Maybe there should be an approved list of SMART thread starters. This wouldn't require any forum changes, as the Title and thread starter are both listed on the index page.

The advantage of this is that I can just delete low value posts without having to put the poster on ignore.

An diadvantage is that it could lead to my being red tagged for deleting a post. I'm still waiting for a merit source to be red tagged by a bounty hunter because his post wasn't awarded any merits.

I wanted to start a SMART thread on the beginners board, but I haven't been able to think of a suitable topic. Contests and merit reward threads are not really suitable. I know that sounds like a contradiction,but the SMART merits should be a secondary consideration. I might have a go on the discussion board, and it would be interesdting to see how long it took to die, or get moved into the backwaters.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you.

I want to try it anyway, and that's why I included the possibility of merit rewards. It seems that nobody does anything in the forum unless there is the possibility of merits.

The duplicate thread concept was one of my concerns. Obviously a rubbish thread can be created with a [SMART] tag. Hopefully that will be seen as fraudulent if it is adopted, and maybe extreme abuses could be red tagged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DhrUxtAAM

This system is not a European system, but a system controlled by the European Union, and that is a part of the globalisation project. The four new satellites will bring the total up to 26, and 24 are needed for a complete global system. The surveillance and control possibilities with this system are awesome. Of course there are benefits, but are they worth the negative possibities that will affect our lives?

How do you feel about this attempt by a remote group of elites to monitor and control soverign nations?

No you are not even thinking of the spirit of the merit system. If fact, I don't think you even understand the concept of merit for posting.

We don't want a hampster wheel of rubbish posters and merit hunters, we want quality posts and threads. You can bet that the bounty spammers are onto the idea of begging for merits by reporting posts that have probably already been reported.

Post moderation and its problems seems to be taking over from merit as the hot topic of the week. I propose a radical new approach - Members take responsibility for their own posts, and they moderate the replies. So I'm going to try to do this, and that leads me to yet another Jet Cash invention - SMART threads. These threads will be moderated by me, and will need to conform to my standards, and I don't believe that these are contrary to the spirit of the forum rules. SMART stands for "Self-Moderated And Rewarded Threads", and the rewards will come from my stack of sMerits. If you look at my merit awarding history, you will see that I try to award merits to quality posts, and I am prepared to award merits to 'international' members, as long as they have made an effort to create a decent post.

I will write some rules for posting in these threads, and I'll add them here later for your comments. Threads in this initiative will have the prefix [SMART] in the title. The idea is not subject to copyright , but if any other members want to create such threads, please ensure that you keep them clean, and free of bounty and ICO spam, and also that you have sMerits to award to good posters.

I think that's a great idea.

Now I need another coffee. I was going to complain that the mouse hover didn't work. and then I realised that I was hovering over an image, and not a real profile. The Internet distorts reality, especially when you stay in bed for too long.

No. please don't do this. We need more quality posts and stimulating discussions, and merit was created to encourage this. Theymos has a better idea. Award medals for helping with the administration of the forum. I'm sure that if this catches on, then he will be pleased to create some additional advantages for medal holders.

I'm going to take a different approach. I'm going to start creating SMART ( Self-Moderated And Rewarded Threads ), and hopefully this will allow me to take responsibility for threads that I create, and reduce the workload for the mods.

Most people seem to think a merit is a merit. and they aren't aware that there are different types of awardable meits. I wrote an article about it on my "walking the plank" blog. You can read the article here-
https://talkmerit.com/the-source/index.php/articles/the-bitcoin-talk-merit-system

I started to write an article about making good posts, but I got a bit discouraged, as there didn't seem to be much interest in it. It was intended to cover the whole process of forum participation right from the choosing of your member name. You can view the start here -
https://talkmerit.com/the-source/index.php/articles/how-to-create-good-posts
I might finish it if there is any interest.

I have received over 500 merits since the system started. If you want to look at my posts that received merits, then you can view them on a list created bu LoyceV. They are listedon this page, together with a list of the threads that I have awarded with merits -
http://talkmerit.com/projects/merit-history.html

I'm reluctant to create a guide for merit hunters, as I think that should be discouraged. Active forum participation should bring its own rewards.

I'm not trying to take away freedoms or free speech. All I'm saying is that if you want to sell heroin, then stay out of the doctor's waiting room.

I've just looked in my merit wallet, and I've got 160 sMerits to award ( please note that I didn't say "give away"). That's 32 people from the local boards who could pick up 5 merits each, if they submitted one post to my translation project. It must be over a month since somebody submitted a post. In most cases other members award merits to the posts as well, so 5 is really just the start.

I've been spending so much time looking for meritable posts, that my other activities have started to suffer, and I've had to back off a bit. I've also tried to improve my search efficiency, If I am looking at the beginners board, then I start with page 5, almost everything before that is bumped up crap. If you guys want to earn some merits for decent posts, then stop the beggars and thieves that are driving away the people who want to help you.

This is the latest one.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4739176.0

Everything these days seems to be about displaying your begging bowl in as many places as you can here, and most posters can't even write decent begging messages to hang on their bowls.

I loved Bitcoin Talk, and it has been a great help to me in the past, but at the moment, I feel it's similar to having a friend who is a heroin addict, and it seems impossible to get him off his addiction before he kills himself.

The board is completely useless now with all the money grabbing promotion methods being discussed. Bitcoin is going through a major transition at the moment, and it is about to enter a new golden age. The current moderation policy on the beginners board will ensure that Bitcoin Talk will not be a part of this future in my opinion.

Yep - he's gone straight onto ignore for that, as well as the opening poster.

It's sad that threads like this pollute the beginners board. Bitcoin Talk is an educational and information exchange site. It's rapidly sinking into a cesspit with threads like this. So many people reading and respnding will have no interest in crypto, but their only interest will be in exploiting the forum to try to scratch a few pennies. With this type of promotion, we can expect a load more threads about the problems caused by the merit system, and the readers will fail to realise that searching the boards for dog-ends of posts is not the way to gain merits.

I don't know why the mods don't move or delete those threads. Maybe Bitcoin Talk has been taken over by the globalists.

If I want to award some merits on the beginners board, then I open pages 5 and 6, and look through the threads there. Often the decent threads haven't received many replies, and they have dropped off the first pages fairly quickly. The Twitbook and bounty spammers keep the rubbish on the early indices.

I'm not sure why the traditional affiliate links in the adverts aren't used. If affiliate payments were based on results, then maybe affilates would be encouraged to make reasonable posts to enhance the image of the sponsor.

I think your greatest problem could be the name. So many coins have been created, tht it's difficult to think of a new name, and to get a .com domain to go with it. For example, I've just bought ERC20coin.com, and that seems to have had toxic associations in the recent past. There is even a Youtube video about "ERC20 coin" being a scam coin. Any expired or dropped name is likely to have been misused in the past, and you don't want to start off with bad associations.

You have 923 posts, and when I went to look at your post history, only 2 posts were available. All the others are on boards that I ignore.

You need to move onto the main boards if you want to lesrn about crypto and earn a few merits.

I've read so many bad reports about the signature programmes here, that I don't want to use any of them. That's probably a brod brush solution, but I'm going to look through some of my old sponsors to start adding some promo links in my sig. I'll probably look at travel or jewellery first just to be different.

I'm so fed up with people saying there is no merit to be awarded. So I've just given single merits to 5 posters in this thread.

Sorry MDay that you were not included. It's thse images - I've got my reputation to consider.