Bitcointalk currently loads extremely slow for me. Anyone else encountering this?

Whenever i use a third party to check the response time, it's usually ~300ms.

That can't be normal right?



This topic for example, with only 39 replies took me 10-15 seconds to load..?

Any fix to this? It's quite annoying when you're just scrolling/reading through threads.

Nope. It's quite obvious that they're merit farming between one another (or rather his/her alt accounts). Almost all of them, have sent some merits to another account from the list (there's a pattern).

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The time in which the events folded, shows a clear path that more accounts are involved (if you look deeper).

Merits sent between 2 and 3 minutes

is it coincidence?

I've pmed some managers to hide the column, some of them did and some of them not.

What, are you going to try to extort me too? Or are you going to leave that to lauda?

I don't pay extortion demands, sorry.

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I propose here to discuss the objectives and the results of Merit. Why I touched on this question.
I and many new users are faced with the fact that for promotion you need to somehow get Merit.
I began to read a lot about this and ask people about how they got Merit.
I was touched by the fact that many newcomers tend to buy Merit, and do not deserve it from other users, offering quality posts.
I learned the situation about buying Merit, and easily found willing to sell me Merit at a price of $ 28 for 1.
I can afford to buy, but this is against the worthy goal of "Merit". Merit is more than money!
As you see Merit, I did not buy it!

Could we have an encryption subforum in which we can discuss things like dm-crypt, LUKS, Veracrypt, different hashing algorithms, different encryption algorithms (simple, cascaded...), plausible deniability, PGP... and other schemes, something which I find to be an interesting topic and is somewhat related to Bitcoin but sometimes too meta to post in the development section of Bitcoin?

For example I wanted to talk about encryption algos here and plausible deniability to protect against IRL thieves but this thread got pushed into off-topic which I think it's unfair, now in the off-topic section it will get buried with other unrelated threads.

The idea would be to have a section similar to the one in wilderssecurity forum but in here to talk with other Bitcoin fellows, I think good topics could arise and would bring more traffic to the site too.

Sounds like a good idea, then maybe we can delete any new merit threads.

This seems to be the new way to beg for merits.

I've put you on ignore.

So how many posts do I need to make in order to be "promoted" to junior?

I actually know that, but my objective here is not to usurpate the grade that I don't have, I only want to be able to launch a business which will change my whole life.
If I had enought cryptos in an amount equal to 10k, I will not open a thread to ask people a loan, I want to be honest, and I think that it begins by using my own account, not buying one..

I don't know what i need to do. How can I get Merit? Can someone tell me?
 
I know you can help people, answer their questions, or just keep them talking. Need to do something else?

Thanks in advance for the help, guys.

unlike evolutionists that deny to read anything critical against evolution.

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Thank you, I've tried the search function in the forum but I have not been successful with my searches. Thanks for the tip about googleing things instead.

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