Yeap, banners should spend their time to read basic, important rules of BTT forum before complaining about their bans' reasons.
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
Shitposters have definitely gotten PMs for their deleted threads.

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For users who abused the forum, merit system, plagiarism, etc., I don't see need to send them warning messages, honestly.
Abusers should be banned immediately after get found with as strict punishments as possible.

In my opinion, you should focus on learning, improving your knowledge, skills, rather than spend most or all of your time in the forum to find cheaters, spammers, abusers.
Of course, it's good thing when you find them by chance and report them to moderators due to their abusements.
But, I strongly suggest you not spend your time solely to find them, because it is one of best way to waste your precious time.

Instead, I recommend you to find prestigous guys in the forum and their invaluable, helpful topics. Someone like Jet Cash, TMAN, The Pharmacist, Lauda, iasenko, mdayonliner, hugeblack, etc.
You can learn bunches of amazing things from them.

lol, just a kidding image, and more than 10 merits come.
Haha. good initiatives, guys.

Honestly, inforgraphics is mostly relevant for kids, and most of the forum members don't need them.
inforgraphics, which contains less details than full ANN topic (of Theymos, forum admin), might lead to misunderstandings about essential stuffs of merit system and new rank requirements.
For someone, who have not known what merit system is, and how to rank up after merit system implemented simultaneously with new rank requirements, please read the topic:
Merit & new rank requirements

It's true and is one of the most important advantages of merit system and new rank requirements.

I am not sure what you said have been actually happened in the forum after the launch of merit system or not. Nevertheless, merit farms, account farms will keep appearing in the forum. Personally, I strongly believe in the merit system because it has massive amazing impacts on farms by keeping farming accounts stucked at low ranks in the forum.

Oh, there hundreds (maybe thousands) of such thread created each day.
Nevertheless, what I known is such non-sense threads which contains one common word like this will be deleted (I am not sure, might be due to mods or automatically deleting non-sense thread bots of the forum).

Yeap, this is basic principle of statistics. Outliers might lead to mis-interpretation of statistical analysis, and should be remove or truncate to create a sub--dataset of outliers to make further analysis on those abnormal cases.
This is why I proposed zentdex to use Mean +/- standard deviations, and Median (Interquartile range) in his analysis.

[Tips] Guide for forum search
TMAN's guide to getting merits
Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)
Collections for someone who would like to improve English skills
Tips for newbies, who want to avoid over-quoting
Guideline on posting images (with size adjustments), hyperlinks

These above topics are ultmost important ones for noobs to start with when they join the bitcointalk forum.
Hope you love them!

I am curious why the OP creator have not locked the topic several days after publishing it.
If the OP creator don't want to beg for merits, it is right time to lock the topic permanently.

No, such negatively thinkers should be ignored due to their wrong attitude.
I guess they have kept complaining all the time about merit system, even about 4 months after the launch day of merit system, mainly because they are not able to compose constructive threads, and lack of willingness to learn, improve, contribute to the forum.
They should not have chance to listen attentively by others in the forum because their threads are really annoying and don't show any attitude to change to right adaption.
Instead of complaining like this, those guys should use their time to search for helpful topics, learn from them, improve their knowledge and skills.

I don't think that Theymos will activate new feature which allows users change their original account names. It (if implemented) might lead to serriously chaotic situation in the forum. It is too complicated to apply. The odds for the change is almost zero.

I am a miner and strong supporter of Pinkstar coin project, dev.
Therefore, I would like to propose you to make a LAST thread in the topic, which announces it will be the last one in the topic, and the topic will be closed permanently.
All future discussions should be (and have to - due to permanent lock) published in new topic of the project.
I simply imagine chaotic scenario when readers, supporters fall into traps between two topics.

Let's consider carefully about my ideas, dev.

Best wishes for Pinkstar coin project.

Please stop call someone with prefix like Mr., Sir, gentleman, etc. It demonstrates that you tend to over-respecte someone you don't know. In addition, this sort of behavior is very common in beggars. After the launch of merit system, there are lots of merit beggars negatively fell into such stupid approach.
I mostly ignore threads which contains those words.

To improve your post quality, you should have to do the following two essential tasks simultaneously or seperately:
1) Learning and sharpening your English skills, including reading and writing skills. Reading skills will help you to read English documents, articles, topics on crypto easier and more efficiently. You can not learn anything if you are not able to understand what others wrote. Writing skills will help you to express your ideas better, help readers easier to get your ideas and avoid serious misunderstandings.
2) Spending more time to learn about crypto knowledge and basic stuffs of the forum.
You will get nothing if you join the forum without basic knowledge on crypto ecosystem as well as basic structures, functions, useful features of the forum.

For instance:
You can find and learn a lot of things by yourself if you know how to use the forum function:
[Tips] Guide for forum search
Furthermore, you should keep following topics, threads of constructive, famous users in the forum, such as Jet Cash, TMAN, The Pharmacist, iasenko, nullius, hugeblack, zentdex, mdayonliner, etc.
You can learn lots of invaluable things from them, for free.

Best regards, mate.

Currently and in the past, Theymos stated that he have not had plans for automatically destroying unused sMerits.
In addition, I don't see reasons to destroying sMerits. Each user has own right to do with his/ her sMerits.
Nevertheless, forum users should send their sMerits away to deserved threads as one of ways to stimulate others to become more constructive. The reason is they will feel satisfied when good threads which they spend time to compose got merits from others users as rewards for their good works.
This is one of basic original objectives of merit system, that Theymos also stated too.
Rubbish threads will never get merits.

Thank you, dev.
However, after downloading Wallet for windows, 64 bit version, I can not open the wallet after double-clicking on BLOC file.
Please help me.

Notes:
Furthermore, I suggest to add more essential features, including status of miners and place to check payment history of miner.
I also guess that there are something wrong with tool for Estimating Mining Profits

For statistical presentation,
With quantitative variables, in the case of your topic, merit points; those sort of variables should be presented in the following style:
Average +/- standard deviation; and Median (Interquartile range).
Average and Median are not enough, and might lead to misinterpretation on real distribution of merit variable.
Median and Interquartile range are essential statistics for non-normal distribution variables.
You choose right statistics to desribe your variables, zentdex.

For your interest, I also give you link to helpful statistical guides from laerd:
Measures of central tendency

Mean, median, and mode should be used correctly with related supplemental statistics for central descriptions.

Hope it helps, zentdex.

Great work, mate!
You have made good contribution to the Digiwage community, especially for newcomers, who are not familiar with both the project and the forum, crypto ecosystem in general.

Being stimulate by your work, today I would like to share official links to several important channels of Digiwage project:
1) Ofiicial website of Digiwage Decentralized Freelance Workplace
2) Digiwage website
3) Block explorer
4) Github
5) Discord
6) Telegram channel
7) Twitter channel

Current available exchanges:
1) Crypto Bridge

Current masternode statistic websites:
1) Masternodes.onlin
2) Masternodes.pro
3) Mnode.club

And more sites to come.

Shitposters will never rank up with merit system and new rank requirements, believe me. Those sort of shitty users will only rank up if they abuse the system through merit exchanges, merit business, etc. Abusing like this will put their accounts under high risk of punishments (such as red tags, bans, etc.).

For your interest, you should improve yourself first to become a constructive user in the forum.
You should also follow 'famous' users, who ranked up after the launch of  merit system and learn from them (iasenko, zentdex, hugeblack, nullius, alias, slient26, etc.).

Best regards,

Thank you very much for the source of different beautiful colors, mate.
However, as you emphasized in the OP, users should not overuse the effects because it can make readers feel a litle bit annoying.
In my stance, this one is only (or mainly) helpful in designing signature with BBcodes.
Anyway, highly appreciate your time to do it because it shown your dedication to contribute to the forum.