It will naturally be a pyramid and not equal across all users. It would be ridiculous so say that forum members are 1:1 in terms of post quality. Go to the Altcoin discussion board and try to find five consecutive posts that are useful. It would surprise me since I've reported consecutive pages on threads.
You also have a nice new metric to look at: Largest Merit Circle
Can we have the top 20 fans and recipients lists of the Dirty Turds on the initial post. We are certain a picture (or a bunch of lists) is going to speak a 1000 words.
Since there is no objective set of criteria that define the value of a post is it quite amazing that each of the dirty turds have all chosen to determine that each others posts are indeed so very valuable and that they should also include each other on DT and be part of the same handful of highest paying sig campaigns run by pals who also happen to be part of the dirty turds group (we do NOT say darkstar is a dirty turd although his sig spot choices are certain a cause for concern and certainly cause for a debate in the future) yahoo2039420 is certainly a part of the dirty turd outer circle we have just not got around to him as yet )
This thread should at this stage be considered considered by the reader.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-most-important-thread-you-can-contribute-to-this-yearno-kidding-5088852
Now it is interesting to observe that the majority of those claiming there is NO collusion and gaming of the merit here (that leads in part to control of the highest paid sig spots) are those ones wearing the highly paid sig spots. This is again quite undeniable.
Whilst we accept that it is ridiculous to claim all posters would be of equal ability to produce posts of REAL VALUE. That is why we would never claim that and nor would any other person here. However it is ludicrous to believe that persons such as Tman et al are merely a fair and reasonable home for merit based on the value of posts if you will a product of natural selection in a true meritocracy. Rather than the product of perhaps a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny subset of the entire board that without any definition nor criteria all seem to believe that their small group of pals produce the most valuable output in their personal subjective opinion. They also believe they are ALSO the most trustworthy and all seem to elected on a non transparent basis to enjoy the best paid sig campaigns. No collusion, no gaming nothing to see here. LOL
Not to mention that is clearly observable that most merit, even in this thread is left on political grounds or for net negative garbage that actually prevents or inhibits the optimal outcome in many cases.
As suchmoon correctly blurted out good poster and bad poster are meaningless terms without strict criteria or definition. We agree with that, it's super low value and also dangerous in many ways.
Nearly every thread that we or our friend CH participated in on meta, our posts were far MORE valuable than any person that was trying to pose faux rebuttals because our central points are still there and they are not debunked at all. Faux rebuttals that are attempted on political grounds for selfish personal gain are HIGHLY net negative and the lowest value posts on the board and yet they received a ton of merit on political grounds.
Even posts where you whilstle blow on scammers and their prior scamming and lying are NET POSITIVE or posts calling for the introduction of fair and transparent rules that ensure the fair treatment of all members are some of THE MOST VALUABLE posts and I am sure satoshi would agree, however in such threads those opposing that goal get the most merit in most cases.
Merit is the worst thing ever to be introduced to this board. Building a trust system upon this broken and gamed garbage just played into the Dirty Turds hands completely.
Let's not forget that most people here fall over themselves to produce garbage lists of shitty stats puke at the drop of a hat.
Ask for the top 20 fans and recipients of the dirty turds here and you can't even bribe shits like robovac or moronbozo to produce them even if you promise them things they are begging for. They are shit scared to present them because it will be quite clear that this a tiny subset of the board that are all pals on meta, DT, merit sources and highly paid sig spots that all fit nicely together and entrench each other in power and entrench them in the top paid sig spots.
That is just the direct financial REWARDS of gaming the wide open and vulnerable stupid systems of control, not to mention you can Lie, scam, turn evil, employ double standards and get paid the highest rates for doing so and not get red trust and made a pariah.
Merit is joke, DT is a cancer that now needs complete removal. There is no going from totally corrupt and broken to fair and reasonable decentralized governance. Governments generally go from fair and reasonable and descend over time into corrupt self serving shit. You can't start at corrupt self serving shit pool, and tinker your way back to reasonable and fair.
We built a house on a foundation of decomposing fecal matter (merit), now the cracks in the walls have opened the roaches have poured in and the roof is leaking hard, let's not sit around saying lets rotate the roaches, lets move some bricks around, let's work out the probability of rain leaking in sufficiently and washing the roaches out enough that they don't multiply fast enough before the next cloud burst...... let's forget this shit pile and go build a house on a firm and solid foundation?? time spent tinkering and temp fixes are time we can spend designing a nice new house that functions as a house.
@LFC - we try to keep it light hearted as possible whilst pushing for a transparent and fair set of rules that ensure each member is treated equally.
This largest merit circle on bpip seems to mean ZIP regarding our central point on merit circles here and as far as we can tell. This is large circle is not even a circle at all. You could have a bunch of people that give 1 or 2 merits out to thousands of people and then all plaster a tiny group of pals/alts with very large chunks of merit who all do the same thing. Form a mini powerful merit circle inside a "large circle" of tiny merit crumbs.
Pull up the top 20 fans and recipients of the dirty turds and stop wasting time with this smoke and mirrors garbage.
Actually DO IT FOR THE ENTIRE DT1 including lauda, vod and moronbozo (they have done plenty of merit damage) let's see it you pussies stop hiding it away. Do the nice little picture with all the connected lines. Fuck it do the top 30 that is still a fucking tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny subset of this board. I bet we see LOTS AND LOTS of these DT's all over those other DT's merit lists. CRAMMED FULL.
Please even attempting to validate this merit sham is laughable. Subjective , gamed and dangerous dirt. That financial incentive to game and the fact it is wide open to gaming. It is almost by its subjective nature impossible to get busted for abuse concerning the content it is given for. It is almost too funny to based trust upon it ... well ONLY giving trust to those that have gamed it the most is BRILLIANT. hahaha
Now please don't waste time pretending there is no colluding and cycling and then being too scared to present the top 20 merit lists when usually you can not contain yourselves from plastering lists everywhere about any convoluted garbage you can dream up to validate your "best posters" , "most trusted" gamed nonsense. It just looks silly.
Now as LFC said the thread was getting far more fun just slagging each other off and vying for ways to ensure you win the dirtiest turd of bitcointalks first months poll ... this is an ongoing poll so your fame will last as long as you are top dog, but to win the first one is a truly historic event. Right now we have greed dominating with hhampuz back-room deals on sig campaigns bringing him out on top. Will he be August 2019 dirtiest turd of bitcointalk? could he hold his title for the rest of the year? well perhaps so, unless we get other sig campaign managers here all offering similar back room deals. Suchmoons beast wrestling classes don't seem to be tempting those votes away as we were sure they would. We may be up for a bit of that ...holding back our votes for now. Then again will the guzzler invest in one of those massive funnel things to secure every last drop vote?
Meanwhile cannibalism13 is chomping at the bit to offer some back-passage munching you simply will not be able to refuse for a mere vote on this poll. and at least 1 merit. We should have explained before cannibalism13 voted on LFC that he can not take the guzzlers votes on as his own, if the guzzler is switched out that would just be too unfair unless you are going to fill in on the bukkake next friday evening at the fox hole with vod oiled up in his leopard thong and tiara fluffing (but also now vod now says he wants to finish off as well, apparently will only do it if you stare unblinking free of swimming goggles into his bloated sweating mongoloid face as he unleashes "the wrath" of vod??. So you will be starting off at zero if you know what is good for you. The ass feasting cannibal though can apparently change his votes later to vote for himself .
I feel it is a little unkind to leave poor owlcatz there with zero votes all by herself? All of suchmoon only has 2 votes? are we dealing with a bunch of misogynistic scum or something else? you don't want any suchmoon beast wrestling experience days? you're not interested in what owl can offer (after tman has had at it)? what's up with you guys? Just give poor old owl one out of mercy ffs. Everyone else has quite a few. Zero votes is no place for a famous extortionist is it on bitcointalk??. Perhaps bones and his alts are behind all of this after all? If you HAD TO bones. I mean there was no other choice.. which are you going to give one to: suchmoon or owl?