Take some time to remember that Satoshi only had 575 posts.

[nutildah]

(okay so move this to Meta or Off-Topic if you absolutely must, though you know it will have more of an impact here)

Our Founder the great Satoshi had 575 posts total in a time span of little over a year (little over... little under... I forget because I already closed his profile page, so sue me).

I'm closing in on 5x as many posts as him yet my contribution to bitcoin is roughly 1/1,000,000th in size (or less, depending on your favorite metrics).

Why bring this up?

Because there are Jr. Members in this forum with over twice (sometimes 3x, 4x) as many posts as him that have yet to say a single interesting thing.

I'd say at least 75% of the posts on this forum are now written by "bounty hunters," which is a glorious new description for "signature campaigners," and they're making the forum impossible to read.

The worst part is they never go back and read responses to their old posts because they are too busy churning out new posts to fulfill their "bounty" requirement.

I find the best way to glean actual information from threads now is to scroll down checking the user Post/Activity to Merit ratio. If the Member has several hundred posts and there's a big G00se Egg in the Merits department, its safe to assume the user is just wasting forum space, so I skip their comment and my eyes continue scrolling downward.

So please, before mindlessly posting a response to this OP, take some time to really consider if you are adding anything to the conversation or if you are just mindlessly droning on in the ever-irritating quest for easy money.

You'll find your experience here much more enjoyable if you take some time to read, learn and understand. THEN you might have a better clue of what kind of bounty to join, and God willing, you just might have something interesting to say. And if God really wills it, you might just earn a Merit!

Thanks for your attention.