I apologize because honestly, I have to chuckle on you for that.

60% is too much for a tax, even 30%. I think 15% or less is more realistic. But given the situation that the government wanted to tax as high as 60%, then the company that produces alcohol and tobacco (cigarettes) will lessen its production, thus only increasing its price, but will still yield the same revenue--as they will have less raw materials to process and fewer workers to work with. If they mass-produce even if they know that the government is taxing those products by 30% or 60%, then they're not good businessmen, and they will probably get bankrupt.

Mind you, yes the government influences the economy, but they're not entirely tied to it. I don't know how you view taxes, government, and economy but you should definitely need to do your assignments.

And no, they have no plans on banning alcohol or tobacco, the main purpose of it, is to promote responsible drinking or smoking, and to avoid too much a person should consume.

First of all, what drugs do you people take? Seriously, the medicine has huge effects on the economy(?), oh another one, turns out alcohol has massive effects on the economy(?) You guys are exaggerating yourselves.

Do you think taking constant medication is good for the economy(?), for its people(?) I think you're all delusional. And for the record, the economy doesn't work that way, you guys need some simple economics course you need to take. There are a lot more reasonable conditions for an economy to drop.

If an employee gets sick companies would hire/have a temporary replacement to continue the work of the sick person. Problem solved. Do you think companies will just let it happen(?) Do you think all the process/planning/sale of the company revolves only to the sick person(?) Oh, and you mentioned a lot of people will get sick, how irresponsible do you think people are(?), and what is this a plague(?) And I am pretty sure the government does not propagate in using medicine, after all, the medicines are being produced by medically specialized companies that distribute their products to pharmacies, that's how they make their sales. The government is responsible for the permits of operation and its tax as a means of business. And mind you, people being poor are not entirely the government's fault with their taxes and such, sure they play a part in it, but in the end, it falls on the shoulders of these people. The same thing with alcohol, don't blame these things, they're just irresponsible.

I'm going to share what happened here in my country with regard to these issues: There is an increased tax on Alcohol, Tobacco, Confectionary-related products. Because the government saw an abundant increase in the consumption of the said products, they wanted to lessen it. Why(?) because they've noticed that besides youngsters being exposed to Alcohol, Tobacco-related products, death counts also increase for the same reason. Confectionary products are also having an increase because not only these products increase the count of consumption it also increases the cost of production, and not to mention the "import cost" of the said products is quite expensive.

Now I could tell you more but I'm just gonna leave it here.

They will be ill and use medical services, but at the same time, many of them will not be able to work and will be treated at home. Same thing with alcohol. Addicted people buy it constantly, but because of this bad habit they lose their jobs. Hence the harm to the economy.

It's much better than before and if yahoo convinces them to add merit requirements then it will be another step towards betterment.
Though, posting limit change is a big step by Yobit which never happened before since the start of Yobit's sig campaigns if I'm not wrong, at least I haven't seen since 2016 (I was a participant in 2016).

Now half spam to deal with if any spammers left in this campaign. Cleaning work is going on without a stop, you know that.

For newbies of course they're after merits because you can't ranked up if don't have enough merits. Who doesn't want that? Lucky for those already at higher rank because they don't have to do so much in able to ranked up. Merit system is good tho. It mitigates the unnecessary account farming which makes the forum bad because of shitposters and account sellers. That's why merit system was implemented. They have to earn merit first before you reach higher rank. You have to post useful posts and it's up to the merit holder whether we give it or not.

Update: limit from now is only 10 posts / day

Sincerely, I kinda find it difficult to understand your arguments. Merits are good right? If something is good, people tend to rush for it.

Thank you. Yeah, I just read that all of their partners are backing away from it. I just don't trust facebook so I'm glad.

What would happen if people didn't follow greed and projects didn't promise crazy gains? If this was not main theme of ICO craze, but instead - true and honest support?

If you support someone for example through Patreon - you give him money and you don't really think much what will happen with this money - it's lost for you anyway and you feel good for supporting someone you like.

If all ICOs went that route, sure, we wouldn't see such crazy gains but we wouldn't also see such falls. People supporting projects that would fail would probably don't scream "scam scam!" all the time.

If you give a dollar on a street to someone begging, you usually don't follow him later and check what he bought in a store - liquor or food. Yeah, you are dissapointed probably if you see him drunk next day but you simply don't give him more money.

If ICOs was organized more like that, I think it would be much more healthy environment.

Everyone who thinks that "Report to moderator" does the right job? Even some reports go failed because what's wrong in my views, may be correct in other's opinions as everyone has a different point of view and while I'm asking for a temp ban of a specific area a user spams in, the simple logic behind it is to let that user learn about his mistake and not to repeat it. Then the admins should go for temp ban whether it'd be signature based or posting ability and if the behavior remains the same, permaban that user forever.

With this possibly upcoming crisis in mind, what you guys think about investing in stable coins standardised with fiats?
Is is even a thing, that they will sink like a stone, just like fiats will? Are there any mechanisms that can protect such stablecoins?
Or maybe, I have a misconception of the reasons for their existence and nobody is actually hoarding st.coins?

I, as a member of the bounty, should not care who moderates this campaign. The signature was organized by the YOBIT, I learned about this from YOBIT. The reward for signatures also comes to the YOBIT account. Rules on the exchange page I read. I do not have to figure out who is involved in this thread. So that there are no such problems, the rules in the BTT branch and on the exchange must be identical. In this situation, I’m 100% right and you won’t convince me. I will calm down only when my request is granted. I have seen enough in my life about the disorder and arbitrariness of officials and superiors. I am for justice and truth. Truth is on my side. I hope other participants who have suffered have heard me.

But they do not even give me the right to appeal. Democracy ...

This is not done even in third world countries where dictators rule. Are we for freedom? Right?

I was banned for writing too fast. I did not write constantly like that, it was only two days. I did not have time. Yes, I'm wrong. But I did not see such a requirement in the rules. I always tried to keep the quality of the posts and not write non-constructive posts. My mistake is that I wrote fast. Even the most violent criminal has the right to appeal and pardon. I am not a criminal.

How can I regain the confidence of the campaign and get another chance? Yes, I'm to blame, there were 2 days when I posted too fast. Please consider my request and satisfy, this will not happen again.

I will not be giving you any chances period. You are a Sr member and should be completely informed of forums policies and should damn well know my policies at this point. You threw your chance down the toilet and it will stay there as far as I am concerned.

I hope everyone else reads this post as well and will know that "no one else is getting a second chance either".

Who doesnt want to get merits? Even if you do say that it do changes up your behavior then its your choice.We know that

"merit" is the primary requirement for you to rank up and also most people do know that the higher the rank do earn more in terms of bounties
and signature campaigns or any other related task.This is why they do normally having those aims on how to earn merits.
Even if you dont chase up you would really mind on how to get it faster.

Yep. Just reaching ranks means bigger pay in all the bounties, for basically the same job.
The problem is that many come to this forum only to earn money. This spoils the fun in the forum, fills it with nonsense and so on. Many of them may not even care about crypto.

People don't plan for long term and I think that OP should have emphasized this much more: if you go from day one for "how to get merit?", you most probably get either banned for plagiarism in less than a year, either get negative feedback for doing something fishy, either find almost impossible to rank higher than maybe Member. All this meaning no pay or low pay, so the opposite of the initial intention.

OP is right. Learning, reading before answering, keeping the discussions at useful and informative levels will be in the benefit of everybody involved and in a year or two you may be thanking yourself for going on this path.