Even among those of the heroes and legendary ranking, there are still many who will abuse the privilege. Let's not forget that the ideal reality for those in those top ranking positions does not in any way imply that they are real 'leaders' in BTT forum.

IMO, the staff of BTT forum can be expanded to include paid whistleblowers, merit monitors, and trust network initiators. I actually like the idea of a trust network of merit sources--> dmerit agents --> smerit sources and any other business related to such ranking and evaluation system. This would most likely improve the performance of the BTT forum activities and the overall public image.

I've thought quite a lot about the merit system, and I think it had given Theymos some difficult decisions to make. In many ways it is a form of board moderation, but with positive rewards rather than punishments. At the moment most people use the rewards to expand their bounty hunting and sig spamming, and this contributes to the cluttering of the boards. In many ways it would be better if nobody were to rank up while sig spamming was still rife. The answer would be for the forum to provide alternative benefits for rank, but I can't think of any - flashing avatars would be an annoyance for example.

The other option is to try to avoid scams and HYIP product promotion in signatures, and encourage the promotion of more stable long term products. I don't really approve of mixers for example, but I can see that some people may have a need to use them, and long term advertising runs for such products will encourage the sponsor to ensure that his reputation is not damaged by bad posting habits.

I think the admins are aware of the importance of the merit system, and the way it has improved the boards. Merit sources will be able to help shape the forum for the future, and I hope that sources can be given some guidance on forum policies. I started my chat room to try to obtain some help with this, and I have received some advice, but I still think I'm a bit of a wild canon with my awards. This is the reason that I suggested the Source2 status. It would allow me ( and other sources) to feed merits into areas with which I have no empathy, but are essential to the maintenance of the diverse interests in the forum

No, these aren't negative merits, but they are sMerits that can be delegated.

I gave seoinc. 10 merits so that he can award some in the Spanish community, and I messed up by giving a couple of merits to a copy paster. It would have been great if I could have delegated the 10 sMerits to seoinc. for him to pass on all 10, and of course no merits would have been added to his personal total.

How about giving some merit sources the ability to delegate the awarding of a limited number of sMerits. It would make the task of merit sources much simpler, and it would act as a form of apprenticeship for future merit sources.

Hi, Please help me to setup my first bounty campaign on Bitcoin Talk.

Also Please tell How can I start with ANN thread....

Good morning people. I need to know why I can not find the link in my profile, like this, this way.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=USER_NUMBER. Can someone help me please? Thank you.

I'm not going to get into the semantics of what the true exact percentage of ICOs are scams, but by scam I mean any ICO that hasn't delivered what it promised and investors got little to nothing for their money, which is the vast majority of them whether it is much less than 99% of them or not. Can you really name more than a handful of successful ICOs that delivered on whatever product it was they were selling? Most of them are either scams from the get-go or they fail because it's some half assed attempt and they haven't thought it through properly, but it doesn't matter because they have your money anyway. They're just cash grabs at the end of the day and they might as well try because they have nothing at all to lose. If these people were serious about their business then they would just seek funding elsewhere or through the proper channels, but because ICOs are unregulated and are filled with greedy get rich quick schemesters they're prime for abuse and people are all too quick to throw their money at them.


But more efficient by how? And again, they don't care. They pay people just to get their name out there as fast as possible. They're throwing shit at walls and hoping that some of it sticks (which it inevitably does). They can't really be any more efficient than that because they don't have the time, money or expertise to do so. They just do whatever they can with their fantasy budget and so far that includes getting people to spam their name around for their made up tokens on social medias regardless of whether it's actually reaching the people in the most efficient way.

This is the real solution.

If anyone's learned anything since Bitcoin began and all the events that followed, it should be this: don't ask powerful or influential people to protect your rights, they don't care about you. You are the best person to turn to, you actually care about what happens to you.

If we work together, like what happened with the popularisation of Bitcoin, we can protect our own rights without needing authorities to do it, and our rights will be far stronger as a result. The free and open internet will eventually end, the more we try to assert our own authority to protect our rights using decentralised tech on today's corporate internet. A true internet, provided by meshnet tech will be our only way to assert our rights when it happens.

We need to take our rights for ourselves instead of waiting for someone else to give them to us. When it comes to a worldwide meshnet, the only possible way is if we work together.

https://www.initialcoinlist.com/ Maybe this one.