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Edit: April fools!

In recent years, it seems that a lot of people have been making low-value posts just to get paid. To address this, I've added a merit "cost" to posting: from this point forward, for every 15 characters you post, you will lose one Merit point. This should eliminate any incentive to make low-value posts.

Any halfway-decent poster should be able to earn much more merit than they lose due to the penalty. But I recognize that some good posts are occasionally overlooked. So to counterbalance the penalty, I also added a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts. If you want to write a lot, you'd better do some reading as well!

For both the penalty and the bonus, this applies only to your merit score, and does not affect sendable merit (sMerit).

Let me know what you think of these adjustments.

Happy April Fool's Day theymos  ;D.

ty tmos, v gd updt

Hahahaha theymos got me there.

Nice one @theymos you won this year.

Thanks I am back to hero member , 1 April 2024 APRIL MOP

Like, do you mean if I see a post or question that needs a simple answer and the idea I have to answer that particular question tools me only 15 characters (which I know is not possible) for dropping a simple comment, that way my merit count will reduce? 
 
What about simple replies that have no character but come with only an image on them, which sends a clear message? How will that also be regarded? 

What’s today’s date?  ;D

That’s correct. Theymos is clearly trying to ruin the forum. He probably has something against beginners ranking up, he doesn’t add merit sources and has come up with a new system to make it harder for accounts to rank up. Sad day for bitcointalk.

I really just wanted to test how many merit will leave my profile 😂😂

And he won on this one

It's a wonderful, sweet, and delicious idea. What's the date of today? I want to do some calculations because it's been a while since I did that  ;D ;D

Quick merit farming method: Read the whole WO thread from start to finish.
Bonus Merit: Post a resume on this thread of your readings with only 15 characters.

And you just make this more fun for newbies to believe more and more… before this April fool will be over my merit count will reduce to 1.1  ;D

As it reduces on every comment and post I made, and I was really not stopping, even got my ranked dropped down to full member without noticing it, this really gat us.

lol, too early to spoil it  :D

I thought it'll be AI this year.

I just visited to check what's in it for this year.  :)

Anyways, have a good one to all.  8)

I studied math, physics etc for 1 whole year just to prepare myself but..... :'(

That's a great update, it will force members to make 15+ character posts, and hence will increase the post quality as well, I know sometimes a member have to reply someone in lesser words, but this update will also motivate them to add more words, it will save them some merit points and more words into the post is always a good thing, as it makes sure that other members understand it well.
That's quite new, I mean how do you, or someone, or anyone giving merit to the reader? How a person would know he has read a lot and deserves a merit, haha, I have seen some people writing long posts, like JJG, hehe, I think anyone replying to him would be making good merits hehe. Anyway, this is a good update, I liked it, and I will like it more when experience it.
So, if one made less than 15 characters post he will lose points, and to recover them they have to read more. Right.

Edit: OMG I thought its real, hehe, I didn't realize its 1st April. I actually saw the post and start writing, didn't saw other member's posts. silly.

I fell for it this year, I admit it. You won.

Though, I would have preferred something more elaborated like the Flappy bird knock off we had some time ago or the IQ test we were supposed to pass before posting.
The NFT Mania of the year 2021 was also good, anyways... Another year, another occasion I fall as a fool.

Thanks Theymos, you have April fooled us!  ;) However, if in real something like that could take place then it's much better to make some changes where users who make high quality posts gets some auto-merits for their time and contribution.

Ohh sh*t this got me really bad :P

I didn't pay attention to the timing and I felt betrayed to see my rank downgraded to Hero after all these years in Bitcointalk :'(
Theymos, you will cause heart attack for someone when he noticed what happened to his profile :P
HA1FD!

+1

Ok Thermos !

not kind, not kind at all 😒

The trick may make your merits appear different then the way they actually are, in order to see your actual merits you may copy your profile and open in another browser where you aren't logged in, or you may click on Profile>Merits to see the actual merits. :)
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You got me here, @Theymos. Wow, I was struggling to wrap my head around this before I ready comments that made me remember what date it is.

I already saw some outcome of this adjustments, a negative merit (-161 Loudmouth ) is way too much theymos, maybe you can just remove them instead. :D

Hahaha.. you make my heart beat because of the surprising change in Merit, it turns out it's April Fool's Day. And I searched several times to see who the sender was but nothing new.

I hope you can't return it to its original Merit amount again. ;D

I need to maximize this day to earn merit as much as possible.

Lol you got negative merit dude.  :P

Happy April fool's day to the most activity and the most recognized user of BTT, you caught us all unaware. You really played a smart one and indeed it came so early!

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Congrats, you've just earned a badge.

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Yeah it's  way more reduced or even balanced by now did some correction  to my recent  pyramid post  maybe earn more merit to make it permanent  ;D....... Hopefully   ;
I was really  frustrated to make a post  because  I wasn't expecting  it at all
He got me It's  my first time thouh ;D ;

OMG

I never saw this coming, I thought my eyes where inching me when I saw some peoples merit reduced but didn't know it affected everyone is including me. Happy April fool day lolz.

What will be the maximum negative merits? Could JJG come here to test lol  :D :D

how many +merits for AI posting? It seems AI poster will celebrate this update ;D

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fck my merit is decreasing for criticizing them!  :'(

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even a simple edit can cause merit loss

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give me the moneeeyyyy

Leave it to theymos to ruin everything.  Right when we were starting to have fun, he ruins it.

 >:( >:( >:(

That's why we cannot have nice things... because of theymos.

with negative merits your position becomes a piece of shit

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It seems like my merit increases automatically even though no one gave me merit. I suspect this thread is the reason.

April mop

It might take a while to get down to that level..


We must post more and read less.

hahahahahaha

So, if I read a lot, my merit will increase? This looks easier than before, and I prefer this system compared to the old system which made me apathetic about being able to rank up

My merit count has decreased from 328 to 96 after making the first post today. Merit changes have an impact on rank, from Sr. Member become Member.
It worked well theymos and was a surprise.

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I tried to think about experimenting by trying to open the forum via a new incognito tab on the browser I was using, the change did not occur for me and for several accounts from other users.

I like this surprise.
Happy party to everyone.

Also with me , it  Really got me pretty bad :'( , damn i was even planning to make a  post concerning it, in meta board :D
 
To be honest this this is too expensive  :'(

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I got a notification on the Telegram bot that my account was banned, but after I opened Bitcointalk everything was fine. Is this also part of April fools?

Just got a telegram notice that I have been permanently banned  :o. Phew

You are not getting me this year! I hope.

I've  tried all my best to reduce it but it's  just working like  a shit coin  chart ;D small win big dumb with "-" almost getting  used with the shit stuff ;D

This is fun in a painful way. I never knew BTT did April Fool. Hopefully Bitcoin doesn't do the same or any top exchange because people would just faint ;D. Happy Easter everyone and thanks for the April Fool. It was fun.

Some of you have been gotten! I hope
Thanks theymos for continuing Bitcointalk April Fools!

PS: You don't need to quote the whole thing to reply, unless you want to sacrifice your merits in the Great Quote Pyramid  :D

Give me my merits back NOW, or i'm going to speak to your manager and get you fired

April Fool's Day 2024 this year seems more terrifying to me than April Fool's in unique years. And I got really scared in the beginning and later I got to know that today is April 1st.

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Okay, since I'm permanently banned, I guess I'll just squander all my merits on shit posts.

I knew what kind of game this was.... April mop will be fun for one day,, I feel after opening this account nothing has changed or maybe after posting will see it.  ::) ::)

edit; It turns out that one post is one merit touched, and I'm sure many have realized the notification from the account telegram bot about Banned. Hahaha

Check the Bitcoin Talk Notification bot notification and see that my account has been banned.  I did not understand why I was punished so much, so without doing anything, I entered the profile and saw that my account is fine.
But I checked the date in the notification bot and saw that April 1 means today may be a special day

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Happy April...

Thanks Theymos

It's going to take a shitton of shitposts to get myself into negative numbers.  Maybe I need to take up plagiarizing entire chapters of War and Peace.  

Really ? I think that's bad Sir if it's not a prank. That will make it more difficult for newbie members like me to move up, because I still need to process a lot in the forum. I hope that doesn't really happen sir. Thanks. Regards Dear Theymos.

You shouldn't really complain dudeLoudmouth!  Merit: -13   ::)

The more you process, the more the number goes up.  

Hahaha!
With this changing I am just going to be in minus merits soon.  :D

First shocked by TryNinja. When I read in the Telegram Bot you banned. My heartbeat was on peak and I just open the link and check what is the reason but after that. I was thinking this is Moye Moye haha.

After that I made a post and look at the merits and just think ohhhh! Not everytime...!

By the way you both theymos and TryNinja made my day. Hahaha!

Happy April Fools day. :)

I also understand guys, is this part of that April Fool's Day thing

That's fine thermos; especially if I can have the merits deducted from my Source Merits and not the big earned merit stash I've been accumulating for The Great Merit War / Merit Armageddon.

I'd also like to make a suggestion where anyone can subtract a merit on anybody's post by destroying 10 of their own sMerits. Ideally I'd also like to use my Source Merits for that purpose but would settle for having to use my earned merits.

Thanks for once again proving you are continuing to innovate and Make Bitcointalk Great Again -- every April 1st you manage to come up with some brainbuster of an idea and we all appreciate how such ideas have helped grow the Greatness of the forum over the years.

Long Live Thermos, Our Benevolent Dictator.

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Holy Father!  :D  ???

This and the Telegram notification that "You are banned" was hilarious. I was on a holiday and was shocked.
Best April Fool Joke.

I love this.  My challenge will be to zero out my merits. I am working on it.

That's a nice try on the 1st of April. Nearly took it for granted, haha.

Yeah, whatever  ::)

Actually, except for "earn merit for reading posts", this doesn't seem like a bad "real" plan at all. :D

Loudmouth, lol.

You're creative to make an April Fool's surprise. Let's move on... LOL.
If old users don't forget, maybe they already understand because it's April.

Oh, you....

It took me about a minute and a half to figure out what day it was today and why Theymos would be writing a post like that.  I actually thought he'd taken heed of the community's posts about merit source applications and whatnot and had decided to respond.  But nope, just before I saw your post I realized it's that time of year again.

And by the way, I don't recall anybody bringing up the traditional April Fools Day joke ahead of time this year, as has been the case for at least the past 2-3 years.  So I got caught surprised, which I kinda-sorta appreciate.  Heh heh.

Still March 31 here, at least for another 1hr 46mins!  So it must be true ???  :D :D

probably will be fixed by the end of tomorrow and those merit lost are reinstated, but still, happy april fools day! :)

It is not yet April 1st in my time zone so I was really fooled by this. I saw a user with negative merit and a poop emoji under their name so I googled if it was possible to have negative merit on Bitcointalk, which led me to this thread.

On a serious note, new ways to combat spam on the forum would be welcomed if they were well thought out and implemented effectively.

Nice.  Bitcoin ATH days are awesome but April Fools' Day is always the best day on the forum.

what a weather ;D

Theymos and/or the forum seems to operate on UTC... (I.e. universal time?)



Theymos is a bot.



I might as well throw out anything that I like on this "special" day  (gotta try to get even, you know?)


I also speculate that reading the forum for 10 days 24/7 will probably earn us less merit than posting one wee-widdo informative wannabe post.  

Where is the justice in that?   >:(


Yes.. there is a "new way" to combat spam that was implemented on the forum in January 2018.. called "the merit system," and now theymos went and screwed it all up.  


"We" (Royal perhaps?) had a good thing going.    :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

yeah, it's April Fool's Day, and theymos posted something again. It's always interesting to see what ideas come out of theymos' mind.

I'm impressed once more, and it seems like this tradition will continue for a long time.

I have dropped under 7000 merits thanks to quoting this jjg specifically long post.

I am making an effort to zero out by the end of the day.

Will I drop to a newbie or not?

I am ready and I have read this thoroughly. I'm ready for the new merit calculation  ;)

On to reading more for merit! ^{This will definitely help with my reading comprehension, to go up probably  :D}  ;D

pay no attention to me I am just a loudmouth.

Luckily I have the comment section, almost got me there for a second.  ;D

All Right problem solved, just need to do some reading so that I won't drop down back to a newbie, My merit is bugging me as well I'm getting confused  ???

Happy April Fool's Day Everyone!  ;D

Boo you all who have the prank away from the first page. It would have been fun to see members struggling to read as much as possible to get yeir merits up. They'll have also been scared to post and lose some of those merits. Would have been the first time some did some actual reading (or maybe just jumping from page to page).

I hope this reverts!

Man, how did you manage to lose hundreds of thousands of merit in a few hours?

 Shitposting :)

A cools feature sir ~xd.

I guess, by seeing these we are gonna have a lot of intellectual & intelligent people coming from bitcointalk. All these folks are gonna to dominated cryptocurrency by creating the next bitcoin & next level of #MEME token.

BITCOIN FOR INCREASE THE LITERACY OF READING ~XD KEEP READING FOLKS, MERITS ARE COMING FOR YOU.

You almost got me there LOL.

Nice trial, Theymos. April fool, and happy new month! You actually got me, waking up to see merit. There has been an increase in my profile without any notification, Which after a while it start reducing.

For now, good, because I see that I have increased my merits, the shame is that they do not generate smerits and that tomorrow I will not have them. On the other hand very funny to see some with negative merit.

Edit: lol I see my merits have gone down now.

How much merit is 'a bit'? Say if I read all the 63,842,969 Posts in 1,377,195 Topics by 3,604,538 Members in this forum, will I earn a God-like rank and a bazillion merits?

Even before this changes my goal was to read and learn more, and now I see my merits evaporating and I continue to lose them as soon as I enter and exit the forum. What happens? Please explain this

Let it end in an April Fool to avoid further complications. :) An automated system can only do what you wish for since there are no moderators checking and rating posts manually. Even if there are, the work will be too cumbersome. And this automated system may create more issues than the ones they would be tasked to solve if care is not taken.

Bro, expect the worst surprises today, it litters everywhere now. ;D

When I logged into the forum this morning and saw the Merit count increase on my BTT profile I felt good. But whenever I tried to post more I was surprised that my merit number was just going down. Tears started to fall, seeing such exceptions in the profiles of even more unique people like me, I calmed down. Later I realized that today is April 1st "April Fools".

I was expecting a surprise like that but all hopes are dead and surprised only with the April fool text. Lolz those who have not experienced it before would have read some texts or threads to fetch some merits but the April fool caught them up. What will manager AB de Royse777 will come up to spice the fun of the day. Is it [OPEN] BITWINUP Bitcoin PVP Prediction Game Signature Campaign | upto $90 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5489938.0) but slots were open so it can't work again then he might use another signature campaign to butter the fun. I saw a complain in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488206.msg63885123#msg63885123 and also saw the complaints rank changed and I was like have they gotten new rank in the forum? And I came here to see the whole melodrama. theymos Merit Sources and Moderators are needed.

It's a very good....

What a trip:

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That would be the real April Fool!

I didn't realize until I see this post.

Damn, happy April Fools day Theymos and everyone here who were victims once again.

No problem with chars( + -)... but man I'm reading more now.  ;D

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Now it was deducted again after this post. I just stop posting now.

@fillippone... you're certified now.

I told a forum member last night to look out for another theymos' April 1st prank. You didn't disappoint in that 😏

Does this also affect bot? Lolz I was thinking you should be in right position to handle situation here but it seams you are not different from others  ;D :D. I really felt for this because I wasn't expecting it soon. I nearly had a HBP I think thymos must apologise for this because some people might be in the hospital after trininja dropped a notification that we have been permanently ban from Bitcointalk. Anyways all work without no play makes jack a doll boy. I can feel the vibe everywhere.

For all the years I have been here and Theymos still comes up with something that I can never imagine.

God there's so many people smarter, wittier, more intelligent than me in the world. Wish I was as smart as half of these idiots..

You're cycling in the wrong direction! But since we're a club, let me join :D

Oops I overtook you :P

Definitely did not see this one coming. The other additions like "loudmouth" and "shitposter" are hilarious as well. Just wondering if there are any ones for those who read hundreds of pages of threads, maybe bookworm?

Oops, also thank you theymos for removing the symbol on my merit count, at least for a day.

- Jay -

Weird… you better check the reason. ???

Could something similar be happening here? It's unimaginable, but it seemed to me that the signatures on all accounts were a manifestation of altruistic inclinations. :)

While I am writing this post, I am already losing dozens of merits. Maybe I should delete this post? How does this new system work: merits are returned for deleted posts?

This is exactly what we have all been waiting for. Too many users complained about the current merit system, finally justice has prevailed and adjustments have been made that will make the whining louder not only from low ranks, but also from high ones. :)

The best joke would be that this new system will remain forever.  ;D

I got the april fool's bottom when i saw Julerz12 profile ;D

Oh damn... I got caught, not because of this OP, but because I didn't notice this OP.  :D :D :D :D

So, when I get to the forum and see a user with negative merit, I'm not going to open a topic and ask?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491162.0

That's crazy... Well, now let's see who gets the most negative merits, for that matter, I'm going to do my part:
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 :P

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How to possible Merit: -177479  :D

I like to see "Certified WO'poster"

April Fool's  :D

I really like the "AI":
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Any chance I can get this as permanent Custom Title? It would once and for all end the speculation that I'm AI (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4826180.msg48268705#msg48268705) :D

It's best for beginners to be more careful when writing your posts on this forum.

Because if you write something wrong then you can get negative Merit. And that means you are in debt. hahaha And you have to pay for it with better writing. If you don't get paid immediately, you have to be prepared for the consequences

I have been waiting for this regulation for a long time. good job Mr Theymos 8)

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But now I'm confused. How can we make an April Mop surprise for Theymos. I think he could be a guy who feels bored due to the fact that nothing surprises him from the users on this forum. Does there have to be strange actions from all the users on the forum to shock Theymos. in next year. ?  ;D

Seperti berpesta post SPAM sepanjang hari hahahah

It looks good. Leave it like that! We are sick and tired of shitposters.

I logged in this morning and immediately noticed that something was wrong with my profile. Ah yes, I should have more merits than displayed.

Quite ironic that theymos will wait until April's fools day to make such "important adjustments". TryNinja's April fool already got to me. I can't take no more.  :P  Happy April's fools day everyone.

Edit: Merit seem to drop with every new post  :D

Hahahaha,,, can't actually remember today's date but, your title is very funny. I remembered the very April fool I once experienced by this same time last year, when it said this user is a suspected spammer, I was surprised because I have never observed an April fool for before (as of then) on the forum as that was the first. Any way I think this is a nice idea  :o  :o :o

If I want to say that the rate of account is more than the previous years but the number of workers is very less due to which there is no improvement and because of this there are more posts of low value so if anyone promotes it should be considered worthy.

@Little Mouse time to draw some consequences and kick out these subpar signature campaign participants. philipma1957's trash posts were tolerated for too long and he refuses to take time reading the threads he actually posts in.

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Edit: Ok I just dropped 44 merits posting this!! :D

Edit: Another 2!

Interesting, some formula at work here as editing does further decrease the merit count. Well done @theymos! ;)

I guess everyone was expecting something else then you caught us with this one, last year April fool prank was different, this year it's a reduction of merit may be next year you should try and come up with something more curious 🤣🤣🤣

+1

Could it be this breaks the moment you make a post?

I was looking forward to see what pranks you will pull out this year :D

You never dissapoint :D

I bet you I will be hitting 1k merit with this    :D ;D ;D

Testing 15 chars  :D

Woah hahaha didn't notice the ranking and the merit, until I saw this announcement, I feel nervous and started viewing my post if I have done anything wrong Haha, got me there pretty good, I didn't notice that it is April 1 and April fools day starts haha, woah mini heart attack.

Any abracadabra person here. Because after reading i want my merit score to remain the same way. Let me start reading  :D

Sadly the party poopers couldn't hold on tight. Love the new ranks! Who's gonna win with most negative merits?

We should use upload our post elsewhere and share it's short link to preserve our total merit ;D.


You could just use AI random text generator to achieve that.

It's funny but I kinda liked this system.  :P

I'm wondering why you didn't sync/adjust the avatars and signatures restrictions based on the current users' ranks? :P

If you sync it, people would be more careful to post because when they're back to Member rank, they're technically should be kicked from the campaign because they can't wear appropriate avatars and signatures. :D

Probably Certified Shitposter deserved to be banned. :D :D :D

Merit overflow incident.  :D

The sophistication of the April Fool's jokes is getting harsher each year.

Fortunately it’s not a Thursday or Friday for some of my scraping processes, but those that gather profile information on a more recurrent basis are seemingly lapping up the new Merit scores from the profiles (i.e. bpip for example). Merits score consistency between systems entering a 3 body problem scenario …

Every body is shouting April fool, mean while majority of those that had an increased in their merits are wishing it remains like that  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) others want everything to come as normal as  quickly as possible, this joke has shifted my womb  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) sorry my kidney. This joke is really expensive and it got me when I saw the banned notification. Oh nooo I just had miscarriage ::) ::) ::) my merit is going down and going up.

I don't understand why the show negative merit.

It reflects the quality of your forum contributions.

Good. Good. Here, take a few merits. Spend them wisely.

Thanks, I needed that. Actually, I need 215991 more. Although I'm curious what happens after -999999: will I become a "Dedicated Shitposter"?

And another 23 Merits gone :D

No, you ascend to "Master of the Shitposting Order".

 OMG 😳. Theymos really outdid himself on this one! I really bought the whole thing till I got to the line where he said " you'd get merits for just reading posts" and I'm like "how will he know I read a post tho? Will there be like a bot to monitor users that do this? Damn, this is good!  ;D
Funny thing about this April fool's day joke is you can't predict what Theymos will do next...

I'm now a Member rank! I see some people with negative merits, does that mean they are owing the forum some merits?  :D :D :D

I never thought of this whole April fools day would come to this merit deduction. I still can't get it how Theymos finds a way to get everyone in the panic box, is just outstanding and amazing. I almost restarted my phone, off and on back my network connection 🥵 (which I did) but the merit was still the same. Can we call the cops on Theymos for being such a good prankster 😅? You're the best Mr Theymos.

HAPPY NEW MONTH

HAPPY FOOLS DAY

Exactly! I feel Theymos has a cool plan for the merit system but for this? Y'all know what it is!!!
Isn't this exciting enough? That you'll either wag your tail around with the tag "Alpha shitposter" or surpass the forum's most merited profile, Leo? You ain't got no competition yunno... How 'bout that? :P
bahahahaha!!!

OMG :D  :P
Now i am a Shitpost with losing Merits and maybe getting banned  :D
For sure a nice April fools day this year and i was just wondering whats going on as my first Message i readed was i got banned on Telegram from Tryninja.
So i was more then happy that this was also a April joke , Happy Easter to all .

My interest here seems to apply to the reading more! Perhaps there have to be some mic icon I could press to read to, as some signaler or proof of my having to read more. Maybe I’ll upload a voice note of my having to read as proof and perhaps some app sensor that would sense my having to stir at my screen to relate my screen time and by some means calculate how am having to read. Lol,,,

Okay, am reading now…

@Theymos never forget to give us surprise today as I open my account on every click I have increase of merit first I feel who is giving then suddenly check and now realize we are having April fool gift by our amazing admin who is always active for things like these good surprise by boss to all enjoy this buddies.

Wrong forum!  Unless you want to marry a dude, in which case you might have a chance.  ;)

I don't understand your house please if you speak in English it would be better for us :'( ;)

I actually initially fell for this :D

Well done, theymos!

After reading 20-25 posts every day, I was able to post only 1 :-[

Very funny, as long as you read just know that you have to post as well and by the time you know it, you're owing Theymos and the Forum lots of merit because as it is you're having -159 merit and you're officially a debtor in the making.😅

Please I am aloa very interested in merit aswell I need more than I have please

how can I get to read the post so I can get more merits please

That means I have to stop logging out each time I post something, to not run out of merits.

Please don't take it personally mate, it's just another April fool thread  🤠🤠🤠, imagine if things works like this through our the year or more it's a cheating because many people will take advantage of it and also abuse it. Reading a post without participating by commenting on them and still getting fake merits/rewards is how some social medias are working and many of them are fake. It's just another April fool. This new April is very different from the past, the previous one was a suspected spammers and I got the tag on my profile also but I believe after today the whole system will come to normal.

Happy April Fool's Day theymos  ;D

TLDR?

Hahahahahaha really seriously I was gotten so cheap because I never thought of the April fool at all well all thesame happy new month to we all

I am totally aware of April fools, but let's assume it were true. I see a fundamental contradiction hidden in these adjustments. I fully agree that reading other members' posts is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for writing your own qualified comments. However, your proposal assumes that reading is always rewarded with merits, although you can also read different things, including shit posts.

While writing posts, on the other hand, is a priori considered something that should be punished by depriving of merits. Although a written post can be much better than what a person had to read before. Why then should writing not be encouraged? Such moments lead to false implicature, as if reading is always a positive and useful activity, while posting is instantly associated with spam.

If this proposal were brought up for serious discussion (although I suspect that today everyone is in a too cheerful mood for that and I will not be taken seriously), then I would not support it. After all, in my opinion, the existing merit system indirectly motivates reading, and this is even can be considered a priority. Because without prior study of already available information, without knowing who has already said something on the topic that interests you, it is not possible to create a high-quality post that would eventually be evaluated by others with merits.

P.S. I suppose, my merit count would be much lower after this post  ;D

You don't have to read anything. Just clicking on topics, and scrolling through walls of text is sufficient to get those free merit points.

Because it is very easy to create a long and useless text. And since 2022, there are publicly available AIs, so it is much easier than it was.

Came here only for the 1st of April joke
So let me just type a lot of useless congratulations words here for this prank so with more characters than needed so by typing more and more maybe I will finally get a badge, be it a shitbadge or a badge that is shitty, but still a badge.

Yup, got it from first try!

You know those free Merits are not real, yeah?  :D You can check it by clicking on a "Merit" button under your profile and you will see the actual summary for your account.
But even if it was real, I guess, theymos` idea was not just in scrolling the walls.


The fact that this is much easier with available AI generators doesn't imply that there is no good posts here anymore. This does not in any way change my argument for writing quality posts that require a fair amount of reading in the first place.

Am sure other newbies jumped up for joy the same way I did at the addition of merits today, I totally forgot today's date and I fell for this expensive prank. Hahahaha Not cool @Theymos but I hope I still get to keep the  merits though.

Happy April fool's day everyone.

Edit: okay now I'm sure am gonna have a heart attack when all this prank is over.

Lol....Theymos caught me here, at first when I logged in and read some post and I saw my merit was increasing on the profile page without seeing people that merited me on the merit dashboard, and while the actual number of my merit is still intact, Then I thought it was a network problem with the platform maybe some upgrades was going on, then gave it sometime and later came back still same thing, I was a bit confused even to the extent I thought my account was clonned or hacked and had to do change of password and Google Authentication binding, until I saw the headline News about the merit adjustment, And coupled with what today's date entails April 1. Nice catch @Theymos!.

Do blank spaces count too?  ::)

                teste1
                teste2
                teste3
                teste4
                teste5
                teste6
                teste7

 :P

I have a great idea for a real prank for April 2nd, something like



No, it's not just a sad day for bitcointalk, it's a sad day or humanity! :D

Has anyone asked @LoyceV or @TryNinja to make a list of users with the most negative merits?

_{Characters to add negative merits.}  :P

Nice one.

Seriously though earning for reading isn't a totally bad idea. And maybe limiting the number of posts in a day, or losing merit for every post after 10 per day or something like that. Although it's in the nature of a forum/social media that on some days a lot of things might be happening, with a lot of posts as a result, in a heated discussion, not shit posts.

Of course, but I have enough merits. For me, activity is harder.

Well, points are given unconditionally, if you just load some page. You don't have to read it.

Harder? Getting merits under a new system is as easy as winning in a Cookie Clicker (https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/).

I have been closly watching these April fools edits for many years now and i believe this one is the most difficult to understand. I have tried to read it twice, thrice and many times but still don't get it, as how it works  ???

I understand that every 15 characters or less post will lose a merit point how will you be able to calaculate how much time a person is spending on reading only ?
Ahhh, seems a difficult merit new calculation...

I was about to create a thread in Meta to ask about what was going on with my merits, then noticed a couple of other members that seemed to have had their merits reduced therefore I took screenshots last night with the intention of creating a thread later to raise the issue. Then I read a post in this thread stating April Fools Day.

I suppose that is the end of the matter  ;D

That's evil.

I am too ashamed to tell how much time i spend for thinking that something is messed up in my memory, as i was sure i had something like 7 merits less, and there was no new merits recieved since last time i checked. Well maybe i am ok, even though i am wondering why i fell for bitcointalk's prank every year. After all this is the only site i know that has april's fool day's prank every year. Elsewhere iit takes me under 5 seconds to realize what is a prank. Now i had a small panic of what's real and what is happening to my brain.

So kudos to you, you got me.

This calculation is unfair to German speakers.

A LLM should be used to identify the language, and calculate the "reading weight" of each post made.

Actually I would like to see my smerits update after the post on this thread.Hope Theymos using his style of April fool and this going to be opened up after 24 hours which is 2nd April of 2024.If this is true,it will eliminate the people who use to post few lines for the payment of campaign alone.It also increases the post quality of the user at the end of the day.Let’s see how this end at the end of 24 hours,very eager for the update. Lol

Good.
One post with any number of characters created today will reduce the existing merit.

theymos. We have passed March and there are many new targets this April.
Almost forgot that today there are big celebrations all over the world, including here.
I thought the celebration this time would be in the form of a dice rolling game, but apparently not.

This time you will handle the celebration yourself.

I wanna be neg!

Be careful what you wish for!

I agree with the proposal to add a merit "cost" to the post to combat low value posts. The penalty of losing a merit point for every 15 characters will encourage users to be more concise and creative in their posts.

The initiative to reward users for reading posts is also interesting. This will help increase engagement on the platform and ensure that quality posts are seen by more people.

It's important to note that the penalty and bonus only apply to the regular merit score, not the sendable merit (sMerit). This is important to ensure that users who create high-quality content are still rewarded fairly.

Overall, I think these changes are positive and will help improve the quality of content on the platform. I'm looking forward to seeing how they work in practice.

Campaign manager will be having a rough time counting post for this week especially to those shitposter and loudmouth already.  :D :D  :D

Anyone can point out to me how is someone turn into shit/loudmouth rank already after just posting a few post? I saw some user that already have the shit badge of honor for just having 3 to 5 post. What kind of shit they do to get easily that badge.  ::)

-354883 damn.
Why are you always on top of the list from both ends :D

This really hurt me.

I'm a person who keep checking my profile (including merit) even though I'm not regularly earn merit, so this make me need to click my merit history and then found out there's no change at all.

The thing is, we have no way to verify between people who read the posts or just clicking any thread as much as they can.

Would be a good idea. Why not?

Your merit count is 10368.

I guess the negative count is visible to account owner only.

Mine is -39.

Today is the man's birthday, so he deserves a special status :)

Happy Birthday @LoyceV🎂

Is it really or is this an April Fools joke? You have to say the truth, it's the law.

The actual best thing would be some way of preventing people posting on a thread unless they can prove they have actually read and understood the preceding posts, including the OP.  The number of threads that consist of people posting the exact same thing over and over or completely misunderstanding the OP and posting totally irrelevant bollocks is unreal.

Perhaps there should a captcha-style check, where you get tested on contents of the thread before you are allowed to post ...

Thank you! I'm glad someone noticed after all those years :D

Check which year I was born in.

In that case, I wish you a happy birthday, Loyce! 🎈🎂

April fool's day  ;D, how did I forget today is still April fool's day even when I made a post about this yester night?  ;D.

I just posted a comment on one of the threads in the gambling board and discovered that my over 1000 earned merits was or has dropped to around 880, and not just that, but my legendary rank that took me several years of hard work to reach, has been downgraded to the rank of a hero, my heart skipped for a second, but thank goodness I quickly remembered what today is, and decided to visit this board for a possible explanation, and here I am.

Thanks Theymos for this update, you got me for a second, always fun to be part of this your little tricks, thanks very much for all of it, meanwhile, happy April fool's day everyone.

I guess it's a sign which means you are owing the forum some merits (i.e Loudmouth)..  Lolz😂, But however, you are not the only one having this negative merit, as everybody found to have it all have a common new invented forum rank called "Loudmouth" as could be seen below

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEwYD.jpeg   https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEuQG.jpeg  https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEA8f.jpeg

Great changes theymos! I can already see the results, and the forum looks much cleaner now than it did before 1 April.
Btw, is the fee to buy merits from you same as before? This won't affect our business, will it?

You're welcome - it's really strange that no one noticed it before - it must be some kind of magic or it's the 3-body problem that is mentioned very often these days :)

It's really strange and funny to see that today is the first day of the month of April and April fools are made to fool everyone in the forum so much.  ;D Although I have laughed sometimes at the profiles of these sages and legends, because their merits are so diminished as to be beyond calculation. ;D Anyway it fooled everyone and scared a lot of people, especially when I saw it in the morning I got scared and later I thought it was an April fool. ;D ;D
Happy Funny Day Bitcointalk  ;D

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEYGH.pnghttps://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEkev.pnghttps://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VEffg.png

Some city slicker decided he'd had enough of the rat-race.  He sold his Park Avenue apartment, and bought a few acres out in the country to start a farm.  Once he got the place set up, he decided he needed an animal to help with the labor, and since he liked fresh eggs for breakfast, chickens were also in order.

He went to the animal auction, and told the manager what he was looking for.  The manager pointed to an animal, and said "That's what you need, it'll carry your tools out the field and help carry your harvest back to your barn."

"Perfect," the new farmer said, "Is that a donkey?"
"Yes," the manger said, "but around here we call it an 'ass' and this one has a peculiarity.  Once in a while it likes to stop along the side of the road and graze on the grasses it finds there.  All you have to do is scratch it behind the ears and it'll listen to you again."

"Okay," the man said, "Thanks for letting me know.  I also want to raise chickens for eggs, so I guess I'll need a rooster and a hen."
The manager looked at him funny, and said "Oh you want young ones, and around here we call them a cock and a pullet."

The new farmer thanked the manager, paid for his new live stock, tucked the young chickens under his arms, and commanded the donkey to follow behind.  On his way home he noticed a beautiful young lady coming towards him.  Just as he was about to bid her good morning, he notice his donkey had stopped a few yards back to graze on the side of the road.  So, instead of bidding the young lady good morning, he said "excuse me miss, would you please hold my cock and pullet while I scratch my ass?"

The post turn me on as my Brain was already in reverse working anticlockwise. Hardly do I recall today until I reset my emotion. April fool not suitable for person with high blood pressure, though is fun and the fun is inevitable happy April fool day, wish you ahead the next to come also.

 :D We have a winner :D

Happy Birthday @LoyceV🎂 Wish for new journey in your life.

He adapts to the situation more than anyone else :)

By the way, the more merits you had before 1st April, it would need harder work to be in the negative and then getting -354883 is something extraordinary.

Don't think anyone could beat this  ::)

I just saw Cyrus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=78147): -876953 Merit. He hasn't posted much today, but in my posts archive, I'm missing a couple hundred posts. So I guess there's been a private party on the (hidden) Mods board.

When I just accessed forum today, I'm surprised seeing my merits dropped and may rank changed. But I suddenly remember it is April 01, we always have April fool event. I checked BPIP and Meta board, my guess is true that it is a part of our yearly event.  ;D

Honestly, it is the first time I'm shocked with April fool event. Thanks theymos, this time you really made a cool surprise.

 ;D :D

+4 Merit!   ;D

Hi theymos,

I think you overreacted and this is not a fair decision. We all appreciate the work of moderators, but it is infinitely difficult to check and evaluate all posts  for value. In addition, they may have different meanings for different forum participants. I strongly urge you to reconsider your decision, I do not agree with the assessment of my posts.

SONE

+1

or rather -20

- Jay -

Hope its not one of those April Fool prank.

My cups are full, I already have enough going on in my boring life as we speak, don't add more balm to my injury  ;D  ;D :D

  :-\

HBD man. Enjoy the day and have a blast.

Merit: -274

At last, I became a Jr.Member after 3 years (I think for a day) ;D

I was going to reply "No, there's nothing in the Staff forum".
But the trashcan is just below the Staff forum and the truth blew up in my face :

http://precu.free.fr/BCT/Cyrus_spam.png

I have obviously reported this topic and requested a ban for this spammer :)

I guess it's only coincidence that theymos introduced this thing on April 1st. He is serious man and wouldn't joke with us this way. Prepare that when you will wake up tomorrow this new merit calculation will stay.
But seriously, I think that these new requirements will only increase shitposting and very short posts. People will try to deliver message as short as possible to lose less merits. If you will make long posts, it's barely possible to get enough merit that will cover your losses. It's something similar like we were charged for every symbol in SMS message. I don't have to remind how our messages looked back then :D.

Great prank, i love it!

Its nice to have some humor sense on the forum, thanks theymos for this surprise and i wish you a great Happy April Fool's Day!

Is fun to see people reporting this as a bug on Meta  ;D

I think you are running out of ideas theymos, or you are getting older, but you probably noticed a lot of complains and requests about merits and merit sources in last few weeks ;)

I am waiting for day when you are going to donate everyone in forum a Bitcoin, I hope it's not going to be on April 1.

Hahaha ;D, this joke got me too, u was demoted to Sr member with this prank this year that focus on merits. Some people get more while some get less; but I think it will only last for 24 hours mate.
All merits should became normal as they used to be after this joke is over.
Happy April Fool to you all.

Is 'Loudmouth' the bottom, or is there still room for the 'Sewer-Mouth' rank? :D

It's annoying that my merit is slowly disappearing because I'm becoming a shitposter :3

But no matter at least being SR again isn't bad lol. Hope those of you who ruin forums tomorrow can't have breakfast with milk and jam on your bread so you can feel the dryness in your throat.

This year prank comes with an amazing and unpredictable pertain of operation in the way the merits degenerates and how you can earn more, though the issue of shitposting has been long term addressed and it could have been more real if this wasn't coming on the 1st of April, honestly, many had thought about the merits sources and other aspect than this, we cant deny the fact that this is already going entertaining and have lots of fun in it.

Hahaha my merit goes up and down, but no it doesn't become a rank drop, LOL no -merit no "Loudmouth" at least it's not a desired position. ;D

There are only a few hours left to enjoy this fun, you don't ruin the forum because you feel like a shitposter, I consider this the same as us. :(

Does it count characters on edits as well? 
yes.  :'(

Calling the Donator section the Staff forum is the most cringe thing ever.  Most of us Donators wanted the Staff banned from that section.  :D

Happy April fools day ladies and guys on this forum, I must commend theymos for such a brilliant idea, I've not been too active on this forum for a long time, I managed to recover my lost account and started being active again some several weeks ago.

I came online today and saw several legendary and hero members returning back to senior and full member ranks, some even lower, I was very surprised 🤨 and really wondered what was going on, I decided to search the forum and now discovered it's an April fools prank, just 😂😂, this can create a lot of confusion in the forum if no one knew this was a prank 😂😂

Lol, good one.  ;D

I came rushing to the Meta section to find out what was going on after I noticed a deduction in my Merit points only to find out that we had been pranked.

That loudmouth rank with the symbol beneath it is hilarious.  ;D

Having a bad day ?
How should I have named this section :

http://precu.free.fr/BCT/Staff_forum.png

I never think about the Donators section.
I posted there once in 2018 to answer a question about a... moderator. I hope you can forgive me for that.

Hey!
Theymos got me on this one ;D
I have refreshed my system like 30 times and discovered I became a Hero member again. I checked my merits and it reduced much, I thought I opened an older tab, I had to refresh one more time and nothing changed. I went to my merit history and nothing worked there. My next move was meta, I carefully read this thread from beginning to the end without having the April fool in mind. I was going to reply to the thread telling theymos how everyone is gonna become a newbie before 7 days time. Then I read the first reply and understood today's date. I wasn't April fooled in the real life, thanks theymos for not allowing today pass me by.

This would really be good if it was posted pre-April fools day 31st March lol

Happy April Fool's Day theymos & Bitcointalk community  8)

Those guys are Certified Shitposters , they cannot make any table or list.

Me too! But I'm at only -999998.
Also, Happy 1337 Birthday LoyceV!

The report was handled btw  :D
Also, looks like I've been busted...

<-- Certified shitposter right here.

They don't do it because they don't want to!!! They have the tools to do this, but they don't want to... they are afraid of reprisals.  ::) :P


By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to leave a text of Lorem Ipsum...
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Porro nonumy fierent id sit. Lobortis salutatus pro ex. Cum ut tempor bonorum. Ullum malorum deserunt mea te, quodsi insolens per ne.

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 8) :P ;D

Never a bad day for me. Quite the opposite actually. You’re forgiven. I also appreciate you not posting in the Donators section since 2018 if you aren’t a Donator.

I was literally shitposting at the morning but moderator thought to delete it. Shall we assume the moderator caught on April fool? :-D

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VIkX8.png

lol this just made my day seeing,even though after all the stress but quiet funny 😄

You should always write constructive things, never texts that are out of context. <sub>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id ignota nominavi his. Sed ea simul saperet inermis. Unum tollit conceptam at mel, id facer nemore reformidans sit. Nec ad putent labore expetendis, sit tempor mediocritatem ne. Eum efficiendi disputando ea, nec in alterum sensibus iracundia. Eruditi mentitum periculis vel no, ut nam diam noluisse inimicus. Laudem scaevola signiferumque ius in, vis id porro iriure, pro ea erant definitiones.

Ne mel ridens dissentias accommodare, dolores adolescens pro ex. Ad impetus minimum eos, facete audiam et mei. Sit ei detraxit conceptam, erat constituto te his, ancillae gloriatur nec eu. Duo cu veri numquam instructior, his te everti nusquam argumentum. Mel liber aliquid civibus ex, vidisse dolorem in vim. No nonumes tacimates interesset sed, mei natum adversarium contentiones ei.

Porro nonumy fierent id sit. Lobortis salutatus pro ex. Cum ut tempor bonorum. Ullum malorum deserunt mea te, quodsi insolens per ne.

Impetus ornatus phaedrum ius no. Vix omnis debitis constituam ex, doctus iriure expetenda eum an, vis at omnes fuisset. In sint adhuc nec, vel sumo accusamus hendrerit in. Nam bonorum aliquando ex. Ei eos commune omittantur, ei ius facilis incorrupte.

Nam in postulant concludaturque, quis graece mel ut, usu congue dissentiet no. Doming expetenda qui ea, duo ne volutpat incorrupte. Et qui quot aliquid honestatis. Ex regione ancillae duo, mei no eripuit hendrerit, per aperiri impedit veritus cu. Ei atqui everti timeam qui, ei mucius intellegebat necessitatibus nam. In illum vivendo assueverit vel, his ut omnium corrumpit.</sub> Because these changes are not intended to create spam!  8) ;D

happy fool day everyone lol

It took me a few seconds to realize what happened to my merit count hehe. I don't know how you come up with these ideas every year for April Fools but this was nicely done. This is my second favorite so far next to the virus prank.

The short Story about Bees and Flies HAHA.

April Fools -

aw I'm surprised sir, this year is the blessed month of April ;), I always look forward to it every year, enjoy and celebrate, ann interesting thread every year ;).

the second prank after the IQ check a few years ago, and it succeeded in luring many people to visit.
But the merit earned is fluctuating quite quickly shrinking, amazing sir. :D

Lolz  ;D, I have been seen the loudmouth from other users and thought it is the new rank for the forum and seen people merit reducing and I came to understand that my profile too, the merits have been reducing the more I post the more the merits reduce and now I am also on the loudmouth with -5 merits. theymos has taken all my merits back to the merit Bank for future distribution. It is nice experience in this year. The time is almost up so all the lost merits and change of ranks and other will be restored back to normalcy.

And the people didn't panic like last year because we are getting use to it. There will a time that people will not even shake again. Happy Easter Monday and happy New month to all the forum active members.

In one hour, the world will be back to normal. Going to miss these loud mouth posters. Luckily Theymos didn’t mess with this. https://talkimg.com/images/2024/04/01/VIqlc.jpeg (https://talkimg.com/image/VIqlc)

Wanted the staff banned from that section, lol…

And the door is slammed in every one’s faces that isn’t a donator. Forearmed!

---

Seems the old guy @Theymos have lost it. Still coming up with it but, it ain’t leaving users shaking in our boots no more. Perhaps we got old at it and there is always just someone to let the cat out the bag before the break of dawn. Terrible people for an old time favorite. Theymos gave me a Hero feeling again, lol…

A fool’s day y’all.

 Hats off to the king of shitposters :)

Probably the best April Fool's Day surprise if you're not aware of the date your heart will keep pumping seeing you're losing your precious merit.
I guess nobody has thought of this surprise, April Fool's day here in Bitcointalk is probably the best time of the year.
The Admin never runs out of ideas and many of us are caught off guard.

April fools! I feel like more people were legitimately fooled by this one than normal. ;D

In hindsight, I made the new titles too difficult to get. But it's shocking that so many veteran members were finally revealed as Certified Shitposters. :o (They were Cyrus, fillippone, LoyceV, xhomerx10, goldkingcoiner, and DdmrDdmr.)

Thanks to PowerGlove for suggesting the idea!

If in future, you make any adjustment is similar to this one, at somewhat level, it will cause massive panic in shitposters and there will be a massive migration from Bitcoin Talk to other forums.

It's true but also my joke.

Who stays will stay and who don't feel they belong here, will leave, with or without any adjustment on the merit system.

So I was right in 2018 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2941591.msg30218673#msg30218673) after all :D

Congratulations on the joke, it was really funny!

I tried to have negative points, but I couldn't... see you next time.  :P

Seeing JJG-like wall of text decreasing merits was a little bit of shocker.
I honestly tried increasing my merits reading posts, but the dark side of shitposting quickly took the fun part, as there were more custom title to get.
Shitposter once, shitposter forever? Hopefully not.

He forgets! You have already surrendered to the dark side, there is no turning back.
At least it will stay on the dark side, until it reaches "May the 4th Be With You"...  ::)

I actually missed out on April Fool's Day celebrations this year due to personal reasons. I don't know how many users were shocked by that - but I can imagine that a lot of users were probably affected by it based on what our admin said.


Oh thank goodness - I wasn't fooled this year because of April Fools. If only I hadn't missed it - I might have been fooled by it too. ;D

All users seem to be very happy now that the Adjustments to Merit calculation on April 1 has been lifted.

To see an ever changing number of merits on my account (whenever I visited a different thread with my posts) was difficult to understand. I was certain there was a bug of some sort therefore took screenshots that were going to be used in a thread asking others if they knew what was going on.

I did not see this thread before I took screenshots of my merits therefore I was definitely fooled by this one  ;D

The fun only lasts for a day and then its back to normal business. Though everyone keep remembering it for the next few days
It's strange that Theymos comes up with new ideas every year and no one in their wildest of thinking can guess it in advance. He surely has a creative mind and a genius :)

With below quote from theymos, he surely seems to have some helpers with ideas and/or coding and realisation.


Big kudos to everyone who was involved with this year's April prank. I really liked it and also the account "level" titles of April's 1st. For some it felt surprisingly true...  ;) :D ;D

I had the feeling that everyone could take themselves not too seriously and have a good laugh about it. What could possibly be wrong with that?

When I visit the forum, I first check my profile. I remember 1st April merit was unrealistic. I have to think sometimes and check my merit history. Instantly, I didn't guess it was April Fool. But after some time, I realised it.

However, it was surprising to me. By posting this, they realised people were posting low-value posts just to get paid. 

Theymos' April Fools jokes all have an irony to them. It makes light of something that is obviously very problematic in the wider crypto world but by exposing users to it in a playful way.