People who say they are leaving a forum never seem to go, they seem to hang on hoping that they will be noticed.

Those who actually leave just go, and they usually shut the door quietly.

It's pretty obvious to all except the spambies. At the moment the forum is on life support, and many of us are trying to ensure that it isn't turned off. It isn't helped by the fact that so many spambies are depriving the boards of oxygen.

Oh how I wish that we could.

Oh how I wish that we could.

That thread was a garbage topic in a thread that's been flooded with garbage topics by noobs who may as well be stating the weather conditions.  I'm tired of it, and apparently Vod was too--enough so that he gave you a neg.  I applaud him for doing that and I hope he continues to do so.

You didn't have to.  Posting a poorly-written thread in Meta regurgitating facts that no one cares to read is the equivalent of begging for merits.

Before the 1 merit requirements for newbies we had the occasional newbie wander into Meta.

Now the first two or three pages are filled with newbies making posts with the sole intent of getting merit.

Surely regurgitating statistics that are better displayed on the statistics pages is not of any value to anyone.

I would question whether it isn't plagiarism. It is clearly some copy and pasting from sources that you haven't referenced.

At no point did I defend Vod, who is more than capable of defending himself. I simply pointed out that your complaint against unmoderated trust is a moot point because the trust system was purposefully designed to be unmoderated. Whether or not I agree with Vod's rating on you is irrelevant.

You say that like it's a flaw. That's the entire purpose of the trust system - unmoderated, and at the users' discretion. That's why most DTs have a trust page filled with retaliatory feedback from raging scammers.

Yeah, trust ain't moderated.

But, do you think the thread you created is in anyway contributing? No.

There is nothing to research, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

It's just another spam topic and posting it on Meta makes it look like you're doing it to get merits and not once.

You also did post this topic first on Meta, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034404.msg45979866

What's the purpose of creating multiple threads when you don't have anything new to add? It's just spamming and doing it on Meta is merit spam.

1) This should be in reputation - not meta

2) Trust is un-moderated.  The only one that can remove it is the person who placed it.

3) If he is annoyed with your posting habits then posting these complaint threads are going to be useless.

For project devs, the quality of posts is not really important. Their main focus is to circulate their project name, token name, symbol etc. to maximum people possible. And for that the more posts carrying their signatures the better. So in that respect 1 merited post is certainly not greater than 15 spam posts. But yes, if you talk about click rates, then maybe merited posts have higher click rates than spam posts.
 
The better solution is to allow only those members to participate in bounties who have a earned a certain amount of merits. I am seeing more and more bounty managers adding that requirement which has obviously reduced spam by Bitcoin bounty participants. The major spam comes from altcoin bounties. So if the bounty managers in that section also add this requirement to their bounties, then I am sure spam won't remain an issue on BTT.

**I'm not sure why are you suggesting this requirement. You yourself haven't got any merits till now!!