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Guys, i'm making this post because I believe in something greater than myself. I believe in an ideological method of how this forum should operate. Please don't be alarmed, offended, or disgusted. I will announce it right now:

...Don't give me merit...

I don't want merit, because of what it does to us. Take a look into your heart and ask yourself who you really are. Can you live with yourself? Is this what you really want? A bunch of people come to this forum everyday. Long ago we all loved bitcoin and shared everything about it. Our knowledge, our questions, our ideas, our desires, our fears. It was a living breathing forum. Love filled the corridors of the blessed links. It was a truly beautiful place. The legendary folk knew they were important. The newbies understood how worthless they were. However, they also understood that one day they would become legendary as well. The forums were flooded with more and more important content. No spam, no hate, no fud, no making random posts to get money for sig-campaigns, none of that.

One day a snake was unleashed. Its fury bestowed itself amongst the bitcoin forum world. This snake was named merit. The merit infected the pure forum. Suddenly spam was present. People began begging for merit. Others were scolding those begging for merit while covertly begging for merit themselves. Those that were scolding were also scolded by others for their undercover merit-begging. Well guess what, those folk were begging for merit too. It was just 2 levels deep. On and on it went. People went further than 2 levels deep. I've seen some people more than 10 levels deep. More people came into the forums. More spammers and scammers. More beggars and broken-English posters.

So who will stand and fight. Who will fight for what they believe in. I will, who else is with me? I know the battle doesn't give us good odds, but it is important to be what you are. Be yourself and don't give up. Love, learn, and yada yada yada. I'm trying to think of more good cliché things that everyone respects, but we already know what that stuff is. It just isn't always so easy to put down in words. The English vocabulary isn't big enough for me to express my heart and my journey. Let us venture into a new era of quality content once again.

So...

...Don't give me anymore merit...


I'd like to take a moment and answer a couple of my fan's questions:


That is a good question Tom. To be honest, I don't have all the answers. I wish I could tell you how I was able to develop such genrosity. The only advice I can give, is to search deep within your heart and find it. It is something on another level that even I cannot explain.


Wow Sarah, thanks for the complement. It really feels good being as humble as I am. Very few people have probably reached my level of humility, but I don't blame them at all. Everyone is learning at different speeds and we should all be loving and giving. I truly have been blessed and I am not all that great. I really am not. I'm just like any normal person. I don't desire to be worshipped either. I am not a god. I am a mere mortal that is humble and recognize that merit is not a good thing to beg for. Guess what Sarah, you already have become humble by asking the question. You can't become a great leader of humility, like me, until you learn how to follow. A good leader doesn't give out orders. He/she guides his people.


Frank, I can't imagine the hardship that you have suffered. No child should ever have to go through that. That being said, I can't accept your merit. I have made it my quest to not accept merit.


Let me explain to all you readers out there. This is how you give merit:

https://i.imgur.com/oHurLlk.png

Now that you know how to send merit please do not give me any merit. I really trully deeply do not want to receive any more than I already have. I don't want you all to worship me like how you have for the legendaries.

The only reason I showed you how to give merit is so that you would understand that you could and that it would be easy. I don't want you to mistake my post as a beg for merit, because it isn't. I think if you search within yourself you will find the deeper meaning behind the meaning. I like to post quality content just for the content itself and my many fans. I have altruistic motives and that will never change. Please be understanding in the fact that I absolutely do not, under any circumstances, want any merit. This post is already getting long enough as it is with all my amazing content.

I really hope you all appreciate what I've made here and also remember to not give me merit no matter how badly you want to give it to me. I know you want to give merit to me, but please resist the urge.

Thank you and peace
-TheGodson

Form = +100
Substance = 0

You really expect to convince people that spam has increased after the merit system was introduced? You have to be off your rockers.
Either that was a long sarcastic post or you have been living under a rock for the entire time you have known about the forum.

tl;dr
-another merit thread. check!
-another merit system complain. check!
-another bitterness about the system. check!
-blocks of text. check!

Sorry but I already read a lot of thread's like this and I know already what is the content of this kind of post.

Not telling that your a shitposter but there's nothing we can do about the merit system, its already implemented and has a good result in the forum. Live with it.  :)

Give time to your post, dont get obsessed, merits will come.

the meaning of merit was to protect bitcointalk against farmers , cheaters and spammers , merit will just need some more time to do it's work in this system .

fair or not fair , it's here and we have to learn to deal with that

Another Fool Lurking Around :)

I wish I could give negative merit.

you are probably right but the saddest part of this is no one give merit for free other members sell it.
 

If I was Sir Theymos I would put a temporary ban on merit threads. Like for three months any thread opened would be deleted and all suggestions would need to be done in the merit and new ranks requirements thread. It is tiring.


By the way, Sir Hilarious&co, how to become a Lamborghini member? I want to become one :)

That's a custom title and I know of three ways to get one.

1 If you donate 50 BTC, you get VIP status and the ability to create a custom title for yourself. (https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html)
2. Get a job as a moderator.
3. Ask nicely.

Buy gold and become gold member.
Sell gold, buy Lamborghini and you will become Lamborghini member.

I don't know if this is still an april fools joke or not but ''I don't want merit, because of what it does to us. Take a look into your heart and ask yourself who you really are. Can you live with yourself? Is this what you really want?'' Rofl, what the hell are you even talking about, this is just a forum, you need to chill with the philosophical shit. It's just a forum, people, relax, spammers, trolls, scammers, they are everywhere in the internet and it's quite troubling to me that people are more concerned about spammers than scammers here, at the end of the day I couldn't care less about spammers from third world countries. Scammers on the other hand are a problem to everyone and more so to the entire crypto community than spammers. Can we concentrate our efforts in stopping scammers instead of focusing so much on merit/spam/signatures?

Saw post title and the rebel inside me had to give you merit. Didn't even read the post.

Do you know what happened to alia? I'm asking Tom, Sarah and Frank. don't think for a second that any of you could be spared. see what happened to alia before lying in this community.

Wait did i just read that merit infected this pure forum.  I would like to understand your definition of a "pure forum".  And after merit is when all the spam came in?  You havent read this forum much before january have you.  :P

This forum has evolve into something better and yeah MERIT become the savior at least for now.
I'm sure there will be another type of MERIT if the cancer still exist

@O.P don't worry I will not send any merit to you so you can stay as humble as you were cause I truly seriously don't have any sendable merit henceforth I'm thinking of what Lamborghini said the idea is perceptibly suitable in your manner fight what you extremely believe in as this forum won't adjust to fill your humbleness the least I could do is to support your uncharted journey good luck I wish I could teach you a preferably combative style in all essence that any enemy who would try to stop you will taste defeat for not advocating an unselfish optimism.

You got me, Sir.
In some aspect, negative merits are almost the same as demerit function which has been rejected by lots of higher ranked users in the forum. Therefore, i don't think that your ideas will be implemented by Theymos.

LOL. Is this a bait?   :D

The thread is like indirectly asking for merit. The story though is good, but I think the intention was just the opposite. NICE TRY, @ OP.

Sir  ;D I still do not see the statistics after the merit introduced decreased or increased the number of posts and messages last statistics December 2017 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

Are you implying that I am doing 3rd level begging for merit? I can understand how someone might see it that way.


...hmmmm...


I'm not going to confess or deny that allegation. I like to be mysterious sometimes. I will allow the members of bitcointalk speculate my intentions.


I really want to stress that I, being as humble and selfless as I am, has caused some to be bitter and resentful towards me. This reminds me of when Jesus was being persecuted. I'm not saying that we are in a significant way similar, but just pointing out the fact that there are similarities in both of our situations.

I'd also like to remind everyone not to GIVE ME MERIT!

This is how to do it:

https://i.imgur.com/oHurLlk.png

Now please do the opposite of what the picture shows. By opposite I mean don't give me merit.

Can't believe someone could put out so much effort to write a post this long, with pics they made... and yet the whole thing basically is trash with no value and a poor attempt at reverse psychology.

"Here's how to send merit. But don't give me merit pls. No"

Well, he got a merit. So I guess his attempt was successful.
Thankfully for him, there is no such thing as demerit on this forum. Otherwise, he would have picked up a bunch of them instead.

im think u post this only for get merit instead of not get merit lol

Lol. I rally wish this will come true. It is so frustrating to read new threads everyday regarding their opinion about this merits system. When will  they learn to accept that such system really exist? Yes, we have this freedom of expression but it's really annoying now. At first, I give my sympathy, but now. Gosh, i really hope there is a negative merit.

Do you think I would have made this post if demerits existed?  ;)

That reverse psychology worked in this case. People try it in different ways but it still works:

1) They break a forum rule and then ask the admin to delete if the post is violating any rule. From inside they know that they are violating the rule, there is no need of making that post if they know that they are breaking rule.

2) A reverse of this is some people post messages on walls like do not throw garbage here and others do the opposite. :)

That was a heartwarming message or post I should say. The name of yours is suited to you. But all people here are fake just like a book with cover with a many words that you can fine. I don't know if what your motive because of this post. But I owe you for this effort of yours. For now many people will bash with you and I think all of them are higher ranked here. And full of themeselves but we cannot blame them they are veterans and a long live users here.

Yeah, you don't have to post that you don't want a merit instead accept it. Do you know why did they give you merit? They give you merit because they think you deserve it if this day or another day you didn't received one that means you don't deserved it. Merit is already in this forum. The reason why the admin implemented a merit system is to improve this forum not all about giving and receiving merits. Why don't you thank yourself for receiving merits because someone think that you deserve it because of what you did. Being humble is not bad. Let's be happy that the admin try their best to keep this forum the best there is.

Why don't you get it? this is literally what it means here. if you are not getting merits. beat it. do not keep posting and embarrassing yourself.
Hint: copper members would receive merits more than normal members. it was a nasty move you did there OP, to merit me after finding out that
I would merit back anybody who merited me.

Really? Are you serious that Copper members has higher chances to get merits than normal users? Only constructive users can earn merits for their constructive threads (and it should be like this).
I don't think so. I think it is simply a joke.

Statistics never lie. try to wear a copper membership to see for yourself.

Well if copper members bought the membership to enable them to post images, that should reduce their merit earning potential, as some awarders will put them on ignore. If they bought the membership to help them with their bounty programme spamming, and they are being awarded merits by the spamming community, then maybe that is something that should be investigated. The whole point of the merit system is to reduce the activities of bounty spammers.

OK

Or possibly nullius and lutpin with 717 and 691 respectively are somewhat extreme outliers and make it a meaningless statistic.

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is probably nearer the mark here than "Statistics never lie".

Are you trying to pull reverse psychology on all of members in this forum? Good luck on that mate, you will never be successful on that and you are risking your chance to be on some ignore list. For your question tho, i would answer, OK !!!

Guys, this was suppose to be a joke. I thought that it was obvious by the content, but I feel like I should clarify this because some people seem to be taking it a bit too seriously.

one time at band camp I saw a tree, it was very big and I needed to relieve myself, so I went to the tree and saw a Bee.. this Bee was big and it stung my dick so now I have a red dick and a tree.

Well, it was meant to be a joke. But what happened was that nobody got the joke. However, you drew a lot of attention to your person. Was this your intention, since you talked so much about your personal qualities?
If you wanted to deal with a forum's drawback through the prism of humor, then, unfortunately, it did not work well. A good joke is always welcome, but the result was not so great this time  ::)

I like the way you convey your words expressing your undeniable words of wisdom to deceive people, but, I like your username tho,  so if I could give merits to username rather than post then maybe you get merits from me. Confused? Nice joke either but it seems forum does not take joke seriously especially talking about merits. 

When was this? I think you should tell this to alia as well. she deserves to know. however I think that you are over exaggerating like OP.

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OP, if you are not getting any merits, it doesn't mean that you are not welcomed here. it means that you are showing your weakness by caring too much about merits. we don't like weak people. if you want to get any merits, start with bullying garbage posters and hungry forum members or show some young pussy on camera. not only TMAN but even admin would merit you.

I don't think so. However, there are real priviledges (not official ones) for Copper members of the forum like that, it is one of signals which shows that the merit system failed (but, honestly I think the system has performed extremely well after launched).
I totally agree with you, TheQuin.

If you dont want merits. Can you give some merits to me??

Thank you for wasting 5 minutes of my life reading this horse shit post you spewed up to try and get more merit points.

He is not implying anything, he openly stated that your post is written solely to hoard merit points, with the usage of reversed psychology.
Regardless of it being true or not, my first reaction to it was this way, I got that nasty impression of a merit beggar.
As you can see I'm not the only one. Where you might have been honest about all this, there some form of unintended manipulation took place.
People don't like that, IMO you are lucky there are no negative merits  ;)

Dude stylishly asking for merit  ;D

Finally everyone directly or indirectly wants merits only whatever they says

That's truth but all are not expecting that mate. You may see the people getting merits like post count on this forum itself. Best people theymos, lutpin and some full member guys too.
They mostly focusing to help the forum members with their knowledge.
If you do that even you can get the merits easily mate. Then on services section some of people open up the thread to give merits valuable post. You may check them as your merit source.

I put you on ignore for that post.

Too long didn't read but from the title and the picture where the OP shows you how to give merits.
I'm going to assume OP is baiting people to give merits to him by reverse psychology. I'm Sherlock Holmes peace out. :P

That's it exactly what makes you a spammer that just repeated what been said over and over in the thread already. He doesn't want merit and you have zero chance of getting any.

After reading your post ,I honestly think its just another trash merit thread   .

But  it was helpful to me  since it was a well made text with good implementation of points . and virgules , ( you can say a live example )  thus i would like to invite you to join us in fit to talk forum which is based on helping non native English speakers to learn and develop their selfs and become good posters  ( ofc if you have some free  time and your true intention from this topic is to help reduce spam and help more people to create topics with  good content )  .


Here is the link  to the FIT to TALK forum  https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php (https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php)

In order to activate your account  just message  Jet cash in a pm  ( he is the owner and the administrator )  .

I hope you accept my invite , thank you .

Honestly, I think you wanted merit to level up your rank. All you need is merit to become Sr. Member. I've seen your profile. You asked us for merit indirectly. You know what, I will not give you merit!!
Because I don't have merit  ;D

Dear TheGodson I agree with you with some of your thoughts but not all, from your post you look against the merit system. Your post itself proves merit and trust system are real tool to control spammers and scammers and DT members are doing really hard work to tackle this problem of scammers and spammers . What you will do if alt accounts are sharing merit with each other &  members are trading merits for money to increase earning through bounty hunting will you not mock them???? From your post looks like you care about forum and in your post you have mentioned under cover merit!! as a responsible person you should have reported them. Have reported any one yet who are trading merit in deep level as you mentioned????

Nice title you got there. You pretended that you don't want to received merit but deep inside you want merit. I think you what you did is called reverse psychology, it may work but the one who will give you a merit will be a waste of smerit. You don't want other people give you merit? Then you shouldn't posted this thread in the first place.

Lol,  I like your subheading, it's one of the way to cajoule for merits

Good for you to realize on this one anyway you have a good rank already and that is a milestone you had achieve already. If you have only seen that there are many jr. members being stuck on their rank for the merits. Even if you are a good poster but still you could not receive merits since some of the merits are being on sale privately. Sad to say that higher rank had sold their merits instead of giving them freely.

I am curious why the OP creator have not locked the topic several days after publishing it.
If the OP creator don't want to beg for merits, it is right time to lock the topic permanently.

Guys, tell me please, I have 1 Merit, if I bet someone, I will have "0" again? After all, when Merit is not there, there is no way to put it.

No, merit will be always with you , but you can send smerit. Smerit will be if you have a two and more merit.

This will not work. The trick is to say" Do not give me merits" and then get some merits just like what OP did. :)

Thank you, so I can not send anything yet, I do not deserve it   :)

Indeed, he wrote so that noone did not give him merits. And they took and gave him merit! It's just incredible Dr John H. Watson!
You know what, my friends, do not give me merits too!  8)

I know you said to not give you merit, but I just couldn't help myself. I opted to give you a merit. Those who humble themselves shall be first. Those who are arrogant shall be last.
 For this reason, I hath decided to give you a merit.

It has been about a year since I've visited this thread. I just want you all to know to not give me merit. Please don't. I see two people have already done so. I also see a bunch of angry people, lol. Don't be angry guys.

It is already a year has passed by and another one don't really know what's the purpose of the merit. Why does people don't use the maximum level of their cells to understand the advantages of the merit system in the bitcoin community?

For me it was the most successful system that was implemented in the forum. When merit system was implemented, In some point, It urge me to be a better member of this community. If you don't want merits then it's just waste of time to post like this.

I checked your recent posts and you're just a shitposter in mega threads. Now, I really understand what are you ranting about, lmao. Don't fool anyone here, accept the fact that you're just being bitter on the system.

For someone who called me a shitposter, your grammar in your first paragarph is mindboggling. I understand English is not your first language, but you really shouldn't call someone else a shit poster when your own posting is atrocious.

For a moment it seemed like you were saying you don't understand the purpose of merit, but then say it urged you to become a better member. I suppose you were talking about me in your first sentence and not yourself. Hard to know though with the way you constructed that first sentence.


Either way, you have definitely made me happy by not giving me merit.  ;D