There are just too many variables and it is really difficult for new members to rank up.

This might be somewhat unpopular, but is popularity the goal? A good resource should be the goal IMO, I exclusively read this forum for about 1 year before I felt knowledgeable enough to post at all.


Getting the signal:noise ratio up can probably only be achieved using real resources. I'd be very happy if a BTC cost was introduced for posting:

• Nuke the old rank status for all members, re-adjust according to merit only
• Charge BTC for every post, low rank = highest fee
• Set the charges incredibly low to begin with, slowly increase to tweak the quality level

Lightning payments would be necessary, of course. Maybe I'm taking too hard a line, but if I have to pay even 500 satoshis per post, that would be a small price to pay to improve quality again.

Look at the inverse situation: 1000's of accounts are posting meaningless, obvious, copy-pasta or troll content, only in order to get paid per post by sig campaigns or trolls-in-chief.

Price discovery can solve this problem, it's a geniune "tragedy of the commons" issue after all.

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I have already completed your challenge. here is my celebration post.
Finally! 101 merit and 84 activity!! Celebration Post! My thoughts on merit.

Hey look, we are both full members. We both got given 100 merits for free when the system was first put in place. Since then, I've earned a bunch more. You've earned zero.

Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't the merit system - it's you.

I never got any merits. theymos broke my life!!1!

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This is a joke thread but the moderator accumulated tons of merits. I wonder the ones that gave away
merits were aware this is was a joke. If not this post is a kind of scam i reckon.
If they were aware then everyone is happy, well done job.

A scam?
Grow up, it was a joke & even if people weren’t aware, who cares? Too many people on here falling over themselves, absolutely desperare for Merit. It’s only a forum, if this place is so important to people & their earning potential in life then they might as well give up on life.

Case#14

martina14, anjho.ace, gunhell16 , cherryganda , kram31 , lovesybitz ,
rockyfeller , shandiem14 , benalexis12 , Viscera , vincentong17 , jpoker272727 , hackzang12 , Bobby park , ivanst776

 
martina14 merit summary

Received	User	Sent
10	anjho.ace	4
0	gunhell16	5

anjho.ace merit summary

Received	User	Sent
0	martina14	10
1	cherryganda	10
4	kram31	10
0	gunhell16	15
1	lovesybitz	0
4	rockyfeller	0
1	shandiem14	0
2	benalexis12	0
10	Viscera	0
1	vincentong17	0
50	jpoker272727	0
10	ivanst776	0

If you go through everyone's merit a lot of farming has already taken please , i haven't submitted merit summary of all the users because on top all are interconnected hope it helps you there is one legendary , few hero's and many senior and full members if you want merit summary of all the users let me know i'll try adding few users daily


Edit - Screwed up the format big time but finally fixed it

The incident is almost similar to what I saw in 2017 and it happened to my brother, in front of the computer he often talks and shouted himself like crazy, but not infrequently he also gets a lot of money from bitcoin. October 25, 2017, that's when I got to know bitcoin.

I am introduced to BTC last December...

I knew bitcoin precisely in September last year....

I came to know quite late about bitcoins. I started investing last year only and i think I am already quite late to the party. Early adopters are the ones who make most profits.

I am very happy to be a member in this forum, because I am here also can get guidance from people who know more basics and the meaning of bitcoin.

It's totally fine man,it wasn't directed towards you.I was just addressing the type of queries we get around here.For instance,'How do I upload image' is the query which gets asked every other week when there are like 100 of threads explaining how to do the same.Worst case,people are dumb enough to use google.

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jes but i just thought about the american society, where you can pay your marketing campaign to win the president election.... why not have the rich having a lot of merit here.

bitcoin talk will also have its own currency like "binance" but considering how donations are beeing used to upgrade accounts, what would make it different. if now the merit would be open for sale.

if the mods feel alienated by this fun thread they can delete it. i dont mind.

Lamborghini member.

There isn't one.

I am a Legendary now, what is the next level?

just for fun, i know its illegal but would wonder what price merit would get if it would be listed on coinmarketcap and on exchanges.

Congrats with your birthday of course! I should get a bump bot to post here daily

Wouldn't take more than two hours for someone with an average IQ of 80 to discover all of them.Unfortunately,we have special talents around the forum.

Congratulations

I was thinking the same thing after reading that post (but didn't do it).

...Or you can just click lock topic at the bottom left  .