Thank everyone for the replies.
As I understand it from the poll and replies that it's better now! The merit system avoids spammer to running around here free, and that's good and what we want?
Someone said it's not perfect, but I think we call can agree that's nothing is perfect in life, but if it's better then it was it's already winning.
Much, much better now than before the merit system was created--and I think I've said that like a million times across the span of 5 years already. While I think there's still a big shitposting problem, at least people aren't doing it with a stable of alt accounts that they're ranking up either to enroll in bounties/campaigns or to sell to account buyers. The merit system swept the legs right out from under account farmers, and that was no small thing.
There used to be threads where it was obvious that alt accounts were responding to each other as though they were actually different people; you don't see that much anymore.
When was it possible to start enroll in campaigns on the forum? Was also that a positive change? For the reason now an account can actually make move in a respected way (Post high quality posts) so it should also make the forum a bit cleaner from spam?
it makes sense the merit system helped to halt to some degree the spamming and the account farming. Now obviously takes much more effort to account farm for the purpose of selling them outside of the forum, to the extent many of the farmers probably stopped trying at this point.
No system is perfect, that is for sure, but having a system like this one is better than not having one. At least, that is my humble opinion.
I agree you on this one bro! As long we trying ur best with what we got, it will be much better then if we work against it.
I was here 2years before the merit system was started and I am still here after 5years of the merit system.
The good thing/or so we thought, was that alt-accounts would reduce in number and account farming would be discouraged, although the second point has fairly been effective, they eventually are managing to rank up and introduce their own into multiple campaign and defraud them like previously. In other words, there are loopholes and its not perfect, but sometimes merit ends up being a distraction rather than engaging in the community.
So my opinion is that not much has changed, we had bootlickers previously and we still have, its just how democracy works. Suck it up and continue on your one man army life.
I can understand that many people using signature campaign as a main source of income, since I understand that some users are from poor countries so I am so glad it's possible to earn money here in a legal way that also can improve your intellect. with this thinking the scam should be less and honestly should be the way everyone wants to go. It must be much more fun to have a honest account you farmed up during long time instead of cheating your way up.
Thank you BitcoinTalk!
Members, reputable members. Was it better before back then when this forum was without merits or is it better or even much better now with merits?
Before the merit system, as consequence of cryptocurrency market and ICO booming in 2017 and 2018, the forum was flooded with shit posters. Merit system kicked off in January 2018 helped to indirectly eliminate shit posters because they have no available space to spam and get money for their 'works'.
Then another wave of spam returned when those farms exchanged merits to rank up to like Junior member (without 1 merit required back in the day with
initial merit system), then theymos launched an
Enhanced merit system (with 1 merit required to be Junior member, previous junior members without 1 earned merit will be deranked to newbies). Spam reduced effectively and significantly again.
Then the massive booster of monthly sourced merits caused another issue, when I can see many shit posters rising again. They wrote wall of texts and use those text walls as their fake marks of quality to exchange merit, rank up and spam to work.
Thank you for this information.
