Normally that's a question I'd ask if I wanted some, but in that dude's case I think he's riding high on stupidity alone and I'm not smoking that shit.  But seriously, that was indeed a very stupid question to ask in this thread.  I'm guessing Mr. Mamun74 was referred here by a friend/coworker/family member and has zero interest in discussing anything and simply wants to spray diarrhea shitposts all over the place if it makes him money. 

Where to begin?  I'm not familiar with how the 1xbit campaign operates; do they require posts in the gambling section?  I've visited there more often than I'd like to whilst doing post history reviews, and some of the threads are thousands of pages long and growing by the second.  I guess you could do reports if you suspect specific members (like Mamun74), but if you're going to be looking for shitposts by skimming random threads, that could turn into a seriously time-consuming nightmare.

Some people are bothered by shit like this, whether it's rational or not.  I would also recommend to OP to see if he can get some mental health treatment, because if suicide is seemingly an option because a random nobody on the internet is bothering you, you're obviously in a fragile state.

But OP, keep in mind that this is probably some crackpot who has no way to harm you, no matter what he's saying.  Legal counsel isn't likely to be of help and will only be an expense you probably can't afford.  Just take a deep breath, take a break from the internet for a while if that's an option, and try your best not to let this jackoff get under your skin like he has.  And I've seen some good advice from other members already, so starting up this thread was a good idea on your part.

There have been so many cases of suspected merit abuse reported in various threads over the years that I'd bet it's well over 100.  I'm sure it would be more than that were it not for the fact that Theymos told the community not to make a big deal about it--but either way, if the community wants to start tagging merit abusers with enough evidence against them, I sure as hell would be fine with it and if the forum detectives start looking closely enough I've no doubt this thread would end up with 1000 pages within a year.

No doubt it is, because I've noticed that there haven't been nearly as many threads dealing with merits in Meta.  When somebody like yahoo62278 throws in a merit requirement for a campaign, those shitposters who were lucky enough to get into one of his campaigns start sweating bullets and doing stupid shit like this.

There will be more cases, no doubt.

Dang, great to see you active--I don't know if you took a break or I've just been missing your posts, but either way....we were both negging shitposters into the graveyard before the merit system was created so you'll always have a place in my heart.

I've been here for years and still suck at forum trivia, even the date of the merit system creation (which is important to me).  I know it was in Jan. 2018 but always forget the exact date.  Ah, well.  At least it exists no matter if I can remember dates.

To all you newbies: if you stick around bitcointalk long enough, you'll be as senile as I am--and I'm not even old enough to be senile.  There's just so much going on here with so many personalities that it's nearly impossible (except for the geniuses we have here) to keep track of info like the facts in the OP.  Or maybe it's just me.

Not for nothing, but those are fantastic options for people who are willing to live that way (and I would if I could afford to travel the country in a van).  And as you said, people effectively being locked out of big cities like San Francisco and NYC isn't a new thing at all.  It's been that way since before I was born and I seriously doubt it's going to change.
                 
I also don't quite understand the argument that it's unfair that people who can't afford to live somewhere....can't live there.  That sounds like the kind of whiny "capitalism is evil" crap that left-wingers like to spew on about.  Life isn't fair and this world owes neither you nor I nothing.                                                           

Oh snap!  I was just wondering out loud about this exact data in a thread I just posted in--it was about spam/shitposting decreasing over the last four years, and without knowing the above I assumed that the reason for the decrease might have been because there are fewer campaigns these days.  Guess I was wrong.

On the other hand, there's no data for altcoin/token-paying bounties trending over time, though I suspect there are fewer of those right now since the ICO boom has long since died off.  And I could swear that back in 2015-16 there were a lot more campaigns running than even the highest number above (22).  They used to just come and go, with some lasting a week to maybe a month and others that lasted for years.

Thanks for the numbers, OP.

Wow, that's a dramatic difference.  Were there more bounties/sig campaigns available then, or was it just that the market was much more bullish then than now?

It's been a long time since I've actually read through threads in sections like Bitcoin Discussion (which has been a magnet for shitposters ever since I've been a member), but I can totally see how low-value posts could have dropped in the past few years; there don't seem to be as many in sections like Economics and Meta, and it's likely a forum-wide phenomenon. 

But what happens the next time crypto heats up and bitcointalk once again starts attracting all of the illiterate spammers who want to enroll as many alts as possible into bounties?  We'll probably exceed 280k posts/week and you better believe at least 80% of them are going to be complete crapola.  I like OP's suggestion, but I doubt the boss is going to go for it.

Having some job experience is important, and IMO it doesn't even matter what it is.  If you've got little to nothing on your resume, an employer is going to look askance at that and probably will put that resume at the bottom of the pile (assuming there are enough candidates for the job).  Even if you worked as a cashier at a grocery store, you've picked up customer service and communication skills in addition to showing someone that you can hold a job.

What's worse is when you've trained for a very specific job and for whatever reason have to change careers.  Employers definitely see applicants with advanced degrees as overqualified, and they expect he/she is going to be looking for a new job as possible if they hire them.

Job hunting sucks.  There's no two ways about it, and that's why books have been written about the process.

Am I off DT altogether?  I've neither been added nor deleted, so....

Yeah I've been here for a hot minute, but when it comes to utilizing the finer machinations of the forum I've been full retard from day one--so I knew, but forgot, how to check each member's status without visiting BPIP (and I'm going to do that, but I'm not sure if that data is updated in real time).

Yep, scams are best posted in the altcoin section.  Unfortunately Theymos hasn't created a specific section for them yet, although "investor based games" is close. 

OP, I'm going to give you my take on your situation, which might be much different than the opinions you've gotten so far.

Your channel basically consists of videos in which you shill various crypto projects, and it's the same thing innumerable Youtubers are doing since they're paid to.  Just watching the first 30 seconds of your second video, you can tell you're reading off a script.  I've got no sympathy for you whatsoever, as much as I detest scammers.  All of these bounties for shit projects attract people willing to sell their integrity for some crappy token that's likely to be worthless--and that's if they have any integrity to begin with.

Too bad, so sad, stop clogging up Youtube's search function with these asinine videos.

Ehhh....I'm seeing a lot of that in this thread (or maybe it's just my extreme cynicism from years of exposure to members who'll do pretty much anything to rank up).  I'm not sure if people think this is a thread where you'll get merits if you post about how many you need to get to the next rank, but there's obviously a few.

I much prefer the thread where members get to toot their own horn when they actually rank up instead of this one, which seems pointless.  Your merit count is visible, right there for everyone to see, so why would anyone need to post something that's obvious?

Presumably that would be true for an exchange with a ton of overhead, but like Rikafip and dkbit98 I'd never heard of BitFront before, and they're based in the US where I live.  They couldn't be that big, right?  **edit: I just read dkbit's whole post, including their pathetic trading pairs** And it's either that or their trading volume was absurdly low, kind of like that small exchange that used to list Curecoin.  I think it was shorelinecrypto or something similar, and they also went out of business a while back.

This has nothing to do with the other bankruptcies in the news, however.  And I'd point out that there have been a lot of fly-by-night exchanges that have come and gone over the years, because of not being profitable or through exit scams.  Unless the crypto exchange space consolidates and we're left with a handful of big players, I have no doubt we'll be seeing a lot more come and go.

And how the hell is it that shitty exchanges like Yobit are still in business?

When I joined the forum in 2015, people were learning this fact the hard way.  Here we are in 2022 and people are still learning the hard way.  How much you want to bet this is never going to change?

I always assumed bitcoin attracted people who wanted a trustless form of money, but what I'm seeing is that a lot of people end up trusting complete internet unknowns, often with large sums of money.  I've even fallen prey to scammers because of this, so I'm not casting aspersions on anyone--it's human nature to want to trust other people, but in crypto you really shouldn't.  If you're doing deals on bitcointalk or anywhere else with someone you don't know, follow the advice given here and in so many other threads: use an escrow!!

To some people, that's life-changing money.  And even though it wouldn't even buy a decent bicycle where I live, it'd still piss me off to no end if I got taken for that much.  Fuck these scammers.

I didn't read the article, but I'm assuming all of it is here, and I'm wondering if workers' hours per week are going to be reduced or if they're going to be kept the same but with longer shifts per day. 

Either way, I've worked 40 hour weeks spread out between both 4 and 5 days, and I much preferred only having to work 4 days even if I had to work 10 hours/day.  It's definitely nice to have three days off a week.  I assume the UK workers are going to be putting in fewer hours, else there wouldn't be a news story about it, and if that is indeed the case more power to them.  Most people in this world are worker bees (myself included), and a lot of us hate our jobs, our bosses, coworkers, and/or the company we work for.  With technology being as advanced as it is, a lot of work could be done by robots--and should be if it isn't already.

It then comes down to a question of whether to keep paying existing employees their regular salary, and I suspect a lot of companies might have a problem with that.

It's not clear if you're referring to the post OP made here or whatever post(s) he got deleted.  Probably doesn't matter much, as he's a complete newbie (presumably) and if he's a shitposter he's quickly going to find out that the environment here is hostile to him.

And OP, assuming you're ever going to look at this thread again, most members have had some of their posts deleted (assuming they make enough of them).  When I was new--and even for a year or three afterward--I had plenty of mine get reported and nuked, and that's on top of the ones that were deleted in self-moderated threads.  Good luck or good riddance.

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That sounds like a whole lot of nothing to me--and mind you, in the context of the SEC regulating crypto I'm not complaining.  If they don't end up meeting those extremely generic and vague goals, hopefully they were too busy tackling the real issues in the financial world, which mostly happen in the stock market.  There might be some serious chicanery in crypto, but all of the scumbags getting rich at the expense of investors do so behind corporate walls and everywhere else in the business world.

They probably made this announcement to give the appearance of them doing something instead of nothing.

Nigga, please.  I haven't been active in busting spam since the merit system became a thing.  My reporting has dropped off a cliff since then, and the crusade a lot of us were fighting back then to keep the forum reasonably clean has long since ended (or at least it isn't as intense as it was). 

Why....?  Did you guys just pick a familiar name or is there something you think I'm currently doing to fight spam?  'Cause I ain't.  I hate it, but there's no fight left in me.  On the other hand, as a merit source I have some input as to who ranks up, since that's what merits basically function as--a vote.

I love reading these nominations.  Anyone want to bet on the winner of the biggest fail category?

Join the club, man.  I'm not sure how big a club it is, but I know I'm a VIP member--just be sure that if you do become a merit source that you don't offer to review members' posts on request, as you'll never have enough sMerits to keep up.

I looked through your trust page and saw a lot of negs, but all the ones I checked had invalid reference links or were in German, so I'm assuming they're all retaliatory.  Assuming you're a fine, upstanding member of bitcointalk I support your application.  That said, my support means jack shit--same for anyone else's support.  Theymos is either going to tap you to be a source based on your application or he isn't, and at this point it's anyone's guess as to what his thoughts are on adding to the merit source count.

I wish he would, and I wish you luck.

Jesus, that's a pretty retarded scam.  Presumably the only people who would fall for it would be those who don't know much about crypto and probably wouldn't even know how to go about sending the "withdrawal fee".  Anyone who's been into crypto for a while and knows what they're doing would see this as an obvious scam.

I'm wondering if this made headlines just because the state of corruptitude in crypto is popular in the media right now.  Wouldn't doubt it.