2 shitpost and 10 merit. For new acc from Legendary member.

[Jet Cash]

With due respect sir, there are good posters around the forum especially those who aren't interested in the politics.

I agree, but I've been fairly busy recently, and I haven't been able to read as many posts as I would have liked. If I post in a thread, and don't get a reaction, then I tend not to revisit that thread. I'm not really interested in speculation about the identity of Satoshi, or when Bitcoin will hit £250,000. There are quite a lot of what I would consider to be schoolboy threads as well, and I skip over those. The beginners board contains some useful topics, but often they are repeats of questions that have been asked many times before, and I feel reluctant to merit a reply when I have merited similar replies many times already.

I appreciate that my problem may well be self-generated, but even so, it would be great to see some well reasoned topics, and some discussions about the problems in local economies. For example, I used to read the posts about Venezuela, but I gave up when they seemed to ignore the Bolivarian revolution, and to support the take over by the Koch brothers to seize the oil in Venezuela. What would be interesting would be some posts about the loss of Venezuelan tantalum ( blue gold ) to the US, and how much that is influencing their policy.

[YOSHIE]

This is a very suspicious set of circumstances.  Just a couple days ago Jimmy Crypto had only three merit, and created this thread in Meta, asking about avatars.  Now, just a few days later he's half way to his goal, with 50 merit from another Bitcoin FS shill? 

What you have in mind when you see this:
Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263600.msg44608503#msg44608503

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PoolMinor Give 3 Merits to: Jimmy Crypto, and 2 merit to: MicroGuy, with adjacent posts.
What this can make logically makes sense, or is there something else.

[DireWolfM14]

What this can make logically makes sense, or is there something else.

A guy could drive himself crazy looking for logic, reason, and deeper meaning every time a shit-post gets a merit or three.  There really isn't anything in this thread that convinces me that Jimmy Crypto, MicroGuy, or PoolMinor deserve a negative rating, and there're bigger fish.

It's definitely worth keeping an eye on these accounts in case a pattern develops or something worthy of labeling "concrete evidence" turns up.  Until then, I wouldn't waste a ton of time on these situations.