And if you also didn't knew about this till now, send me a Merit 

Sa opinyon ko, ang merit system ay para lamang sa mga bantog at datihan ng mga user dito sa bitcointalk. Hindi natin maiwawaksi na mapagiiwanan ng husto ang mga baguhan lalo na't nakasalalay na sa merit points ang pagrank up.
Kung matagal ka ng nasa forum na ito, marami ka ng kilala at marami ng nakakaalam sa iyo ngunit paano naman ang nagsisimula pa lamang?
Gayunpaman, nais ko rin sabihin na kailangan nating sumunod na lamang sa bagong sistema ng forum dahil para na rin gumanda at magkaroon ng malikhaing pagiisip ang mga user.

Hello!
since it was an innovation on the forum, I did not know all the rules.
Yes, now that I completely understood this system, I realized that I made a gross mistake.
about the examples for the rest - it will certainly be, but in my personal opinion this is a very tough punishment ..

So, so, so...

First, you sent 50 (fifty) merits to Chetty for a post in a thread advertising a “90% AIRDROP”, a post which said only and exactly this:


Approximately:  “Yes, certainly, he said he sent 9% of the coins.”  Fifty merit points for that is not a “test”.  Either you are claiming to be such an imbecile as might make such a “test”, or you presume that we be such imbeciles as to believe such a transparent lie.  ...well, well, well.


Then after you got red-handed and your trust bled, you sent a message posthaste to someone whose profile page expressly states:


Oops!  actmyname kept his promise by ignoring you:


As you conveniently forgot to mention, you also sent retaliatory negative trust against actmyname.  Of course, this will accomplish substantially nothing:  Nobody trusts you by default.  actmyname’s trust will not bleed like yours, except for people who explicitly add you to their own trust lists.  You even helpfully lied, and claimed that you risked 1.0 BTC in a matter whereby actmyname violated your trust (n.b. that actmyname properly claimed he risked 0.0 BTC as to you).


Though you have been on this forum since 2015, somehow, you are ignorant both of how trust works, and of the policy that theymos does not intervene in such trust disputes:


And you have the nerve to ask:


Well, here’s a hint:  Maybe, just maybe, people on this forum have become a tad peeved and impatient with swindlers who use alts to pump scamcoin airdrops just like you did, prima facie, you sneaky bastard.  And either you are guilty of that, or you are guilty of criminal stupidity; there is no third option here.

Thus now, your life is “broke”.  Ruined!  Destroyed by the evil merit system, whose malevolent tyranny knows no bounds!

Therefore, I suggest that you get a life.

Hi mga kababayan, gusto ko lang po makatulong,
Nakakita po kasi ako ng thread regarding helping others para mareview ng iba ung post nila na inpormative naman pero hindi napapansin ng iba na may merit.
Here is the reference thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0
Ang gusto ko lang po sana ay magkaroon din tayo ng ganito
para sa mga pinoy na hindi naman nakakapag english masyado pero nakakapag bigay ng mahahalagang information na nakakatulong sa mga member dito sa forum.
Pwedi po kayo maglagay ng link dito para mareview ng iba at malagyan ng merit ang mga dapat lagyan ng merit.

Salamat po sa mga mag paparticipate.
Lahat po ng Link ng link na talagang talagang nakakatulong will be posted here.

Some of you may have seen my sorry thread about my hacked account. Since writing it, I've seen so many threads with hacked account owners begging for help just like me. Even one thread where an account has been hacked more than once. I know there was a breach a few years ago but there seems to be a recent surge.

My question: How come it seems so easy to hack BCT accounts?? What gives??

The breach you mention, combined with users not changing their password after that happened

1. Iwasan ang oneliner post at mga nonsense na replies sa threads lalo na sa altcoin and bitcoin discussion. Alam naman natin na andito tayo upang makatulong sa forum at alamin ang mga bagay bagay about sa bitcoin. Pareparehas lang naman tayo dito ng goal pero syempre huwag abuso  MAGCONTRIBUTE din tayo sa forum with informative topics.

This forum had transformed itself from a platform were people could find information and discuss different topics into a freelancing platform. You could call it however you whant but most of the users here are registered mainly for the bounty campaigns and just some for the information. (In some cases for both of them).
This doesen`t mean that this is a bad thing because crypto world means that we all here to make money. And from this platform both parties have to win: owners need users to get bigger fees to advertise, users earn thanks to bounty campaign from wich the sig campaign pays the best.

The biggest problem i see is that most of newbies spam like hell to get the required activity and after subscribing to a bounty campaign they post to match the reguirement of the campaign. Here, a part of the fault is that the campaign manager require 25-30 post per week so they could be forced to ask for a max of 10 so that users should make some useffull post in order to reach the 14 post neded to reach the activity.

But the main idea i got is to change this " you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks".
Why not chat this into : " You need a certain activity level OR a certain merit score ..." and change the required activity to a higher number like this:

Rank            Required activity   Required merit
Brand new                0                            0
Newbie                1                            0
Jr Member                100                     0
Member                200                   10
Full Member        340                   100
Sr. Member        540                   250
Hero Member        800                   500

By setting this kind of high value you would stop all ursers that moan about never ranking up, and you will give a real value to those users that really give quality content for this forum. Also Hero and Legendary account will mean something because there will be a clear distiction from the rest of users.
Also this way you will reward real hard working users and encourage them to add value to the content.

As a Jr. Member who is currently at a disadvantage in the current system, I aggree that this can create positive things, but I think it's a little too unfair for the new members or Jr. Members. I mean just think about it. We have to seriously crawl our way to the top, and what if I make a legit, helpful, merittable post and no one noticed it? Isn't that a little too unfair? Many efforts can be wasted just because you couldn't appreciate or you fail no notice a good post. What are moderators are for?

EDIT: while the previous member of this forum has it easy, just meeting their quota per post, the new members have it rough, it's really hard to get accepted in signature campaigns right now. It's like they're discriminating new members.

sa tingin ko ang merit system nato  ang isa  sa mga epektibong paraan para malaman Kong sino sino ang mga user na may high quality post or aka matalino kasi parang MMR system din pala to eh pg wala kng merit sa mga losyang ka pg malaki merit mo  isa ka sa mga magagaling. ganun lang yun. pag magaling ka high quality person ka pag apply no palang pagkaka tiwalaan kana.

I have 56 activities, not enough 4- and was run merit. My posts in Russian, I can only hope for your kindness! I want to be useful for this forum!

Why it is unfair? I think this rule is positive. It will increase post quality in this forum. I have another suggestion-The  signature campaign weekly post must be highest 10 that can help removing spam.

hindi korin po alam ang merit nayan nakakabuti ba para  saatin ang merit na yan oh nakakagulo lang saatin kong ano naman sana yang merit na yan sana makatulong naman saatin para naman maging ok ang lahat

Para san po ba ang merit? Ako rin po eh hindi ko rin alam

Para san po ung merit na yan? Pa explain nmn po thank you master in advanced

If this is allowed, people will start creating accounts in bulk and use their free merits to rank up those accounts. This will defeat the purpose of introducing the system.

Regarding the people being happy and sad with the decisions, it is better if you keep your emotions independent of the rules of a forum you are registered with.

If this is true, then bitcoin talk will eventually run out of merits.

3.It will develop a sense of ownership and will treasure the accounts since it achieve by a hard work.

Brilliant idea! I think reporting posts and threads is a great feature on this forum that is not used enough. I try to use more but often times I just forget about it and scroll through lines and lines of one-liners, spam, "Great project Sir" posts, so that I find the information that I need. But we took time and report those useless posts, the quality and usefulness would be much better. Reporting of scam attempts is even more important, of course.

So yeah, I think small reward with Merits would be good way to encourage reporting. Maybe 3 Merit per 10 accepted reports?
In order to prevent report-hunting a user would get warning after 3 false reports and ban after 6 false reports or something like that. Moderators are the people who decide for each report and I haven't seen any complaints on their report-solving so far.

According to forum rules, account sales are discouraged. And most Moderators have opinion that account that was bought is a threat to other users because they might trust him because of rank or post history, which in reality is work of someone else so such bought accounts are not trustworthy and often times get Red trust. And I agree with you, it is a way of cheating and I am against it.