Very nice tips and guidelines there. I just wanted to add something to that.

I think, beside well-written English, a person needn't to repeat something that has already been said in the discussion. That is one of the biggest things people (newbies, most particularly, but other members too sometimes) do which makes them look too bad IMO. A correct grammar and the fact of being on-topic are not the only things that represent a constructive post, but the post has to be unique in itself. And that is what most of the people lack while trying to post constructively.

Do you think that the post above yours said something else? Or you just need to reach your post limit threshold, for the campaign you are in, tonight and you can't reach there without repeating the things already said AKA spam? 

How is it breaking the rules of the forum if a manager is engaging with the queries posted within the thread under his supervision? It is against the rules for others to bump the threads like how OP has been doing, but if a manager is doing his work and just because of his work (replying to questions and queries and all) the thread stays on top, I don't see that as a breakage of any rule.


I didn't say it in the way you took it. Quickseller said that there is nothing much difference in what OP has done and what Community Managers do, so I gave that example referring OP to be someone outside the staff and Community Managers to be the doctor. Now someone outside the team, doing a surgery, cannot just get in there and do the staff that a doctor is supposed to do.

Isn't that obvious?   Because I quoted OP in my post, and that makes it clear that I was referring to his post when I said that.

See, the difference between a spammer and a simple poster is that they (spammers) state what is stated already before them, and that is what spamming is. Someone asks in the forum, "What is Bitcoin?". You see that question and you answer him saying "Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency.". Now when I visit that thread, and I again answer the question with "It is a currency which is not controlled by any authorities.". Tell me what is the difference between these two answers? Nothing, obviously. So what I posted there is a spam because I'm posting something that has already been posted, though with different wording. Just because my grammar is correct, or I'm on topic, it doesn't make my post constructive.
What I now stated is the basic thing to follow for not being a spammer. Take it as an advice.

After all those Merit-related threads that we have been encountering from some time in Meta, now we will see a new trend of The Pharmacist-related threads in here (or in Reputation). The rage (or requests sometimes, as some of them think they can reverse it being polite) of users tagged by Him (The Pharmacist) will surely flood this (and Reputation) sections soon enough. In fact, it has already started.  
Words like "Sir", or "Trust abuser" are going to be a very common in these sections very soon.  

I'm gonna be totally honest with you. I'm thinking the same about you right now. 

What if the message is sent to everyone upon implementation of this feature? This way, every account created in near past, not aware about the rules and other things, will get help as well. And, we also know that there are a lot of higher ranked users who do not know all the rules until now. So sending it to all at first will help them too.

A few of OP's recent posts:

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The spam flood that the forum is fighting against right now is really huge, and our little OP here seems to be playing a very vital role in that (not in fighting, in spamming). His/Her post history won't let you have mercy on him/her even if you want to forget about all that happened in past. There was never, and there should never be room for such spam and spammers in the forum.

What is the difference between them you think?  Mysterious01 was offering the service to keep ANNs on top by regularly posting in them, and He had a list of users who would do those postings to keep bumping ANNs to get paid by Him (Mysterious01). Now OP (Text) was one of the users to do one or more than one posts in a thread by a way of engaging but with the purpose of bumping it only to complete his task and get paid for it. What is the very big difference in these two that you are talking about?


Community managers are given the responsibility of managing those threads. They don't just engage in there to keep their threads on top, but they do their work in the thread which they are supposed to do. You can't compare these two situations at all.
They won't just let you take charge of a surgery in an ICU as that is not your work and you are not allowed to do it. Now you can't say that if the doctor can do it, why can't I? 


That thing was abandoned later on when admins started to lock down the threads having such a rule in them. So we better live in present, without doing the things that are not allowed now but were done in the past.

Do you want to rethink about that? Or is it your final thought? Because that is not making any sense at all.  

Edit: That actually made me wonder why you have not even crossed Jr. member rank while having 140 Activity points in your name. 

What further investigation do you think is needed if the guy mentions OP's name in the list of his thread bumpers?  Well, I don't think Mysterious01 had randomly chosen some users to put them in his list while dealing with someone as shown in the screenshot. OP must have been working for him, and that is why his name is in that list, and that is exactly why he was tagged. I don't see any complications in that. Besides, OP said it himself that he has done it and he is now sorry for it as it has been two months already. So there is no point in depending him as what he was doing was not decent for people of the community.


Well everyone have the right to make excuses. We are not supposed to take them seriously, are we? 

Can you seriously not find OPs username in the list of Mysterious01's "Thread Bumpers" or you are just pretending not to?  
Well, let me guide you a bit in here. 13th username from the bottom is what you need to see from that screenshot, because that is the reason why he (OP) got his negative tag.

Mysterious01 was offering thread bumping services having users working under him. So he used to get-together users and pay them to bump particular threads, and he used to charge the OPs of those threads for this service. OP (Text) as we can see in the screenshot, was under his (Mysterious01's) payroll for doing so, like many other users.

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone.

Having multiple accounts is highly discouraged by DT members as the fundamental purpose of this forum is not earning money but exchanging information with each other, and discussing problems related to cryptocurrency industry. So it might not be against the rules to join different campaigns with different accounts, but it is not let by higher members as that begets spam and spamming is against the rules AFAIK.
And, spotting an alternative account of an expert (in this kind of things) is not really easy as they can fit themselves in different styles so that no one can recognize them. Although someone with less expertise and more greed can easily be spotted by his way of writing or simple mistakes like using the same social accounts or bitcoin addresses for different campaigns using different accounts. Below is the link to the thread where such acts are revealed and accounts are tagged for doing so. You can report them there if you spot any.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1702409.0

The ones who feel unfair about the system has only one way to react and that is by leaving the forum.
The system has been implemented to reduce spam and spammers from the forum, and so it is doing. Now, for everyone, there are only 2 choices. They either live with it, or live outside the forum.  Choice is yours. 

Hi there.
I just wanted to inform you about a bug in your website. Not sure exactly what is the problem as I'm not really an expert about webs, but when we hover on the dropdown menu, and start coming down in there, the menu collapses back without moving out the mouse. At first I thought maybe I'm moving my mouse wrongly, but then I tried it more than once and I saw this was happening quite every time.
I can be wrong, obviously, but I just wanted to say it here, so that if there is actually a minor problem in there, you can fix it.

At the moment?   You're putting that in a way like it is going to be allowed to buy/sell Merits at some point in future. You should simply say, "It is not allowed to trade Merits." without putting a "At the moment," part at the starting. That makes it sound completely different, and wrong too.

By the way, you just posted a useless thread, containing the same content that has been excessively repeated in many sections already. So, congratulations for being a lazy-head who never cares to read before posting, and, it was a very good try to get your first Merit trying to help some people with a post like this, but I can only see a 0 (zero) in the Merit column of your account, and that might have made you understand that this is not the way to get it.  

Sorry for the long sentences. I love writing them, not sure about the readers.  

Just because he said positive things about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in past it doesn't mean he will lift the regulations after acquiring the governor's seat. And I don't think these are one-man decisions, but there must be debates and a lot of discussions before doing anything like that. So if there were supporters of this cause, I think they wouldn't have done it at the first place.

That doesn't seem to be happening if Bitcoin keeps dumping like this. No business can be stable if a currency backing it up is not stable itself. So I don't think anyone would risk adopting a currency for their business that can turn their $20m to $10m over a night. Though it can go up to $40m as well, but that still doesn't vanish the risk it carries.


That rule doesn't apply for business operators I guess, and doing a cryptocurrency business without being taxed is not what Germany allows, but it is just that if a person uses cryptocurrencies as a mode of payment is not taxed for doing so. As, the article says that if an individual is trading cryptocurrencies in their own name will receive a tax exemption, while the exchange where the trades are being done won't receive any.
So, maybe someone would want to go for a shopping trip to Germany, but to start a business there, I don't think that is good idea, as doing it in your own country and doing it there makes it no different.

This is why I think there should be restrictions on creating new threads for some account levels, outside some particular boards. Is this really a post worth being placed in Bitcoin Discussion?  
If there were restrictions, this guy (who may not know the right board for his post) wouldn't be able to start this discussion in this board which is totally inappropriate.
Something has to be done for this, seriously. And soon enough.