LOL, I know, right?

BPB is known for doing this sort of stunt and also for his highly lucrative remuneration, which is why everyone here is tripping over themselves like it's black Friday at Walmart to give him the loan.

Was this filled or is BPB gone, filtering the carpet for the crack rocklets that might have been dropped?  Interested to see how this comes out.  Don't think he ever actually needs the loan.  My impression has always been that he gets off watching bitcoin going back and forth between wallets.  Crazy as he is and all.

It could have an excellent future with respect to network fees and confirmation times, though.  I've said it before:  I'd rather buy my pimped out turntable on Newegg with dogecoin than bitcoin, because with the latter I could be waiting until all my vinyl is warped before said turntable arrives.  And as much as I love bitcoin itself, I'm not joking about this.  I'd rather hodl bitcoin and spend dogecoin.  And I also would disagree that it doesn't have any life left in it, because it's currently near its all-time high, no? 

Do people actually buy/sell altcoins in this section?  I don't usually visit here, and it seems kinda dead.

That is exactly right.  And while I think the DT system is horribly flawed, I would prefer to have the negs I left to account sellers have some weight--even if I had to remove all the negs I left for shitposters, which I'm in the process of doing.  So OP, you got another shot and now we have the merit system to deal with bad posters.  I'm much more comfortable with that system than using the trust system for tagging garbage posters.  I don't regret my campaign of extreme negging, though, and I'm pretty sure Blazed and actmyname don't either.  Even though the negs didn't stick, we woke a fuckton of people up, and that's a good thing.

I'm wondering the same thing.  I'm also starting to really think this guy is a QS alt account.  The English is on par with what Quickseller writes, and there's definitely the vendetta against Lauda that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.  And the account selling.  I'm interested to know other's opinions on that, and I know Timelord2067 has made a connection.  It's all very interesting, and for some reason I recall QS making the same kind of "threat" a while back, that he had some proof that Lauda, Vod, or someone had done something, and he was going to post it--and I don't think he ever did.  It was all hot air.

Not going to comment on your case specifically, but putting people on ignore after negging them is a sanity-keeping policy, because if you've left someone a neg for just reasons there isn't anything to discuss.  It turns into an excuse factory and a time-wasting exchange.  I've done this myself, because some people will absolutely flood your inbox with sniveling nonsense and then try to call down the wrath of allah or whatever sky fairy they believe in on you. 

Start up a new thread in meta or something, but you're probably stuck with the feedback you got, unfortunately.

It's not enough; it's wildly unpopular; it's a bad use of the feedback system; it's tedious; and it's a job for about 20 members to patrol all the shitposts, so I am overjoyed with this merit system. 

I think Theymos did a really good thing for the forum, and it's a clever device to deter shitposters--along with the rule that merit is not to be sold.  That's important.  There are definitely flaws in the system, but I'm going to try to use it for the good, and that includes giving merit to low-ranked users and not just everyone I've been associated with.  The system has me in a sufficient good mood, and I'm feeling like love-spreading.

No, it isn't that at all.  This whole thing was designed by the owner of the forum, as far as I know, and it's hitting noob shitposters right in their greedy fucking wallets--and I love it.  The more I recovery from my flu and the more lucid I get, the more I'm starting to really like the merit system. 

You all know I don't suffer shitposters lightly, but I'm more than happy to give out some merit points to noobies if they make a good post, and I'm making it a point to do this when I see decent posts.  What I will never give merit points for are those generic "bitcoin is a digital currency that change my life...." shitposts that I've seen all too often.  If the merit system does absolutely nothing else, I think it'll eliminate those.  I'm hoping, anyway.

The reason I'm smiling along with TMAN is that I don't have to neg the shitposters anymore.  I was never comfortable with using the trust system to do that, but as hilariousandco pointed out, it was one of the only weapons we had.  I'm happy these days.

LOL.  I personally don't have a deep gripe with you, though you are probably a shitposter.  I liked this post, however and gave you 1 merit point for it.  May you never rank up to Sr. Member without significantly improving your output.

Isn't this basically how we're supposed to be using the merit system, i.e., as a "like" function?  I may not like some of the users I've given merits to, but some of the posts I respect and some (like Deena's here) took a little bit of effort, which I can appreciate.  I have not so far only given merits to people I "like" or who are in "my circle".

Ditto here: Lately I've been giving out 1-3 merits for good posts.  The first 2 days of the merit system, when I did not fully understand it and had a fever of 102.3, I gave out some stupid merit points--but nothing anywhere near 50.  That's a crazy amount.

For all the flaws in the system, I am finding it to be refreshing that it's not necessary to tag shitposters one by one, that there actually is a system in place that organically inhibits the spread of shitposts much like penicillin will clean up your gonorrhea-infected testiclats.  It is not perfect by any means, and people are already obviously attempting to game the system, but it's not horrible and way, WAY better than nothing.

I agree with this.  As an aside, is there a new trend with numbered lists in posts now or what?

I've heard you can accumulate merit points on the local boards, which sounds like a much more feasible option than trying to do it in English, if you suck at English.  Never visited them so I can't attest to the truth of that. 

Me, I'm not handing out any merit for any non-English-writing member here.  I waited way too long for a system like this, and it appears to be working for its purpose.  You can't see me, but I'm actually tapdancing around my living room because of it, with a huge ear-to-ear grin that just won't go away.   

Thule, I admire your ferociousness and you don't appear to be a total shitposter, but you're on the wrong side of the battlefield, buddy.  And the way you post makes me think you just might be an alt of Quickseller, but I'm not outright accusing you of that, nor am I a paranoid person by nature. 

The thing is, most people--even if they do nothing about it--realize how bad the quality of posts has gotten on bitcointalk, and to a lesser extent they realize that dealing in accounts is seriously toxic to the forum.  People buy them and leverage any trust that the account has in order to scam.  I'm pretty sure when I got scammed out of 0.3BTC in 2016, the TimSweat account was a bought one.  And if the person isn't scamming, he's taking a shortcut in order to shitpost in a sig campaign.  Both of those things aren't good, and that's why we tag the accounts.

You sent me a PM to look into this, but you ended up with a neg yourself for trying to buy an account.  Do you not realize that DT and other members (like myself) have been tagging members on both ends of account sales for years now?  Why would you contact me?  Is this forum full of dumbasses or what??

In either case, I tagged him.  And it doesn't matter if he pays you back or not, the tag will stand.

What the fuck does it matter if legendaries form huge chains of merit circle-jerks or pass the merit around like a joint?  They're still not gonna give it to all of you shitposters, so it shouldn't matter to you anyway!  I hear people bitching about merit points being "wasted" because they're going from Vod--->hilariousandco--->Lauda--->actmyname--->etc., but this just isn't true.  None of those legendary members are likely to go around rewarding some ignorant twattus with merit points for telling us all the wonderful ways we can earn bitcoin.  Not gonna happen, sir.

Yes, but you understand that that is indeed the primary reason why a lot of people are here.  Especially the garbage shitposters who shouldn't be writing anything in English.  I'm sure people are trading merit points and are working out ways to get them, and some shitposters are going to get by the sphincter, but it's going to cut down on a lot of them.  We'll see incremental improvement, and I am feeling sunny about that.  It sure beats having to find and tag each one, and then have to deal with the blowback.  This, I hope, will turn out to be a natural solution to the problem of quality posters.
Meh, not this time pal.

Maaaaan...I waited until 1020 1022 (or whatever) activity before I made legendary, so I don't want to hear any bitching about this.
You got plenty of time to get the merit points, but I do feel ya.  Aside from the fact that this forces people to work for their swag, I think it's turning out to be a good idea.  I think a lot of noob shitposters will give up, because they don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ranking up to Hero in the lifetime of the universe.  We'll probably run out of bitcoin addresses before that happens in most cases.

Edit:  OP, your posts in general kinda suck.  Was going to give you a few merit points before checking your history, but now I changed my mind.
Oh, but you sir are exactly the type of shitposter this system was designed to stop.  I haven't read the rest of your posts, but this one was egregious.

Dude, what's up with all this merit-giving hate?  

The whole thing is that you give merit points to the posts you like, correct?  Well, the only posts I enjoy reading are from the small circle of people on bitcointalk that I respect--in general, and that isn't to say I won't give out any merit to noobs.  I just haven't yet.  I've had my ass kicked with the flu for about 6 days now and haven't been doing much reading lately.  

I'm starting to really like the merit system here, because I'm seeing a lot of the shitposters complaining about it.  Definitely a good move from Theymos.  

Sorry if you think I'm abusing the system, but apparently you (and a lot of others) don't see the problem as clearly as I do.  Bitcointalk has become near unusable because of all the garbage posts, which are all motivated by sig campaigns.  That's the real problem.

Dude, I used to belong to the old Yobit campaign, and not only could you make 20 posts/day max, but they paid out within hours of you making your posts.  It was fantastic!  And I don't recall there being a character minimum, either.  As you can imagine, Yobit attracted some of the shittiest posters on bitcointalk, and a lot of their output was one-line shitposts.  But damn, that was a fun campaign and it was my first.

The problem, OP, is the question of who is going to be requiring those maximums?  You sure as hell can't count on lousy campaign managers to do it, like the altcoin ones.  And Theymos is benefiting from this whole thing, so he isn't going to do it.  It's a good idea, but there's no way it's going to get implemented.

You don't have to wait to know how Lauda or anyone else will react.  It'll be a huge, gaping *YAWN*.   But if you need to keep yourself in a state of arousal for a day, who am I to stop you. 

None of this should come as a surprise to you, since bidding on accounts has earned people negs since at least 2016 (though the hit rate isn't 100%). 

Oh yeah...the trust system.  Nope, won't become obsolete.  It's stuff like this that it's supposed to be used for.  The shitposting was a bit of a gray area even as far as I was concerned, but account sellers are some shady-ass mo fos who need to be tagged as soon as they open their mouths.

Here, have another negative on the house.  We all bought you a round.

Why you account buyer/sellers do crap like try to besmirch the fine name of some DT members, thereby calling attention to your own shady dealings is beyond me.  But this is exactly what dishonest scammers & spammers do all the time.  You go ahead and post evidence that Lauda is a scammer.  Start with that admittedly ill-advised sting operation, because that's never been mentioned before.

I read this yesterday and kinda slapped my head out of pure jealousy.  Must be nice to already be enormously successful financially and then find yourself atop millions of bitcoins.  Crazy.  And I can't stand his music, either.

Don't know about the DeepOnion thing, but I'm not so much into shitcoin ICO projects these days--and never really was in the past, either.