You will be getting a merit as soon as you'll stop looking for it. Just start helping instead of complaining and it will come.
And just look at that, he was given a Merit on his second post without a sweat. I explained my rationale for giving him a merit here, and I stand by it. It was for that post which was a short but well-written post by a noob who I thought deserved it. I gave him my last source Merit (for the first time since I became a source, I finally managed to spend them all). On top of your reasoning: he's also a Copper Member, so he doesn't need to be Jr. Member for the perks. And he made only 3 posts since June, which isn't the typical spammer. Basically new users who aren't spammers make me very happy, as that is what this forum needs. ~ I have made 5 people very happy today. That gives me plenty of offline merit to be able to do something like that for someone  I'll have to disagree with your reasoning here. Making someone happy isn't a good reason to merit a post. I can just as well get them banned if they break the rules, knowing damn well it can seriously impact someone's income in a poor country. I won't merit them to make them happy, and I won't stop reporting bad posts because it could make them sad. |
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It's certainly a bold idea, but I suspect it might fall afoul of theymos' stance that: I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. Users whom I consider "good" won't have a problem losing 1 Merit, they'd earn another one within a few days tops. Falling back from (say) 150 to 149 Merit points won't hurt any good member in the long run. Spammers however will be seriously restricted if they lose 1 Merit, it could even lower the rank of high ranking users who haven't earned a single Merit since January. |
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Ten is a much different ball game and becomes exponentially more difficult the more accounts you have. I posted a different idea today, and already modified it a bit. In short: Every time an account goes up 100 in Activity, remove 1 Merit. That means any normal person has to earn 1 Merit every 3 months to keep his rank, old inactive accounts aren't affected, and any spammer who got a Merit without deserving it, will lose it again unless he starts deleting many of his old posts. |
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This is like Merit in February all over again  |
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Delphinus is on a roll  The good thing is, he'll soon run out of sMerit . At least the new restrictions changed Jr. Member spam from an unlimited problem to a restricted problem. |
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I didn't spot the fake Bitcoin address (to bad) but I don't think the "megathreads" should be a factor. That's my personal opinion of course. Not everyone is fluent in English and/or educated enough to write quality pieces. It's not only the English level, as long as it's not total garbage, and as long as the user makes a good point, I am willing to merit him. However, Spam Megathreads serve only one purpose: spamming for post count. It doesn't matter what they post, nobody is going to read it, and the only other users opening those threads do the same. We might view this differently, but I am trying to keep new people from being discouraged if they do post on-topic responses in several threads. The large threads are just easier to get started with, because they often have more generic subjects. Answering the same question in the same thread many times makes the post useless, no matter how good it is. See Before you give merit to a newly-demoted newbie..., where your meriting is used as an example of how not to do it. Nope sir as you know in my bounty the manager wants to put that address in my account and that is the rules in our bounty and that is mandatory to be eligible in bounty but I will remove that when the bounty is finished.
That just means that bounty manager is bad at his job. But I'm not surprised, you're wearing the PRiVCY signature, which causes the worst forum spam since DeepOnion. |
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You'll need to give a bit more information than this. The minimum we need to know to be able to help is which wallet you use.
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I'm not going to respond here in detail to all of these ideas. It'd be extremely long. I will classify them as OK/maybe/no: • Require at least one merit to become a Junior Member (bots will never rise past Newbie status then and can be nuked once spotted). No. Or not yet. Or the idea would need to be significantly modified. This was one of the most needed improvements, and I know many users support it. But from the "No", I never expected this would be the first suggestion that gets implemented! |
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oh sad my account ranked down to newbie but my posts was not a newbie poster at all, newbie need now at least 1 merit to rank up to jr. member and I think my account now should have 1 merit can somebody check my posts to be a jr. member.
Here you go. I've gone through your post history. You're posts aren't perfect, but it's pretty clear you're a real account with a long post history of on-topic comments. Definitely deserve to be a jr. member Crocus mainly posts in Spam Megathreads, and has a fake Bitcoin address in his profile. That's not someone who I would consider worthy of ranking up. |
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Do you judge post made by a user that has a paid sig differently than a post made by a user without "paid posts"?
See: it depends on the signature campaign. If someone wears a signature advertising some token for an ICO, and gets paid in tokens, I often don't read his post. If I don't read it, he won't receive any Merit for sure.
I know your signature campaign has a strict manager, mine too, but most of the ICO spammers don't care about anything. It's simply not worth reading all the crap that's posted. I already noticed the same thing... Maybe it would be a good idear to generate some statistics in a couple of days and create a list of posts that were given exactly 1 merit AND this 1 merit was needed to stop the demotion of the receivers... That way we could filter trough these posts and neg tag anybody who clearly tried to cheat the system by trading/buying exactly 1 merit.... I remember theymos saying not to tag them for small abuses, and I for sure won't do it. As for the proposition of anybody losing 1 merit every x days: i must say i'm against the proposition... What about people that seldomly post? Even if 100% of their posts would be high quality, it would still be probable for them to demote if they didn't forcefully post a couple posts every couple of days... An easy fix would be to lose 1 Merit each time you go up 100 in Activity. This is a great news, maybe 5 merits for jr members are even better, I'm very happy with this change.
If Jr. Member requirements go up by 1 Merit point every 6 months, it will demote the farmers again  |
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180 posts that are mostly spam are my past mistakes. If only I could go back to the past to change that. But I don't think that will happen. I hope there is a menu for deleting posts that we have created so that I can delete errors that I made in the past.
You can go to your post history, open each old post, and start deleting. |
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Created a petition! Lol You must be confused, thinking this is a democracy where spammers get a vote. May we get some hints where we can find those 36 new merit sources? I'll give you a hint: begging for Merit isn't going to get you anything good. Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership. I want to know when is the copper membership will expire ? Never (but you can get banned!). The perks may change in the future though.
I already see several Newbies who complain (or compliment) in this thread, and suddenly received 1 Merit today! See this example, he received 1 Merit for an old post 17 minutes before posting in this thread. I'd say the next step should be for everybody (all Ranks!) to lose 1 Merit every x days. It could be as low as one per year, or maybe once every 3 months. That should demotivate users from buying one Merit somewhere. Any normal poster won't be influenced much by losing 1 Merit once in a while. But it's a good start already!
Reference data for future abuse tracking: Last Friday, 6286 users had received 1 Merit. One week earlier, 6237 users had received 1 Merit. One more week back, 6190 users had received 1 Merit. That's an increase of less than 50 per week. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 500 new users with 1 Merit next Friday. Update: Follow-up reading |
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~see above~ Thank you very much for your effort! I've added an Altcoin-chapter to the OP, and added a link to your work in the Stellar thread. However, in this case it didn't solve it. I tried your software on some manual variations on Ronny-T's handwriting, and manually checked 300+ valid keys. None of them holds his funds (worth about 1 year salary where he lives). That means he either made more than 2 mistakes, or part of the key has shifted a block of characters one (or more) position(s) left or right. A brute-force search for 3 mistakes would still be doable on standard hardware (a few hours); 4 characters would take close to a year. For doing this, it would need to automate checking if the key belongs to the right address (manually checking 20k keys is too much), but I can't say how likely this would be to succeed. |
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I have tried the dumpwallet "filename" option, receiving the unencrypted file,
put it into electrum and it did not show my balance. What did you import? Note: Don't post your private keys here!Is it a private key starting with "5", "K" or "L", and 51 or 52 characters long? When I checked the backup of the wallet.dat file, I found out that I have somehow changed it in 2017, compromising the one of 2016. An older wallet may or may not still contain funds, it depends on what else you did after making the backup. Is there a possibility I still can access my funds or are they lost? ~ Help is much appreciated, Im still optimistic to recover the funds  How much funds are involved, if you don't mind me asking? You've been trying for a month, any computer built in the last 5 years could easilly have synced the entire blockchain by now. It shouldn't take more than a few days on "normal" hardware. |
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You say my posts are short. I don't write posts shorter than 100 characters (very very rarely) Good posts don't have to be long. |
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On average, merit sources(now) have less sMerit compared to what the average was prior to the upgrade/additions:
19,500/84 sources= 232.14 sMerits
23,045/120 sources= 192.04 sMerits That makes sense: some of the old sources have very high amounts, but most send much less than the average. In the last 30 days: 734: suchmoon
485: chimk
399: Foxpup
301: dbshck
244: Vod
234: hilariousetc
231: qwk
198: Micio
196: LoyceV
180: TMAN
162: Welsh
152: DarkStar_
140: EFS
131: Halab
127: Jet Cash
115: JayJuanGee
113: BobLawblaw
110: MaRSe
97: LFC_Bitcoin
95: DdmrDdmr
92: bones261
92: frodocooper
90: OgNasty
88: theymos
87: paxmao
83: hilariousandco
75: Moloch
71: teramit
68: theymos_away
67: iCEBREAKER
63: nizamcc
63: _javi_
60: micgoossens
56: Vlad2Vlad
55: esmanthra
54: Piggy
54: vapourminer
53: TrollCoins
52: ETFbitcoin
51: Gyrsur
51: xtraelv
51: o_e_l_e_o
51: Matthias9515
51: BitNow
50: RegulusHr
50: tomsmith26
50: SebastianJu
50: Jasad
50: bumbacoin
50: Johnny00 If my counting is correct, my source Merit went up twice until now. It makes sense to start with a relatively low amount, and increase if if the Merit source proves to distribute them properly. |
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Do you know of anyone who'd be able to design and manufacture playing, tarot, or trading cards? Some (Chinese?) webshops can produce this, ArtsCow.com for example charges $13.99 for producing just one set. The design will have to be a community effort, and no, I can't help with that  |
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I currently have received more merit than everyone in the forum except for 218 people, and I have not received sufficient merit to achieve Full Member status, but am a Legendary member only because I was grandfathered in. ~ Surely there are more than 220 people who make sufficiently good posts to be a Full Member. Full Member requires 100 Merit, you have earned 141. As of last Friday, 343 users have received 100 or more Merit (and 423 users received 90, which is enough if they started with 10 airdropped Merits). An ideal system in my view would be for someone to pay maybe a dollar to become a junior member (that would not allow signatures of any kind), pay $10-$20 to become a Member/Copper Member~ I've seen rates of $1000 per week per thread for a "bumping service", and they used 35 different accounts to do this. A small payment per account isn't going to stop them. are you happy jon?
@theymos: how can this user still have a signature? Is it only removed when someone reaches 30 Activity? Update: I created a new account last week, that one still has signature and Personal Text. I kinda like it: a Newbie starts with some perks, and has 30 Activity to prove he's worth keeping it. If not, it disappears. |
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very much bouty need jr member . and difficult to have a metrit i have 238 activity but not get metrit . today i become newbie verry sad i think better if need 200 activity to become jr. even 5p i can post 1 that meaning i only can work 20 bouty for a day before i can made 100 . what can i do now give up a dream become a bouty man find a other work ?
You're a perfect example to show why this was needed. You made 1160 posts without adding any value to this forum. You call yourself a "bouty man", I call this spamming. |
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I understand that this affects the display of images created by TS.
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help me, I ask you
Get a Copper Membership, and your images show up again. One thing that wasn't mentioned is that some existing merit sources seem to have gotten a source size increase as well, so there should be much more merit flowing. I've seen mine go up by 20 sMerit twice so far (based on counting how many I've sent in the past 30 days, and how many I have left).
Thanks theymos! This means the many Jr. Member spambots can now be nuked! I've seen them with hundreds up to 1000+ posts without earning a single Merit. With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.
For later reference: There are 120 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 23045 sMerit per 30 days |
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