Exactly: what was the deal? Can you answer that?

Every time you repeat asking a question of which you should know the answer, the probability of mental incontinence increases.

You can't force him to pay for something you haven't proven: a defamation campaign. The 210€ has already been substantiated, by yourself.

Perhaps the next time I have to pay for something, I can simply choose not to and claim they are defaming me when they call me a scammer.

The problem being that there will be diminishing returns from increased effort (and wealth) under your support systems.

You can keep everyone near baseline but the higher up you want that baseline to go, the tighter the grip it has on its people.

A scam would happen the moment you breach the terms of agreement.

A person may not react immediately and give you the benefit of the doubt but if you do not decide to properly follow through with your commitments and if you are enacting arbitrary claims in order to stifle communication and justify the act, then you are little more than a scammer.

There have been many proxy errors with this image across multiple hosting sites. Must be cursed.

Looks like the problem was the file size. The proxy hosting must not be able to handle too large an image.

It's more the whole "clean box" kind of thing that you see in new Google products nowadays. Sleek is good... but when it's padding > perimeters it's not.

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I'm an active member, and I don't think the forum is "doing great". There's still a massive spam problem (which is most likely the reason most members left), flags and the trust system are confusing, and though I like the laissez-faire attitude, others may not enjoy the lack of handholding.

A section for new members in order to introduce them to the various systems of the forum would be good.

Not the login/registration button directly, but the subsequent buttons redirect you to bitcointalk. This is what gives a special hint of malice, or ignorance.

An appropriate clone site would probably even do away with logins entirely.

Read that part back.

^{There is an button at the top-right of your posts, right next to and}

What do you mean "normal signatures"?

I advocate for the removal of signatures altogether, given that * [dD]iscussion boards—save for Technical Discussion—are boards of unending spam.

I can understand "not waiting" but the issue is that you respond to one person in a post, then another in a separate post that directly follows.

It's not that big of a rule, but it's better to edit the posts together if you find that your post is the most recent reply on the thread.
If someone has responded to your former half of the post (prior to the edit) then you can shift the latter half to a new post, then.

5 please. Payment coming soon.

You are still making consecutive posts.

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This is true. This is also why several ignorant new forum members ignorantly trust those of higher ranks.

Perhaps this is true but the solution needn't be a shift of an entire system to solve a byproduct thereof. Isn't that kind of why we have trust ratings, flags and warnings, people posting on threads, etc?

Moreover, it still won't absolutely solve the problem. There is no such thing as a foolproof forum design to prevent people from getting scammed. There will always be a fool slipperier than even the slyest of scammers, and they will slither into a scam thread and snatch their prize of financial forfeiture.

Technically. But if we want to anchor semantics into everything and reproach the idea of a ranking system, then nothing should be tracked. Activity, merit, posts.

I do have a proposition for your idea of a trust-free forum: 4chan.

It doesn't.

You are making consecutive replies to this thread instead of concatenating into one single post.

Remove ranks except for the first four, then. Brand New, Newbie, Jr. Member, Member.

Then remove all signatures.

I'm fairly content staying where we currently are.

I have never been a fan of the new forum's main page design and every time new designs shift towards borderless, clean, minimalist aesthetics, it always ends up abysmal.

Let me fit one beloved webpage of mine towards the forum.

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Why is this forum so ugly?

Because it doesn't need to be fancy. The web has become clogged with needless crap because it makes you feel suave
that your looking at something cool and wow isn't this neat oh cool its so smooth

Meanwhile, it takes an extra 3 seconds to load crap because your browsers
gotta do some processing to put some goddamned text on your screen.
NO. NO NO NO NO.

It is very difficult to assume that your opinions in this topic are unbiased. By the way, stop double-posting.

Perhaps if you had concerned yourself with the forum's rules, you would be able to become a Sr. Member.

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I would be fine with doing away with ranks but we do have some connection to 'meaningfulness' with the addition of the merit system.

Someone who has created twice as much valuable content (on average) than a Hero Member could be considered Legendary. They would also require active posting on the forum for at least 110 weeks and at least 775 posts.
The minimum requirement for a Legendary member would be an average of 1.29 merit/post. That's pretty legendary.

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Now, if ol' thermos does plan on removing ranks, then account selling will also cease. If he could do signatures at the same time (since ranks are associated thereof) then that would be great.

Correlation is not causation. Volume has been chugging along and any small spikes are most likely just a higher granularity in the graph. If you look at the entries other than those few days then you see that they've just made large overarching lines.

It's not completely accurate, since traffic could remain stagnant or even fall, yet rank could still increase. All you can sufficiently say is that their rank increases when their rank increases: a tautology.

No matter how you want to redefine it, it will eventually crawl back to being

rank increase |=| rank increase

If you want to make it based on arbitrary claims, then sure. Perhaps h4ns suffered consequential damages due to the lack of the €210?

If you're going to go circular with the payments, why not just pay your plumber for your groceries? If you can graph it, you can connect it.