Fair or not fair about decreasing rank in bitcointalk

[Theb]

Come on bro, its just one merit to take your old rank back and you are whining out here as if theymos has given you a merit requirement the same as a Legendary member would have. Hasn't it come to your attention that on your 196+ days of being "active" in the forum you still haven't received even just one merit? It is just a simple way to know that you are not posting quality posts here in the forum and if you really want to become a Jr. Member again you must change it as it is the only way you can rank up now.

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[myads runner]

this effected for my signature campaign that i can't join again.

Is it fair for me or another junior member who are active in the bitcointalk and always try give quality post about the new rule???

Yes it is fair.  Earning a merit is not the same as believing you should earn a merit.

You'll find no one cares that you can't join a signature campaign.  People like you almost destroyed this forum...

Agreed with you 1000% newbie like me need qualified information. Please give me the best post you have, I will read your sort or long text can construct my knowledge about Cryptocurrency. Bounty and campaign is like a bonus when requirements is passed

[tung06081989]

I think it fair with everyone because rank jr member with no merit,it is easy to become jr member and they can do signature,if rank higher they will get more stakes and jr member can get 1 stakes but they can do many acc jr member to get more stakes,there are many acc jr member do bounty so there are many post with low quality on this forum,when bitcointalk change the rule about  rank jr member with 1 merit,this changing is limmited rank Jr member do bounty and they will come back newbie and they have to try and try to become the true jr member,Restrict low quality posts because they can't do bounty,I think this changing is fair with everyone

[deguzmanwacky]

Because of the new rule, the bounty chasers rose and complained about everything. Eventually, a merit is not that hard to get, its just that these people are only after the bounties instead of knowledge. Trust me people, you 
will get a merit.

[krishnaverma]

This is a private forum  owned by  a group of persons, not some democratic government. There is no point is objecting to the decisions taken by the management here. I think that the admin still takes the opinion of members before making any major changes and we should be content with that much.

[mobireal]

I will say it's fair why because in bitcointalk now people don't understand it very well because the don't mind post reasonable post to get merit what the are after is just doing there bounty programs that's all but now which requires you to get one merits before you become jr member it will make everybody to be serious.

[diceoption.com]

Today, i was so surpised when i open my profile in bitcointalk and found that my rank is decrease to be newbie and of course this effected for my signature campaign that i can't join again. I am active member in this forum and always give all my best to give quality post, but until now i never get one merit. I think it's to hard get merit eventhough i always do my best effort to post.
Is it fair for me or another junior member who are active in the bitcointalk and always try give quality post about the new rule??? What should we do to get just one merit to increase our rank?
It's a disappointed decision, will it be the end for me or another people who have some problem like me in the bitcointalk?
Please help me give your reason and solution to face this problem, thanks before guys..

Me too! Now I do not know how Merit works 

[DdmrDdmr]

<...>Me too! Now I do not know how Merit works 

Then it’s about time you start looking around the forum to find out. There are enough threads on the matter to create an essay for a doctorate thesis (ideally, without plagiarism).

[xtraelv]

The introduction for one merit to rank up is not designed to prevent the average real member from ranking up. It is purely aimed at shit-posters from signature campaigns and "bots".

Shit-posters are people who purely post to meet bounty quotas, have no real interest in exchanging ideas or post incomprehensible garbled nonsense.

Often - just engaging with other members is not necessarily considered worthy of merit.  But they are valued as a conversation.

If you are chatting to others - that is not considered shitposting. But it may make getting merit more difficult.
TMAN'S guide to getting merit.

Giving merit to shit-posters is one of the reasons senior members are careful with giving merits to Newbies:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban

As you can see - merit is sometimes wasted on those that really don't deserve it.

However - there has been a real drive to give merit to newbies who deserve it.
[TOP-200] Members who support newbies

Senior members are not anti newbies (even though it may appear that way sometimes - senior members (especially on Meta) are often involved in reporting lots of spams and fighting scams - so they are anti spambies and anti scambies).

Users that participate are very welcome in the forum. Some things are un-moderated to it does pay to not be offended too easily.
  
The reason senior members often get a lot of merit is because:

1) To rank from Newbie 4 ranks to Full Member = 100 merit
2) To rank up from Full member 3 ranks to legendary = 900 merit

The changes are really working:

All posts:

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| Days ago | posts |
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|        0 | 26510 |
|        1 | 42433 |
|        2 | 46736 |
|        3 | 54921 |
|        4 | 45271 |
|        5 | 48072 |
|        6 | 48926 |
|        7 | 46559 |
|        8 | 45886 |
|        9 | 49366 |
|       10 | 55894 |
|       11 | 47335 |
|       12 | 50829 |
|       13 | 53678 |
|       14 | 48648 |
|       15 | 49082 |
|       16 | 50333 |
|       17 | 57172 |
|       18 | 48595 |
|       19 | 52579 |
|       20 | 57679 |
|       21 | 40384 |
|       22 | 54342 |
|       23 | 56030 |
|       24 | 61043 |
|       25 | 48891 |
|       26 | 48744 |
|       27 | 50118 |
|       28 | 47206 |
|       29 | 51689 |
+----------+-------+

Deleted posts (not necessarily by a moderator):

Code:

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| Days ago | posts |
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|        0 |   749 |
|        1 |  3004 |
|        2 |  2430 |
|        3 |  1950 |
|        4 |  2275 |
|        5 |  2395 |
|        6 |  2836 |
|        7 |  3439 |
|        8 |  2743 |
|        9 |  3244 |
|       10 |  3793 |
|       11 |  5510 |
|       12 |  5153 |
|       13 |  5681 |
|       14 |  4870 |
|       15 |  5974 |
|       16 |  4685 |
|       17 |  5909 |
|       18 |  7518 |
|       19 |  7709 |
|       20 |  6472 |
|       21 |  5671 |
|       22 |  8891 |
|       23 |  7594 |
|       24 |  6634 |
|       25 |  6694 |
|       26 |  6433 |
|       27 |  5401 |
|       28 |  6260 |
|       29 |  5504 |
+----------+-------+

That's "24-hour periods from now", not calendar days.

There was a bug for the last ~7 hours which prevented all newbie posts, so that's going to make a big dent in the stats.

[TMAN]

it's fair - it's not changing, so lock the thread and adapt.

[Talk merit]

it's fair - it's not changing, so lock the thread and adapt.

It might be fair, but it's created an awful lot of wind.