Did you remember to check on the status of the cat? 

You better get woke that retirement does not relieve you of all responsibilities.

Probably your first few days of forum membership overlapped two activity periods, so therefore, you were able to reach 28 activity points in a very short period of time. 

The start and end of activity periods have preset beginning and ending activity period dates, and those dates are not based on your actual registration date.

There seems to be little utility in comparing yourself with others, and the real goal should be attempting to figure out how this possible "elite" status can fit into your own life and improvements in your own situation.  Surely in the whole scheme of things, there are certain objective comparisons that would allow you to use the word "elite" in your own description of yourself and your circumstances, but I would argue that there are also gradients of such usage of the word elite in which you can consider ways that bitcoin has helped you to reach a better financial position and how bitcoin may continue to help you in that "elitism" direction in the future.. even if you might not strictly meet societal definitions of "elite."

I agree with you that it is a problem to deify anyone, even if they have a lot of good posts, and part of the issue is our own self, and sometimes we can become intimidated by very sophisticated posters - so in that regard, if we are going to respond or criticize anything, then we would need to make our criticism about a narrow point that we do understand or to make sure that we read enough and sufficiently to understand what we are criticizing exactly.

If we are sufficiently aware, then we will realize that in life there are going to be people who know way more than we do on a variety of topics, and sometimes even seemingly dumb people can have life experiences and knowledge that goes beyond our understanding (which could allow that they know more about some topics than we do).

Personally, i have an approach that I will give some benefit of the doubt to folks who I believe to be limited in their intellectual abilities, and even though I have also met people (IRL) who seem to be heads and shoulders above me in their mental abilities (and experiences), but I also try to NOT deify them, and there remain likely ways, that even geniuses (as you pointed out HodorHodl) have faults in their logic, their perceptions and/or their methods of communicating.

Craig Wright is not that smart nor able to contain his slimy demonstration of emotions.

You need to clarify what you are talking about exactly.  If you are talking about bitcoin, then that is one thing; however, if you are referring to crypto currencies more broadly, then that is a bit of a difference concept... Yeah, they have symbiotic relationships, but referring to crypto overall without parsing out the difference between bitcoin and the others rises to the level of a surely vague, amorphous and an all over the place discussion.

I had noticed those two different pages too, recently, and I wished that there was a better way to toggle through those kinds of settings.  One shows the merit sent/received in the past 30 and the other shows the merit sent/received in the past 120 days.  I don't know why it is set up that way, but like I mentioned, I wished there were tabs that would allow the ability to toggle between different time periods such as 30 days and 120 days and maybe some other select time period options.

Thanks for your overview and update, DannyH.....  I think that it can help others to understand how you approach the matter, but also provide a decent model for any other member who wants to employ similar kinds of considerations.

  It seems to me that more or less I was correct in the assessment in my earlier post that hypothetically, if a member had received negative feedback from your for something like "merit begging," and thereafter, the member were to discontinue merit begging, remove their retaliatory negative feedback of you, and became a better quality poster, then you may consider removing the negative rating, based on those kinds of hypothetical circumstances, if they were to exist favorably for the member. 

However, I agree with you that in this particular case, the member seems to have doubled down in negative trust behavior rather than making any attempts at reform and therefore has a pretty low chance of any kind of recovery of the negative rating because s/he seems to have not learned from your negative rating nor attempted to make any improvement to the distrustful behavior.

Danny you saw this discussion upthread, right?  It would seem topical for you to clarify your point of view about that recent discussion, no?

I think that you gotta let some of that nonsense play out for a while.  There had been still some new quasi-topical revelations there, even though sometimes a bit painful, too.

Actually, even though I believe Alia is not really helping her case, I do agree with the point that the other thread should not have been locked during the ongoing discussion, and that topic should not have to move to another thread in order to continue  - even though it does seem fair enough to open this new thread.

Do you have a link for this chart or for the article from where it came?

The world turns on its head, and we got drama coming out of ALL orifices here - even Quickseller coming off as empathetic 

Ibminer, it sounds like you are bowing out of this identity verification process?

However, you level of skepticism and your trustworthiness by all sides seems to make you nearly perfect for the job - except perhaps if you believe that you know someone who might be better suited for such task, then it would likely bring a quick resolution to this matter...

I am on the same page that the odds seem quite low that alia's story is going to pan out, especially a supposed 15 year old brother that has had time to scheme to the level of his already seeming schemes, and alia's adding up walking contradictions, too, so sure, see a couple boobs in the process.. and so what it is all for the good of the forum and just another piece of drama to potentially chalk up to the archives of BTC_talk history.  i am sure that in the event that you are not clear about how to proceed, you would be able to enlist a vast array of talent for behind the BTC_talk scene's consulting regarding how to engage in the ID confirmation process that quite likely to include riddle and humor.

I am just attempting some dramatic effect, so don't out me  - otherwise I will consider placing you on my "NOT to be spared" list.   


I know you are shivering in your boots, so don't EVEN try faking calmness.   

In my following of this saga, it seems that Ibminer, or maybe someone who Ibminer nominates would be good for the interviewing job...

Don't be ridiculous with your seemingly bad motive spin of an assumption regarding facts that are not in evidence.   

Anyone can answer this question, and it does not need to be me.

Surely, I don't know the whole story of your situation, and maybe the whole story does not matter too much because I can gather a certain amount of information merely by looking at some of your post history, your trust rating and your so far received merits.   

The truth of the matter seems to be that you have a lot of shitty posts, and some of your posts seem to be excessively obsessed with merit and NOT even expressing your ideas very clearly.  Furthermore, you received 10 merits for a largely nonsensical thread that you had started, and you received those 10 merits on February 26, so I do not understand why you would need to be so obsessed with merit in the short term because, with those 10 merits that you already received, you have enough merits to rank up to member status, and you still have another 3 months (approximately) before you would even be eligible to rank up to full member, which requires 100 merits, as you likely know.    Anyhow, DannyHamilton negative trusted you on February 26.

If you really are serious about attempting to earn merit and attempting to get your negative trust removed, then you would likely need to work pretty hard to accomplish such.  It is not an impossible task, but it just seems to me that your whole approach, so far, has been a bit wacky with a lot of shitty posts. 

To me, your posts are so shitty that you would likely need to engage in some efforts to improve the quality of your posts and for several months.  Also, you should probably remove your negative trust of DannyHamilton (which seems to have been a retaliatory response from you towards him).  Perhaps after you post quality posts for a few months, then you might want to PM DannyHamilton and ask him if he would be willing to remove your negative trust or if he has some conditions that he would like you to meet before he removes your negative trust.  In the end, your negative trust is not going to stop you from participating in this forum - although it may prevent you from engaging in some signature campaigns, and if engaging in a signature campaign is your main goal, then it could take some time to resolve your matter and with some efforts on your side to consider ways to post quality rather than quantity. 

By the way, I am giving you a general suggestion, and certainly I don't know whether DannyHamilton might NOT be willing to remove negative trust from you, but surely it seems to me that if you engage in quality posting and improve your approach and discontinue soliciting merits, then it is possible that he may be willing to consider such a request to remove the negative trust that he gave you. 

NOTE: I would not suggest contacting DannyHamilton at all for several months, until after you have made some decent and materially demonstrable efforts to fix what he had negative trusted you for.  On the other hand, if DannyHamilton has a policy to never remove negative trust, then your account is going to be labelled with that negative trust from him hence forth.  That is not a death knell for your account, but would just be a factor and a part of the history of your account, that you could still improve with quality posts and discontinuing with asking for merits.

I'm going to let my already made comments on the topic or whatever post history that I have (and you have) speak for themselves.

In other words, you are beating a dead horse here, you gooftard (last part thrown in for funzies).
 

No.  There is no other way to increase your rank.  You must spam the forum in order to increase your rank.  Good luck.