Even the ones that manage campaigns themselves and don't use automation are going to check up on the participants to make sure they are not cheating. To be honest, your example is a bit far-fetched.

The campaigns use bots that monitor if the participants wear the signature at all times. If they don't do then the spammers cheat and enrol in many campaigns at the same time.

That's excellent and a lot more detailed than I was expecting. We still have to remember how short a period of time people have had to get the merit compared to how long it takes to get the activity. That's a function of the way everyone got the same initial distribution by their rank ignoring their activity. I'd think that if you compare those numbers in a couple of months time that there will be a big improvement.

Because it is really annoying when people ask a question and the answer is on the same page. It shows that they're too lazy to help themselves and expect other people to do everything for them.



Because if you read the thread it is obvious that the admins have decided not to do anything about it. It's not even 2 pages long and that's still too much effort for some people.

Did you even read the post I was replying to?


This thread fully answers all of that. It wasn't even that they were bumping the thread to see if admin was going to answer they literally had not read anything.

Use the "Report to moderator" link on the posts and put in the comment something like "users posts are all spam please ban".

It kinda isn't anymore. Although we still refer to $0.002 as the base reward and the $0.001 as the halved reward I was sure if I had said $0.002 someone would jump in and object on the grounds they were only getting half that.

It's worth noting that altcoin forums like cryptocurrencytalk.com are practically deserted and everyone chooses to come to the Bitcoin Forum. Not because it is a sanctuary, but because they can get paid to post here.


I really don't think it is too difficult to rank up for people that use the forum for what it is intended for. It certainly is difficult for people that came here to earn money from posting about something they're really not interested in. It may slow the process down for some well intentioned people but I don't see that as a problem. Over time it will just make the ranks a little more meaningful.

Here's some numbers to illustrate my point.

2,044,505 accounts.
850,000 active accounts (estimated before this was hacked).
13,807 accounts received 1 or more merit (source).

Of that 13,807 I would estimate maybe half would be here if they weren't being paid and almost all of them would have no problem ranking up.

We can deduce that you have completely missed the point.

A forum is a place where people come together to discuss a shared interest, in this case Bitcoin. Where that is happening people are getting merited not on an arbitrary measurement of quality or how much time was involved but on how useful other people valued that interaction.

If you can't sign a message from that address there is no advantage at all.

Out of curiosity do you often do things when you have no idea why you are doing them? Anyway, the reason is stated in OP of the thread that you quoted so I don't need to repeat it.

I find that interesting but probably in a different way than you do. In effect imposing a fee to post would be a form of regressive taxation. Those with the highest income from their signatures would be paying the lowest tax rate and those with the lowest income from their signatures would be paying the highest tax rate. Then those with no paid signature, if they couldn't afford the tax, would be forced to join a signature campaign or leave.
So it is those in the best position to pay the tax that are most against it.


That's not a bad idea in my opinion but when it was suggested here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2823134 theymos said:


That was part of what got me to thinking of other ways to tackle the signature spam from accounts that are already of high rank and I came up with Merit Phase 2 - Drain the Swamp.

tl;dr Hide the signatures of anyone who doesn't get any merit over a certain timeframe.

Or how about when someone signs up a new account they are given links to those threads then they have to pass a test to prove their knowledge before they can post?

That's $0.008173 at the time of writing.


Have you calculated how long it would take to win Powerball without ever buying a ticket?


The best thing about the free roll is that you are always guaranteed to win something whether it is the minimum $0.001 or all the way up to $200 it didn't cost anything to play.

He didn't, there was a fork. That means a separate blockchain was created at a certain point in time that was exactly the same as the Bitcoin blockchain. So anyone who had Bitcoins at that time also had an equal amount of Bcash. Dr. H is simply making that Bcash available for you to withdraw. To convert it you need to withdraw it to an exchange and sell it for Bitcoin.

Monero has a fork coming up at the end of the month so people are buying it hoping for a "dividend" payout.

Bcash, on the other hand, is just having a tiny dead cat bounce.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/JFrcc5lT

Have a look at the link to the original Bloomberg story two posts above. There is no denial of the report that they have been discussing it with clients to gauge interest.

As for the effects, it would open the market up to a much wider pool of institutional customers.

That is not very likely to help you. Sign a dated message from a Bitcoin address or using PGP.

Not exactly.

I posted about it yesterday, the original story comes from Bloomberg quoting a source.


The denial "no plans at this time" doesn't contradict that they have been talking to clients to gauge their interest.

I fully endorse this statement. Looking at others predictions usual ends up being distracting and confusing. The only useful thing to come from keeping an eye on the opinions of the masses is as a contrarian indicator. When nearly everyone is bearish the market is likely to turn upwards and vice versa.

You must be completely new to markets then. These sort of movements happen all the time and not only in crypto markets. Correlated markets generally move together unless there is some specific reason for them not to and then the become temporarily uncorrelated. Paranoia about manipulation also extends to other markets but not to the extreme levels so silliness that exist in the crypto world.

sncc is correct. I only had 22 as a Sr. Member because I was not active for the whole of last year. theymos hasn't made the data public so nobody knows exactly how many sMerit anyone else received.