Í have added you into my Ignore List. Hope that it is early signal for you and give you motivation to try search and know more about merit system.
You will probably be added to Ignore list of more members.

What I mean is you won't be a better one, at least in terms of your internal value, if you only focus, and spend your time to scan the forum, find abusers (account sellers, merit exchangers, merit abusers).
You should focus on growing your internal values, which help you much more than finding abusers.
Of course, during the time you scan the forum, reading topics, threads to learn, if you find abusers by chance, simply report them to moderators. It's good. I support he approach.
Please don't fall into downside by become hunters.
Hope that via the thread, you will know what I mean.
And sorry for the word bastard.

You are bastard (sorry for my bad word), because you are merit beggar, nothing more. All things you do are mainly for begging merits. You won't have thoughts of helping others. What you think just "How to earn merits?", "What should I do to get merits?", "How to rank up with new ranking system?"
"What happen if I buy merits to rank up?", "Wow, that guy is a merit source, so what should I do to get his merits as many as possible?"
Good luck, you should not pretend to be helpful. Merit beggars won't change to become helpful users.

So many members in the forum, especially low ranked ones, tend to intentionally abuse Sir. as hilarious efforts to kiss asses of higher ranked users in order to earn merits. Of course, they tried to do non-sense, stupid things. Most of them come from the third world. It is not shame about wherever you born, but they should improve their English skills and should not overuser the word.
Overusing make their threads like a pseudo respect.
Additionally, they don't know that simply adding Sir. Into their threads will not increase threads' quality at any extent.

Those sort of users didn't tell the truth. Their main (maybe only) objectives to join the forum is to get money from available campaigns, bounties, airdrops; not to get knowledge, to share experience, skills, etc.


It can not be solved if admin won't release new rules which restrict users to start new topics on merit and related issues. However, I think that the forum should keep allowing users (on all ranks) can start new topic (of course, only unallowable in serious boards). Should keep the forum as fair, equal as possible for all users.

Finally, Nokia has come back and on the way to be great again!
Nokia has reached significant achievements in its efforts to revive traditional phones, which had solid positions in memory of their supporters several years ago (maybe the generation Nokia users ten years ago).
Now, Nokia has planned to join the blockchain-based services, in particular healthcare services. With powerful supports from Smartphones, mobile devices; Nokia can make it come true.

It is good to hear such important news from you, Hakkane. I and Sia community eagerly waiting for ASICs from Obelisk over the last few months. Internally, Sia made a hardfork to implement new difficulty-adjustment algorithm, which help the Sia network to fight against difficulty blossom in the future when ASICs joined the mining party.
Hope all things will work fine for both Obelisk and Sia.

For how to use Search function efficiently, there you go:
[Tips] Guide for forum search
I think that this one is useful and contains detailed steps for you to learn, and use forum search more efficiently.
Hope it helps!

Hello fella,
You should say something like this.
"Merit system has actually broken my life and spammers', account farmers' lives.
I have losen lots of opportunities to earn money in bitcointalk forum due to merit system."
Saying, writing like this, you will get big rounds of applause from spammers, account farmers, merit exchangers, and merit beggars. So proud of you!

Haha.

Infographics will hurt my fingers, lol. Please don't send them merits and promote them to overuse infographics. Please, Sir TMAN (just kidding because I love the idea of Theymos on Politeness point).

You got me, MikeMike. There are lots of scam masternode coins which launched during the past two months. Those ones had extremely high ROI at its early stages, but those ROI are not real, not stable, has decreased and will keep continuous falls which will cause serious losts for their investors.

Great! Currently, we have only 234 active masternodes in the network, which account for 5.8% of total current circulating supply.
https://masternodes.online/currencies/KORE/

Spammers always tried to join topics, spread their FUDs, publishing their shitty, non-sense threads to increase their post-count.
In KORE, I strongly believe.

Honestly, this one looks like a joke, a good way to waster scarce sMerits. I don't beg for merits, actually, but I don't support the idea. Infographics are only (at least in my opinion) for lazy users.
Another minus point is those infographics will be overused in threads by spammers, who only want to catch attention of others by attaching the images. Those lazy users often (or usually) don't put any efforts into their threads. Now they have good choice to spam the forum. Threads attached such infographics will hurt my fingers a bit. I also hope that someone who use those infographics will readily be responsible for my medical bills (seriously).

To be honest, I really hate such a over-bold, highlighted threads like those ones (Hate to say this but I can not say something different, it's my real feelings when I read them).
Over-highlighted threads' authors should be added into Ignore list by serious users in the forum.
Just my recommendations. I have already put this guy into my Ignore list.

You got me, Sir.
In some aspect, negative merits are almost the same as demerit function which has been rejected by lots of higher ranked users in the forum. Therefore, i don't think that your ideas will be implemented by Theymos.

I don't like new new rank requirements, which are almost unable to understand comprehensively. Nevertheless, even with the old rank requirements that related only to merit system, I don't believe that you can rank up with such over-bolded, increase-sized thread.
Let's see what happen next days, after 1st of April.

Lower inflation might lead to higher price for Diamond in the future, which in turn might catch attention of more potential investors.
Buying more Diamond at low levels and hold till the next important points in decreased inflation roadmap will be smart decision.
Look no further to find potentially profitable coins for your portfolio. It's here, Diamond!

Here you go:
1. iasenko: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1291828
2. cerebro415: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1764494
3. dimplit: cerebro415
4. A potential one is Talk merit, which has been Newbie with 6 merits. Amazing!
And maybe more cases which I don't remember and don't have available list for those cases.

Moderators are not able to screen all topics, everywhere in the forum to catch shit posters, and give them punishments. So, more moderators is not a solution, that is also why we have witness the launch of merit system.
Thanks Theymos, forum admin, because of important decision to launch such powerful system for the forum.

Haha. Looks interesting, guy!
Your post-history completely show me shits. Your threads tend to concentrate on altcoins child boards (altcoin discussions, announcements, bounties, etc.) and most of them are one line threads.
In addition, you have gotten 247 acitivities now, that means you should be ranked up to Senior Member with old ranking system. Due to magical rules of new ranking requirements and merit system, you have been stucked at Full member rank.
Moreover, one interesting thing about you is around 3 months after the launching day of merit system, you have not received any merit point.
Haha, I guess it due to your extremely 'constructive, high-quality' threads.

You should be stucked at Full member rank forever, which will be better for the forum.

Congratulations, bro.!

Sometimes, I saw someone replied to a topic, then clicking in to see what the guy discussed about. What I found are the same as yours with the current topic. Old topics revived somehow by someone. It's probably to increase post-count, nothing more than that shitty purpose. Joining topics in Meta board, which is one of the most interesting, serious boards in bitcointalk forum simply to show their shits.
They should leave the forum some day.

In addition, old topics which don't get any new threads over years should be locked automatically by the forum bot (if available).