Topic: Should merit be disabled on Bitcoin Wall Observer? - page 5. (Read 1503 times)

What makes you think the same group won't congregate somewhere else, Barely disrupting the flow?  Post your TA, with explanations.  Be proven over time.  You can't expect to just pop up with no history or rapport and bask in glowing praise for your vision.  Every poster there started with their first post.  True, its more of a news/hangout these days, but there will be more TA when more TA is posted.  If that is your goal, get started, and don't quit after your first try. 

Funny, I thought it had been, at some point, but I can't remember.  I couldn't give 2 shits about merit points one way or the other, but I am opposed to taking something away from a majority to appease a minority.  Too much of THAT shit going on already.

well if people don't want to see others criticize, oppose or even attack their opinions then they shouldn't have posted them on the internet in first place. specially in such a controversial matter such as Technical Analysis which is not reliable to begin with, not to mention posting a bearish TA during a bull market but that's another discussion (it is the same as being ostracized for posting a bullish TA in the first quarter of 2018 when bitcoin was in bearish mode).

as for merit and what else is going on there, merit is not moderated and people can give it to whoever they want for whatever reason they think is fit.

   WO  frequent posters (a small number, as earlier referenced) tend to be rabidly anti alt and anti bear.  Always been that way.  I doubt a blind vote would skew that way, but I don't really care.  I guess we could start WO3, with the same high morals WO2 strove for before it was shut down( and started again) but it always ends up the way it is.  Embrace it. or don't.  Shutting it down because you don't like it or understand it is probably not happening.

   Start your own thread with more sober content.  If you are after praise, post praiseworthy memes content.

 One thing to remember here, is that English is often not the first language of your target audience.  Sarcasm and humor is often twisted or lost in translation...

Then that was a sarcastic post as they know there are some people who pretend to be WO thread lover and hunt for merits to achieve higher rank. I have seen a few people to receive merits from that thread but in reality they are just having focus to achieve the rank. Hope you got the sarcasm.

Im sure the WO guys are not created for merit farming. Those who tried to post there are mostly failed to grab some merits. Especially its a trading hub for people who are really into trading. Im beginning to wonder why you think that hanging out there would gain some merits to rank up.

I dont think there is something wrong there. People merited some for humor also not just quality post. If they found it meritable then its not a problem. Merit isnt moderated and WO is a very old thread that has been respected by most users here.

Not a bad thing IMO. Besides Memes in majority are used to express many things in funny way that is, but for the what nots that you're referring, that could be the one I'm opposing with.
Anyways, in majority on WO, there are less things to be considered abuse... Don't get me wrong here, somethings should be left as is.

At least, active poster in WO thread are the real interested users/investors of bitcoin. Others outside WO thread are just here to get few bucks (most cases) by participating in signature campaign. Who are better? Of course WO gang in my opinion. They do not write shit for filling requirements of signature campaign, rather they post shit (may be or may not be) because they enjoy posting here.

I believe whoever has posted that was sarcastic or jealous of not getting merit. Sarcastic because WO gang knows there are some people who lurk in WO thread to hunt merits.
A side note- Very few I mean very very few people from WO thread participates in signature campaign. So, merit is just a number to them.

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I reached Legendary without hangin out on that thread.

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Also its been years already for the WO, so basically it won't get deleted. Even if you're seeing some large Merit Circulation on that thread, well it does goes with senses and how they're understanding each other. But yeah, it's true that Merit should be atleast be given to Posts that has Qualities, but we really can't moderate this kind of things, just let them be IMO. If the admin sees it wrong he would just go and remove Merits into that page.

This was my original motivation to write this thread, I have not engaged in the BWO thread much, but from my limited engagement of that thread, I can tell it was an extremely toxic community, its hard enough to get into their community of <20 people, but if you post ANY bearish TA on the thread, you will be absolutely ostracized, especially if you are not part of their upper echelon. So I have come here to make my case on whether or not this community really deserves their 11000+ merits that has been circulating between each other.

Lets look at original intent of the Wall Observer thread and how it holds up now


lets look at the first line for now

The original purpose of merit was to reward quality contributions to this forum... Let us now see how this holds up on BWO

I will now share the last few merited posts from WBO, im not gonna be picking and choosing.


2 merits, irrelevant to bitcoin price, does not add anything to the actual arguement for any price movement, and is mostly just random. I would not deem this a quality contribution.


1 merit, again irrelevant to bitcoin price, its just mainly banter, i dont see how this would qualify as a quality contribution.


1 merit, once again, just banter

Well i think you get the point, lets now look at the merit flow for one of the WBO regulars..




this is not an isolated case, nearly all the WBO regulars get all their merit from WBO and send all their merit back into WBO, this is basically due to a feedback loop, WBO members meriting each other because "haha funny joke" rather than any posts being of actual significance which add something to the discussion or forum

This basically means that merit has become insanely inflated in WBO and legendary rank has become relatively easy to earn, really demeaning the value of the rank, legendary rank was supposed to be reserved for people who get merited alot due to their contributions to this forum, but due to WBO, there have been alot of new legendaries who really just got alot of merits because they pleased the WBO community and participated in the echoing of their opinions between each other, This is problem is also exaggerated due to signature campaigns, legendary rank members can gain a very high price for their signature, which also rewards the members of WBO and provides them incentive to continue this practice.

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If any of you disagree with me and think im wrong for any reasons, feel free to reply here, I would like to hear your arguements.

edit: changed title from "Should bitcoin wall observer thread be deleted" to "should merit be disabled on bitcoin wall observer"