People with a lot of Merit can earn $50 in BTC a week easily and more in signature campaigns. They have absolutely ZERO motivation to give others Merit because if anything giving others Merit will give them more competition in the signature campaigns.
The cancer that is Facebook with constant dopamine-addiction and global mass insanity and people just creating posts to get a like has also made its way to Bitcointalk now.
While Bitcoin promised to destroy the established system now and this place was great for discussions, now its just another Facebook. The old quality of message boards that you can still see in Posts by Satoshi and many others (in OLD posts where people actually made thoughtful posts and did own research and posted about experiences) is now completely disappeared because people rather make posts thinking they will get a like, or to spam their X posts a week for their signature campaigns.
While its great to offer people a way to earn bitcoin, basing this so much on the merit system is the stupidest thing Bitcointalk has ever done and it has ruined these forums. I must have seen the exact same ETH-shill post in different words 50 times last week in the Altcoin disussion board. Always by different usernames but probably the same people/same guy running all them in his bot network.
Was a great time but until this system is changed I rather write in some old mailing lists or even to my own notepad because there I have control over my words and thoughts and am not influenced by retarded distractions as the Merit system.
Have a nice day!
You will get zero support here because.
1.The merit sources who derive like 80% of their merit from each other or the other top 200 cyclers all have their noses in the sig spam trough and DT protection racket.
So go check out the DT1 top 20 fans and recipients lol
Go check their DT inclusions.
So yes merit is a cancer that destroyed the forum.
2. These people are the forum wardens friends who he will sit there and allow to cycle merit around to each other and include each other on default trust using the merit = trust he made up although that makes collusion VERY EASY rather than make it more robust.
Then he will allow them to use their position in DT and having bags of merits given to each other to
Red tag people for saying anything they dont like.
Red tag whistle blowers that present independently verifiable evidence of scamming
Block flags and legitimate warnings on themselves or their scamming friends even when there is proof
Trade red tag removals so 2 scammers can make deals to remove each others red tags.
On top of this if DT can not find any evidence of any financially motivated wrong doing at all
Then theymos will put a defamatory and bogus lie on your threads that DT have placed warnings you are a scammer when they have not.
Yes the fact they use merit to ensure they are all jammed packed in the highest paying sigs is the tip of the iceberg.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088852.0This post was made before the merit and trust system were conflated as being the same thing.
See how this member points out clearly the merit system is crap and abused anyway which no member could debunk his points.
Notice how theymos doesnt merit any of that but gives merit to some anecdotal crap from a guy that is now spamming
.....yes you guessed it CHIPMIXER. Claiming it all works perfectly well for him as he likes the taste of ass.
Merit is cancer to this forum. It was poorly conceived to start with. However like a foundation of pure liquid manure it was then built upon. And built upon to ruin the trust system and other aspects.
Now I see where people are pissed that merit sources are all on DT1 and all spamming the highest paying sigs.
Colluding and scamming with impunity in some cases. All are either scammer protectors or enablers. None have any back bone at all.
So yeah it's bad the most greedy and most corrupt take all the money and support scammers or enable them by not doing their fucking job.
The most worrying thing is the implications for free speech.
Merit is the carrot to push the echo chamber ..agree with our pov and get merits.
Merit is the fuel to control the trust system, that is the stick for not following the narrative or whistleblowing on them.
Also can be used to directly block legitimate warnings.
DT mods and the forum warden theymos will not dare deny or debate these points because every one is independently verifiable.
Meta is their favorite echo chamber.
You will get no support here to change the status quo. Next if you continue to speak the truth you'll get some red tags or get banned.
You notice even mods have multiple accounts where they are maxed out sigs and avatars. Lol
Theymos is independently wealthy obviously so greed is likely not his motivation for allowing such corruption and the crushing of free speech here. He is some kind of computer programmer or enthusiast that is likely trying some kind of weird social experiment or experimenting with some kind of pseudo centralized control systems and has spent a few hours designing and coding it out so is either too lazy to fix it or too stubborn to admit it was a cluster fuck until the forum is just him and some mods with Dt1 all fucking each other over fighting for the last sponsorships available.
Lol I mean the entire thing seems strange what kind of dumb fuck is darkstar to hire these dregs so you have 8 chipmixer sigs all on every page of meta. Also find me a chipmixer spammer that has made an original thought inspiring post that has made any lasting difference? I mean find me 1 chipmixer spammer here that made a real difference to any important outcome here ever?
I see no huge scams stopped? I see no advise given that turned lots of poor people into millionaires. I see nothing at all apart from regurgitated slobbering and meaningless useless drivel from most of DT1. All claiming to be looking out for the forum and its members by milking all the best sig spots and other rev streams... high interest loans, escrow etc etc
Merit is cancer. Read every post by cryptohunter and the one above all after that account starts posting in meta around 2019. A wrecking ball of truth that meta couldn't handle.
Having said all of that make sure to understand free speech is far more important than a fair crack at the bitcoin dust
Both are intertwined but if they can only use the carrot and not the stick then more will speak out, or you would hope so.
Better if both are removed.
Keep pointing out how corrupt and flawed it is regardless of how much they tell you nothing will change so no point mentioning it further.
The main issue is that everyone is greedy.
They complain about how unfair it is until they are allowed to be part of it.
You see the same people fighting to retain merit? All those spamming highly paid mixer or gambling sigs?
They are the same ones fighting to prevent transparent objective standards as the basis of the trust system
They want to retain the capacity to red tag you for anything they want to retain the capacity to block legitimate warnings on their own and friends accounts.
See the dirty turds thread. The types of people in charge of merit and trust are clearly greedy corrupt losers.
They have been here years on end through 2 huge bull runs and are still broke. lol
Yeah their advise and posts are well worth merit. You can become a total loser too, what are you waiting for. Haha
Oelieo or whatever that peasants name is, is talking crap. Good post?
Well as suchmoon says good poster and bad poster are meaningless terms unless measured against specific criteria.
But these idiots of DT are splashing merit over each other for pure crap 95% of the time. Then say find brilliant posts that deserve merit and I will merit it.
Okay well how about let's start with the link posted here. Go merit the OP and each post he made there.
Then find every post CH, Toaa and all of those made about the merit system , DT scammers and spammers.
The dirty turds thread that no member could debunk any of the independently verifiable evidence of DT scamming, scam facilitating and scammer protecting.
If you want links here specifically that deserve merit let me know.
I mean you only need to look at foxpups merit splurging
He got busted chucking out merit every 2 nano seconds to pharmacist and other DT colluders.
He said he had a time machine. Others say they just bookmark ( their pals ) and search their posts to give them merit lol
He also says his own opinions are not based on any form of reasoning?
Merit = collusion credits.
Control merit and therefore DT = control all rev streams, can scam with impunity and block valid warnings , trade red tag removals , offer incentives via nice merit morcels or trust includes to either support or block their flags.
There are so many holes in this merit and trust system is it dangerous at best or deliberately corrupt.
Research and think about it for yourself.
