An account created 20 mins ago is already writing about the merit, why don't you post with your main account.
Whatever, yes we need more merit required to rank up, or a decay every few weeks. Probably the 1st is better.

I saw in the past some bounty manager abusing the bounty where they was managering paying their alts.
Now, you want really the risk to get a bounty manager as merit source and get the risk to have a bounty manager with 10 or more leveled up accounts?

Thankyou for the list, I can see many abusers here, it will a long work to report them all, also if you can update those data next week with next datas! It will be very fast way to find them out!

I've already found 2 abusers with this list, I will post the accusation later.

Keep in mind, some links to messages can be broken since message can be deleted but the link from sender to receiver it will always work till the profile exist.

It's quite simple to find abusers with this file, like this one

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1114852,



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1502785
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2156342
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1271951

All 3 newbie jr accounts, with 1 point from him and same signature.

Need a deeper investigation, but it smells like an abuser.

Hello After the new rule for newbie accounts we need some new stats, from the RAW file from theymos I' ve done this spreadsheet where we can see all transaction and find some users who sent 1 merit to owns alts to rank them up (or sell the merit).
It's more likely that one account with 20-30 txID with 1 merit is an abuser in some way.

The spreadsheet can be found here, I've ordered the transaction "FROM ID user" to users to see how many times the users will appear, I think this is the best solution, but if you want a copy to change something, you need to click on file and "save as copy" from there you can do whatever you want.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R3dE2huMLqjvC1JpFUimRvXvktBxjD-Sgqw61S5oYhk/edit?usp=sharing

For example this week we have over 3000 transaction with 1 merit, the hunting to find who has more it's begun.

Before someone says it, I know it's not an optimal method, but let's say that we can understand the content of a post with the google translator, especially for sentences that contain a line.
The link is the following and I set it to automatically translate the sentences from Turkish into English and as we can see the content of this message is somewhat poor to have merit.
I can think from this fast tranlation they are merit seller, merit fam or "merit gift in hopes of tagging an account" even if I see it hard on newbie accounts.

https://translate.google.it/translate?hl=it&sl=tr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcointalk.org%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D1675162.msg16883383

From here you can copy paste the link of the merited message and/or change the language.

Most of those accounts are russian, I read here on forum one guys sold his merit for 10$ each, now with the high request of merit, the value can be even 15$/merit, so nick777 could evend sold all this merit for almost 1k $.
It's hard to say if he passed the merit to alts or sold it.

Let's see what happens in a week or so, I do not think spam has dropped so much or am I wrong? I thought it would come to -50% but we are around 5-10% what do you think? how much do you think can go down?
The thing that seems more visible to me is the decline in deleted messages rather than the decline in written messages, but this is perhaps due to the fact that people are reporting fewer messages and therefore this value can be considered "untrustworthy".

Questa settimana di sicuro, prevedo un +100% minimo.

Non dalle source ma dagli abuser che devono far rankare gli alt, in reputation ne stanno spuntando tanti.

Support to this man one of the most active and helpful users on bitcointalk, give to this account the merit source powa!

I agree come kind of bots can be allowed (utility bots), but the real question people who uses bot to cheat on bounty and for this reason the post thousands of reports on the forum created by social media bot are also allowed?
Keep in mind those accounts also uses signatures and get money for their shitpost.

This one got 19 merits.
Has received 19 merit 15 times, from 11 profiles
Also in this list we must considerate only active users since some users are no active right now.

Those are noobs  I have one bigger, huge one, but I'm waiting a mod responce here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030187.msg45796715#msg45796715 before posting the account.

I'm asking to mods, hoping to get one answer soon or later!

It's happening since the start of this system, if you find solid cases you can post them here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.0. as you can see a lot of people were reported and now it seems more and more people starting to DT red trust them.

Probably can be. Since ethereum is right now only used to pays fees for ico tokens, it can collapse soon. They need to do something to change this way for using ETH or I don't think it will last for a long time.

If you talk about an altcoin already on the list of coinmaketcap, it is better that it is also included in the lists of large excahnge to attract the greatest number of people possible.
The ico just completed, hardly can be listed on huge exchenge immediately, from what I understand costs a lot of money to have the place on some exchange.
For this reason I tend to believe in the altcoin that are listed on big exchanges and ICOs that have the intention to enter big exchanges, if an altcoin does not want to enter big markets I can hardly believe I can get a decent value over the time.

We already have several tools for this purpose, you can see one here done by @DdmrDdmr

I hope yours is sarcasm.