Unfortunately the future of eCommerce is going to be controlled by Amazon. Crypto will give us a chance to do a bit of trading outside their centralised empire, but how many people are prepared to shun Amazon to preserve this trading?

A necro-bump with a useless reply. A full quote to bulk up the reply. Both of those are enough for me to put you on ignore.

243 posts and not one merit. Carry on like this, and you will make it to 1000 posts with no merit.

Wow - thanks for that, and it is a great surprise. I was about to suggest that it should be awarded to achow, as he provides much more technical help thn I do, and I think this is one of the primary functions of Bitcoin Talk.

Here is my entry for the dance contest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhJMjIM6sM

I claim the 55gallon drum of WD40, and I would be grateful if you could hold this in trust for me until I am able to embark on my world tour in my converted camper van. I haven't started the conversion yet, so departure may be a few years away.

I've brought this topic back again, as it would be a great help if there was a way that merit sources could provide support to responsible members who are active on some of the neglected boards.

The ignore button is great. You can ignore complete bords like the ANN and ICOs, and you can ignore posters with bad posting habits. OK, maybe they will create the odd useful post, but why spend time picking through the garbage in the hope tht you will find one. Ignoring the OP in a thread greys out the title, so it's easy to skip that thread when you are looking for posts to reward. It's sad for the good posters who may be active in tht thread, but in life you need to choose your friends carefully, society judges you by your friends and associates.

It looks as if I awarded 20 fewer merits in the last total, and right now I've got 160 sMerits that I could award. I put this down to the difficulty that I'm having in finding posts that I like, and it's made harder by the fact that my ignore list is growing. Maybe I'm unreasonable, but it's a question of my time management. The things that cause me to ignore members are. I appreciate that this is a very generalised approach, but, due to the high volume of spammers, it seems to be the only way to handle it.

- All caps titles
- glyphs in titles
- Oversized text in long posts
- Unnecessary images in posts other than social threads
- Begging for merit
- Twitbook and ICO promotion on general boards
- Heavily formatted posts on the general boards, especially ANN posts
- Necro-bumpers
- Rubbish posters with bad English

There are probably some more as well. In fact I have so many on ignore, that I even set up an appeals site for reformed posters to ask for re=evaluation - https://talkmerit.com/support/

By advertising a product in your signature, you are endorsing that product. As you have discovered, this endorsement can affect your reputation. You should always check to make sure that anything you promote in your signature is honest and reputable. The readers of your posts will trust your judgement, you should try not to let them down.

There is a network histogram in debug, and this seem to show that sync'ing works in bursts on my Windows machine. I'll post an image if I get a chance tomorrow. I can't use port 8333 where I am at the moment. I can make one for the Ubuntu as well if you want a comparison.

Well that is why I think that no post in the ANN section should be able to receive any merits. It turns the whole merit system into a joke imho.

Well I could give 50 merits to a post, but I can't conceive of one that is worth that much. I've only found half a dozen that I've awarded with 5. I think I gave 10 to seoinc, but that was for him to make some awards in the Spanish community.

What post would be worth 50 merits?

I don't seem to get many merit beggars mailing me
I put them straight onto ignore, so they will never get any merit from me in the future

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to realise that meriting your alts is against forum policy, and will cause you to be red tagged at the very least. If that were not so, then I could make a nice business out of creating legendary accounts to spam the forum.

Source Merits aren't awarded in one lump at the beginning of the month, they are replaced 30 days after they are awarded.

Linking merit to any form of financial gain would be a disaster.

If the forum wants to reward forum activities such as moderation, then they should, and probably do, reward these activities directly with Bitcoin payments.

Bitcoin is global, but not globalist. It doesn't demand the destruction of national sovereignty, and all of the other things that the globalists are creating.

Most people need leaders, and personalities that can become rallying points. Donald Trump is a rallying point. Clinton, Obama, Blair Cameron and the like were not rallying points, they were strippers of national assets, and the promoters of global eugenics.

Well there is a reason for their adverts to be shunned, and as the chances to promote their scams in the world reduce, perhaps they will stop being created. Crypto has enough problems in gaining public acceptance, without all the scammers and spammers reducing credibilty. Bitcoin Talk needs to be seen as an honest representative of all that is good in crypto, and not as an underworld swamp.

Please don't necro-bump old threads when the information is in the stickies. I've put you on ignore for doing it, and no doubt others will do the same. Even more when you complain that you aren't getting any merits because all the awarders are ignoring you.

So is it a good thing that I have slipped to 170 in the generosity ranking?

I saw the thread about banning all Venezuelans, and it must be difficult for Theymos to avoid appointing mods with such extremist views. As you know, the only member of FtT who is not a member of Bitcoin Talk is a Venezuelan girl. She is there by my invitation as I respect her for managing to gain an IT degree in a country that is beset with political turmoil. I hope that Bitcoin Talk can draw together the honest, industrious and innovative populations from all countries. Social interaction to build mutual respect is the only way to achieve a measure of world harmony. To achieve this, it is important to restrict the activities of the dishonest and the spammers who destroy the reputations of whole countries, and this is why the forum needs active moderation.

Just to clarify - the extreme view was that of a member, and not the mod who deleted the thread.

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If the mods won't clean up the beginners and the discussion boards. then I'm going to have to do it myself for my own convenience. I'm considering ignoring any member who includes the word twitter in a thread title. If other merit awarders start to do this, and to publicise the fact, then maybe we can reduce their spamming pollution on those boards.

Never mind the translations, I think bounty and ICO promotions should be kept in the underworld here, and not be allowed on the local of general boards.