Thanks for the supportive comments, but I don't think I dare award any merits to you guys, sorry.

It looks as if I did slip up in this case, and, unfortunately, I don't remember the circumstances. I have tried to generate some real political discussions on the politics board, but it's a bit difficult, as I seem to be a bit focused on the problems of creeping globalism.

I think it is interesting that the alt that has caused the problems is JetAid, and that was declared as an alt right from its initial registration. It is the alt that was created to help me to find meritable posts. My other alt - Talk Merit, was created to test the upranking system for new members, and I believe it achieved member rank in the fastest time, and it was not declared as an alt until it had received its first 10 merits.

What all this has done for me is to make me realise that I am spending to much time trying to impose my ideas on the forum, and I will make some changes to optimise things for me. I'll probably use snow eagle for my own use, and I may delete the Jet Cash ignore list, and start a new one that just includes post formatters and image abusers. They do slow down reading for me, but other members seem to enjoy such posts. This will mean that I won't have to use JetAid in hunting for meritable posts. I appreciate that this will mean that some boards and posters will not be viewed, but I don't really see a viable alternative for me.

I don't really understand the trust comment, but as I have only made one trade here, and I'm not interested in bounties, it doesn't really affect me.

I've just checked the JetAid profile, and I've a a comment to the personal text. I thought I did then when it was registered,but maybe there is a restriction for newbies that stopped that. I did provide a website link, and that goes to https://JetCash.com, but members probably don't check those links - they can be quite interesting.

Whoops! I don't remember doing that. I guess that is trying to do too much too quickly. I was probably watching youtube whilst I was posting. I get a bit heated about the whole Eton/Oxford control of Britain and the Western world. Maybe I should avoid posting about it here.

Just out of interest though, what was wrong with the sequence in a political discussion. It is an extremely important issue, and it affects all of us all over the world.

Anyway, I apologise for my impatience in my posting.

I don't think I have ever posted concecutively in such a short time, unless it was to split a long topic, and then it would be the same poster.

I assumed that it was the opening post that was made on the 5th October, and a bump post that was made on the 6th October as the thread had not received any replies, and it was about Brexit. A topic that is of major importance to me.

I think they were adjacent, but not made on the same day.

I don't have a problem with the mod in question, he was very helpful and constructive.

I think whoever reported it is the sad case, and it was probably done because he didn't agree with my comment, but he wasn't man enough to speak out with his opinion. But of course, that is just my conjecture.

This is just one element in a much broader picture.

The US hegemony was built on an agreement that the US would protect Saudi, if Saudi and some other Arab oil producers insisted that oil was paid for in US dollars. Trump appears to be terminating this arrangement as part of his apparent objective to collapse the dollar, and blame the Central Banks.

I have received a note that a member has complained that I use Jet Cash and JetAid to post in the same thread. I understand that this is technically a breach of the rules of Bitcoin Talk. I don't have an issue with BT or the mods, but obviously now that I am aware of this, I will ensure that it doesn't happen again.

Now for the reason for my action. As you know, I have a large number of members on ignore, and I also ignore many of the boards. This is true of my Jet Cash name, however, the JetAid name has no entries in any ignore lists. I log in as JetaAid to enable me to look at any thread, and sometimes I see that a person I have on ignore has changed his posting habits, and may even have created a meritable post. It is fairly inconvenient to switch between alts if I see a thread in which I wanted to post, so I just post as JetAlt.

I apologise to the forum if this caused any confusion, and I thought that everybody was aware of the ownership of both accounts. One unfortunate result of this complaint is that I will have to cut down on the activity of JetAid, and this will mean that I won't have the opportunity to merit posts that I am not able to read as Jet Cash.

I'm using a template to help me to build the Snow Eagle site, and the template includes a number of sample pages. One of these is a gallery page. In the Snow Eagle thread, one member suggested that the listings shouldn't be restricted to members or below, and I decided that it would become too cumbersome if it was expnaded. However, I did think it might be fun to list all the personal avatars used by Bitcoin Talk members, and I started to create this page -
http://snoweagle.com/pages/avatars.html

I'm still not sure of the copyright issues when these avatars are used to link to members profiles ( that is planned for the near future). So, do you think I am OK with this page, and what should I do to allow members to opt out of the listing?

I was a Hero when the merit system was introduced, and I will confess that I thought I was too much of a wild cannon to gain any. However, it did seem to accumulate, and I was able to merit quite a few members as a result. I have become a legendary, and Theymos made me a merit source, so merit has taken on a different perspective for me now. Any merit I receive is now a confirmation that a policy, idea or project is perceived to be of benefit to the community. Responses and comments in threads are another way that I evalue my actions, and I dropped a few projects as a result of apparent "lack of interest".

The natural feeling of the OP is good, and I'm pleased that he has stated it publicly, we should try to encourage good, active posters in Bitcoin Talk.

An all caps title - a rehash of constantly posted information - all this leads to the poster being ignored, so he has been.

Please guys - can we have some intersting discussions for a change. We don't want to be constantly seeing the same old stuff reposted, especially when it pushes bounty spamming, which is exploiting the work of the established members here.

Spam is on all the boards, and this is why I decided to become multi-dimensional. I'm multi-board, multi-ethnic, gender neutral, and probably multi-polar as well.

I've decided that it doesn't matter where a comment is posted - it is the poster that matters. I thought at first that following posters rather than topics would mean that I would miss out on some discussions, but in fact the reverse seems to be true. If you find an interesting member, then the chances are that he will post in interesting threads that you may not have noticed.

I blame it on Jacqueline du Pré - she's attacking a Dvořák cello concerto with some gusto on You Tube.

None of the above - and I don't discriminate against people living in the US. I was going to try for a pilot's licence in Oakland, but ended up as a ski bum in Tahoe instead.

I'm afraid the the Snow Eagle project is a personal decision, and there is no application process. You need to be a good contributing member of Bitcoin Talk, and hope that you get noticed. Other merit awarders have more formal threads that you can use.

I probably should be allowed on Bitcoin Talk before my early morning coffee.
I've just given this guy a merit -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4899244.msg44121971#msg44121971

I guess it's my warped sense of humour.

A forum is a meeting place for people to interact and discuss, so your activity would be in the forum.
A board is a notice board that is located at a forum, so your notices would be posted on the board(s).

I believe that current board policy is not the best to deal with spammers and the encouragement of good posting. All the emphasis seems to be on the posts, and not on the poster. The mods spend hours deleting rubbish, and there seems to be some tolerance towards the vipers nests of spamming alts. The posters put a small amount of effort into a few posts to scratch some merit, and then continue with their policy of creating jetsam to pollute the boards.

I would like to encourage some of the new members to learn about Bitcoin and the crypto economy, and the way that it can be used to improve their lifestyle, if they are living in a country with a challenged or oppressive economy. You can't really do this just by looking at individual posts. I decided that one of my unused domains could be used to highlight and encourage these members. I'm going to use the domain https://SnowEagle.com to do this, but I'm still creating the basic site, so I haven't added anybody yet. I'd be grateful if I could be notified if the community things that I have made a mistake by including any members.

It has been suggested that I should allow a "snow eagle" to provide a short bio to be added to their entry. Does the community think that this would be a good idea? I know that this can be included in a profile, but it would speed up scanning by merit awarders if there was a simple comment about the poster.

I don't think there is a shortage of merits waiting to be awarded, so the destruction of bad merits isn't really a waste. What is a waste is the time that was spent by mods in getting rid of them.

Has anyone worked out how much merit is available and waiting to be awarded?

I'm in discussions with the member - probably a snow eagle candidate.

Actually they are similar, but not quite the same. There is a difference in the merit awarding.

I'm really pleased I started this, I'm having fun playing with the HTML and CSS, and I found a CD with a Brahms violin concerto on it.

The only downside is that I've just received a McDonalds signature burger with fries.

A "mass ban" could occur when a cluster of spamming alts are detected. The admins will want to destroy the whole nest of vipers.