“No one reads Meta anyway.”

[DeathAngel]

No one reads Meta anyway.

Oh how times change. It’s great people have become so passionate about this forum lately. Regardless of our differing opinions, we share a pretty cool common interest.

And that’s only back in 2014
Now some people would pimp out their own Grandmother to get into people’s custom trust lists, onto DT & to get Merit.

I’d rather just continue to buy bitcoin whilst the price is so cheap thanks.

Leave me out

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[LTU_btc]

I don't agree with users who are saying that Merit played crucial role and why Meta one of the best boards in Bitcointalk. It was already good before Merit system. And it's fault of spammers - normal discussions become impossible in main boards like Bitcoin/Altcoin discussion, Economics. So, users who cares about forum just moved to Meta to discuss how to solve biggest problems of Bitcointalk. It become one of rare places on Bitcointalk where people actually read what other users wrote.
Offcourse, Merit caused some changes in this board also. People started to create interesting stat analysis and other stuff - we didn's saw these things before Merit system. Others just came here with expectations that they can get Merits in Meta easier than in other boards.
Sometimes I'm amazed to see all that drama here or in Reputation. Maybe for me Bitcointalk is just a forum, but sometimes it looks that this forum is the most important thing in their life for some users.

[Kavelj22]

Sometimes I'm amazed to see all that drama here or in Reputation. Maybe for me Bitcointalk is just a forum, but sometimes it looks that this forum is the most important thing in their life for some users.

Personally, i find a lot of fun by following all the drama here or in Reputation or in Accusations, but it remains for me to be just a forum.. I check Meta everyday. I see Meta as a perfect dedicated board to discuss the forum activity and to be opened for any user to suggest or to comment. What i hate about Meta is how it is considered by some users to be a source of receiving merit, good posters always in Meta but some are just posting to complete the required number of posts before the end of the week, for signature campaigns. I think Mods,admins, and DT members read threads in Meta, daily, which make it, may be, the most important board.

[Taki]

I'm here for three years soon and also discovered Meta board to myself only the last year. Only here I can read comments page by page because of the drama and fights 
Meta is one of the most important boards here and the most interesting one. I do not understand people who say the board is unnecessary.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I do not understand people who say the board is unnecessary.

Pretty sure nobody is saying that, and if they are they're mistaken. 

Theymos's quote is still partially correct.  Seems like few people actually read stuff in Meta; a lot of members just post here in hopes of earning merits or getting in the good graces of DT members--and I'm not talking about the Meta regulars but typically "unknown" users who stop by to offer "helpful suggestions" about issues that have already been discussed ad nauseum.  Also notice that when we had the 1-merit requirement for ranking up Newbie accounts implemented, we had multiple members complaining in Meta that they wished there had been a discussion about the decision beforehand and that they were taken completely by surprise when the change went into effect.

Meanwhile, that particular issue had indeed been debated for months before Theymos actually did anything.  If the newly-busted Newbies had been reading Meta, they would have not only known that it might be coming but could have given their input. 

The posting-for-merits has died down considerably in Meta since September, and for that I'm grateful--except now those garbage posters have been replaced by genuinely quality posters who are at war with one another about the trust system, and there's also been a spike in trolling.  This does make for some excellent reading and provides a good dose of entertainment (except for the trolling, which isn't done well), so all in all I'd concur with OgNasty that times have certainly changed in this particular section since 2014 and before.  I wasn't around until 2015, but even then I don't remember Meta being this active.

[o_e_l_e_o]

The posting-for-merits has died down considerably in Meta since September, and for that I'm grateful--except now those garbage posters have been replaced by genuinely quality posters who are at war with one another about the trust system, and there's also been a spike in trolling.

There is always a spike in activity on this board whenever there is a big change to the forum. We saw a spike with the introduction of merit, we saw a spike with the 1-merit-for-signature rule, and now we are seeing a spike with the new DT changes. Most of the merit spam has died down (in here at least) as word seems to have finally gotten round that all you will gain if you post in here with a thinly veiled plea for merit is someone thoroughly reviewing your post history and a ban for any plagiarism. As you say, thankfully the posts surrounding the DT changes are generally much more constructive* than any of the posts regarding merit or its changes. Expect another spike in activity in a few days with the second reincarnation of the new DT1 list.

*With all the trolls on ignore, of course. Highly recommended.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

The posting-for-merits has died down considerably in Meta since September,

They must have gotten discourage that's why. Normally newbie has that feeling "if I just post some decent posts on meta I will get merited" but what they fail to realize is that the criteria to get merited is higher on meta then most other board minus the technical Disscussion board. Guess many of them learned that the hard way.and some turned to copper membership for rescue that's why the numbers reduce drastically.