Don't get on my nerves, if I decide not to count your one line comments, I can be justified. Over your time in the campaign I have pin pointed you as one of the users that merely make the minimum number of required post just to stay in the campaign. I do read your post which obviously had some quality in them which is why you're still a member of this campaign.
Okay, it wasn't my intention to get on your nerves. I consider you a valued member of this community (especially considering your humanitarian work) and I generally support your work as a campaign manager.
What you’ve noticed from my posting history is not my way to 'keep a place in the campaign’ but, simply, my engagement here that I’m comfortable with. As you can see, my number of posts per week is more or less constant and depends on the number of topics I participate in. If nothing else, this should be an indication that I am not here to make money from sig. campaigns and I don't treat this forum as a job.
Like I said, you're not the first to get demoted neither would you be the last, in fact most users marked inactive since my announcement had been users trying to outsmart the inactivity rules to stay in the campaign like this user (semobo) who was demoted few weeks back to give room to the current tier A members
Alrighty then. As long as the same rules apply to all participants equally, I have nothing against them. I felt hurt because I got the impression that I was the only one sanctioned under the new campaign rules and, to paraphrase your words, I wasn't impressed when I looked at the posts of some other members from the spreadsheet. I hope you'll pay more attention to this and don’t allow some participants to 'outsmart the rules' by making the max number of posts each week just so they don’t get under the radar.
Speaking of quoting random people from the forum, here’s another one I think is appropriate here:
I like that good forum members can make money, especially when said forum members are in poorer countries and this is a major opportunity for them. I very much do not want to destroy the sig-ad/airdrop/bounty "industry". But I am not going to tolerate people posting garbage upon garbage. If the merit system completely fails and I can't think of anything else to replace it, then my next step will probably be to completely remove all ways for forum users to make money from posting (eg. removing signatures entirely).
I think this was published a few weeks after the merit system was introduced. Moreover, this is a good read for all forum members and especially bounty managers because they have a great responsibility to the whole community:
Since 2018, what did you contribute to prevent signature ads removed globally?Stop pointing fingers and work on yourself buddy;
One doesn't have to exclude the other.
Update: since it became clear this is about being accepted in a signature campaign: my statement above doesn't mean I would accept you in a campaign. There's a long way to go from "not a spammer so I can Merit you" to "wanting to encourage you financially to continue what you're doing".
I hear you. Nor would I, if I were a manager, accept myself into a campaign that has a limited number of spots given that there are so many more deserving members here.
But, let's cross that bridge when we get to it. I still have a long way to go in this community and, hopefully, by then I will be a somewhat more acceptable member.
@UmerIdrees, @lucifer_8 Don't worry guys about me. What bad can happen to anyone for expressing their opinion in public? Oh, wait...
Shit!
