Yes.  He makes decent sense, and with any possible sorcerer, you take their proclamations with a decent grain of salt because any proclamations, whether "expert" or not is based on a set of possibilities and probabilities rather than 100% or even anything near 80%, especially when they become too specific in terms of a future time and amount.

Hahahahaha... I do that too.  Sometimes reluctant to merit Legendary accounts and also members who I have merited a lot, but sometimes, it becomes irresistible...


Probably, we are never going to have exactly a prefect system that does not change at all because even as people we change through the years and therefore it would be a good practice to tweak our systems from time to time.  I used to have an Excel list for a kind of keeping track of certain kinds of behaviors that I found worthy of notation, and I nearly completely abandoned that particular list and streamed it down to a much smaller kind of list of consideration(s), and probably with the passage of time, I am going to need to tweak my current practice, too.


It's likely a good thing for theymos NOT to lock in too many criteria about merit (or merit abuse) into a written document, even though, like the Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is famous for writing that he could recognize porn when he saw it, theymos could proclaim the same kind of abilities to recognize merit abuse when he saw it.  hahahahahaha

There is a bit of a strange phenomenon here, which does seem to be a good tendency, and it seems to me that there are a decently large number of merit sources who do attempt to grant a decent amount of benefit of the doubt to various shit posters, and even from time to time, might end up meriting the posts of such shitty posters, even though the merit sources are not compelled to do so. 

I personally do NOT use the "ignore" button, but I do generously employ "skim function" because sometimes there is a certain amount of garbage tendency that can be spotted within some posts and some kinds of posters... however, there is also some possibility, that later down the line, the same member who has had a history/tendency to shitily post could recover or provide some decent contribution to the then conversation - and I would not completely ruling out such a recovery possibility, even if a fleeting wave of quality or humor or something that provokes meaning or insight to the conversation. 

On the other hand, the level of shit the comes out of the keyboards of some posters does sometimes get so highly embedded in my head that it would take a decently large piece of extra contribution for me to thereafter merit the posts of that specific member who, from my perspective, had been historically engaging in such a high level shitty substantive postings.

Seems to me that you are too sensitive regarding interwebs comments, and even reluctant to accept my opinion as being different from yours, including becoin's opinion being different from yours, which I have already elaborated on several times. 

Just because I conclude that the becoin matter does not currently warrant further looking into, which also differs from your perspective, does not indicate that I am asleep or even purposefully blinding myself in such respects.   

If you want to spend time on such topic, then that is up to you.  Various long time posters come out of the woodwork, from time to time, and express varying opinions regarding bitcoin strategies.  I am, personally, fairly sympathetic to long term BTC HODLing strategies, and shit coin bashing (especially in this thread), and even criticisms of short-term attempts at maneuverings that are weighed against long term HODLing.   Others can vary in their perspective, and bashing around those kinds of ideas is part of the reason to participate here.  



I am making no attempt to preserve "buddy status" that likely did not exist anyhow, and I don't even feel any need to look at post history.  I see no reason to believe that the account has been taken over or that we need to go beyond my response to his/her recent post.  In other words, why would I need to consider digging deeper?

I doubt that s/he is as bad as you are making it out. Over the years, I recall a decent amount of short-but-sweet WO contributions from becoin, but hey, whatever, you are entitled to your opinion, and I am not claiming perfect memory, either. 

From my perspective, whether "woke" or not, or just different, we have a variety of decent contributors in this thread, including but not limited to both you and becoin.  Go figure.   

Irony comes, ever so often.   

Without getting into any specific case of whether a specific member or a specific member's posts justify merit. 

I think that it is worth mentioning that merit sources, just like regular members, retain a large amount of discretion regarding which posts they merit or not, and how they use the forum including which threads they visit, which posts they read and whether they choose to ignore some users. 

Merit sources can employ their discretion to merit or not merit posts for nearly any reason that they want or no reason at all, as long as it is not some kind of selling or quid pro quo kind of reason.   Of course, there could be other kinds of merit abuse that a merit source could engage in, and determining merit abuse, would be up to theymos to determine on a case by case basis, also completely discretionary for theymos to determine whether a merit source is abusive in his/her meriting conduct or if a merit source should continue as a merit source... theymos does not need a reason to remove a merit source from such status.

There is NO standard that "taking a lot of effort" compels any merit source to merit posts, especially if the merit source in his/her discretion could find a variety of subjective or objective reasons NOT to merit such post.. and like I said, merit sources don't need a reason.  I doubt that there is any need for me to attempt to list all the many reasons that a merit source might choose NOT to merit posts, but surely, as already mentioned, "taking a lot of effort" in and of itself would not compel any meriting action from a merit source.    It is almost humorous to consider the idea (and possible examples) that merely "taking a lot of effort" should compel the meriting of posts.   

Yes.  I have read some variations of  proposals like you suggest 10/1 or something like that, and that would cause some reservations of members to employ such demerits in such a system.

Perhaps you should be taking MajorMax's advice.  Go away for 6 months, 1 year or perhaps a little longer depending on how much time you need).  Especially, if you are merely HODLing and just getting depressed by watching the flatness that perhaps has decently high odds to lead towards more DOWN.


You cannot expect anyone to be nice to you on the interwebs, and could even be the opposite, and maybe that is why going away for a few months or longer could be good.


Who knows?  We are in a bearmarket, and that just means that the odds for down are greater than the odds for up, so still hoping for UP is against the odds.. setting yourself up for disappointment, if you are continuing to put actual feelings into hope for UP.. at least currently..

These markets getting you down, too, Roach?

ToxicChart renditions are supposed to be a rorschach test, I believe.

Ibian seems to be pretty up-to-date on various USA politics, especially the right winged stuff.  He should be able to easily clarify what he meant.  It is not out of the question that I could have read his post wrong?

Perhaps you were the leader of the loonies?   the seminal loon, so to speak?   I doubt it, but perhaps?  If so, congratulations would be in order for you, insightful sir.   

You seem to have just admitted the purpose of your sending the merit was in order that they would be able to vote on a forum issue? Perhaps?

Stop trying to claim credit for a theory that is shared by a lot of other reddit nutjobs.  The bitfinex manipulation theory.  Can read a thousand versions of such theory on reddit with such minor variations that they all boil down to nearly the same thing, which, in essence, is pie in the sky making up shit.    

I doubt that Ibian is unaware of the USA political usage of the term "anchor baby," and likely, he purposefully used the term in different way, perhaps in order to cause some definitional distress from various readers, as a kind of joke.  And, maybe the joke has become a bit more funny because of jbreher's perception of a necessity to explain the current USA political usage of the term "anchor baby?"

Jokes are not so good when explained, but as you may recall, infofront had already said that he could not travel as easily, in part, because of baby, which could imply that said baby is anchoring down infofront's mobility. 

Literal rather than political definition of an "anchor baby." 

I better not attempt to explain more because the joke is going to become even less funny, perhaps?   

You speak a decent amount of truth here, becoin.  Long term BTC hodlers are likely not going to need to worry about exactly when they take their profits or cash out a certain amount of BTC to pay some fiat expenses, because the reason has been that they mostly HODL through the UPs and the DOWNs, and when looking back at the long term, they have accumulated way more value by NOT attempting to time UPs and DOWNs, even while accumulating more and more BTC through the whole time.

Sure, could have had more BTC to sell more at higher prices, yet does not really matter too much because higher priority goes to buying on a regular basis and especially dips.   

TLDR:  No need to either be playing around with alts nor selling large amounts of bitcoin... and you as long as you are accumulating BTC, you are likely to do quite well, financially.

@Xhomer:  Could you make this good sir "full member" (hat stealer/sharer) a nice, individually-tailored hat?  

He was so angry that he accidentally DOXed himself by leaving his camera on. 

Cat is out of the bag, now.  Sucks to be theymos.

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