I had to merit this, I'm sorry. I know it is a waste of 1 sMerit, but please actmyname, give that 0.5 sMerit you have received through this to someone who needs it.
I trust you to select the right person.

Im Deutschen sub bin ich ein niemand. Ich bin hier nur zu Besuch. Das will ich auch gar nicht ändern, hier sind andere die Platzhirsche.
Warum kreuze ich also genau wenn das Merit System eingeführt wird hier auf?
Gibt ja schon genug Befürchtungen von wegen Local Sections sind zu klein, da wird das nie funktionieren.
Da denk ich mir, kann ich ändern, ich hab sMerit. Ne ganze Menge davon.

Lasst uns die Sache mal von einer anderen Seite betrachten, ich argumentiere ja gar nicht gegen euch.
Einige Einwürfe hier sind durchaus valide. Ziel sollte es sein, solche möglichen Probleme zu erkennen und zu vermeiden.
Speziell als jemand, dem sehr viele sMerit zur Verfügung stehen.

Dann finde ich aber auch, dass man mir (und anderen in ähnlicher Position) zugestehen kann, dass wir das ernst nehmen.
Ich finde die Änderung gut, sehe sie als Chance und möchte meinen Teil dazu beitragen, dass das ganze System funktioniert.
Hoffentlich findet sich dadurch ein Weg zum positiven (mehr bezogen aufs englische Forum, wie gesagt, nur zu Besuch hier).

Lasst es uns doch einfach zusammen ausprobieren.

TBalls, you doing loans? Haven't seen you give one, you're too tight a cunt for that.
I havent been giving any in over 2 years either, haven't even really started with it before I had enough.

So neither you or I are lenders, now where's that group everyone is talking about?
That background noise is always saying you and talks like we do something, but...I didnt. What did you do again?

I'm mellow with Og and last I checked Og was mellow with me.
If they aren't, that's too bad, but nothing I can change about that.

Way to pull out 2 year old logs that should remain burried in order to stirr some shit, though.
Next time, try something that isn't resolved/ancient.

I didn't even give you feedback. I simply disagreed with your post, which was enough for you to go on this...rant.

Nobody will, your feedback doesnt matter. At best, it's an annoyance. But those can be ignored. As might your posts be by many.
The biggest impact you will have is...well, yeah...

Same reason why <-- this guy has them.
He's in the legendary window, theymos added 500 merit for all heroes that could possibly already be a legendary based on the start of the window.

Hi Marv, ich bin Lutpin.
Da wir uns jetzt persönlich kennen werde ich öfters mal bei dir vorbeischauen und lesen was du so postest.
Klingt cool? Finde ich auch, ich freu mich schon.

Knock yourself out. 50 negs for disagreeing on a post, that's a new one. I'm sure theymos will have a nice place on the trust spam banlist for you.
It's proven btw, you should have lookeded that up before posting.

You forget one major difference: It's a post in a local sub. People that dont speak German dont know what youre saying, they don't know what your infographic says.
The possible users to give you merit thus are limited. I'd expect local posts to get merit slower, but maybe not less than english threads, the difference is simply exposure.

FWIW I merited that post right after I saw it (yesterday), not because I need the infographic, but because I can appreciate the time being spent on creating one.

Sorry, all I could understand was someone being butthurt and a few insults.
If you want to further pursue this discussion, start a reputation thread about your rating.

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I'll leave you one thing, though:
[EDU] The Rule of "No Collateral, No Loan" - IGNORE AT YOUR OWN RISK! (sticky thread, thus sanctioned by moderation)

Two more things quickly come to mind, ponzi scams being pushed into the IBG section instead of being outright deleted (yes I know, that is forum moderation policy and I have to accept that),
or the gambling discussion sub (which I partly suggested myself, but I'm not so sure about it's benefits anymore).

I think the moderators of those mentioned sections are doing a good job given what they have face on a day to day basis, so dont misunderstand this as me blaming them directly for the state of certain subs or sub-child.
mprep especially, I imagine has to have quite some patience and nerves to keep the upper hand on all the altcoin stuff going down. I've got mad respect for that.

Getting the same error, great you already spotted and fixed it
Also, very well done grue, the extra page to open when giving merit was one of the most criticized aspect of this change.
Thanks!

Theymos already created a page that is de facto a merit patroller page.
It's the Top-merited recent replies/TMR topics statistics page.
A merit patroller doesn't have to browse all sections, they can browse this lists (although they could be made a bit more easily browsable (again, the comparison to the Patrol page comes to mind).
When they spot something that is out of the ordinary, they can read those posts in context of their respective threads/sections.
Should they think something is wrong there, they start investigating and conducting other patrollers for their opinion, then eventually take action.

966 activity and no legendary member? I was screwed by the activity system.
I will gladly sign your...oh, what do you say? Wrong system? So the abuse will continue. How far, I ask. Bitcointalk, how far?

#JusticeForLuptin

There is no forum rule against scamming either, you still don't do it.
Community rules add limits where the forum can't. One rule the community agrees on (it's even in the lending guidlines and stickied in the section) is the collateral rule.
You may disagree with that, but a majority of users does not, there is consensus for this rule.

Again, forum rules and community rules. The first part are the rules the forum makes (those that can get you banned). They might allow it.
The second part are the rules that the community agrees on (those that you eg can get negative trust for).
Account sales are frowned upon and it's likely for you to get either neutral of negative feedback when you are participating in them.
You may dislike this, I may even disagree with this, but that's the community consensus.

I havent been lending since early 2016, gains that were made have been reported should they fall under any taxable event.
You don't need to worry about how I tax my crypto, that's for my CPA and tax office to determine.

Yes and no. In a smaller community, less sMerit is available, but there are also less posts competing for Merit.
As long as sources are present in all local sections, size should not be an issue. Maybe competition is even so much lower in smaller groups that merit is actually easier to get.

I usually don't frequent my local section (discussing bitcoin and related topics in english give me the ability to communicate with almost everyone across the globe,
discussing them only with a few that happen to speak my language limit this greatly), but I've been browsing it over the last day and have rewarded a portion of my merit to local posters.

I've assumed they were talking about the people working on epochtalk (that's where the actual development is taking place, slowly).
Moderators/Staff and Developers are two different pair of shoes, although a single person can be in either of those groups (or in both), they souldn't be mixed up.

It's a pretty big forum nowadays and servers need to be paid. Then there's overhead like cloudflare and similar stuff.
On the other hand, the forum has a lot of reserves which are worth big amounts nowadays and the popularity of ICOs keeps the ad auctions going for big money.

Donations (the button right next to your profile button in the header) were keeping the forum alive in the first time.
Nowadays, most of the income the forum makes comes from the ad-auctions (forum ads shown between the first and second reply on each site).
Also, there's paid memberships (the copper members), but I suspect that only makes for a very small part.

tl;dr: Forum advertisements. No signature campaigns.

Oh, point it out, please.

Rule #1 of lending is, no collateral no loan. Can't you even follow rule 1?

Buy a copper membership instead. That way you can use your actual account and not a purchased one.
The money goes to the forum you are using for promotion, not some account farmer in *insert random country here*.
Farming doesnt get rewarded and everyone benefits.

You should learn a bit more. Keep asking questions, get answers.
Soon, you'll have the hang of how things are going.