I'm not sure I agree with that 100%, though I get what both of you are saying.  The members who get ignored or have scorn heaped upon them are the ones who create threads about merits in which they're obviously hoping someone will give them merits.  The OPs of such threads are usually way too wordy in addition to being poorly written (usually), and from what I've observed the creators of threads like that usually don't participate in the discussion which ensues.

OP hasn't received any merits because his post was two lines, and he's asking a question that he could have found the answer to himself if he'd searched Meta.

It's reputational protection--the same reason whistleblowers in the real world prefer to be anonymous.  If you think about it and try to put yourself in the shoes of someone who might not have a very strong personality, one that can withstand criticism from lord knows how many members on a discussion forum, it's not that hard to understand why.

Personally I don't have a problem with people using alt accounts that way, and if I ever said otherwise I'm retracting those statements here and now (lol).  What happens when you've got a real problem with a member with whom a mutual friendship/trust/respect has developed?  There are some members who'd rather deal with it via an alt account rather than confronting that person directly.  Yeah it sounds weak, but there's nothing shady about it as long as the argument being made is sound.

You'd be doing me a huge favor if you made the same offer, believe me.  I don't mind all the requests I've gotten, it's just that my sMerit supply can't keep up with the demand, no matter how much I beg Theymos to increase it.  If another merit source dropped out as Coin-1 wrote, you'd think he might consider my request--but if not that, then I hope he adds another source. 

We've got members like LogitechMouse, who's been around since 2017 and obviously puts a lot of effort into his posts, stuck at Sr. Member because he's not earning enough merits.  If anyone is so inclined, I'd encourage them to browse his post history and give him a few merits.

That's pretty much the entire reason, and OP is relatively new to the forum so he might not be aware that this crap happens all the time--and that Bitcoin Discussion is a haven for shitposters of all stripes.  This is a bitcoin forum (and the biggest one by far), so you'd think that section would be of the highest quality, but it's the exact opposite.

And that's no dig on the moderators of Bitcoin Discussion, because trying to keep that section clean would be a full-time job for a team of people, which bitcointalk doesn't have.

So yeah, please just report threads like those.  It helps the community when you do so, and it's an unacknowledged deed but a good thing for everyone.

Normally I would think so as well, but oddly enough it wasn't last month.  I know the reason, and I've said it a few times already: I got way more requests to review post histories than I usually do, and more than a few of them were good writers with a lot of posts, so it was easy to blow through every single sMerit I had.

If I were to try to hit that 1600+ number just by meriting the posts I read, I'd fail miserably.

Wow, never thought I'd see a monthly result where I took the top spot--I even made a post to that effect over a year ago:

I know why it happened, though.  For as many times as I've made the offer to review members' posts, it was only when I created that thread with rules regarding said offer that my inbox caught fire.  I blew through all of my source and earned sMerits in no time (and I was happy to do so).

Next month I'm sure I'll be down the list, however.  Theymos hasn't upped my monthly sMerit allocation, so I kind of blew my wad all in one shot.  That second part of that last sentence was redundant, sorry.

I tend to agree with you there, as it seems I've seen complaints like OP's a number of times before--perhaps not specifically with the KYC requirement but with other things, like alleged violations of rules and so forth.  And since from the beginning of crypto, the entire space has been filled to the brim with scammers.  It makes sense that many of these casinos aren't being ethical or honest in conducting business.

Yeah, that's a whole different can of worms.  They could certainly claim the picture you sent isn't clear enough (and never would be) or that it's fake, or any number of other lies.  Hate to say it, but that's the drawback of dealing with unregulated businesses.

No premine! But the devs are taking 1% of every block reward, so that's a nice workaround. 

And not for nothing, but your website is so shitty that I wouldn't be able to figure out what the 1% exchange and 1% community fund are.  Looks like something straight out of 1998, when Geocities was all the rage.

Yeah, I don't think I was the worst offender but I definitely stopped doing that recently after hearing what Timelord2067 had to say about it with respect to his local rule on merit-giving in the known alts thread.  I think it's a silly local rule, but his point was taken.

I'm not sure that's the reason, though.  I always thought when I saw an alt hunter who was very low ranked that they were just trying to build a reputation, because those members have existed for years and before the merit system even began (I'm pretty sure).

In any case, with the departure of a few old-time DT members who used to feverishly tag every offender of everything everywhere, there seems to be a sort of "meh" attitude toward bounty cheaters as of late.  Or it could simply be that over time people realized that sniffing them out and tagging them doesn't do much good and isn't really worth the effort.

Yo, that dude's insane in the membrane.  Try starving him into silence.

Hispo, your entire post could have been simply the above words (though members new to the forum might learn something about why the profile section is so blatantly out of date).

But y'know, that new forum software is ready to be rolled out any time now and I've no doubt that the changes you suggested--and more--will be perfectly incorporated into the new look.  Backslash Ess, if you know what I'm saying.

I happen to like the old-school feel of the layout, but the profile page could seriously use an upgrade--and that could be done without making bitcointalk look like it jumped into the 2020s.

There's absolutely no need to have two types of accounts if you're trading crypto.  

It's simple: deposit crypto, it's in your exchange account and when you go to the marketplace section, the exchange knows damn well how much crypto you have, so....why have a trading and main account-type system?  Every time you have to withdraw funds from Kucoin, you're going through numerous, unnecessary steps that have no reason to exist, not even for security.  Again, I mentioned that you have to click a pop-up two times just to confirm that you want to withdraw a coin.

I never said anything critical about any of those things.  I merely included the SMS part in the list of all the hoops you need to jump through.

Thank you for mentioning that; I didn't even think about  it, but I'm also wondering how responsive they are to stuff like this through their bitcointalk account.  

And I'm not totally slamming them, either.  It's just that every time I use their exchange, I feel like it was about 5x harder than the typical ones I use (which aren't numerous, but they have simple mechanics).  Anyone use TradeOgre?  That is probably the most stripped-down, minimalistic exchange I've ever seen.

That's ridiculous, as it assumes people are retards and also makes everything I've described here harder than it has to be--and that isn't going to help any newcomers.  I mean really, why not have customers have to click a pop-up confirmation 4, 5, 6 times?

"Are you sure you want to withdraw?"
Click-->yes

"Are you absolutely sure you want to take the crypto off our exchange?"
Click-->yes

"Just checking: these coins are going from our exchange to your wallet, right?"
Click-->yes

"OK, last time.  You want to withdraw your coins?"
Click-->yes

See if you've got arthritic fingers on your mouse hand in about 30 years and get back to me.  Well, I'll be dead then but follow up in this thread anyway, eh?

Statement does not compute.

Umm, that might be an issue of because-->therefore rather than a conflict of interest, so I've no idea why you said that.

If the ToS of a casino that you signed up to play on clearly states that you have to, or might have to, submit KYC docs at any time, there's really nothing to complain about if and when they do ask for those docs--or the consequences that result from an inability or unwillingness to provide them.

Goddamn, I'm starting to miss the wild west days of bitcoin already.

It is absolutely possible to require KYC as a requisite of registration; whether that would be a good thing for a casino (or any other crypto-related business) is another matter.  I think it's an awful idea and strongly oppose it, but it could be done--just imagine if a law were passed mandating it, for example.

But hopefully since you don't have to produce a photo ID when you walk into a physical casino in Las Vegas or anywhere else (in the US at least), regulation by governments won't go that far.

I've got gripes about Kucoin's usability and want to air them here.

One thing I noticed the first time I used Kucoin is that there are two different accounts you have: Main and Trading, and there's absolutely no need for that to exist.  I say that with confidence because no other exchange I've used has anything like that.  Transferring funds between main and trading accounts is time-wasting, and recently I found I have to reload the page of the account I just transferred coins to in order for them to show up.  Kucoin, get rid of that shit, please.

The worst offense is the withdrawal process, though, and it's only gotten worse over time.  This is the process:

1. Move traded coin from Trading to Main account.
2. Initiate withdrawal by clicking the withdrawal button.
3. Click a pop-up confirmation.
4. Select the coin's network from a drop down menu, click it and then click OK.
5. Enter withdrawal amount.
6. Enter your trading password.
7. Go through the SMS verification.
8. Click another confirmation pop-up.

Kucoin, that's too many fucking steps.  

Why bother having users click on a network for coins where there's only one network?
Why so many confirmation clicks?  When people want to withdraw, they've already initiated the process.  All of that clicking, when it's done many times over a long period of time, is an enormous waste of your customers' time.  As is the existence of a trading password.  As is the existence of the dual-account structure.

My experience with Kucoin has only gotten more cumbersome with time, and I'm going to bring this thread to their attention.  What do you guys think?

Edit:  Well, I sure as hell can't figure out how to contact Kucoin quickly, so perhaps I can't let them know about it.  I started up a help chat, but the response I got was that they couldn't understand what I wrote (it's a bot and the link I put in it might have triggered that response).

Smallpox was once a huge part of the culture, globally, until it was eradicated and now is only talked about as a part of history.

To a much smaller extent, there were Beanie Babies, tulips, and any number of things that had their moment of fame but didn't last as things of value.  NFTs perplex me and challenge my assumptions about the rationality of people in cryptocurrency these days, and my only hope is that all of these bottom-feeding morons on Youtube who extol the wisdom of buying them suffer enormous economic loss.  Yes, I'm hoping some people suffer financially.  Sue me for having a hardened heart.

Please excuse me for my own, but I won't guarantee that there won't be a torrent of more negativity towards idiocy coming from me if threads like this keep popping up.

I understand that concept, but does coins.ph only give out one address for many individual members to use?  If that is indeed the case, then there's no merit to OP's suspicion. 

Even if it isn't true, sending coins to someone's address every week doesn't necessarily mean they're alt accounts.  There could be any number of reasons someone would do that, and to hand out negative/neutral trust based on that evidence alone would be unfair IMO.

What a bummer!

Not really, though.  I admit the title of this thread had me more than a little interested, but over the past year or so I've come to the conclusion that Satoshi disappearing was probably the best thing he could have ever done for bitcoin--assuming he did it willingly, and also assuming that Satoshi is a single individual. 

Why?  Because there are so many altcoins who's founders are still around, and quite a few of them are hellbent on making their coin worse, not better, and they have the power to do so through all of these voting mechanisms.  Anyway.  Another possible Satoshi resurrection quashed.

Abstract and completely bloated and unnecessary.

No, I think it's pretty clear OP's intention was to earn some merits by dropping this hot, steaming pile of shit and hoping that merit sources are actually flies instead of members who can see right through nonsense like this.

Man, you're telling me--there's so many videos on Youtube that it's nearly impossible to find exactly what you want (and I could almost guarantee that whatever it is exists) because of their algorithm.  I'm assuming that videos aren't deleted for no reason and that there must be 14 years' worth of content on the site.  Yet when I search for X, I find the X influencers and only the most recent videos.  If I filter by upload date, everything's in Asian languages that just frustrate me.

I came across this guy's channel (maybe NSFW but nothing pornographic), which blew my head off because of how freely he talks about things, often including language that the typical professional Youtuber who's trying to be family friendly wouldn't dream of using.

And those "influencers" have the script down to a mothafukkin' science.  On top of that, there's just so many of them.  Makes me want to take long breaks from the internet.

Yes I do, though I didn't know you were one and the same--and immediately after writing my last post I thought about replying to your alter ego via PM....but didn't.

Oh, telegram!!  The service I advertise I don't use right in my profile.  Well, there's an impersonator with my bitcointalk handle on there, so let me see what I can do as far as contacting you there.  I think I still have an account, but I know I deleted the app.  I am an accomplished scribe, a noted scholar, and my last brain MRI showed that my skull is not in fact filled with chewed bubblegum as I'd originally suspected. 

In other words, I'll figure it out.

A'ight, it's been two weeks since I bumped this thread with an earnest appeal for more sMerits in order to help out the community and I've been met with SWEET FUCK ALL of a response from Theymos, except for the resounding silence which in itself is actually a very loud statement.

I'm not sure what the implications of the statement are, but I'm hoping he still gives a shit about the merit system, which is the only fucking tool the community has to suppress shitposters, account farmers, and to improve the quality of bitcointalk--and it's a blunt tool at that.

Theymos:  You made me a merit source; I did not apply to be one.  I'm trying to help members rank up and in general I'm trying to do a good thing for the forum, that's it.  I don't want to be the most generous merit-giver or any of that shit.  If you really can't be bothered to even acknowledge my initial bump and all the posts between that and this one, what the fuck do you want out of all this?  How many merits do you want circulated?  Do I have way too many already?  What are your thoughts on maintaining the system?  All of these things and more would be nice to know, especially when you've got an unpaid army working to run the merit system.

You couldn't even give me maybe another 100 sMerits out of sheer gratitude for the 3 years I've been a merit source??

Jesus, dude.