My fMerit is down again to 313.

I guess you are right, especially on fMerit. I noticed this new order a few hours after I made a new trade on how the Merit system has fared so far, and my fMerit stood at around 300 at that time. A few hours later it pumped to over 700. I feel like I walked myself into some trouble. Now I know that Merit is the best thing ever in this forum.

I see these new set of stats on my profile right now and that brought me to this thread. Can someone properly explain fMerits, karma and immagination, and how they count, please.

The Merit System was introduced into Bitcointalk this year, with the intent and purpose of promoting sanity and good values in the forum. Right from its inception in late January 2018 till date the Merit System has become one of the highly debated subjects on Bitcointalk.org. Forum members who are already at the upper echelon of the forum and who may have little or no need for Merits seems to generally favour the system on the grounds of spamming and junk posts by desperate lower cadre members, while most lower cadre members who need to progress on the forum are not very supportive of a Merit system which ties a member's progression on the forum to the amount of Merits earned by a member. And earning Merits isn't so easy.

Now, it is somewhat difficult to tell whose voice is louder in the debate, and even more difficult to tell who has the more valid point of view. And how about a little statistics? A nice way to evaluate the performance so far of the Merit system towards achieving the set objectives would be a measurement of the impact of the Merit system on the forum, and forum traffic is one important parameter.
An overview/analysis  by Similarweb.com of total visits to  Bitcointalk.org on desktop and mobile web in the last 6 months shows a steady and gentle increase from a little over 20m in Sept., 2017 to over 60m in January, 2018, and then to a sharp and continuing decline to 34.5m in Feb., 2018. This decline is not just happenstance. It perfectly coincided with the introduction of the Merit System.
See stats https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org.

The likely implication is that the Merit system is demoralizing low cadre members who needs to attain higher levels of membership. However, some here may argue that a few meaningful member activities is worth more to the forum than much activities of little or no value. Be that as it may, we should acknowledge the fact that traffic is equally important in the web  ranking and worth of the bitcointalk forum. So, I think BCT Administrators should have a  reappraisal of the Merit System – carefully weighing anticipated benefits against perceived costs – and come up with a more effective, yet forum friendly solution to the problems. What do you think?

This project is active and doing all as stated in the whitepaper. Devs should keep in mind that there are so many projects out there doing what Social aims to achieve and even more. Sphere, Social Wallet and Social CXN are some of the projects that would compete with Social in most aspects. Timely completion of major milestones in this project is crucial for Social to remain ahead in the race as the first project to bring social media to the blockchain.

Thanks, Admin.
I have received my full reward for the ACO bounty campaign. It came much earlier than the previous.

I have registered for the closed beta.

Richard and team failed to realize that timeliness is everything in the highly competitive crypto race. Not loud talks. ETN could have been in a better position now had the team not lagged in develnpment time frame. And it is obvious that the usual news buzz around ETN by Richard is no longer impacting positively on price. So, it's time to change tactics to keep ETN flying even higher.

Aside Crypthopia I don't know any other. P2P trade is the other option but that could be risky.

Hello,

Since Crowd Machine Apps will run interchangably on various blockchains what would be the code base of Apps created on the Crowd Machine platform? Will it be in the Solidity language or Python, Serpent or any other?

ETN is heading down to ICO price. It's a good time to buy and buy more ETN because this coin is sure to bounce up to the moon after a hard landing.

When will BNK be listed on hitBTC – in a month, 3 or 6 months time?

This concept is magnificient. The solution is innovative. And the whole idea sounds great. Just captured my interest.

This is Without doubt a solid project that can edge any competition on its own. However, a strong community is still crucial to the long term success of the OAK. So, a second bounty campaign for the main ICO would be ideal.

ECB has a very high rating of 4.6 on ICOBENCH.

Hi, Admin. Please I would like to know if I could join the closed beta with my Social account credentials. That is, with my pre-registered Social account.

In that case will the erc20 and NEM versions have a concurrent exchange value, or will they vary independently in exchange prices?

Yes, I got my seed. And like I said I just tried it out. I don't keep funds in Freewallet. I stick to cold storage for major bucks, MEW and ImToken for minnr transactions.

Over 100k contributors from the crypto world saw reasons to contribute over €100m of their hard earned monies to this project yet, you know better. I'd rather go with 100k plus.