I just had a quick look at modlog, and found 2 topics that were removed, in connection with the user  Nezar Ayach


Also, the  Nezar Ayach profile had only 12 posts / activities, but has already received 2 merits so far for 2 posts (which has already been deleted too, like the topics above)


found another line in the modlog:

I can really understand that the user wants that account back, because he/she had already 2 merits, which is really precious thing these days...

OK, but how can we prevent deserved merits, not to be demerited because of revenge, hate, different point of views, etc?
If there will be some groups, who will start to demerit the other groups' members, the hard earned merits could vanish in a very little time...

I'm just wondering if reporting has any effect in this situation (that you see less shitposts in the bitcoin section). And also, if there's any effect of the the well advertised reporting badge that will come in the near future sometime

And the power of the red lines around the text, that makes it feel super important too

So I join the party and share my selfie sofort, not to fail the KYC check

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Also, I'm proud to be a Verified Geek



[1] Source, because of the copypasta thing: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/selfie-mask-animal-icon-simple-style-vector-21377545

But how does he managed to find my exact coordinates, while I was flying thru the ocean? No reception, no wifi, no GPS

This is way much better than last year's April 1st joke

Merit should remain what it was before, a reward for a good post.
Good post needs to be checked, at least for plagiarism, which is a showstopper for giving out merits. If someone copies a good post (partially, or spinned, doesn't matter) in order to receive merits, the merit shouldn't be rewarded. If you have a lot of smerits, you should not start to pour them everywhere, smerit is a kind of rare thing and people should handle it that way...
A quick check before sending out smerit won't harm anyone...

Úgy legyen...
mármint a Bull Run is meg az aktivitás is itt a topicban
De lehet, hogy a bull előtt még lesz egy vérfürdő, hogy a gyengék még eladják amijük van, és olcsón vehessenek a bálnák? 

And as always, google is everyone's friend, so don't worry to start a google search, I'm sure you'll get more information about LN that you have expected...
LN is not a secret thing, a lot of people are using it and even more people are talking about it around the world...

It can be pure marketing strategy too...
What happened in 2017? A lot of people saw bitcoin to climb to the ATH and now they know a little bit about cryptos. (a really little bit). They also heared about the huge fall in the price of bitcoin.
They know that the price of bitcoin can fall because of the supply and demand on the short and long run, but they also know that the technology behind won't fail, so they trust the technology instead of the coin itself.
If you are a bank, how would you get more customers? You should differentiate yourself from the competitors. Banks are identical in services (nearly), so what makes people choose a bank is the 'brand'. A stronger brand means more customers on the long run. How could you make your brand stronger? You should make people trust in your bank and what is the base of the trust? It's the safety of your money.
Now if you state publicly that you are going to develop and install a new back end system that makey your bank even more secure (because of the new blockchain technology, or something similar) people will  belive you and would trust you even more. You don't even have to tell technical details, because people can't check what system do you use behind the scenes, so it's totally up to the marketing guys what they say and how they say it, to make the brand stronger... Like this communication from JP, it won't tell you much details but it's enough to make people belive that they will be better with the new system, and this is exactly what they want to achive.

I don't know if those members you mention are already wearing a signature when they try to apply in different signature campaign for a spot, but it's possible that they don't really want a spot, but they just growing their post count for their current signature campaing.
Ignoring these posts would be the easiest solution.
Another solution could be to report them to the mods, so those posts are deleted sooner or later, so those people will stop doing this because no post, no money...

This error message tends to pop up on other websites too, usually when the running service on the server is not able to respond in time to the request and instead of a 404 this 503 is a 'softer' type of error message and promise a quick recovery for the users, so much better than leaving the users in doubt with a 404 when the website is down for some little time because of anything. So this does not mean any real update, upgrade all the time it's used, it can be a quick reboot, restart of a hanged service, etc.... (But correct me if I'm totally wrong, this is my observation)

And how it's connected with this puzzle? Does it give any extra hints to solve? 

Anyway, that time when this puzzle was started, I thought that by this time it will already be solved...

I reported several topics from Bitcoin Discussion to be moved to another part of the forum but none of them were moved back by the OP after...
(The reason is simple, most of them were just simply deleted by mods, because those topics were just meaningless or low quality ones....)
But as soon as I would notice that a topic (I have reported and has been moved to the proper board by a mod) has been moved back to Bitcoin Discussion by the OP, I would just report it again with a note to the Mod that the topic should be locked instead of moving it again...

Good job OP, keep up the good work
Newbies can have a look at your achievement, so they can't say that ranking up is impossible because of the new merit system...
Also, don't forget to spread the love merits whereever you go on the forum to let the others (who deserve it) to rank up too.

Just copy the data to the required fields. Make sure you don't miss any space, line break, special characters, etc, because if you fail to copy it as a whole, the signature checker will give false result.
If you don't trust signature checker websites, you can use any wallet that offers this kind of feature.
Also, if you google for e.g. bitcoin signature checker, you'll find a lot of help

If you sign up for a bitcoin backed debit card (I know it's really rare to find a really working one, there were topics, updated regurarly in the past, about these cards), you can buy things from every merchant using your bitcoins. But I know that you have to complete KYC and AML checks to be able to get a working bictoin debit card, so it won't be a good solution for everyone who wants to spend bitcoins here.
In a few years time we'll see who will accept bitcoin and who will use different coins for instant payments...

That's a really useful thread, merit sources and other members with spendable merits are visiting that topic to check those posts.
I saw that if someone needs only a few merits to rank up, merit sources are happy to check the post history to see if the member creates quality posts, and if yes, they have managed to rank up several members since the opening to that thread.
It's a bit similar to the old review topics of the merit sources but concentrated into one place

This is  a 'good old' stlye forum, and it's still working fine for the purpose...
People will choose another forum if that another forum would have the features of this forum plus something additional that's missing here now.
But people are still here and using this forum, so we should not hurry implementing new untested features...
Anyway the new forum software (a really brand new) is under testing now, so the new feature requests should go there directly, it has better chance to get it implemented in the new forum software...

Try the watchlist function, and just click 'watch' if a topic is interesting but you don't want to post in in.
You can have a look at your watchlist and remove the unnecessary topics from it, so it will only contain the required stuff. (Use the 'edit watchlist' link if you have opened the watchlist).

This is not as easy as this....
the more money flows in.... but what happen if the money is not enough that flows in? That would cause the price to go still down, so the investors will sell instead of buy...