do with the merit system and I think you are wrong as well. BADecker's information is not inaccurate because the same drug Fenbendazole has shown anti-cancer properties on humans. You should do your research perfectly before making such posts. The drug is basically a anthelmintic drug but it has shown some anti-cancer properties as well.

You should visit the link below and then you will find that BADecker's information isn't false and some research has been done on that thing by other doctors as well.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fenbendazole-cancer-tom-rogers-md

Because I'm in Snr. member rank today, that does not mean that you all should believe everything that comes out of my mouth. You are entitled to your own opinion, and you can also run your own research and discover what errors I have made or what lies I am trying to spread. My rank does not make me a perfect person.
 
Because you discover that the said member posted something that appears to be completely false does not make the merit system incorrect, and beside, before the merit system was introduced, I guess the member was already in legendary rank, and the 1000 merits that equal the user's legendary rank were airdropped. Another thing is that because you discovered an error in my post today, which you used to judge me, it does not mean I have not been making posts that were helpful and contributing in the past and are worth meriting.
 
Don't blame the merit system or someone else for what the person did wrong; always direct the attack directly at the person who deserves it. You can just ignore the user, as suggested above, if you receive anything from the account as a force or rumors.

So because that user is spreading misinformation the merit system doesn't work? What about the misinformation you are currently spreading? The merit system has its flaws, but overall it works just fine. You can't go just trusting what users post though as far as information goes. Always DYOR(Do Your Own Research).

Merit system has nothing to do with spreading false informations, nor is its job to stop it. Fyi, that member became Legendary long before merit system kicked in, and these kind of shitposters have much harder time to rank up thanks to the merit system.

Regarding BADecker, you will learn to ignore his nonsense like many of us did.

Legendary members spread completely fake information - merit system do not work. For example - this thread in Off-topic section - FENBENDAZOLE and CANCER – at least 12 anti-cancer mechanisms of action..
First of all, this legendary member with more than 1350 merits can try to get the medicine degree, before spreading complete fake information in the forum about cancer. For example, fenbendazole from the thread &  webpage is anthelmintic drug used for animals - sheep, cattle, horses, fish, dogs, cats, rabbits, etc., not for humans. Cancer is very serious disease, and everyone need to seek doctor advice as fast as possible. And if there is some medicine, which can help, there are clinical trials and official recognition, not just webpage or legendary member, which advertise something fake.
All this is evidence that merit system do not work and is useless.
Anthelmintic - drug against various internal parasites & worms - see here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthelmintic