Here is a quote from the Guardian


What a surprise - Soros was involved in the protection of the scientist who worked on the chemical.

Soros is the guy who funded the Clintons and Obama, and is currently funding the anti-Brexit movement amongst others. The sums of money he throws around are enormous - hundreds of billions of dollars.

It's a pity that you can't post on the serous discussion board, you might have got some comments there.

You need a bit more activity though.

I don't look at post counts and activity and the like, but I think some of the boards don't count towards activity, so you will need to watch that.

The site upr8.com is going to be my attempt at creating a brand without any products, and it's why I joined steemit. Steem Rewards could be the blog as you suggested, and I'll put b2evolution on it ( that the alternative fork to wordpress from the old b2 cms). I keep getting distracted though, and I'm into these hardware upgrades and the replacement of Windows with UbuntuStudio.

btw - I've just put some pics of an old Talbot on Steemit.

@cellard

Can you move it to the Ivory Tower yourself? You've got enough rank to do it.

If not, then start another thread, and link to the original one to avoid being accused of double posting.

You only need a couple of other posters to follow you to establish it.

The other idea is to encode the thread, and challenge people to decode it. I bet you'd get a load of people taking up the challenge.


You really need it in Ivory Tower to keep the junior spammers out.

Well it seems that it was placed on the daughter's clothes before she came to England, and this is why so many people have come into contact with it.

It's looking more and more like a deep state operation. Russia has launched an enquiry, and Theresa May has refuse to provide them with a sample for analysis. This is in contravention of International law. It will also make it harder for Russia to track down the source of the toxin. Theresa May is a deep state Unicorn politician, and this action by her is predictable if she is trying to get Russia off the United Nations Security Council

Don't forget that a Unicorn is a rather nasty creature invented by man, and used to capture and enslave wild horses in the past.

Come on - the deep state owns the factories that produce the stuff. It's probably easier for them to get it than the US government.

Well I've given merit to brand new members for their first posts, but I do agree that there is an element of luck. Maybe if I had visited that board a day later, the post/thread would have been on page 3, and I wouldn't have seen it.

The answer really is to cut down on the spammers, the necro-bumpers, and the long tailed spam-fests. I think were are working on the spammers, but we don't seem to be doing much about the necro-bumpers.

Actually Ivory Tower might be even better. The moderation should be stricter, and the posting requirements are higher. For some reason, Ivory Tower gets ignored by most members, but I think it has tremendous potential.

Well for me you've failed on two of the location factors, but then I don't look at the alt boards.
I suspect that you have started the thread on the correct board, so the only thing to consider is the quality of the readers of that board. From what I read about the alt posters, your topic may be too serious of sensible for them. That raises the possibility of an alt technical board - would there be enough demand for one?

We'd be swamped with merits, and surely that would defeat the whole purpose. For some reason, I seem to be the only person with merits to award, and I suspect that that is because I only give them out in ones and twos.

I noticed that just after I had given merit to four posters in the Steemit thread, somebody started another Steemit thread.

Four posters could have created bedlam if I had awarded merit in the new thread.

I'm sorry Mr TheQuin, but I couldn't see your post.

- as if I would dare to put you on my ignore list.


This is where I come unstuck. I think a post like that has no business in a discussion thread, but it should be in an article hosted somewhere ( Steemit or YouTube spring to mind), and a link plus brief comment posted in the thread. The chances are that If the poster does that too often, I would put him on ignore, rather than give him a bunch of merits.

The thread starter can always lock a thread if he thinks it has served it's purpose. I locked my thread about today's merit give away, as I thought it hd the potential to become a spam fest.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3136930.0

A couple of things that thread starters may not realise are - You can unlock the thread, and add to it, or edit your posts, you can then lock it again. The other thing is that it looks as if merits can still be awarded to posts in locked threads.

There have been a few threads about awards, but they aren't really helpful. There are some obvious things that shouldn't be done - selling merits, exchanges between friends, and using merits as rewards for various actions such as ICO promotions. Really good technical help posts should receive awards. For example, if someone posts a detailed guide which helps a member to recover lost coins, then I think he should be rewarded. Unfortunately, this often doesn't happen, mainly because the advisor is a Legendary, and the feeling is that he doesn't need merit. I think that ranking should be a secondary consideration, the main factor is the quality of the post.

Another difficult area is the social aspect of Bitcoin Talk. It's primary function is as a help, advice and discussion forum about Bitcoin, and recently about other crypto-currencies. However, there is a lighter social side, and keeping this active is of benefit to the forum and its members. Should merit be awarded to good entertaining posts on the social boards?

I don't really trust any government.

A quote from the article in your link

So as I stated, the formula is in the public domain, and it could be manufactured by anybody.

What a garbled load of junk. I'm in a public restaurant, so I'm not likely to touch my ego in full view of the people here.

The merit system was introduced to try to minimise the impact of posts like yours. It isn't true that every tree bears it own fruit, some trees are barren. From your post, it looks as if your tree needs to be pollenated or fertilised.

The most important three things are location, location and location.

Location - the board on which you have started the thread.
Location - How far down the index page is your thread.
Location - Is the board a sub-board or a main board

After that your thread title is the main draw. Don't use all caps, some people think that if you have to shout, then you haven't got anything meaninful to say. Pique the interest of your reader by making your thread sound interesting. Just posting 'question', or 'Bitcoin' isn't going to turn anybody on.

I don't think status is relevant, but if somebody thinks that you post great info, then they are likely to open your thread.

Why did you quote that long post. We all know how it works, and if we don't, then we just need to look at the stickies.

I very nearly put you on ignore for clogging up the threads. In future, please just post the url if you think members need to refer to the post.

The religious and morality nut cases cause all sorts of problems in societies. We've got them in England, they pretend to promote racial tolerance, but then they use white supremacist descriptions like " person of colour".

It's quite difficult to decide how to award merit. I've given out getting on for 200 smerits, and that is mainly in ones with a few twos. Obviously I don't have time to check on a member's posting history or attitude to the forum. I have to go by my subjective opinion of the posts that I read, and there isn't any forum guidance on the policy of awarding merit. Apart from the obvious restrictions on sales and reciprocal awards of course.

I really have to rely on my use of the ignore option to avoid awarding merit to a member that I think is abusing the system, and I know that some people are on ignore to avoid personal inconvenience, rather than because of a breach of the forum rules.

Theresa May is a deep state Unicorn politician. Brexit will happen, or there will be a revolution.

Re: the Skripal poisoning.

It's looking more and more as if Russia was not involved. The poison was created in 1990 cold war period. Since then the Russia has agreed not to use chemical weapons, and their stockpile was destroyed, and this has been verified. The formula for the nerve agent is now in the public domain, so anyone could create it. I'm beginning to believe that the incident was ordered by the deep state, and is an attempt to get Russia removed from the United Nations security council.