If the hacker is the same person who had quoted, both can be changed, lol.
I always prefer to archive. One can easily edit the quoted post. That's why I prefer archive to avoid any kind of trouble.

That's not true at all. I have reported 32 posts and of course, some of those are from my local thread.
I really prefer to report spam posts from my local thread because I want to keep it free from spam.

What have you meant my members? Rank or Everyone?
If rank, everyone can apply for becoming merit source.
If you referred overall members of the forum, well, that depends on people. Why should it be encouraged? If someone is willing to become merit source, s/he is welcome to apply.

That's all about Known Alt's of any-one. Not only the bounty or merit abuser. It can be LoyceV and LoyceMobile, hilariousandco and hilariousetc.

And the next rule for ban should be-
Repetitive posts are nor allowed.

Merit sources are specially needed for local board. Right now, I think it's enough for global (English). It's sad to say that we don't even have our own seperate section.

Also,
I am still not an established member.

and
The history should be quite long  

The list is organized based on Merit, activity and trust. With this three parameters, anyone with higher position can definitely be on the top list. Gavin Anderson has enough activity but in trust, he is not even in 1000 list, IMO. Also, almost close in merit. So, if we consider those 3, he is definitely not most recognized. Well, this result is based on forum activity only. It doesn't calculate the contribution of course.
Agreed with you. That's bitcointalk world, not bitcoin world.

I think he is talking about merit source. Can't remember anyone has applied for being merit source in Dutch Local Board.
Anyway, I think there is some members who are giving sMerits to quality posts.
For example-
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3494821.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030464.0

@OP
I wish theymos recruites merit source for each and every local board (Although depends on availability)

URL- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5062041.msg47564908#msg47564908
BTC addy- 3CWKKv7Vao46tTxTnMzqtic1usrc3r8VTd

I think cryptocurrency will replace fiat. As people earlier mentioned the manipulation by the govt, it is one of the top reasons for which people will be decentralized and ignore fiat and use cryptocurrencies once they started to accept by most of the business. In addition, people are more likely to accept technology.

There is already a sub-forum in Indian Local Board named Regional Language. I don't think there should be seperate sub-forum for different languages.

For your info, irfan_pak10 has already applied for being merit source and I think theymos will add him on next update.

My bad. I have seen irfan_pak to send sMerit in Indian Local board and that's why I thought him an Indian.

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Wondering why have you used CAPS LOCK (Block letters) in your title.

Here is another one- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5054833.msg47150149#msg47150149
This one is not logical to quote. s/he can simply quote one post while s/he has quoted his previous reply too.

I think you are looking for [TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits
From this list, TMAN is the only merit source with negative trust from DT. Some others negative tagged members are also there but OP didn't confirm those user as merit source.

It's nothing to try.If you try, you will never get it.
Just continue as like a forum user should be, be usual and you will get it easily. No doubt.

I doubt local moderator can nuke an user. An user can have posts in other section too. So, logically, you will not be able to nuke an user.
In addition, from the comments above, it seems you are not active in the forum, almost not at all. How will you manage if you be a local moderator?

This was shared by another member already- Twitter re-audit trick
I would never do it since twitteraudit requires a fee for 2nd time auditing. It's not ethical in my eyes.

It's easy to find the option buy Copper Membership.
Click on the menu "More" and you will find 2 option. One for buying copper membership and another is for donation.
Here is the menu-


By the way, I can't find where you have been scammed.

If ANN thread can receive lots of merit, why not bounty threads 
DeepOnion ANN
Viacoin
BYTEBALL
HoweyCoin----Deserve to be merited
And more here- Most merited topics (SUM of OP + posts) (Fixed!)

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@OP, good luck with your application. I think you should remove the 2nd post, although it depends on you.

Moderators are not free all the time, they are either handling other case or busy with real life activities. You need to wait some times. Wait and check back later.

If scam is the issue, why don't we restrict people to post ICO ANN here? Aren't they scamming more? Lots of new ICO is launched daily and people lose thousands of dollar.
I'm agreed with you but if you consider scam, restricting ICO ANN will be more effective.
Also, because of those ICO ANN thread, spams are increasing too.

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I think theymos is not thinking about this now at all. Otherwise, in recent updated restriction, he would definitely add this one too.

Won't there be a conflict if there is such an option?
If someone (scammer) creates new accounts or uses old account for linking with a high ranked user, it will create a conflict. Still the master account have to admit that s/he owns the account.

Legitimate alt account= Self admitted alt accounts.
For example, hilariousandco and hilariousetc

On the other hand, illegitimate alt accounts= Alt accounts used by different members which is not known to us/public.

OP has mentioned to add an option where there will be way to link up the main account.