You should stop spamming Meta board with such really annoying thread. Please give Meta board peace as it had before the launch of merit system. The merit system is good in terms of motivating users to contribute higher quality threads, and control spammers to rank up, generally. In contrast, it leads to spamming endemic in Meta board. You should contribute to end this somehow.

What is this? To be honest, I do not understand what you wrote. Slower forum. What? And if it is actually slower forum, is this characteristics really correlated with merit circulation? I don't think so, my friend.
Only good users can earn merits, naturally.
Please be good user, then see when merits come.

Lol.
I think that the real challenge is your desire to spam challenge you to stop your habit, and start spending more time to compose your threads.
However, spending more time won't lead to higher quality threads, because the quality mainly depends on your knowledge on crypto world, your experience in the crypto ecosystem, your English proficiency, and more.
Challenge yourself to spend more time to learn, to Sharon's your English skills, in particular reading (to understand what others wrote) and writing (to express your ideas clearly, easy to understand to make it's understandable). Spend your time to do it, and don't pay attention to merit system.
Human are the most valuable resources in he world, not merits, not Bitcoin, not Altcoins; so you should improve yourself first. Eventually, you will be better, more knowledgeable; and merit system will not be your matter at all.

A little bit more clarification, Using " your target phrases " will help you to narrow down results on exactly which words you want to search when using Google search. This tip will help you to save time, and don't feel annoying with shit results which contains only some of words in your keywords, and not exactly what you want to find.

Haha, thanks very much for your fake kindly words, xlcus.
However, I don't think your words can have any considerable effects on Byteball project and Byteball price, too. Price will be affected mainly by two components: whales and the project internal values, not you.
Personally, Byteball has several promising, top-notch technologies (as you can check in its website and its lastest report - in previous pages of the ANN). So, why not hit higher prices in the future?

I strongly believe in rising scenarios!
Let's make Byteball greater than IOTA, for the first time!

Thank you. We should check and give it a try if possible.

Yeah, got them. thank you very much. In the Snowgem roadmap, green color represents what have been done; Black color represents what have been under developed.
That means we have several things for the second quarter of 2018: wallets for Android, iOS, Bigger exchanges, Mining Tool, Masternode First Payment.
Very interesting and worthy to wait their launches.

I am a big fan of Nokia, which has an extremely return last year in branch of revival classic Nokia phones. With the news, Nokia shows that they have ambitious plans to join the blockchain-based health services and compete with traditional healthcare services.
Hope that the movement will contribute to make Nokia great again!
It sounds likely huge potential project which can bring lots of profits to Nokia and benefits to patients, medical staffs and wealthfares of society in general.

It should not be like that! Why? Because massive abusements occured in many local boards of the forum; and till now admin and moderators can not find complete solutions to end this endemic.
I come from Vietnam. At the time I knew about local boards in the forum, Vietnamese local board was banned several months before. Honestly, I felt very dissapointed, then I spent several minutes to scan around the local board. Honestly, I realized that admin and moderators made right decision.
I also saw lots of users complained that there are massive abusements in other local boards, such as Chinese, Russian, etc.
We should and have to end this somehow, and merit system will play important role to do this.

In modern society, especially in technological aspect and crypto ecosystem, you can not take advantage if are not able to use English. If you are not able to read, to write English, you should not earn merit points in the forum, consequently. Because you don't deserve to receive merits.
Generally, I don't support the idea to disable merit on local boards.

Low daily trading volume, price has been stable for a period. Good signals for next pumps. Especially the Dogecoin historical price chart also shows us good imagination about its price cycle over months of each year. I think it has been shown clearly and I don't need to point it out a little bit clearer. Please look no further, look at Dogecoin price chart. We will see what you are finding and waiting for.

Only idiots want to start such a stupid topic with their hope to earn merits from generous higher ranked users. Unfortunately, in most cases, particularly several months after the launch of merit system, they will hardly get merits by doing this, by using this foolish approach.
They could get merits with the approach several weeks ago, not now.

Let's talk about habit. In order to change someone, particularly spammers, they have to do the following steps orderly.
Improving Knowledge, Changing Attitude, Keep Practicing continuously.
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice.

Learn more knowledge to have deeper understanding about the forum, the crypto ecosystem, the blockchain technology; Changing attitude (merit system, which main objectives to join bitcointalk forum - money or knowledge, discussions, etc.); Praticing (keep trying to compose higher quality threads and topics over time).

Follow those steps, keep doing regularly; merits will come naturally.

Good luck.

My answer is NO, by now and will never be implemented in the future.
Why?
All users in the forum are treated equally, and all boards (including child boards) in the forum should be treated equally, too. Particularly in specific aspects which have globally impacts on the forum users.
I agree that there are some places in the forum, only higher-ranked members can join and discuss, but your suggestion is for merits. So it should not be implemented locally, should be distributed globally and equally for all.

Yeah. I followed the Snowgem project and mined the coin since its start. I really believe in the one. In addition, over months, you have shown that you actually dedicated your time to develop the project. Lots of versions of wallet released to fix technical issues ask/ or brought more smooth operations and better experiences for Snowgem users/ supporters / investors.
Many thanks, TXID.

It is interesting to see Theymos has still opened the topic for discussions. I guess he want to collect more ideas about how to adjust current merit system and rank requirements. Seriously, the topic is not only for April Fools Joke, but also serves more important mission for the forum. Believe me, we will see what Theymos want sooner or later.

Excellent! I didn't know that before reading your informative thread. This one is one of features which makes Diamond different in the crypto ecosystem, which abundant with forked-coins without considerable improvements.

Good feature for small Diamond stakers, which allows them to join the staking party. However, what I know (and hope that I understand right) distributional rewards of stakers will totally depends upon two factors: their luckiness, their staking weight. Do I understand it right, cryptonit?

You got me, Jet Cash. I don't like threads which overuse images (overlarge ones), highlights, bold, and italicized.
This guy offers new tool to help spammers cover the forum with hundreds of those well-(but actually bad) designed threads, which contains almost nothing inside.
I don't think it is good for the forum if users mainly focus on appearance of their threads, instead of paying their time, their attention, their efforts to compose constructive, high-quality, in-context helpful threads.

Thanks for the figure of total sMerits generated each month, Sir botany (just kidding because I love the Politeness point of new new rank system, which has gone after 1st of April).
In my opinion, real constructive users in the forum don't have to worry about lack of sMerits in circulation. Of course, sMerits are scarce, but they are enough to give away to deserved users.

Finally, they have gone (Politeness, fmerits, virtue, karma, imagination) but they can come back (some of them), can't they?
I believe some day in the future, Theymos, forum admin, will launch new rank requirements (which will be implemented, not joke) which have new set of items, including some items in April the first. It might be interesting to see it happen.
As we all know, merit system should and have to be adjusted somehow. Therefore, changes will happen. Let's wait for it.
Thanks Theymos for big joke, really funny.

Spammers have to adapt to and rank up with merit system. To do this, they have to improve themselves to be more constructive over time. If they do it, they actually contribute to the general quality of the forum. It is good for all members in the forum. For some spammers who don't change, don't contribute anything after the launch of day of merit syste,m. It's good too, they can keep spamming and stuck at their current ranks forever.
They can exchange merits to rank up, but using that way, they will be banned permanently sooner or later.

This is a hot trend after merit system launched. Finding merit abusers and report them to moderators or crate a topic to show evidence about merit abusements cases to Sean merits.
It is good if original objective is to contribute to the forum only, but it is likely not good if the main original objective is to earn merits from reporting abusers.
Anyway, merit abusers should be eliminated somehow at someeday, by someone . Lol