When you have to make 60 posts a week to make $20, people tend to shitpost all over the place.
Any Legendary member (which OP referred to specifically) can make way more than $20/week, and I don't see them as being the problem with shitposts--maybe the drama threads, but members who've been around a few years tend to make interesting posts, if not always substantial ones. It's usually the people who come here for the sole purpose of earning money through bounties that are the problem.
But anyway, I haven't seen any major decline in bitcointalk in the past few years. It seemed to be waaay worse before the merit system was implemented, and that was over two years ago. I'm also pretty sure the real decline started when signature campaigns took off, but that was around 2012 or so if I'm not mistaken. It was certainly already bad when I registered in 2015.
Came back from a break
How long was your break?
The pharmacist say while spamming bitmixer and foxpops avatar. Milking the forum for every cent it can squeezes out of it
Previously he was caught sneaking under a sock puppet to spam other sigs and got caught because he was attempting to move out of a campaign with that puppet account for one that had slightly higher payout.
When he was challenged to present his biggest achievement here in the last 5 years. He said it was getting on to the chipmixer sig campaign.
Lol at the problem with those just wanting to earn from sigs.
What a slimeball.
The OP is entirely correct. The "legends" that remain are a disgrace to their elders and betters.
The forum has suffered a huge brain drain. The standard of general debate and reason has plunge to a level where any average person can arrive and immediately recognised they are surrounded by imbeciles.
The alt market diluted itself to destruction for the majority of projects. So all those earning meager returns from gaming the board and bounties have paused. The next bull will see them return.
The technical board's will retain a certain level since they key contributors and enthusiasts are largely untouched by the other board's.
A ton of bots and spammers that you could avoid to a large degree have left for now. A huge number of excellent contributors and sharp minds are long gone. Before 2013 and certainly before 2016 the was always numerous interesting debates and discussions where you would learn something useful. Now most of the boards are regurgitated "opinions" that ate poorly considered. Not that it matters because it's usually an opinion on something entirely moronic.
This is the problem when most are here to make up their chipmixer max quota.
It is still a valuable resource for information but not meta board.
