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How about giving a temporary ban to the OP of each thread if his thread reaches 50 pages and still he has not locked it. Obviously, the ANN threads in gambling sections and sports discussion threads should be excluded from this rule.
Also, this can be applied to other sections too, including the Bitcoin discussion sections etc.

This is too harsh and it would never be implemented. The decision that a thread has run its course or not is somewhat subjective, so you can't dish out temporary bans because a user didn't lock their thread that's over 50 pages, what about users that are inactive. The forum runs in a very free way for its users, this goes against that.

I don't think there needs to be any rule regarding threads that are over so many pages, just report them to the moderators if you think it has been overrun by spammers and let the moderators decide.

This year, the technical level of our orange pizza makers has increased considerably, and it was very difficult for me to choose between so many beautiful creations, so I apologise to many but the votes available are few and so I had to make my own choices, but I would like to point out that so many deserved to win.

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I vote for: #103, #15, #42, #66, #106

My vote goes to them

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I vote for: #102, #92, #37, #42, #48

After you posted this topic, several threads have been locked. I replied to or participated in the discussion on five of those threads that locked. Its better for this kind of thread to be locked rather than moved to off-topic, like a few weeks ago when some threads were posted in the gambling discussion are move to off topic board that results some of the signature participants didn't get paid because of that. (I'm not saying that because of moderator who moved the thread is the reason why some signature participants not get paid.) It's always because of the signature participants who posted on that topic.

Moving and locking the threads are two different things and should not be mix together. If a few of the gambling threads were moved to "off topic", that means that those topics were suitable in the gambling threads and moved. This does not matter if those threads had a few pages or many pages, they would be moved because they didn't belong there.

Now coming to locking the long gambling threads, I think this is not only the mods' responsibility but also the topic starter to check his threads and lock them if it has enough or too many replies. How about giving a temporary ban to the OP of each thread if his thread reaches 50 pages and still he has not locked it. Obviously, the ANN threads in gambling sections and sports discussion threads should be excluded from this rule.
Also, this can be applied to other sections too, including the Bitcoin discussion sections etc.

In fact, I could probably do with a lower number of sMerits each month right now as I've ended my post history review offer.

I believe you deserve to get the number of sMerits that you're getting already because you have been a very generous merit source and most members appreciate your generosity including me. With your post review offer you've helped so many deserving members with your sMerits and I'm very sure each of those members wholeheartedly appreciate that.

Gaaah!!  Thanks for all the compliments, but lately I've been such a lazy-ass merit source and feel incredibly guilty because of said laziness.  The position of merit source is strictly a voluntary one of course, and I could easily just tell Theymos I don't want to be one anymore....but I vividly remember the days before the merit system came into existence and I know how important it became in slaying account farmers who had god-knows-how-many alt accounts making zero-value posts all over the place and in general making it much harder for shitposters to rank up, thereby disincentivizing them from even trying.

So I'm happy to help worthy members rank up.  It's just that when I'm browsing through threads, most of the posts I'd consider merit-worthy are being made by Legendary members.  Don't know if anyone else agrees with that, but I guess everyone has different standards.

By the way, it isn't a question of whether I 'deserve' my monthly allocation of sMerits; it's a matter of whether I can unload all of them each month, and lately I haven't been doing that.  I will strive to do better.

If signature spam and shitposting is something that will keep this forum alive, then we should refrain from reports as often as possible - although realistically, compared to a few years ago, the number of reports is very low. It's not that there is no reason for reports, but it is obvious that many who actively did it got tired of the obvious fight with windmills.

There is nothing to get tired of. There are many people that are constantly reporting posts that are needed to be reported. What you can say is that some people were reporting the posts in the past but they are no more on this forum. But there are still some people that are still reporting posts that need to be reported. People that are reporting posts will likely keep doing that. If you have been reporting posts, do not be tired of it at all. It is exciting and makes this forum better.

I should say that all of the pizza designs were awesome but those are the ones that I found pretty awesome and that's why I'll vote for the ones that caught my eyes.

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I vote for: #16, #19, #22, #42, #99

I'd like to correct a misconception that I keep bumping into before it becomes too widespread:

While most of the patches I've posted to date were done on a free-time/voluntary basis, theymos and I did recently come to an arrangement, and I am now paid for the work I do on Bitcointalk.

It is clear now, and you deserve to be paid for all the technical efforts you are putting in to keep this forum up to date.

The developments are very important as they keep the forum current with the new features in global forums and provide someone who is willing to help out and always brings suggestions and good ideas just for the benefit of this forum.
Well-done PowerGlove.

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I vote for: #42 #103 #53 #39 #62

Those i actually would want to eat, and they are works of art.

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I just checked mine, but it's mix of good and unhandled. I find it's weird since all of the unhandled thread contain link to this "rwaltz".

Those reports are unhandled because old posts are not moderatod, even if they are reported.
I think you missed the message saying "Old post: We generally do not moderate posts this old for on-topicness, substantiveness, multi-posting, and other "cleanliness" issues." when reporting old posts.