MOST JUNIOR MEMBERS LOWERED TO NEWBIES Now....WHY?

[Myown55]

I checked my profile this morning and realised that my account has been lowered from Junior Member to Newbie. I contacted a friend who virtually joined this platform around the same time as I did( about three months ago). He also confirmed that he did not received any stakes for the bounty campaign he did last week and that his signature has been removed from the profile link. What have we done wrong? Why this Punishment?

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[jhenfelipe]

You have replied to a thread earlier about the Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements (see quote), and now asking here if this is a punishment?

I think it is laudable for newbies to be restricted on the platform. As a newbie, it is perceived that there is more to be learnt on the platform before any active participation. That is why most bounties campaigns do not make any room for newbie.

Isn't what you say in this thread contradicting your statement above?   Most likely you really didn't mean what you say there (sorry, but it's quite disappointing if that's the case, especially that you gain a Merit for that post)

[Master of Shitcoins]

I checked my profile this morning and realised that my account has been lowered from Junior Member to Newbie. I contacted a friend who virtually joined this platform around the same time as I did( about three months ago). He also confirmed that he did not received any stakes for the bounty campaign he did last week and that his signature has been removed from the profile link. What have we done wrong? Why this Punishment?

At first, this is no punishment, it's a new rule to prevent paid bullshit posting from Newbie Accounts. According to the new rule you have to earn 1 Merit and 30 Activity to become Jr. Member (former rule was 0 Merit and 30 Activity. You can read more about it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0

Well, you can imagine I'm also not happy to be affected by this, but it is how it is, after all this will help everyone who is still trying to bring some value to the table. There are so many participants only spamming good project, good luck dev, I like project or similar to get their posts they need for the bounty. And without the requirement of 1 Merit these garbage posts would be paid  

This needs to be stopped and I can agree to this measure, because the rewards will be more to those which will have enought (1) Merit.  

And 1 Merit is not very much, I think you can agree here. Answer some questions, be polite, and it is likely you'll receive a Merit sooner or later. And my personal advice is to avoid caps locked for your topic headline, it's horrible to read and maybe a reason that someone doesn't Merit your posts.  

So heads up, post good and helpful content, 1 Merit should be possible.  


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I just had a look into your post history, the Merit you earned was a very lucky one, I hope you know this... 

[Muwatti]

I checked my profile this morning and realised that my account has been lowered from Junior Member to Newbie. I contacted a friend who virtually joined this platform around the same time as I did( about three months ago). He also confirmed that he did not received any stakes for the bounty campaign he did last week and that his signature has been removed from the profile link. What have we done wrong? Why this Punishment?

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
 - PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 - "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 
But it does affect:
 - Voting in polls
 - Patroller jurisdiction
 - The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
 - "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
 - BBCode limits
 - Reduced-accuracy link filtering
 - Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.
 
With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

Hello my friend! I think it is better to read before asking questions like this.

Because posting like this is the reason why all jr members demoted to a newbie rank. Due to the over population of jr members spamming here in this forum 1 merit is needed to rank up from newbie to jr member.


New rules are good to stop making none sense and common question post.

[True Vozer]

Hello my friend! I think it is better to read before asking questions like this.

Because posting like this is the reason why all jr members demoted to a newbie rank. Due to the over population of jr members spamming here in this forum 1 merit is needed to rank up from newbie to jr member.


New rules are good to stop making none sense and common question post.

Good to see that you understand and have positive attitude with new rule. You are set away from others out there who continuously complaining. Btw, avoid quoting the whole long post next time.

[nreal]

The need for one merit to achieve Jr.member contributes to reducing the number of spammers, who trade Jr. accounts. But it also increases  spam to get merit

[mk4]

Some subforums and some local boards has a lot of threads about ex-jr members complaining about the new merit requirement. Some now-newbies are really really overexaggerating the 1 merit requirement. Looks like the new rule is going as well as expected.

[mudyak99]

I checked my profile this morning and realised that my account has been lowered from Junior Member to Newbie. I contacted a friend who virtually joined this platform around the same time as I did( about three months ago). He also confirmed that he did not received any stakes for the bounty campaign he did last week and that his signature has been removed from the profile link. What have we done wrong? Why this Punishment?

This is best way to do that, because too much greedy people try join bounty with spam more account, but it give me motivation to do more actually

[jojohamasa]

I checked my profile this morning and realised that my account has been lowered from Junior Member to Newbie. I contacted a friend who virtually joined this platform around the same time as I did( about three months ago). He also confirmed that he did not received any stakes for the bounty campaign he did last week and that his signature has been removed from the profile link. What have we done wrong? Why this Punishment?

correct decision
although It was a difficult decision I was hurt by it
but the goal of raising the level of the club as a whole must be the goal of everyone
We have to rethink our calculations
Spam and empty posts
Must disappear (I may have written some)
But I have gained experience, engaged in discussions and read the posts of high-ranking members
And I learn little by little

I think this is the administration's goal
But local councils must be taken care of
And provide additional sources of merit

I wrote a topic about it and wrote posts in more than one topic
This is my conviction.

[BlastMechanism]

I was one of the affected one. In my humble opinion this will just avoid new members to join and to engage with this community, I think new rules shouldn´t have retroactive effects. It´s not fair in my opinion.
Great day for everyone.