Bitcointalk has strongly been alive, instead.
Let's be realistic. Bitcointalk is dying.
Who controled it?
But this is a controlled decrease in activity.
Wrong!
Merit system launched to wipe out spammers, but it has actually help true bitcointalkers to have a cleaner forum.
Everyone got problems with the system. Please do not infer your case or others to all forum users.
The emergence of the merit system on the forum created by moderators in order to reduce the appearance of new users and create problems for everyone else.
Less bounties during bear market makes sense, but the probable more important reasons is spammers by now nearly unable to promote to Junior Members. Then, they gave up, and stopped creating new accounts since September of 2018. Some months later, November, October, they kept creating new accounts, but they soon realized that they could not rank up anymore.
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| 30day starting | registrations |
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| 2017-12-20 00:00:00 | 238433 |
| 2018-01-19 00:00:00 | 136872 |
| 2018-02-18 00:00:00 | 107237 |
| 2018-03-20 00:00:00 | 87087 |
| 2018-04-19 00:00:00 | 89659 |
| 2018-05-19 00:00:00 | 83999 |
| 2018-06-18 00:00:00 | 72430 |
| 2018-07-18 00:00:00 | 61360 |
| 2018-08-17 00:00:00 | 43451 |
| 2018-09-16 00:00:00 | 43516 |
| 2018-10-16 00:00:00 | 35335 |
| 2018-11-15 00:00:00 | 31502 |
| 2018-12-15 00:00:00 | 20733 |
| 2019-01-14 00:00:00 | 20046 |
| 2019-02-13 00:00:00 | 2763 | [PARTIAL PERIOD]
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In the year 2018:Merit system is a big revolution of bitcointalk forum.
The demotion of Junior members and new requirements on that rank is the second revolution of the forum.
Is it spam? No. You have to admit it. I don't believe anyone who sings the praises of this system. But this is not the only problem. The decline in activity in the cryptocurrency market contributed to a sharp decline in the number of new projects. Previously, each forum participant could take part in signature companies and become a member of the cryptocurrency community without money. Now it's almost impossible. I think that the forum moderators consider their mission to popularize cryptocurrencies fulfilled and the number of users will be constantly reduced.