All legendary and hero love this system because it is for them to stay privileged.
And it's reallly easy for newbies here to feel that way, but you don't think I started out here as a noob? Do you honestly think I just registered here and suddenly became a legendary member and all the other stuff? It did not happen that way, I can assure you.I used to think Vod was a bully here for all the negs he left those noobs who ask for loans without collateral. That's exactly how I perceived what he was doing--and that was in 2015 when I had not yet been around long enough to see what's going on in the forum, and how many scammers there were (and still are). Then it started to make a lot of sense, and I developed a good amount of respect for the man.
This "privilege" of which you speak is ephemeral, fleeting. I've been here long enough to see true disasters like the MasterP incident, Quickseller's very public disgrace and shaming, and some other 1000 meter falls from grace that I'm having trouble remembering as I type this. All it would take is for Blazed or Hilariousandco to change their mind and exclude me from their trust list, and *poof* I'm no longer trusted. That basically just happened a month ago or so.
This is really just a discussion forum with a bunch of people who don't really know each other, but are trying to construct a trust structure that works. It's so far from perfect that it's almost laughable, but there you have it. I'm not privileged, though I am thankful for the trust some folks here have put in me. To that end, I don't engage in those things I've been condemning for a couple of years: account selling, scamming, shitposting, and now merit trading. Those things are toxic to the health of the forum, and thus I lack trust in members who engage in them, and to the extent that I can, I'll continue to tag said members.
If you think I'm doing this out of a lust for power or for personal gain, I'll just ask you to stick around and perhaps reevaluate your position when you've been here a while and you see what's what.
You may or may not contributed to forum. But you became legendary because you are here at least for 3 years.
If you shitposted for 3 years and now legendary.
Now to become legendary you need to kiss asses or have the knowledge of satoshi.
If they cleared all the ranks and start over with system i can understand it. But now there is lots of hero and legendary which their all success is shitposting for three years. And they are happy with merit system just because they were here before.
... You dont really know who you are talking to, you need to have some information in this forum first.Actually they deserve their ranks for being a here for a long time and contributing many good things to this forum and community, if you dont like the system then you can just leave I just wonder what you are crying for...?
As an additional tip for you "The Pharmacist" is one of the trusted DT member here assigned by the admin he/she 's just not a legendary that you are talking about, and also he contributed a lot of good things in the community thats why he/she has a position here and not just shitposting for 3 years that you are talking about.
This is the definition of sucking someone off for merit.. Ridiculous how this guy acts as a leach for merit. It's kinda hypocritical. I personally am glad that you did this thread and reported the abusers, but im not ok with how you move and the motive behind it, which has worked quite well for you as I can see. And before you say anything.. I personally dont care about the merit system myself or ranking up, a forum rank doesn't serve me at all. I rarely post here anyways and had all the time in the world to shitpost my way up to a higher rank if I wanted to, im more of an observer.
Also, If you really wonna help, educate people on how to find merit abusers and what is your method on it, the whole community should be policing/patroling the forum, or do you wonna have the monopoly of it to attain more merit for yourself. Thats how you help, if you really wonna help and have no motive behind it.
