If you want high-quality posts, remove the signatures campaigns from the forum.
I disagree, "if you want high-quality posts" :
- remove the low-quality posts;
- remove the low-quality users;
- educate instead of complaining.
By the way, low-quality or high-quality post is highly subjective.
Well you said it yourself. With everyone having subjective notions on what is "high quality" and " low quality" the merit metric is meaningless and since that is a basis for the paid2post entitlement and rates then it all collapses into a festering pile of abused shit.
Once you accept merit is subjective and therefore almost impossible to prove abuse as well as being meaningless , then you accept abusing it is highly financially rewarding then there can be no argument it will and is being greatly abused.
The insight from the initial poster is clear and undeniable. Merit is dangerous and ensures the best abusers get to cream off all the best sig spots.
I mean the results speak for themselves. The correlation between merit sources, DT and chipmixer et al banners is there in your face LOL
Ban sigs from meta, and get rid of merit except to initially power up to perhaps member after that make it redundant and prevent the free speech crushing revenue rape that the abusers are inflicting here.
Not to mention the fact merit is now trust for some unknown reason LOL
If you must keep sigs, then just allow it on the shit boards where shit posts are the norm. The real enthusiasts are not going to demand payment for contributing in the main bitcoin board or meta are they now?
@ cryptobrainboss
Your post makes a specious argument that is only not fully transparent as bogus to the very most foolish.
Merit is totally abused to the point it is impossible to prove abuse, and in many cases very emotionally driven.
Merit is clearly dangerous in many ways and provides small value and of course is net negative. This has been clearly demonstrated and no person can debunk these statements.
It is only the most dim, ass kissers, and the beneficiaries of this garbage that claim merit has any "merit" at all.
For instance you could find people that have earned 100's or 1000's of merits and have not even put out one original thought provoking post EVER that would stand up to scrutiny. Then I can show you many legends that have earned hardly 20 merits that could destroy their minds and have made posts that would be far beyond these top merit holders level of comprehension and made contributions to this movement that are groundbreaking and more than the top 200 merit holders (with perhaps 5 exceptions) will ever make combined.
They keep the merit circle tight because there are not that many highly paid sig spots to go around. Soon the ass lickers will be biting the merit sugar daddies hands off because they will find even with enough merit and "trust" there is not enough sugar for them too.
Then the fun will start up a bit.
More people manning up and rejecting the farce of the merit merry go round is needed. Make every legend a source and spice things up if you have to keep this nonsense going a bit longer.