Pretty much same timezones lol. Just being a conforming Canadian. I do prefer to look at it as 4 

Love me them block bot notifications.

Just got another one a very green week for sure. I guess this is the first one of block Thursday. Let's replicate Wednesday.

Have you added a pool in the configuration?

Could you post a link to an image of the status page?

Who's your husband. That account deserves a merit somewhere I'm sure.


I thought you were trying to punish him

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I respect your husband's decision and would do the same to my wife, mind you shed probably get banned for trolling or something anyways.

If you truly want to be a junior member just go out there and post, be helpful or contribute in some way. If you can't earn a merit that way you don't deserve the rank.

The pay to post is an interesting way of looking at it.

I see it as more of an earn to maintain. In a way it removes the "tenure" aspect of ranking up in the forum. It would be most notable to the 1 merit junior members, who when it was all of a sudden needed got a suspect merit awarded. In the long run though given poor enough quality it could affect any user who ranked up but does not currently create meritable posts.

From this I would not want to see negative in the merit field. People would be able to continue posting as normal after the 200 posts.

I feel this would be a good overall way of keeping forum ranks/status more fluid and current. Especially if it were applied in a way that it encompassed everyone including people who were ranked up prior to the merit system.

Edit: Just want to make sure it's known that I began thinking this system up after reading LoyceV's post

Can you move this to beginners and help. That's probably the best place for this.

Meta is for forum related posts.

I wouldn't count on that. When it gets shipped the Country where it was manufactured will matter more than where it is shipped from.

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Nice to see some hard specs and release dates for their new line. I am more interested in seeing what the 941will do, and if it launches as soon as the 841 did after the 821

Are you sure they are using the correct site.

If they are on a phishing site that might be the error that comes up when they try and post.

Other than that I don't know why they are seeing that error.

It's not snobbery. The restrictions have nothing to do with newbies who come here to learn,contribute or be a part of the community.

The restrictions were put in place to combat the spam problem that had overrun most decent conversations on the forum.

That is why people are happy to see this in place.

Sorry I wasn't clear in my explanation.


When I said this, I meant it as a programming fix. The forum would tabulate all posts that you create in that time frame including posts that are deleted. So in this system, it wouldn't matter if the spammers deleted their posts, as it would have still been added to the tally.

While an account may only show 190 posts in an effort to remain below the (currently imaginary) threshold for Merit reduction, their actual tally may be 201, thus triggering the removal of 1 merit. In this example they tried to delete 11 posts. With a large number like 200 or 250 posts, I feel it would give a wide enough berth for any worthwhile member of the forum to earn 1 merit...

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Love it, does it come with a fancy card?

You should ad in the safety spiel pointing the spammers to their nearest exit.

Thanks for updating. It will be interesting to see what it gets for a 24 hour test to see where it averages out; so far at stock it's looking a few TH low. They may have based the advertising on highest hash acheviable, mind you it's hard to draw conclusions from the 1 machine. I forget where you able to find a power meter to monitor it's consumption on the less efficient settings?


Yeah glad I'm not facing that, for most people that puts most miners well out of reach. I can only speculate but it sounds like anything prior is exempt, but maybe some of your more recent acquisitions will fall into the back taxes category.

Hey there,

What are your ambient temperatures. One of the errors, the 144 is a combination of the 16, and the 128. The 128 is a warning regarding a "too hot" situation on the control board, but I think it relates to the specific hashboard, not sure.

I'm guessing this is a 741? Has it been cleaned out recently? Did you make any changes?

I see what your saying. Perhaps the happy medium would actually come from a post count as opposed to activity or time. Say 200 or 250 posts; the kicker would be that it is a continuous total not affected by deleted posts.
This way spammers can't cheat the activity threshold by deleting posts, and it won't disproportionately affect casual or inactive users.

I do not consider that shitposting. OP chooses to take part in bounties that from their full post history do not appear to encourage spamming the forum. Are all of the posts outside the bounties stellar, no, but they are not spammy and have a point. The user maintains a good post gap and IMO is not a spamming shitposter.


I agree, and before I read the post I had reviewed your post history because of the OP. I would have merited the OP but IMO it should have just been a post in the merit and new rank thread. Not a cardinal sin or anything, and considering you seem to be a casual user it can be seen as an oversight.


Honestly just do "you". While I would like to see Bounties managed completely differently, and not have signatures for anyone below a member rank, you don't seem to be part of the problem. Noiw if you start dropping a bunch of "nice projects" or "great vision" posts all over to boost your count, that would be considered shitposting.

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As for the OP, I'm okay with where the merit requirements sit for ranking up to higher levels. Who cares how long it takes it's not a race. I agree with the 5 merit requirement for JR. Member.

Or here's a thought, you could just be better. I get it that's a long shot.

You are exactly what is wrong with the forum, and a great sign that the steps Theymos is implementing do have a positive effect.

If you feel your time has been wasted, you now know how anyone who took the time to read your posts felt.

Nice job of grouping the information together.

I might have missed it on my read through, did the T2T ever hit the specs of 24TH ?? I know your meter couldn't handle the electrical load, but it would be interesting to see if the machine gets there.

The T2T+ looks deadly as far as efficiency, depending on what hardware actually makes it to market it won't be top of the efficiency list but still respectable?

Although for confirmed deliverers of at least 1 model of hardware I think this is the top based on the advertised specs for now right?

Nice video.

^^

I like your glass half full attitude. 

Although I would still prefer to see them leave or improve, cutting off or restricting the ease access to their "jobs" is probably the only way to do it.

Just want to make sure I understand this stat.

Are these people who sent the most merit to users who eventually were banned(autobanned)?

Edit: If so I'm assuming that it is a cumulative total across 1 or more members

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Thanks for the reply Cyrus.

I checked out the idea, and am all for it. I wouldn't tie it to activity as you have already pointed out the work around, they would just delete posts. There would be no repercussions to them in doing so as they aren't ranking up without merit. I would say every 45 days. With all the new sources of merit that has been added, a worthwhile poster should be able to earn 1 merit in 45 days, I feel that is a generous timeline.


That would be nice, but Theymos is not a fan of heavy handed rules being implemented. Unfortunately the community doesn't have a tool to use though to enforce a majority consensus on how we would like to see bounties handled in the forum. I used to not concern myself with bounties as I assumed there actions were all off forum, then I realized how many of them require a signature and to post on the forum. I tried to thin kof a way that DT could be used to reign in the bounty managers but trust doesn't really affect them.

You are not wrong, that there are shitposters of all rank. They are easy to see because they post the same garbage you find in the newbie accounts.

The problem with using this de-ranking system for members of higher ranks is that they may have become lurkers, or not be as active as they once were. There a lot of older members who have been here years and don't frequent areas where merit was heavily handed out, or use say only the marketplace. So to implement this system in that way would need to be done on a case by case basis, and that would require more effort than it is worth.

This way the forum can at least deter to some extent the account farming for spam bots or bounty signatures. This is mostly done with low ranking fresh accounts.