What goes around comes around... Remember, it is a gang. From the white side of Force, but still, a gang ))

There is no such thing as no risk. However, if you want low risk, buy gold. Or buy and hold BTC. For several years. No matter how low it gets. Just hold it.

Tl; dr: just behave normally. Don't spam / scam / plagiarize / beg merits. Post good ideas without thinking about merits / ranking up.

Be honorable! Treat people with tespect! And have patiece. That's all Literally, that is all. Thank me after you become Sr. Member. You'll understand by then.

I hereby make an appeal to all seeing this thread to help somehow Phinnaeus Gage. I will open a separate thread too, just waiting to see what he needs. But I can't stand just like that, taking no action.

I already accepted a challenge (see up). Up to theymos if he will accept it

I am serious. Post that new thread, please. Maybe there is a chance. I will do all I can to help. I am seriouss.

Check out also xraelv's thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4405796.0. You will be impressed

That's why you need to have faith. Religion is based on having faith. Otherwise you can just "hope" you will live and die.

God doesn't need to prove you anything. He is God. He already sent his son on Earth to be sacrificed.

Let's say you are God of ants. Would you feel you need to prove your existence?! I doubt

Thank you for your reminder Ddmr! Similar to Filippone, I was not involved in 2019. Even worst, nor in 2018 although I registered in 2017.

Even worst, I look like a party crasher

However, happy anniversary to one of the most important update of the forum!

Loool make sure you hide the post from wolwoo, padawan )) You know he said " There's a strong gang here"

Besides, it is very tough to enter the gang. Remember that oeleo was willing to give his wife (and I as well, plus 1 kidney) for being accepted in the gang.


If I was arab I would have given also a few camels, but, unfortunately, I'm not arab.

So your suggestion is useless. He will never be accepted in the gang

Oeleo, you are a smart man, young padawan I am glad you understood my point here, maybe your words are more clever / clear than mine.

Hello Biodom, PM me your BTC address. I will buy your coupon. Thank you.

Thank you. That's exactly what I meant.


Hehe, that was funny indeed. And I understood your point of view.




For Chlotilde, The Pharmacist and Rengga Jati: I registered in late 2017 but I was inactive until October-November 2019. All my merits were earned since October 2019 and January 2020. 200 merits in 3 months didn't mean too much effort for me. I just behaved normally and wrote my thoughts here. Apparently they were appreciated. So I was a Newbie 3 months ago and now I am a Full Member, close to Senior.


Thank you DdmrDdmr for sharing your opinion, it is very precious to me. Your suggestion is great!


To be honest, I would. But I'm sure he won't accept as he doesn't want any discrepancies inside the forum. Another reason for which I would accept is because I don't care that much about the rank. I am just a normal user and a honorable person. I behave here pure normally. I express opinions and sometimes they are good, sometimes they are not good. I don't cheat the system, I don't scam, I don't spam. And I promote crypto-anarchism, the cypherpunks, free speech and liberty for people.

However, if theymos reads this, he can double my barriers in ranking up. I accept this challenge Honesty and being a honorable person helps everyone in the society and also inside this forum. If you are not focused on merits and ranking up, if you are focused just on expressing constructive ideas, on helping others and on bringing a plus (generally speaking), on the long term, all these will help you way more than if you are oriented on fast rank-ups, on greed, on earning more and more money. Although you could disagree, life makes a difference between those with good intentions and those with bad intentions. Maybe not fast, but in time the difference is made.


I never posted any "motivational" about how I ranked up, nor I will (at lest in the close future, as ranking up to Full Member is way too easy). Besides, I never even make a subtle approach about earning merits, nor I will. You can check absolutely all my topics / posts here. I understand is quite unusual what I wrote in this thread and I understand is also unusual to see someone acting normally in a world full os scams / spams / greed and so on. But I am 100% honest.

Lol, you expected hard proof? Nobody in the world knows who he is... Of course all are just allegations...

Many will wonder after reading the title. Maybe many will blame this idea.

But, in my opinion, ranking up is way too easy now. Why I say that:

- for ranking up to Jr. Member you need just 1 merit; for Member you need only 10. Indeed, it seems so hard for a Newbie to earn 1 merit  but it is not hard actually (explained below).
- activity allows to become Legendary in 2 years or 2 years and a few weeks. Literally speaking, in real world, legends are built in far more time, not just in 2 years.
- many users help those who need a few more merits to rank up by giving them easily the respective merits. I think even if you are 1-10 merits away from the next rank, you should work for them as you did until that point.
- as far as I saw, merits are awarded too easy. Merit sources and members are more or less generous; besides, there are many merit giveaway threads.
- practically, all you need in order to rank up is to be a honorable person and to wait. Honorable person means the following: to not spam, to not scam, to not plagiarize and post what you think is helpful here. To act as a normal person. And users will appreciate your work. They will give you merits if you post useful consideration and if you don't try to cheat the system. So merit barrier is not a real barrier at all if you act with good intentions.

In my opinion, the only real barrier is the time barrier. Because you have to wait for the activity points, but even this barrier has too low standards. Maybe Legendary rank should be possible in 5-10 years, not in 2. What legendary person in the history became a legend in 2 years?!

So I suggest to raise the merit standards because it is way too easy to earn them and also raise the needed activity for higher ranks.

Oh man... I feel very very sorry for you...
Is there anything to be done to help you somehow?

Yes indeed... Sad, but true. And another book which also describes how our reality is Vernor Vinge's True Names (1981).

I will write a quote here from the book which may raise your interest: "I think the Mailman is taking us on one at a time, starting with the weakest, drawing us in far enough to learn our True Names - and then destroying us".

Of course, in our times, the mailman is the govern, hungry for our privacy and personal data - for our True Names.

Are you serious...? Can you detail more...? What happened with you?

Well, let's just hope that at some point theymos will look into it Most likely, it is not something very important but we can say it is a "nice to have" feature.

Hello zyadshadi, I sent you a PM. Please let me know what you think anout my proposal.