Merit is meant to highlight good posts and restrict spammers, so I don't exclude higher ranks. I've never been out of sMerit to give, and I'm having a really hard time handing out more than I receive (probably because I give only 1 most of the time).

That's a community effort: someone has to step up and apply to be a merit source.

Less than 1% of those 2 million users has received Merit.

There is such a system: some get paid more than others in the real world. Sometimes it's deserved, sometimes it isn't.

Mine took about 3 months, some were much faster, and some are still waiting.

It took 42 days to go from 2200000 to 2300000 user accounts. That's over 2000 new accounts per day, 16,000 per week. Last week, only 241 users received Merit for the first time, and most of them were old accounts already.

Good threads are hard to find because there are so many bad posts. But from what I've seen, I don't think many good threads get overlooked.

Since I'm mentioned in the OP, I'll respond.
First: Me being on DT2 has nothing to do with my signature campaign. Being on DT2 is not something I asked for, it just happened. I do appreciate it though, as it gives me the chance to make this forum better. If you want to discuss me any further, please do it in LoyceV's reputation thread.

Now back to Coolcryptovator:
I think Findingnemo makes a good point:

I do check all participants before accepting anybody in a campaign, and of course I noticed Coolcryptovator's English level. But I also noticed he's intelligent, and puts effort into his posts. Just yesterday, after closing the campaign, I discussed this with him. If he can improve his English, I think he has a lot of potential on this forum.

I'm not sure which "power" I allegedly abused by accepting him into my campaign.
I gave anyone a full month to get paid from reporting spam in my campaign:
Nobody reported anything.

Why don't you apply to be a merit source? See this post.

You're not a spammer, so in my opinion you shouldn't be limited by Merit. I could probably merit more of your posts, but I'm kinda busy at the moment with something else (and the forum is terribly slow today)

I still regret wasting my time on this. My list of homograph spamming Newbie bump bots has 75 more new users in 3 days, and I'd love to get them all nuked, but reporting one by one failed.
I used to create a thread in Meta, make a title like Mods, nuke 120 accounts, and in my last thread Mod BitRentX went at it until he hit his nuke-limit.

Don't quote long posts!

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Low effort posting isn't allowed. Search a bit before just advertising your signature.

If you know that already, and post useless posts anyway, how can you not expect to be called a shitposter?

What do you expect? Credit for posts you may make 4 years from now?

I've seen people say much worse things on this forum. It's called freedom of speech, and that doesn't end when you feel "insulted". TMAN isn't subtle, not only to you. But if you think you can cry when someone on the internet is mean to you, you'd better grow a pair.
And for the "Rank" argument: I recently had a Jr. Member talk shit to me. Who cares?

Almost 5 whole weeks!

Anyone from any rank can call shitposts shit, and it doesn't matter what rank the shitposter has.

From what I've seen, very few Newbies ever learn and get better.

As much as I like helping users, that's not because anyone "has to" do that.

This is not a SJW forum, it's Bitcointalk. This forum gives users more freedom to post their mind than any other forum I've seen. Equality is utopian, the reality is everybody is different.

If you would read more, you'd know this forum has a huge spam problem.

Again: read more, for instance the forum rules.
And get used to it: not everybody on the internet is nice to you. Who cares!

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If you create threads like this:
And ask questions like this:
It's clear you lack initiative. Search a bit before dumping random questions on the forum.

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To embed an image, use this:
Example:

That altcoin signature campaign started out on the wrong board (Services) too.

Greed makes it easy to scam people. If they would really have that much money to spend on a campaign, it would be very easy to make a credible campaign and get high quality posters. But they don't, and the thread is started by a bounty spammer.

You can use the thread to detect and report spammers

"More Merit than satoshi" could be a good threshold.

You even quoted the part where I say not all users on the list are spammers.

That being said: these lists aren't meant to contact spammers, and if they are spammers, there's absolutely no point in contacting them. They may not even be human.

All participants have been paid: 0af614d5b31347e427c518b9ec21a5755ed8e1ff4429116d1e6693823d33ec57.
Payment details are in the spreadsheet.

Thanks for joining! This campaign is now closed, feel free to remove your signature.

Thread archived for future reference.
I'll close this thread in a few days.

Please nuke Newbie vnbot011 for plagiarism. He posted in my self-moderated topic, but I'll wait for him to be nuked.

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Note that he even has "bot" in his name

Wow, just wow
Is there any public announcement on this? Since when is this option available? If this is a new thing the Mods can use, it should be widely known to scare signature spammers.

Going from 1000 to 2000 will be easier than going going from 0 to 1000. If we expect a Newbie to earn 1000 Merit to become Legendary, it's only fair to expect the same from users who received 1000 Merit in the January airdrop.

If that's going to happen, I don't expect theymos to create it before at least a few people dozen have reached it. It wouldn't look good if theymos creates a new rank that only he holds at the moment.
In a bit more than 6 months, only 15 users have earned 500+ Merit, 38 users have 350+ and 77 users have earned 250+ Merit. At this rate, it would take those users 6, 12 or 18 months to reach 1000+ Merit, and not all of those users have enough Activity to be Legendary.
Based on this, I don't expect a new higher rank to be introduced within maybe 2 years.

This campaign ended on August 15, 2018.
I still need some time to check and count posts.

All participants are free to remove their signature.

No, it varies too much. Last December, you would need a 500 times higher fee than you need now.
I use https://coinb.in/#fees as an indication, if you go a bit higher than what the site recommends, you should see a fast confirmation most of the time.

Bump bots are isolated in their own threads. Deleting the posts doesn't matter at all, as the thread was bumped and that post has served its purpose. Nobody reads the thread anyway, so it doesn't matter to the community. The bot can easily make many new posts as long as it doesn't get banned, and that's why a ban is the only thing that makes sense for those cases.

I give up a bit faster than that
With 250 users on my homograph suspects list, each having an average of 10 to 20 posts, I'm not going to report thousands of posts. Hilariousandco was already complaining about users who suddenly started reporting a lot since theymos mentioned the Reporting badge. And it feels like a total waste of time when I'm trying to clean 200 bots from the forum, and most of them still get away with it.

Recommended fees are an estimate, based on past confirmed transactions. Fees can go up, for instance if it takes long to find a new block, or if the number of transactions goes up. If that happens, the estimate turns out to be incorrect.
When in a hurry, I manually set the fee a bit higher. Most of the time I manually set it as low as possible.

Leaving this here: