Reading this statement and seeing the Merit you've got out of this thread, It seems like you deserve a place in the 3rd category of your own opinion.
No offense. Just a private opinion from the heart. If someone disagrees, I don't really care.  Just kidding. I really appreciate the people who disagree with things proving they have a stand of their own.

What the deal with this thread being created? There is nothing new about what you are stating here, nor you have been unaware of that I guess. So what's the point here?

Couldn't you be a little more specific about what you are posting? 
It doesn't charge money to write more.

The primary purpose of Merit system is to award constructive posters and appreciate their efforts towards the forum. So as long as they are rewarded for posting in the forum, it is all okay, but if the campaign demands something else in return for Merits, then that breaks the basic rule of Merit system and I believe that won't be considered okay at all.

After reading almost more than a half of it with excitement, I realized that it is a promotional article of a project but not a economical discussion.  
I guess this thread, after a few adjustments, belongs to Marketplace (Altcoin) section if it is about a project not involving Bitcoin.

User ratings are not always 100% accurate. So such a feature can be a negative effect for the reputation of this forum if an ICO rated high turns a scam later on.
This forum should not take responsibility of the projects being carried out anywhere outside it which is not what this forum promises to serve. It would only be logical to clean the forum from them if they are suspicious, but not to rate them high or low by any mean.

None of the points above are valid IMO.
It is absolutely not true that the people don't care about newbies. I was a newbie myself when the system (Merit system) was introduced, and just like others, everyone must have seen me like a newbie, but I managed to grow higher and pass that phase without any problems. So if someone says that newbies are not noticed or are neglected, then that is not true unless a newbie doesn't deserve being noticed.

And, there are more than enough sMerits in circulation to serve the purpose and that is not a reason for someone to complain about not getting Merits at all. Hundreds of people are getting a share of thousands of Merits every month, and if someone is out of that league, he is the only one to be blamed for that.

Lier. 
The one's who read a lot don't get stuck when It comes on writing, and lack of writing skills made you reach the state you are in right now. 

Signature campaigns are not the cause of spam, but the recklessness of their managers is. There are signature campaigns running successfully without generating any spam out of their participants, Chipmixer for example. So the solution is not always to cut-off the roots, sometimes the branches are to be managed as well.

Reading just a few replies of some pages in that thread makes you realize how nice and clean the forum was at that time. No spam, no useless posts/posters. Everyone had a valid reason to write something in a thread unlike today where people merely find a solid reason to post something. It is pretty fair to predict the reason for the oldies to leave the forum was the excessive spam in the forum.

Practicing with conversations improves your speaking power. Writing skills has nothing to do with conversation making, and someone will never be able to write if he just has practiced conversations.

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Nice tips @OP.
All I can say is that the best thing would be not focusing on a bright future in this forum as that will draw your attention away from your cause, and you will never be able to stay on the right path, but if you keep that on the side at first, you will eventually improve if you are active and reading even just within the forum.

It not safe enough to keep all your funds in it, but it is good to only store the Bitcoins that you know you will use in short term.
Web Wallets are considered to be not a good choice when you are planning to keep a lot of funds and too for a long period. One should buy a hardware wallet like Nano Ledger or use a desktop wallet like Bitcoin Core or Electrum in that case because these are considered way much safer than the wallets on Web like Blockchain, Xapo and Xapo etc.

Yet another failed attempt of getting Merits by showing concern about the forum and its purpose.
I'm really tired of them now.


P.S: Change yourself first, and don't ask others to not do something that you are doing yourself. It makes you look bad, not good.

Well, congratulations for what you have achieved, but is it really important to create a thread and let everyone know that you have ranked up by getting Merits?
I believe people showing off their intelligence in the sense of Merits don't really care about the forum or its quality, but they are only here to rank up and get the status of being intelligent or something, so that people in the forum see them like that.
If someone really cares about the forum, they won't care if they are getting a lot of Merits or nothing at all (they will get a lot most probably, if they only care about the forum), but they will just continue doing what they have been doing without all this celebrations and all.
I know it is not bad to feel good when you achieve something, but reacting like this makes it look like it all revolves around yourself and never has been about the thing you have been putting your efforts to.
That is what I think, and I'm not someone who thinks he is always right. So, it can be wrong.
Cheers.

This statement alone shows that you know nothing about the system nor a thing about its usage. Merits are not to be exchanged between people, they are supposed to be given away for qualitative posts around the forum. If you are found exchanging them for your own good, you deserve a ban, not just a negative trust. Though theymos said that it is not really a thing to be worried about if people try to abuse the system by any mean as their Merits will finish eventually, but I personally discourage the act of using Merits in the wrong way and I really appreciate tagging people who are still using it in the wrong way and if someone says they don't know it yet, they lie because it has been around for more than 3 months now and anyone in the forum should have learnt about it by now.

Being able to participate in signature campaigns is not a part of those benefits I'm sure. The benefits are for the newbies to post images and reduce some other restrictions, but it doesn't allow them to wear a Member's signature and earn money through that by simply buying a Copper Member position. If that was actually possible, there would have been users taking advantage of that already. Besides, if buying Copper Member would let newbies get enrolled in signature campaigns by wearing Member rank signatures, the Merit system would be a very much of a failure IMO knowing it only increases the amount of spam if there are newbies in the campaigns, because if so, they will post with the intent to earn and we have already seen what that does.

How on earth couldn't you find a single merit worthy post in the entire forum while there are hundreds of posts being Merited every day because of their quality?  
People say that the Merit system is working fine and the quality of posts have increased by now, and if that is true, then why do I still find people opening threads like this saying they can't find enough constructive posts to reward them with Merits? It really doesn't make any sense to me.  



That might be the actual reason behind such services popping up everyday even by people having almost nothing more than 2 Merits in their pockets. The hope of support from people in shape of Merits is what encourages every other person to start Merit Rewarding services and become too lazy not to surf the forum properly to find some good posts themselves and reward them.

What is so confusing in that? Merit is a system made with the only purpose to clean the forum and make it more constructive for people coming here to know about Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. It is not an asset or something that has to be used to reward people for doing things asked for beside being constructive for the forum. So the way you are giving them away, to someone who would write an article and post it here and somewhere else too, is not the right way, but the right way is when you see an article or a post already posted here and you find it helpful for you or for the community, you Merit it away.


How are those not different? By the way, you exchanged the wordings in your statement. They should be like "rewards merit passively for content he desires or actively for content he likes" and that shows the difference between them. You are not supposed to reward Merits passively for content that you ask for, but Merits are to be given to the content that you like when you are surfing the forum.


I've already answered this above.

There is no restrictions on asking to get an article on any topic, but the thing you offer in exchange is what's the reason of concern here. You could simply post this in Services section asking for the same thing but offering some currency as reward for that like Bitcoins or any other cryptocurrency (It would have been in Altcoins section if it were to be paid in something beside Bitcoin though), but you offer to reward the person with Merits for this which is what no one should do because it is considered trading Merits as you are giving them away in exchange of something.


That is not a way to improve the quality of the forum. Besides, you are demanding the writer to post the article also to a blog (which is yours, I assume) beside this forum which shows that the basic purpose of this is not to provide quality content to the forum in exchange of Merits but to fulfill a personal need, and that is not how Merits are to be used. I doubt if someone really told you to use your Merits this way.


This is not a good and effective way of using Merits. You are using them for your own good but not for the betterment of the forum or for qualitative contributions towards the forum. Merits are well used if they are given away to the posts that are constructive for the forum, not if they are given away in exchange of something.

I would like to join if the slots are not already filled.

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