I think this thread belongs to Altcoin Discussion board since it has nothing to do with beginners in general nor it is providing any help or containing a question asking for help, but it is a plain discussion topic which does not fit in this particular board.
Though I'm sure that this thread will likely turn into a spam megathread once moved in the right board, but I will still guide you with the process assuming you, being a Newbie, don't know how to move a topic.

Follow these steps:
1. Open the topic you have started (in this case, it is the one we are on right now).
2. Scroll down to the complete bottom of the page. You will see 2 option at the bottom-left side of the page, right above the section containing 'Jump to:" function. Those options would be "move topic" and "lock topic".
3. Click on "move topic".
4. In the next window, in the "Move to:" dropdown menu, select the board you want to move your topic to (It should be Altcoin Discussion in this particular case). Leave other options as they are since they are all optional and you don't actually need to use them if you don't want to.
5. Click on "Move Topic", and your topic will get moved to the board you have specified in the previous window.

Yeah, now when you posted the link to his profile, it is clear to me. So the guy was a Sr. member who got 250 Merit from the initial Merit Airdrop, and got all those extra Merits from his friends (or alts) in bulks abusing the system, and when he got negative tagged for that, he deleted all his posts which brought his activity points back to zero hence making him a Brand new user once again.
Strange case. You don't get to see such cases very often. At least I haven't seen one before this.

This must be a mistake. A user who has earned 250 Merits would not remain a Brand new since it only requires 1 activity point to become a Newbie and someone cannot earn Merits without posting anything. If someone who has spent less than 6 weeks in the forum and earned that much Merit, he must be a Newbie, otherwise if he has spent more time than that, he would be in a higher rank. But however, a Brand new user cannot have any Merits (unless he gets them for the very first post he does and his profile isn't updated yet).

Posts like the one below are not considered to be constructive and Merit worthy:


The posts you have listed to be reviewed are all like the one above, and such posts won't earn you any Merit. I have also checked your post history to see if there is something worth Meriting but all I found was generic replies in spam megathreads and they are not what is being asked for here.

The reason why this guy is stuck at 1021 Activity points is because that is how many posts he made until now. Your account gets 14 activity points every 2 weeks, but they will only get added to your activity count if you make 14 posts in that period (or even later, they remain as long as you are active). If you make 7 posts in 2 weeks, you will only get 7 activity points for that.

Example:

A user creates an account, and starts using it immediately. We already know that an account is assigned 14 activity points after every 2 weeks. So, the guy makes only 10 posts in 2 weeks. He gets 10 activity points for that period. After 2 more weeks, his account is assigned with another 14 activity points, but he made only 10 posts again in that period, so he gets only 10 activity points again. At the end, his account was assigned 28 activity points in 4 weeks, but since he posted only 20 times in that period, his account would only have 20 activity points. The remaining activity points are added as soon as he posts again.

That is how activity system works. The guy you mentioned must have had enough potential activity points to be a Legendary and maybe that is why he got 1000 Merits in the initial Merit Airdrop, but since he doesn't have enough posts to reach Legendary rank, he is still a Hero member. He will become a Legendary as soon as he reaches 1030 posts which would complete his activity points to become a Legendary member.

Hope that answers the question.

That's mostly the case. Though there can be some people who do nothing else than this and they might not involve anyone else so that they get all the rewards, but most of the times, they have teams where one person creates accounts and distributes them to everyone so that they earn money through them and get a part of what their accounts earn. I remember a thread where this guy got a negative trust from a DT member and he was requesting for it to be removed, and in that thread, he posted a picture where there were a group of people sitting on a table and everyone having laptops in front of them, which he said was his team who are always working on bounties. So I wonder that is what most of them do since it is a very tiring job to handle that many accounts yourself no matter how much you love earning money.

And to me, you are a lunatic who just necrobumped a 5 year old thread for only the sake of increasing your post count or whatever else you had in mind. You definitely need to learn reading before you start to post regularly because you don't seem to be doing that at all. A person who reads a thread would undoubtedly notice the date when it was posted even before reading the content in it, but I believe you guys don't even read the complete content of a thread and just start writing whatever has at least 1% (or sometimes even none) relativity with it. This is insane!

You need to learn a lot of things before starting to post in here. If you keep doing stuff like this, you will get nothing but slaps on your face and a ban from the community in future. So be careful, and read everything before you post. And, definitely avoid bumping dead threads from the past, like this one.

I would rather suggest him to wait for a response. If he is really willing to do something for his native speakers, he should not spoil it by breaking a rule and getting a negative impact for that. Patience mostly works better than doing things in hurry.


Would you say the same thing to someone who plagiarizes or breaks another forum rule? Rules are rules, and there can be no partiality for it, no matter who is the person in question. Someone should either follow the rules, or get ready for the punishment. So I would suggest mday to be patient in this matter to avoid getting into negative sides of the matter.

Congratulations!

My story is not so different from yours actually. I registered way back in Jan, 2017, when the only thing I used to know was "Bitcoin is a digital currency." and that it had a very big market cap and quite a big value. I was so curious to learn more about it, so I registered here and started reading everything I could. I didn't use to post anything at that time, but was just learning the things around here. I had to stop using the forum for some time because of my studies, and at the time I came back, Merit system got introduced. I was a Newbie at that time, since I haven't been posting and was away from the forum for some time as well. If I would have started posting right after my registration, I would have been in a higher rank today, but I didn't have the knowledge to do so, and, though I didn't know a lot about spam and all at that time, I didn't like writing useless things like the most newcomers do these days.

So, at the time Merit system was introduced, I had been posting already since I knew I can do that now. Just like other Newbies, I used to think I won't reach a higher rank anymore, and it isn't possible for me to earn Merits. I even used to search for Merit giveaway threads in order to get some Merits. As the time passed by, I started getting Merits for my posts, which encouraged me to post in a better way, so did I. Very soon, I had enough Merits to rank up to Member rank. I was so happy for it. Then again, I had to leave the forum for a couple of months for some personal reasons. I would definitely have much more than I have right now if I hadn't need to go. But I came back, started posting again, and earned enough Merits to rank up to Full member recently. I'm happy again, because there was a time when I used to think I may not be able to achieve this, but I did, and all by just posting normally, without much technical knowledge or stuff like that. I will continue doing that, and hopefully, I will be happy once again, when I will rank up to Sr. member.


My advice to everyone struggling for Merits would be: You don't need to be a very much knowledgeable person in order to get Merits. All you need is some time, a good enough command on English, the ability to grasp the things you read, and some simple knowledge about how to construct a good looking post. If you have them all, and you use them in the right way, there is no one to stop you. Don't ever think that you are not worthy of it because you don't know the algorithms of blockchain technology. That is not a necessity for this, though it gives you an advantage to have knowledge of every kind, but a constructive post doesn't always need to have anything like that at all. If people take it like that, then it is a very big misconception.

It isn't. It is just discouraged:



Yes, it is allowed to post telegram group links because it is not telegram who encourages such actions, but it is the users who use it for negative things, and those negative things are negative only for us, since they are happening in plain chat windows which is what telegram provides to its users.
You cannot simply ban a platform not to be used just because a few people are using that platform to do evil stuff. It is not the thing that is good or bad, but it is the usage.

You cannot stop such actions from happening outside the forum as long as there are communicating medias available to them, and you cannot ban them all. Likewise, you cannot simply put a ban to having multiple accounts since there are people having multiple accounts for good reasons as well. There should be some other way to tackle this.

I was a Newbie when the Merit system was introduced, so I didn't get any Merits from the initial airdropped. Those 107 Merits are all earned by me, so jokes on you.
And how is it not unfortunate if you, having so many posts and activity points, could not even earn a single Merit only to claim back the position you had which has been taken away recently from you? But you know what? You deserve this!

Good news for potentially constructive new members.

I think you need to edit a small thing in the following part of the OP. It is actually just one letter, but because new genuine users might read the OP and confuse themselves if they does not know about it already, you should do it immediately.


That highlighted zero (0) needs to be changed to one (1) according to the new changes.
You would have figured it out yourself maybe, but since I saw it unchanged until now, I thought I should inform you so that you do it ASAP.

If you had hired the person you were seeking, then why didn't you lock that thread? And, it didn't needed to be in a different thread as well. You could simply make one thread asking for the two required people in your team without having to open 2 different threads. Even if you didn't do that, you could have edited that thread and change the title to "Team members required for New ICO" and then you should have written the positions and have put a strikethrough to the one that was already hired.



No worries. I appreciate your understanding.
Good luck with the project you are a part of. 

Suggested the same thing in one of his earlier threads. I'm not sure if he even read it or not. This is what I said:

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Have you even read the complete thread which you are talking about? The reply you have quoted was actually not from OP to someone who answered the question he asked, but it was for TMAN who gave some tips to OP for getting Merits because he had posted a couple of threads in one of his replies there where he tried to get Merits by plagiarizing, which is what was being discussed in that thread after the answers of Vod and jacee, which answered the questions asked by the OP.


Locking threads after getting satisfactory answers is good, but if there are more things to be discussed that relates to that issue or to the OP, there is no bad in that, IMO.

I would love to see your friends to know whether they really changed their posting behavior and started being constructive, or they just had some friends of their own who helped them get through. 

You seem to be one of them as well:


But since the new changes have demoted you to Newbie again, you had no choice but to leave them and start trying to get 1 Merit from somewhere. Unfortunately, you failed in that too.

Why did you create a new thread today when you had created the same one yesterday with just a little bit different wording?



You can simply bump your thread once in 24 hours so that it pops to the top and people get to see it. You don't need to create another one every day if the previous one gets down in the list.

The reason for altcoin projects leaking in, in Project Development, can be this:

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Project Development
Organization of Bitcoin and related projects, bounty campaigns, advertising etc.

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The tag under it clearly says that bounty campaigns or advertising stuff can also be placed in here. That would definitely draw some traffic from Altcoins to this board. Maybe that tagline should be modified so that people don't post projects that are not involving Bitcoin in any way since the board is in Bitcoin sub-forum. And users can report threads for being off-board so that mods can move them to where they belong.




It doesn't require any solution since Altcoin sub-forum has its own discussion board named Altcoin Discussion. Any topics related to altcoins posted in Bitcoin Discussion should be reported immediately and would get moved (if useful) or trashed as soon as a mod checks the report.


That's true. Having a separate board for Altcoin technical support would help categorize the technical stuff between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.


That doesn't seem to be a necessity to me. Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin should only be discussed in Altcoins sub-forum since they are all alternative cryptocurrencies, no matter how popular they are. It is not only one or two altcoins that are popular, but they are many, and providing different boards for each one of them would mean a lot more moderation and even more open space for spammers. The forum already lacks moderation in some existing boards, and adding more to them would only make it worse.

A person who loves a thing and uses it in his daily life would never think negative about how it would/could be in the future, even if the situations are against his thoughts. That is exactly what happens with cryptocurrency users. Even if the market is totally red, the countries are banning/regulating cryptocurrencies, people are abusing them to be evil, but if you ask someone who had been using them, he would say, "It is just a bad time right now. The future would bring something new and all this will finish soon." That is exactly what I would say, though it is not about what we say, but it is all about what the governments think, but why be negative?


I don't really think that's true. Banks and governments would never need to accept cryptocurrencies in order to survive, but the cryptocurrencies would require adoption in order to survive in the long run.


Maybe, but that is not what every single person says in the world, and it would only make a difference if everyone has the same thought about them (The Banks).

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