Jr. Member accounts don't need Merit (yet?).

My "position" has nothing to do with my rank. My signature campaign for example would pay me exactly the same if I'd be a Sr. Member (with just 250 Merit). Of course I've made bad posts, but mosts of my posts are not bad. That isn't something you can say about the average spammer.
I wish Merit wouldn't be necessary, but it is. And even now, most posts are just spam, probably made by bots. Complaining about Merit isn't make it go away. Good posts is what this forum needs.

I've given 634 merit 591 times, to 318 profiles. But I've got much more accounts banned! I love seeing good posters, and Merit is how Newbies can quickly stand out.

If you put it this way, jenia2 has a point: many of the current high ranking members haven't earned much Merit. And someone who hasn't earned much Merit since January, wouldn't have earned 1000 Merit in 4 years either. So yes, there's a windfall for old accounts, just like people who own Bitcoin for many years have a windfall.
That doesn't mean Merit is bad, it only means it should have been implemented sooner. But better late than never!

I do, but it doesn't qualify, as satoshi is not a Hero or Legendary account But he already earned more than enough Merit to become Legendary, without making a single post

Your claim was to "provide 5 random shitposts". We can agree those posts aren't worth any Merit, and guess what: they didn't get any! But they're valuable posts, and right to the point.

Can you provide links to the posts?

Thanks for the faucet memories I disagree on your first one, it's ontopic and to the point. The second one (my sixth post on Bitcointalk!) is a shitpost indeed. I've deleted it.

Pick me. I'm curious what you come up with.

Thanks for the 8 (including myself ) fast deposits. We're only waiting for 2 more users to deposit: DogecoinMachine and bill gator.
I've sent them a PM.

Only for certain boards, right? A Newbie with a serious question should still get the attention he needs.

That could lead to hundreds of different sub boards, assuming all the ANN-spammers have the budget to pay the fee.

On top of that, some threads pay up to $1000 per week for bump spam. They have high funding and earn millions, let them pay to improve the forum instead of the other way around.

It could even be burned, as a gift to all Bitcoin owners. But it's probably best to use it to improve the forum. The amounts they spend on bump bots could pay for full-time moderation.

I disagree with both points. Some posts in ANN-threads deserve merit (example), and the merit traders will just pollute other boards for their business. The same will happen if they can't earn activity there. Lack of Merit is what should stop them from ranking up, not lack of Activity.

This won't work. Bump spam has accomplished it's goal, even if it gets deleted within a few minutes. Even worse: the ANN-threads that are self-moderated, (ab)use that power to delete bump spam to make it less noticeable. The bump bots used to do that on their own, but can't delete their own posts within 24 hours anymore (this restriction was created to stop bump bots).

The payment should be per thread, as the amount of spam increases with each additional thread.
And I don't think it should be a special rank that makes the account look better than it is.

True. But it makes the campaign manager's job a lot easier. Without Merit, I wouldn't accept any Members, as going through their posts is 95% of the time a waste of my time. One of the main problems causing spam, is lazy campaign managers. If using Merit can make some of them reject low quality posters, that's a win for the forum.
Having Merit isn't enough though, it has to be earned, which can be checked quickly.

I barely see that, unless the account has been hacked or sold. If that happens, they should be kicked out of course.

I haven't noticed this much, but this would mean the Merit system fails to do what it's supposed to do.

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I stumbled upon this:
It's someone with generic posts, and a bounty spammer. For 1112 posts, he earned received 1 Merit.
He's complaining $2.80 per post is low! If that means spamming bounties pays more (although in Tokens created out of thin air) for useless posts, it explains why so many of them are spamming this forum.

Read this post again

You are using a very old (and vulnerable) wallet. The latest version is Electrum 3.2.2.
Why did you "update" to another old version? When downloading, make sure to use the official website only.

Is it Donetor, Donator or Donater?

Is that a good or a bad feeling?

You can make this list a lot shorter if you add the link to the name. Example:
Moderator: Flying Hellfish Board: Politics & Society

The one I reported got nuked. Some other spamposts are gone too, but not all.

Before answering more, can you tell me why you're asking this? Does this apply to you?

Yes, but only by the owner of the private key. I guess that's not you.

Did anything come out of talking to the team? I'd like to wear the avatar, but I'm not willing to remove my current signature.

I've liked BitCore for quite a while, had a hard time compiling the wallet in a VM, and later switched to using Coinomi. I've followed the airdrops, and saw the price drop 95% from $30 to the current value.
I'm still holding my BTX, and wouldn't mind promoting it a bit more I think it's safe to say I meet the posting requirements. I've been wearing my current avatar for free (well, except for the well-paying signature) for many months, and would like to use just the avatar to increase my BitCore hodlings.

That's very unlikely.
It's much more likely he left (fake) retaliation feedback, 2 days after Vod left him this: "Promoting a ponzi. Trying to steal money from the community."

I would never trust a ponzi scammer with money!

I often notice the following pattern in the Bitcoin price: it's quite stable for hours to days, moving sideways, then suddenly it drops or shoots up in a more or less straight line. After that, it continues moving sideways.
How can that be? I can only think its being manipulated by some whale(s) keepingt he price stable until they need change. If there's a different explanation, I'd like to hear it.

Google: Did you mean: merritt

That leaves only one solution: she should sign up too, and share your relationship with Merrit.

But.... Among all the serious posts, I love to be able to show some sarcasm once in a while! Merit turned out to be the best way to do so

If that would have been implemented from the start, I would have lost 31 Merit. A small price to pay for a cleaner forum! And, on average, I've earned much more Merit per thread, which would make 1 Merit per thread a good investment.

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Why are the Newbie zombie spambots in this thread not nuked yet? I've reported one saying this: "There's a plague of Newbie accounts in the last 2 pages of this thread, writing generic shitposts, rewriting other posts, or it's just a word-mixing-bot. Many accounts were created on the same date, all spamming in a similar manner. Please check the thread, and nuke all that deserve it." (I don't usually create reports this long)
Let's see what happens.

Lol. Bounty spammers have demands now.

How about restrictions on bounty spammers like yourself? You could start by no longer thinking of this as "work".
A forum isn't meant to give you free money for spamming.

But I do like your suggestion: let's close the entire altcoin board! That should be enough of a restriction to stop all fake ICOs.

OP won't be accepted in any anti-spam campaign.

Two weeks ago, I reported 2 Russian accounts for plagiarism, but they didn't get banned.
I'll post them again, Staff member Xal0lex confirmed it's plagiarism.

It's not very clear what you mean. Can you post a screenshot (without private information).

Use Shift-reload to update the balances in the post above.
(I don't want to edit that post)