I won't tag a user for merit begging I would only advice them (have done that severally) if you're even thinking of begging for merit do it right, (the legal way ) we have giveaways where you go post link of post you feel were quality and meriters who view your post and finds it merit worthy will send you those merit. Instead of compromising your account just because of begging for merits use Giveaways thread (at least those thread encourages you to post with quality).

PS: I'm not encouraging begging of merits in any way, just advising those users begging should stop make use of GIVEAWAY THREADs instead. It'll help them improve their posting style since most TS {Thread starters} give reviews on link of post submitted.

Glad to hear that from you. About the situation you described above it's normal we're all humans and sometimes our emotions brings out the worst in us, am also glad they settled the issue within themselves and makes it a perfect example on how to handle false negative tags (which is, only the two parties can resolved it).
The trust system is evolving, we aren't there yet but it's manageable.

Seems like this discussion resurrected the owner of the escrow service by username monbux the impersonator was trying to copy. He Is back online after several months of been offline. the last time he made a post before today was August 10, 2018 can someone head over to the thread and verify the signature message he posted few hours ago. I'm not saying it isn't him but just trying to take precautions to prevent a case of account hacking since user positive feedback is very high.

I have a question I wanted to ask so instead of starting a thread permit me to ask it here. It concerns who to add on your custom list. Are they those you have traded with or those you think their judgement (feedbacks) is contributing positively to the forum or Both since each users on your custom list gets a vote from you if you meet the required criteria.

Let me make my question clear for example I have Coolcryptovator, ICOethics and others on my custom list but haven't traded with any of the users but I trusted them to see their feedbacks due to their pass record of scam busting. Also since I haven't made any trade on forum but the only thing I have done which is kind of close to trade is participating in paid signature campaign and got paid by  Hhampuz and he's also on my custom trust list due to I trust his feedbacks.

Now the questions is, looking at the two situations I described above which is more fit to be on my custom trust list? Is it those you have done trade with and their feedback are trusted by you or those you haven't traded with but from general view their feedback are accurate.

i haven't experience any worst moment, i won't say i haven't lost but i don't consider it as a worst moment. I see gambling as a way to catch fun i don't take it as full time job and i have different precautions i take to  prevent me form getting addicted. So so far i haven't experience any harsh disappointing moment to be considered as my worst but I'm prepared knowing it'll come at some point.

The obvious answer will be that merits in combination with activity helps you rank up. For example your account is having the rank of a newbie if you earn just 1merit your account will have the potential to rank up to jnr member when you reach the required activity. But merit does more than that, for instance it give you the satisfaction that you're contributing positively to the forum, shows your effort in posting quality post is been appreciated by the meriter etc.

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Coolcryptovator, congratulations on your achievement, your good works is the reason you're on my custom trust list even without having to trade with you. Continue in your good deed hope you get to legendary rank before the year ends. I'll be occupying your Snr member spot onces you rank up hopefully before the end of march

That's cool, at least we all know the campaign you're participating in only accepted quality posters and most times reputed members also about the campaign manager accepting posts from local board I'm sure he based his judgement on, If the participates are reputed, active quality posters from their post in english then they'll reciprocate the same in those local boards because without even investigating i know he can't understand every local language his campaign participants post with. This is just a case of one campaign manager what about others?

That been said i still stand on my previous statement

Here's the catch, reddit and other social media needs publicity that's why they get mentioned in bitcoin related video as the video you saw above did. Bitcointalk doesn't need a promotional helps from those video because it promote itself. If I'm not mistaking, BT has over 2million+ registered account and they got that without a single advertisement. Any new investor/user interested in bitcoin will end up hearing about bitcointalk one way or the other that, this was the forum everything started from. Therefore i think the forum is doing good although there's some wisdom for improvement, lets leave others medias to enjoy the spotlight while we focus on maximising the potentials of BTC

Bitcointalk is already holding her position as the major contributor (as the growth ground for bitcoin) what else are we asking from the platform, she is doing great the way she is. That's just the fact.

You doing great, some scarify have to be made for success to be achieved. You might not be recognized globally but if you can achieve that recognition in your local community you have contributed positively towards the success of the use of bitcoin as a currency.

Lets fast forward to the 70's, 80's and 90's looking at the innovations that shaped our world as we have it today. We all know farming was a major motivation but it doesn't stop there, what other innovation or technology changed the world more?.

Congratulations on your achievement, you just joined LoyceV, DdmrDdmr and few other that have earned 1000+merits club. Lower rank users won't understand that the pressure it even much on higher rank users to earn merit because the higher your rank, the lesser your chances of getting merited unless you're lucky to get a fan based (make new friends) that rewarded you previously for your quality posting because most meriters are concentrating on lower rank users to rank them up.

From my merit stats on So.... on which board did you earn most of your Merit? you'll notice B&H is my strong hold for earning merits due to started thread but of recent I have slow down taking my mind off starting any thread on this board and contributing/help newbies when necessary. I'm trying to explore other means of using this forum I feel there's more to Bitcointalk than just commenting on threads.

ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!!!

SCAM ALERT: THERE ARE SCAMMERS OUT THERE IMPERSONATING MONBUX's ESCROW SERVICE VIA EMAILS AND TELEGRAM CHAT, REPORT ANY FOUND CASE TO DT MEMBERS via REPUTATION BOARD AND THEY'LL RED TAGGED THOSE SCAMMERS THAT'S IF YOU CAN GET THE IMPERSONATORS PROFILE LINK. STAY SAFE.

Here is a reported case of scam attempt: http://archive.is/IJ6Ff

This is the reason all users who're interested in using this forum for trade are advice to always carry out your transaction openly were everyone can see your chat (with exception to sensitive informations) don't use PM or go off forum always carryout all transactions and discussion via thread so in case there's a scam attempt experience users can warn you before you fall victim. TS {Thread starter} thanks for the information and i'm glad you didn't fall prey.

Can you possibly get that scammers profile so he can get red tagged as i notice he was trying to impersonate monbux

Warning sent out on his ANN thread:

Most of The UEFA campions league games are just getting boring since they repeat feature almost every season. We all know Barcelona is going to win Lyon due to previous record and Barca recent form. Don't think I'm going to watch that match but I love rooting for the underdogs so this season I go for a win for Lyon maybe this will be the time they finally win Barca and home advantage might be in their favour so I predict 3-2 in favor of Lyon.

Isn't that a good thing if the board is under serious moderation? At least we still have one of the few boards,  quality conversation can be associated with. The strict moderation is driving away spammers and scammers and  other moderators should make the boards they're moderatoring more spam free as the mining board is. Instead of complaining lets encourage them they're doing their jobs well.

It all comes down to the campaign in question. When participants post in local boards it serves as a bonus to most campaign and that's why they don't count those posts unless the campaign is targeting audience form that local board. When it comes to most local board I don't think merit is truly been used as it was supposed to be used. most post you see get merit isn't actually worth that merit or that amount of merit it's getting. (Merit abuser Thread is what I use to back this accusations because most of then comes from local boards)

I would had agreed to the idea as this will also make merit abusers hunters job easy but again it'll lead to laziness of many bounty managers, counting such post (because it was merited) as a quality post without knowing that it was a shitpost hiding in disguise.

Don't say there is nothing we can do when actually we can do something. Their customers or we'll Stop using their services. I don't know of the US but we have alternative card Network provides in my country and again we have bitcoin and altcoins so I won't say we're totally hopeless

I'm not a DT member but I have something to say. Any investor relying on these raking or rating site for guidance on investing in icos are doing themselves more hard than good. Just like the so called crypto experts (influencers) on YouTube and Twitter these site are fraud because they get paid for better rating.

That been said, If a rating site have been found guilty for giving attractive rating for clear cases of scams project in different occasions then their account deserve to be tagged because they're supporting scam project. Remember we decided, users wearing signature or promoting scam projects will be tagged if caught therefore I see no reason why rating sites shouldn't be tagged

That's true although sometimes it isn't the faults of the forum users but that of the community project developers must of them starting this projects has alternative motives while others don't follow up the project and lack of advertising (creating awareness) is the cause of the low turnout or people leaving the project.

Since we're debating on players would have favorite game and gamblers here's my contribution. The average gambler can have a favorite game without been addicted could be s/he just love gambling with that game but in the case of an addicted gambler, it's a must to have a favorite game you waste all your money on even though you win or lose.