How about a merit faucet / puzzle?

[Debonaire217]

The most important idea here IMO are the thoughts that each member has, regardless of their capability to communicate using the English language, that is why we have local boards to help these members share their knowledge without ease and away from criticism of their way of speaking. If they really want to engage with international boards, there are extensions they could use to do so, Grammarly is one of these grammar correcting software we could incorporate to our browser to help us further enhance our way of organizing our thoughts.

[Pmalek]

I have a thread where I award Newbies and Jr. Members with Merits for quality posts. Do you know when the last post was made by a Newbie asking me to review some of his posts? August 31, 2019. I have bumped the thread a few times but it is slowly dying.

The thread taught me two things:

1. Those Newbies who know something about Bitcoin and crypto or have the ability to research and understand, will get merited sooner or later.
2. Many don't want to learn anything. All they want is a merit to be a Jr. Member and be able to take part in bounties. They can't even understand what a normal looking post should look like. I've had users suggest I take a look at their bounty reports and merit them if I like them.   

[Jet Cash]

This one may be too difficult to understand.Always start test first for small effort. Later in their education if interested learn sha 512 encryption advantages?

SHA256 is one of the fundamentals of Bitcoin, and one should have an appreciation of it in my opinion. Most members here will have a more advanced knowledge about cryptography than I have, but I believe that I understand its purpose in Bitcoin, even though I don't have a deep knowledge of its nuances. If you don't know why Bitcoin incorporates SHA256, then you don't understand Bitcoin. This is why i thought it would be a good discussion topic for the beginners board. This is especially true with all the talk about Quantum computers, and their effect on Bitcoin.

Maybe discussions about links in signatures is more important for the current direction of Bitcoin Talk.

Maybe it is time to introduce a beginners' tech board, and moderate it to keep out the sig spamming.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Forum can be useful more , generate army of promoters and push for adoption.
Maybe tasks on Facebook and social to promote ideas for Bitcoin for merit?

And essentially turn the forum in to one big bounty campaign while we're at it? No thanks.

We want people to understand how bitcoin works and why it is better than fiat. We don't want uneducated shills mindlessly repeating things they don't understand; there are 2000+ other coins you can choose from if that's your game plan.

regardless of their capability to communicate using the English language

I have never withheld merit from a user because I thought their English wasn't good enough, with the only caveat being it needs to be good enough that I can understand what they are trying to say. Merit should be for the ideas being communicated, not how well someone can spell or construct sentences. Although there are certainly plenty of users who could do with improving their English, again unfortunately there seems be little desire for improvement based on the uptake of JC's Fit to Talk project.

I've had users suggest I take a look at their bounty reports and merit them if I like them.

Genuine lol.

[qwk]

This is called freedom of speech.

Invoking "freedom of speech" on an online forum is kind of the new Godwin's Law

Maybe we should call it "Munroe's Law": "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone invoking free speech approaches 1".

https://xkcd.com/1357/