Too early to say, At least we should wait for a month.
I am suspecting apart from Merit abuse, it might  trigger more quality post but  plagiarized ,text spin, para phrased post. All are newbies so none of them will not mind to be banned and start doing ban evasion.

As per Forum is concerned , I see these all demoted guys lost there privilege to post in "Serious Discussion" Board.
Can we create one more board like Serious Discussion (No increase in activity and post) but anybody having more than 100 activities can post. Might this board will be helpful to them to discuss things.

Theymos started sharing a new stats as below. (Top users who send merit to permabanned user, though it is not clear in this list whether user was already banned when merit was given or banned later on.)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban

Hero can be certainly demoted. I have a proof of it where Hero demoted itself just to take part in signature campaign to satisfy Merit requirement.

Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=355801

http://loycevsbasement.privatedns.org/Merit/history/355801.html

https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Hell-raiser

See, user earned only 15 merits but has total of 515 but currently a  Senior Member.

Did not find a legendary demoting itself, but I think it will be possible also.

I do not think it is a good ICO to invest. No idea of team member. They just pick some famous names for their advisors but I did not find any link or new for these people supporting this particular token.
Unless these people verify publicly that they are promoting this project , I am not going to believe what they have written in their site.

Read your post after posting,  failing to quote properly (I do not think that you have done purposely ) might get you banned for plagiarism.
 

I am a Performance DBA, I know even if the table size in a couple of GB and you have to do Full table scan to fetch the data ,required data cannot be fetched within the seconds . (Debarring parallel query operations).


That link perfectly satisfy my query.


Thanks  to you all. Slightly off topic question, I already gone through all the chapters of "Mastering Bitcoin" book and I do not remember if I have read anything about it.  Did I missed in reading or there are some other source/book from which I should start.

Might be it will be increased to 5 if it still do not solve the spam problem.  Forum rules has provision to ban user for spamming, might be in next phase many people will be banned for spamming.
Do not worry about other as you cannot control them, just focus on yourself what you can do without breaking any rules and ethics.

Look like OP do not have any blockchain programming experience that's why OP tend to go in purely bookish knowledge.

+1 with franky,einax_oliver anf buwyatress.

If your developer is experienced, then apart from bookish knowledge and some programming skills you will ask some practical questions as below.

You encountered problem "X" , how you will start debugging it?
Most challenging problem you faced till now, and how you had solved it?
In how many ways you can solve this problem Z?


 

When we do a transaction then it is made sure that whatever we are going to send to receiver are unspent outputs (UTXO). It means it need to be scanned in entire blockchain that it is not spent.
But I see that transaction are validated within a seconds (or few seconds). Since blockchain size is now is 170 GB plus so it look to me quite a fast speed to traverse all blocks in blockchain.

I understand each block has address of the previous block  so do it have kind of index to reach that last block and we traverse all block one by one?

The merit giver is a red trusted member for farming account. This is first time the user has given Merit.
May be I am wrong but I smell an alt account.

Bumping this today.
I saw Theymos demoted Jr. Member and increased merit Sources. (More chances of getting merit now).
I think we can take one more step for those who are still spamming and got rank earlier before start of the Merit system.

And now the chase begin. Even a single Merit counts..

Some steps needed from Bounty Managers too, if they stop accepting Users that did not earned a single merit in past 1 Month then these Full member will also contribute or leave the forum.
I suggested to decay default merits earlier in my post "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3193801" for high ranking members that are still spamming.
Idea was quashed at that time by saying that Theymos will never demote anybody.
But Now I see Theymos actually demoted unmerited Jr. Member so I think this can be implemented for other ranks too.

Very Welcome move.  Interesting to see Jr. Member demoted to newbie.
If spam continues, I think in future Theymos might demote Members too (raising limit to 50) or decaying default merits in gradual phase.
Anyways, it give a important message of stop spamming.

No, I have no talks with OP and I concluded this on my own but AFAIK apart from ANN thread or altcoin announcement section there are no boards where you can promote/write about some ICO.
Enlighten me, if there any board exist where you can just praise any ICO?
Anyway ,still I think you can not give incentive to post favourably for your ICO.

Looking at your signature "Zero" does not look correct to me.
Stop pretending. Instead focus on doing something constructive. If you really monitored and found everything shit then publish your report here.
Publish ,how you concluded that particular bounty is shit.

Somebody started with spam, think of more spam for ranking up. Will continue spam even after ranking up.
  


After becoming Hero Member, he realized , how much money he will get if he has multiple hero member , so he started farming more accounts.


In turn it made sure that  spammer do not rank up and for some it become motivation to stop spamming and try to rank up.

You will be breaking rules in this forum by giving incentives /payment to post in your thread. Even Signature campaigns clearly says "Post in our ANN threads are appreciated but not required"  .
Whoever thinking of taking this offer , think again, it can  bring red trust and ban on your account. Do not risk your account.

@OP : If you are serious about your ICO then run a bounty/signature campaign. Paid ANN bumping is not allowed at all.

Just wondering, if you are implicitly saying that money raised in ICO and money required for running the ICO was almost same?
or it was mismanagement that they lost all chunk of money raised in marketing (other than ICO marketing)?

I am not good in info graphics but I will fund 2 Merits if somebody is willing to do it and still able to keep in in one page.

Problem is that most of are not reading anything but I still like your suggestion and let me think If I can go on List format instead of paragraph . I am writing below my basic idea of creating this post.
Edit: Created list format in second post.



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This is One Pager, If you do not believe just copy it on a word document. The basic idea is not to create a post but a one page of word document/pdf that can be send to a new user registering in this forum for quick reference. High probability, user will read one page if you just give one page of information otherwise everybody click just "I accept and Agree" without reading anything.  I purposely left Merit and activity discussion because I do not think that are not necessary condition for gaining knowledge in this forum. I included Bounty and signature campaign (though I am not sure whether official one pager should include it) because currently Bounty users are dominating the forum.