Topic: Merit System Upgrade - page 28. (Read 35077 times)

Selling products and services for btc is one of the best ways to create value for bitcoin. I’ll give you a head start but you will need to become more active before you will rank up.

20 merit awarded

I really appreciate the idea!
Since I joined the forum in 2015, I've been supporting and believing in Bitcoin as well. Just a look at my profile will let you seeing it
After the fork of BTC last year, I exchanged a few BTC to BCC, but still somehow, I've been more believing in the future of the original Bitcoin (well I read an article yesterday where someone was claiming that BCC is the original Bitcoin - that would be an other topic )
Regarding Alts, I wish really I would have known more about Alts, I still get everyday customers who want to pay me in Alts which I currently just don't support.
And with the very fast evolving technology, there is a high risk that it changes significantly by the time you catch up, not to speak about the speculations around all these Alts.
But as I'm always saying, it's just like religion - You believe and have faith in something or not.
Last year around July, the BTC market was ~ 100 billion and now fit  ~ 172 billion.. Let's see what the future will bring us

You have an interesting history. You are just as likely to visit altcoin threads as bitcoin threads but are more likely to attempt to convince people to buy btc in the altcoin threads. Obviously you support bitcoin.

I know you’re trying to become more fluent in English so I will try to make this easy to understand. Because of one of your posts, I’m going to ask you this question. Why are some bitcoin transactions cheap and get the first confirmation fast and others are expensive and slow to be confirmed?

This is really a very nice initiative QuestionAuthority you have started it. It will help many people who are missing those points to move up the ladder when they think they deserve to get some points and also it is an inspiring for the other fellow members that with spreading of the knowledge whatever they have learnt till now or to imbibe the knowledge during the course of time and start distributing to people who require on this forum or outside this forum.

As coming from the country where it is not considered to be legal yet and coming from the town where electricity is still not full available 24 hours its being a hard journey but I would say the experience has being good so far. Though would have fractional % of knowledge of this gigantic world of cypto currency but wherever and whatever way possible trying to put my point and share the knowledge. Also few posts do belong to Altcoin section as well in case if it still fits the criteria below is the posts link.


https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/reliable-1074529

Trust me, my opinion is nothing special. LOL

That mentality is wrong. You’re a very respectful person and I appreciate that but no one here, regardless of rank, is any more important than anyone else. All Legendary means is you’ve been here longer and contributed to discussions. You can still be a scammer, shill, criminal or a complete idiot and be Legendary.

New members are here to learn something and long time members should help them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way.

but I really appreciate your opinion.
because with a big rank of this, you still want to answer questions from a newbie.
I do not mind your answer, I am always happy if anyone would care about the newbie and give advice to him, so as not to go wrong during the discussion in this forum.

big thanks sirr

I don’t really do the whole “bounty thing” but I can tell you that trust systems aren’t perfect. The trust system is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a system that allows people to tell others that they trust someone or they don’t trust someone and why. Trust, just like any other system created by humans, can and will be abused.

In order for me to answer you I would need to know how bounty managers get their jobs, I don’t. I would also need to know why negatively rated members are not allowed to participate, again I don’t know. I’m sure you can get your answer from someone in the meta subsection if you start your own topic. Sorry I couldn't help.

You definitely understand my viewpoint but my viewpoint isn’t necessarily the best one or even the correct one.

This forum was originally about bitcoin because in the beginning there was only bitcoin. Theymos (the person that oversees the forum) is very liberal in his viewpoint. He allows people here to have more freedom than probably any other forum on earth. That is a really good way to run a forum for a groundbreaking new technology that will draw people in from all corners of the earth and all walks of life. That liberal view supports open discussion and provides a springboard for innovation, new ways of thinking about the world and our place in it. We need that intellectual freedom to allow cryptocurrency to evolve. Part of that evolution includes altcoins. Debates and arguments that I watched unfold here (is PoW the right system, is SHA-256 the right Algorithm why not Scrypt, why only 21m coins) have led to the development of cryptocurrency variants by the people that were the best and brightest of the bitcoin supporters. Theymos rightly created a section where they could organically grow and feed off of each other just as bitcoin supporters had always been allowed to do.

That liberal viewpoint and accompanying freedom unfortunately had a negative side effect. It allowed unscrupulous people to abuse the system and begin degrading the forum. Slowly, over the years, people began using the forum to make money instead of brainstorm and innovate. New members came here to leach off of the system. Advertisers of altcoin variants, ICOs, gambling sites and others realized they could make money by convincing posters to spread their product all over the forum. The abuse of Theymos liberal generosity has become so bad that he has had to act. But once again, in typical Theymos fashion, he won’t just stifle the open discussions and create a system that crushes the views of the few in favor of the many. The merit system is his attempt to regain control of the forum without overly controlling individual freedom in the process.

I see you're a bounty hunter and are here to make money, but I also see you involved in conversations. More people need to be like you and realize that joining a conversation and participating will help them grow and learn while they are making money.

Excuse me, Sir
can i ask here?
why if members affected by red trust they are not allowed to follow bounty ?
but if I see there is a bounty manager who is affected by red trust but can still manage a job ?
can you explain to me why it can happen ?
because I'm curious, and I want to know the answer
because asking includes my most effective way of learning in this forum

Thanks before  

Thank you sir,,
at least you have responded to this newbie
and good advice from you, I will try it

I figured since the forum was called bitcointalk not altcointalk, it should be considered more about bitcoin than altcoins. Merit system is a great idea because it will make people to spam less and didnt post anymore trash topics or topic that has been discussed over and over again. It will surely make things harder for bounty hunters and people seeking to gain profits from forum but it surely worth it because people need to work harder to gain money, its not given to you freely because 1 user got multiple accounts and i really appreciate what you did here. It will be a while to gain another promotion but it makes more interesting to observe and learn more about knowledgeable thread

Thanks very much for your kind words (and for the merits too )
And thanks for KWH too!

Asking for merits is the same thing as contributing by being a merit source or having a reasonable conversation a.k.a quality post, you should know why it is important to ask for reviews, somebody attempting to cheat by copy-pasting would never ask for a review.

This is really an excellent thread and I couldn't stop reading through all of it. We need more and more threads like this and if they'll come I will start to be more optimist about the possibility of the Merit rules to be really effective in the way they were thought.

I can't apply for your merit distibution since nowadays I'm more an altcoin person, and anyway I'd need 250 merits which are unachievable so I've decided I'd stop to care. I became an altcoin person since I've missed the boat of Bitcoin. I've stumbled in Bitcoin in the spring of 2010 and I've got very excited by the project and planned to delve deep into that. What then happened is that I left for a trip and me being twice the age of most of the people in this forum, my memory is not what it had used to be and when I came back I had simply forgotten about Bitcoin. I then tried to jump on the Bitcoin boat in January 2014 - started to study the issue 18 hours a day, bought Bitcoins ATH just before a long bear market (which led me to explore altcoins, which led to new disasters) then I bought a few BTC ASICS which never ROIed (one soon broke while the Swiss company which had produced it had just gone bankrupt), got coins stolen from 4-5 exchanges (Mintpal, Crypsy, Allcrypt, etc) and worse then anything I realized that 90% of whatever was happening in cryptospace were just scams or Pump&dump schemes and so after 6 months I left the whole field broke and in total disgust (otherwise I'd be Legendary by now, BTW, and probably very rich as well). One can spot my idealistic and unfitting early approch to this world by my very first posts on BCT. But I digress.

If fact, the reason of this post is because I have felt the need to comment your following statement:


In a way I think it is far worse than that. Even though a few altcoins with revolutionary features add real value to the whole sector, and even create an echosystem which as such is more solid than Bitcoin alone, the moltiplication of altcoins with similar features are in a way violating the rule number one of Bitcoin: the finite number of coins which will ever exist. This is especially true for forks like Bitcoin Cash, which de-facto double the quantity of "Bitcoins" in circulation. Of course they are not real Bitcoins, but since someone considers them to be Bitcoins, in a way they are. These clones not only dilute bitcoin's user base, but in fact they create money "out of thin air" - which essentially violates the rule number one (or two) for which Bitcoin was born. Bitcoin Cash's 27 billion USD capitalisation was created out of thin air just by forking a blockchain. Multiply this for all redundant altcoins which continuosly are coming into existence, with the pseudo-capitalization of the whole sector spinning out of control, and you get the picture of the looming disaster.

Yeah, I see lots of examples of your knowledge and participation going back to early 2015. If anyone wants an example of how you can participate and become involved in conversations look at this persons post history. Thanks for stopping by, you’re exactly the type of forum member I’m trying to help. You’ll be a Legendary Member someday if you keep doing exactly what you’ve been doing all along and increase your activity.

Awarded 20 merit points

Hi QA,
I'm ready for your quesitons
Please feel free to check any of my current posts:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bitart-552813
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.26337789
I'm just curious if my post history meets the quality requirements of becoming a legendary (ever).

That’s an interesting idea.

I know there are at least 10 other posts from others suggesting the same thing, with a sticky thread, you know where to go, if you need 20 merits to rank up, you'd post that you'd need 20 merits and a review, a merit source could check that sticky thread to find a member in need of merits to rank up, first thing the source should do is to merit a request by 1 to let others know that he-she is reviewing that member's posts and they should find some other member to review.

After ranking up, you should go back to your posted request and edit your post to say ranked up. even if you are farming accounts, having somebody reading your post history would not be a good thing, that's why having members to post in a thread is a good way to find all the information such as finding which source is responsible for ranking up of which accounts.