Do you maybe have any "Boards" added to your watchlist? ... which would cause all threads to be added to your watchlist under that board.
I do. Just didn't know that's the way it worked. Does it really add each and every single thread in these boards to the list? Damn. I always believed that'd be more like a "select * from thread where board in watchlist" thingy. Oh my, the more you know  Now, just how do I go about cleaning my watchlist? You can clean your entire watch list by Selecting the "Mark all messages as read" option on the top right corner of the page. And ooh, that mysql statement  |
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I do work with mysql(though in its basic stages) but what i said and meant is different. However, just to be clear are you stating that just because there is growth in the "database", there may be problems? Again how exactly does growth in volume relate to merit system? It's difficult to comprehend what you're trying to say here. |
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OP, listen up here and listen real good. Merit system has been one of the best things for this forum and I have been saying this ever since it has been introduced. Stop with the one line shitposts which convey the same message that thousands of people say before you,try adding new things to the discussion. You can spend your time on learning new things about crypto rather than spending on your complaints on how the system is not fair. Give it a shot, you may earn merits.
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as you see, recently our forum, use merit system for ranking the user inside user activity. some users are glad for this new system of the ranking and some other no. but Although this merit system is not Pleasant for someone; but it is very necessary for our forum because the ecosystem of bitcointalk forum will some advantage for below reasons: If you don't have a good point which hasn't been stated already, I don't see any reason why this thread should exist. 1-first of all moderation of a forum is very hard work, so when some users sent Successive without searching in the forum, the admin's job to separating all of the posts had been very difficult. I might have thrown up in mouth after reading this. You're trying to say something but it's not at all clear. 2- without merit system; the database volume increased form spam posts! this cause to reduce the speed of loading of the forum and also Cause to Increase resource consumption. After the merit system has been introduced, shitposters and spammers like you didn't know what to do and started shitposting on how to earn merit and how it has ruined their lives. 3- sometimes this spams post if growth most cause to database error (in some sites occurs). Boy you don't know one thing about this forum. The forum becomes slow because of DDOS attacks. 14- searching process and finding useful links was been difficult for newbies.
so after launching these new systems, we see that: It is not that difficult, if you spend a little time away from shitposting, you can find anything and everything. 1- forum loading speed is increased This has nothing to do with the merit system. Rather there have been few more DDOS attacks. 2- Saving time for administrators for moderation of topics It hasn't. Again,shitposters are whining about merit system in every board. 3- resource consumption is optimized What exactly do you mean? 4- newbie users could reach their questions in with consuming low time But yet they chose to whine. 5- the risk of site downing is decreasing and so on. You're just repeating the same thing over and over again. So let me also repeat it and remind you, merit has nothing to do with the forum's loading speed directly 16- the useful posts and topics increasing Sadly it hasn't yet. It's the same but hopefully we can see such in the future. but I think; the crackdown on merits may lead to some problems:
1- some users will be Discourage from bitcointalk forum Then let them stay the fuck away. Remember that these are the ones who ruined the forum with shitposting in the first place. 2- If someone that he wrote a high quality and original post, did not catch merit, may be left the group Yeah sure they'll do that. You don't analyze things well. 3- some people will work on account trading for taking profit. Let them do, they shall face consequences.
1-Though some theories suggest that merit system has caused some Butthurt idiot to cause such DDOS attacks. |
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Yes. Code feature should work for you.  Direct link :- http://i68.tinypic.com/2dikdqtClick the '#' button next to the quote button. The tag for it is <insert your information here> |
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You don't have to verify your account with kyc in localbitcoins.com, email is enough. @op if you want eth, why not buy bitcoin with fiat in the so many exchanges out there and then just trade it to eth? It's more easier only I guess? Localbitcoins.com may seem costly and expensive for you but believe me it's worth the cost. The security measures are applaud worthy. |
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This is not the first and last dip that we have seen. Exchanges love it when markets crash. They make easy buck due to panic selling because they need to have cryptos for the future, they take opportunity for such.
Bitfinex I'm not sure why they ruined their reputation down to the drains but other than that exchange, every other exchange is ok at least in terms of stability.
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The old topic did NOT have any good formatting, taking the advice from others posted on the thread, I think we should all follow the universal format of this: originally posted by pugmanI suggest you lock this thread (while it is still has just a couple posts) and recreate it self-moderated. Then you can delete all the useless comments like post #2, #3 and this one.  Make the posts only about abusing - and force people to stay on format. It will make it easier to parse this info later using scripts. Also to add on, reserve post #2 in the new self moderated thread to add the reports and let the OP only state about the general information about the reports. |
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I guess those reasons weren't obvious enough   Accepted, shoot me a PM once you change your signature please. Thank you. Pm sent! |
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I have a question to ask to whoever who is reporting/tagging users for merit abusal.
Here's the deal. I noticed that users are spending way more time on patrolling people who are sending and receiving merits than giving merits to deserving people.
I respect Lauda and actmyname (and anyone else who's involved) for tagging merit abusers, but I'm not going to make that my battle. And the reason is I think that even if shitposters and account farmers abuse the system to no end, they're still going to have a hell of a hard time ranking up. I think what's going to happen is that account sales, especially of higher-ranked ones--are going to explode. And that is going to be my battle, and those are the ones I'm going to tag. I also agree that merit should be handed out to good posts, and I'm trying to do that. I have about 110 sMerit left, and I'm giving it out to decent posters and especially members below the rank of legendary. See. Exactly my point, you're proving. Great. Thanks. Um.. I would suggest you to merit users who are rather new, like newbies; Jr. Members and members, even if their English may not be entirely good, if there's worthy content, do merit them. And most of the users post in main crypto related discussions and not in meta and hardly anyone our there merits such good posts, so that's the bummer there.  |
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I have a question to ask to whoever who is reporting/tagging users for merit abusal. Here's the deal. I noticed that users are spending way more time on patrolling people who are sending and receiving merits than giving merits to deserving people. Spend that time on searching for good posts, learn something new, after all we all came to learn about bitcoin, not whine about the merit system or report *users* for abusing the merit system. The system has just been introduced and users are very demotivated or are feeling degraded, and having a sense of fear in their minds, that they may receive negative feedback, even though some of them may be innocent. Everyone has their own views and opinions, if someone finds a post worthy to receive merits and others don't, that doesn't mean abusal. Lets just wait and see how far abusal goes. I agree signature campaigns were abused way too much because of lack of corrective action but this is merit system. People shall face consequences in the long term. Though some cases may really seem to be abusal, why not wait some more time, let the merit system be in place and intact, if any one really has to abuse it, let them do so, theymos shall take action, like he has already mentioned: Merit sales, transfers to aliases, back-and-forth trading, etc. are not much of an issue. All illegitimate merit will decay, and will account for a tiny and very expensive fraction of the total merit economy. It's basically a rounding error; fight it where convenient, but waste no sleep over it.
So, why not let the merit system to be welcomed much, give users a chance to elaborate themselves. What say, people? |
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Some exchanges that you may not not know of. There are good exchanges and there are bad. Here are some exchanges that I'd recommend. Shapeshift.io - No need to have an account, immediate exchange once you deposit. Changelly.com - A bit more faster than shapeshift, but you do need an account. Binance.com - A lot of altcoins to explore with. If you're looking for exchanges, use these, they have less complaints at least till now. Good luck. |
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You can send merit to any body who deserves it and anybody who you think is worthy of receiving merits and is under rated.
If you can find them. There actually exists a lot, I have seen some in the past, a few weeks ago but when you go witch hunting for good posts, you'll see spammers everywhere, which ticks you off. There are lot of people who actually post constructive comments with required content. Campaigns have caused shitposting but there are campaigns which motivates users to post constructive comments which is very much knowledgeable, take chipmixer for example. |
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I would like to update my address to a SegWit one to keep with the spirit of the campaign. My new address is bc1qszrhw5hn26py4a9glqy3hdv53r0xnze2pd5nqk. I do not find signing a message with my old address to be necessary, but I'll do so if requested.
Anyone know how to create a segwit address with the Ledger wallet? Thanks. Just select "Segwit" as address type instead of "Legacy" when you enter your Ledger wallet. Where is this option? On start up of the wallet? I see no option other than to choose bitcoin cash or not. There are two options, bitcoin and bitcoin cash, you select bitcoin. Furthermore, you get two more options of Legacy and SegWit address. If you had checked the little checkbox that says "remember my choice", then you probably won't get such options anymore. But you can try clicking the new account button in your main panel, it should probably ask for segwit or legacy, I personally haven't tried that yet. |
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So it is, now users will be afraid to give merits to others!
In our locale is already written, especially people with accounts, a legend and heroes.
No. No. No. I used the word, "may". You don't have to be scared. The system has just been introduced. Give it some time. You can send merit to any body who deserves it and anybody who you think is worthy of receiving merits and is under rated. |
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This guy gets it.
One person leaving negative trust does not speak for the entire community, and as such others who disagree with a particular negative rating can counter said negative rating with a positive rating of their own. This is a basic feature of the trust system.
I would not find it unreasonable for someone to ask for help with a problem, especially when the person being asked is sympathetic to their issue.
Perhaps Lauda's pill addiction makes it difficult to understand this.
Come on.. Everyone has different views and opinions. Tagging users who may or may not be *abusing* the merit system isn't required now. Probably, we should let time pass through, let people get to use the merit system normally. And if they abuse, then corrective action shall be taken. Theymos is probably right on his behalf, as not all cases of sending and receiving merits may be abusal, this may further infuriate users and kind of scare them of not using their merits at all. And please take your ridiculously ridiculous dispute somewhere else.
They do everything that would a person who received a red trust for no reason, could not return it. If you put a red trust, then you:
1. Do not have to write to the person who put it to you.
2. Do not ask to return the trust.
That's their whole policy! They do not care at all. They do not want to understand
I understand that it is hard to take such ratings for something that is not exactly your fault. You admitted your mistake, and due to various reasons, actmyname rechecked his ratings and he removed yours. Now enjoy and remember not to nag anyone via pms. |
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Correct; the problem isn't for tagging actual merit system abusers, but rather tagging users where there isn't enough evidence to support the claim. So in this case, should we only tag users that we are strictly sure are abusing the merit system? i.e. not through circumstantial merit exchanges of large amounts but rather threads or other media that voice merit trading/selling?
Seems like it'll let alt rings get away scot-free and will also let people who do off-site trading boost their merit. I'm willing to retract some ratings that are circumstantial but I believe there are at least some that seem pretty absolute. If I may, the reason why theymos doesn't like the idea of tagging people who are sending and receiving merits who *may be* alt accounts of others, and the merit system being newfangled, its only right for him to feel it is indispensable for him to avoid such behavior by the DT members, rather wait for some more time and then with more proof people can be tagged. This is how rumors start. :/
OH crap! My bad, didn't think of that. edited.. |
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Article/post on quota: - https://www.quora.com/Can-Blockchain-succeed-without-Bitcoin ;check the 4th answer. Thank you Marlboroza for breaking down my post and explaining what I meant. I agree that i have been rude and nasty towards users, I apologize for my immaturity.
They just don't know how to properly use sMerit system. I guess they see it as Facebook Like, they give Merit to what they agree with or what they like... That is just wasting of sMerit.
People spend their sMerits as per their wish. The system allows freedom to merit any user, but giving merits to posts of no value or terrible content /English is considered to be misuse of the merit system by the community's policies. What's even more interesting thing is some of the so called senior members thought this post was constructive and gave merits to this one..WTF.
Are you trying to say that all constructive posts are huge ass, where some one says a large text of bullshit and just because it is big doesn't really make it a constructive post. |
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This is absolutely disgusting and shameful to see how some high ranked users start bashing any users who complains about this crappy 'Merit' system.
Who are you to judge?Did you actually earn those merits that you got? You got it by default so don't brag about something that you didn't earn.
I wonder how many posts of those so called current ' High ranked' are actually merit worthy. But now they come on ever thread that complains about 'merit' thread and start bashing the users and start praising this crap 'Merit' system.
You don't need to be a judge of something that you yourselves DID NOT earn! I have checked, and most you guys give merit to some one who actually praises this crappy 'Merit system.
Have some self respect.
Even if they are newbies,come on man. One gets frustrated with increasing number of topics discussing the same thing over and over again. There are thousands of threads opened for merit system. It has not even been two weeks since they got implemented. You see the craziness here? We did earn! We came a bit early to this forum,increased our activity,and hence we were rewarded what we deserve. We are not judging here,we are guiding users in a more harsh way so that they can understand. Look,everyone was a spammer/shitposter once but they improvise. You don't like the merit system ,don't. No one is against criticism but if every one posts the same thing over and over again without giving some time to the system to co-relate with the forum and its members,then some one needs to tell you the harsh truth. Yeah.. i was expecting this response from guys like you..maybe you don't know why. Let me tell you because if a system is in your favour then nobody like questions against that system.
I'm sorry that I'm harsh but if you're so reluctant to learn about merit system or even read some things about it,such way is how things will go. |
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Fucking shut up! Just shut up! Go away from this forum if you can't read anything or don't know what is going on. And FYI ,a member,I repeat a member:- nullius has received way more merits than 99% of the users here. His posts are worth a read,and helpful too. So again,GTFO. |
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