As all we know about this new forum rules..All the past jr.members those who not at-least one merit demoted as newbies. I think it more helpful to reduce unnecessary activity and junk post/reply just for increase post quantity for bounty campaign..As my experience all the new people come/join to crypto filed for easy money..after few weeks they will start bounty/signature campaign and then want to increase post/activity in bitcointalk forum..so there were lot junk and unnecessary post everywhere in the forum so more valuable post can be hide in those junk posts. I think
theymos just want to reduce these kind of posts and increase the post quality eliminate activity from bounty hunters those who not give any valuable things for forum.
In other hand there are lot of past jr.members were created post included with Pictures on their post. by this demoting all the post included pictures will be shown as just a link. so post looks weird.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027479.msg45586660#msg45586660I am concerning about this and suggesting to
theymos just leave those posts with pictures.