alia received the majority of the merit before the negative trust. And additionally, post quality ≠ trustworthiness. Even TradeFortress could make a great thread. Most probably would be inclined not to give him merit, but it would be fine to do so.

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Have to remember: you could gain a lot of merit but then still get negged afterward.

Will you be willing to moderate the section for no money?

How many posts have you reported? Not just in Politics & Society, but in all of BCT.

The signature says it's hacked. Nobody would do this intentionally unless they are asking for a red tag.

And thus... tagged.

One more thing: there was a glitch that happened some time ago (can't remember when) but all(?) users had their activity boosted and they were Hero/Legendary members. After it was fixed, users who had added avatars during that period kept it despite their rank afterward.

Merit system should be used to create new and more useful posts while decreasing the number of spam posts.

By adding report rewards, you're only acting upon the latter. Plus, you'll probably see a lot of spam reports – if users are scrambling to get merit now through strange ways, then surely they won't care about doing bad reports as long as they can get some good reports through (which result in merit)?

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By redemption I meant any possibility of removal or positive feedback. Like I said, 'you can detect themes of that there'.

I'm not defending his character. I'm just saying that further criticism is pointless and thinking that the possibility of aTriz reaching a position of being able to "scam again and admit I was wrong", passing off the apology is a little childish.

By stick for some time, I mean some long period of time, or forever.

There's no point in trying to refund people when the negatives are going to stay with a high degree of certainty. I'm willing to say that only in an extremely rare circumstance would all the members shift it to neutral at best.

Just trying to play devil's advocate. Even though I'm not defending them. I'm just responding to the snide comment.

I don't think that's fair. aTriz isn't asking for any redemption. Sure, you can detect themes of that there but they're trying (at least from what I can tell) [to the best of their ability] to rectify the situation with the Scam ICO's.

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There's no more need to throw any criticism out there—the negative trust will stick for some time. This isn't some half-assed attempt to try and garner favor, I'm sure.

I don't think we need another compilation thread for these. It suffices to have just one that's updated. There's been ~5 now IIRC.

Right. Well then that just solidifies my point more, doesn't it? I guess I had associated it with rank in lieu of the old limits with sections that would be for Brand New and Newbie members.

So yeah, that's correct. And even after two weeks (or less) here, you can begin to post once per minute. It doesn't make sense to ask or any more than that (on a basic level anyway) since posts that take less than a minute to make are worthless anyway. Either the post would be unconstructive or the thread would be unconstructive, thus passing its worthlessness to the post.

MS Paint can go a long way. Just go with a simple 3 fps animation made up of jpegs.

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This thread is pretty hilarious. :◊

Don't worry. The merit's not going anywhere; I just haven't had time to review posts yet. (Maybe it would also do well to try managing a campaign if I get the opportunity, hah)

Anyone who is ignored has good posts. Their posts just weren't consistently good across all of the 20. I did initially write comments but they seemed pretty redundant and so I stopped.

I have less than 10 users on my ignore list. None of them are in this thread. I don't like ignoring people because if they have something to say, it's a pain in the ass to look.

No need to attack others. We all have different tolerance levels. I'm just ~~way~~ more tolerant. Not to say I won't reprimand people who post with poor quality.

I did them in chunks. One prior reply on page 7? (or noted that I was caught up until then. That was the day that I ran through about 5 pages of requests.

A lot of posts were checked. Not many users were given merit. And there was a large number of users who got a neutral feedback.

Just like before, I'm going to do these in chunks. Kind of like a signature campaign, in a way.

Then if you're going to use those new forums to discuss Bitcoin, you shouldn't care about merit at all. If the purpose of your forum stay is purely to discuss topics and start conversations with others, then merit should not even cross your mind.

The only difference between ranks is the wait time between posts, and even at a Jr. Member level (no merit required) it becomes short enough to the point where you can freely talk between people.

I'm assuming you are talking about merit. Sending one another trust (privately) is not the way to do things.

Why not keep things public? That way you're adding transparency and there will be a record so that you can justify your 'merit donations'.

Nice strawman.

There was a Newbie jail, y'know. It doesn't make sense to allow activity to be accumulated with garbage threads like "how to prepare for your death?" and "the effects of drugs on people..."

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Check out these amazing posts from the latter.


Note that this is on the first page of the thread.

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We should not have these pointless responses. They don't add anything to the discussion and are redundant.

LoyceV seems like a good pick. They have generally shown themselves to be both intelligent and objective.

Almost seems like just virtue signaling if someone has to shoot out a negative feedback after a number have already been sent. Not that it's not fine but just redundant.

Moreover, they don't have to outright send a feedback but they can simply disagree with the behavior. I think the pressure to warrant a neg is fueled by indignant individuals.

The thread may not have been posted in the correct section. It should have been moved but I guess was trashed for some reason.

That's not... how the meme works.

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It has to be intentional, yeah? aTriz isn't known to be unintelligent.

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Not defending him, but the only reason I can come up with to sort of justify this is the fact that one might tunnel vision when they're working for someone.

However, it's unacceptable for such a member to allow false marketing that represents 100x the raised amount for an ICO.

Virtue signaling brings not praise.

Let's not forget the number of people who jump into Reputation threads to do the same when there's an obvious unsubstantiated statement. Same thing with no collateral Lending threads.