Five legendaries you know with the highest posts/merits

[philipma1957]

me

most posts over 40000

a lot of merit over 5000

How did this happen?
Apart from the fact that you registered as far back as 2012, without wearing signatures, it's difficult to achieve 40k+ posts.
Was there a time you wore Chipmixer or Stake signature?
Besides, from 2012 till date is about a decade; does it mean that you have been available here every month and year since you registered.
I asked because what I know about some old forum participants is at a time they will abandon the forum and some years later they'll return.
I read that some old participants left when there was massive spam somewhere 2018, which I assume there was no merit system then.

I post.

I used to be on other blogs on the net.

Mac mini forum now dead 3 or 4 k posts
Mac rumors                      6k posts - - - - - - - still post here
parts express                   5k posts
anandtech                       1k posts
evga                                1k posts

I used to give away bitcoin from 2013 to 2015        so I did  some signatures.  nicehash for a while

I ran  yearly difficulty threads still do .  but gave away around 7 btc back in the day to promote btc

I did a short signature campaign last summer for NFT's as a believe in it as a form of art.

but for the 10+ years here maybe 3 years of signatures and 7 of no signatures.


I come on to this site at a rate of over 98% since 2012.

I would say more like  3600 of 3650 days. that would be 98.6% of the days.

[Lida93]

Sorry to say this, to avoid spam from low rank members you can only set a rule for legendary to post here only otherwise it will be flooded with spam post from those whom I think are not qualify to post here since is basically for Legendaries. Is just a suggestion you may discard if your already comfortable with it.

I'm not even sure what it is OP is trying to accomplish with this thread.  I understand the words that were written, but when someone who's been here less than a year creates a thread that seems to be putting Legendary members on a pedestal, I'm skeptical of their motivation if you know what I mean. 

Not that I'm trying to diss Lida93.  I've given him merits before, and I don't think this is a case of some idiot begging for merits.  Maybe I, as a Legendary member, have become way too jaded after all the years I've been here.  And seriously, I can't imagine anyone who's a Legendary and who's spent a significant amount of time on the forum wouldn't just make assumptions based on all the BS that goes on here.  That could be a personal problem of mine or a negative consequence of being a *relative* old-timer.

The accomplishment I intended or expected from the thread was not even in my own gain, and why do I say so. We know over time we have had many newbies up to even full member account that have been abandoned and inactive wish I believe there are so many reasons to that, it could death happened, sickness took place, maybe lost of password, or a feeling of discouragement out of lack of growth or snail movement kinda of growth. Now the focus of  of accomplishment of the thread is on those with a feeling of discouragement due to how difficult, stagnant or very slow they seem to have it with growing in ranks in the forum.
So maybe should their attention be push to viewing legendary members profiles and their years or time they have spent and divers  input  they have relentlessly put into the forum before reaching to those ranks (apart from those legendaries that were in place before the meriting system came up) maybe such could put up some resilience and encouraging to them not to abandon the journey ahead.
I don't know other words to use to actually express mu intent about this thread but I just hope you get the very message as intended. To what I know in all society humans are somewhat self encourage by their knowledge of the story behind the success of those that are in the position they aspire to be in the future.

[joker_josue]

So maybe should their attention be push to viewing legendary members profiles and their years or time they have spent and divers  input  they have relentlessly put into the forum before reaching to those ranks (apart from those legendaries that were in place before the meriting system came up) maybe such could put up some resilience and encouraging to them not to abandon the journey ahead.
I don't know other words to use to actually express mu intent about this thread but I just hope you get the very message as intended. To what I know in all society humans are somewhat self encourage by their knowledge of the story behind the success of those that are in the position they aspire to be in the future.

So the goal is for Legends to share what makes them stay active on the forum?

[yhiaali3]

As for the campaigns and their rules, I don't want to comment too much in that direction, but I never liked the "minimum post" option because it only forces people to behave unnaturally and do what they don't really want to do. You don't have to run away from reality, but then accept your "job" as a real job (even though it shouldn't be like that).

A very important point, I completely agree with you. Personally, I suffer a lot from this matter and I never feel comfortable in campaigns that have a "minimum post" to get the weekly payment, because this condition makes members obligated to write at times that they do not want and therefore they do not act as they are.

This relates to our main topic here, members should act as their free self and not aim for merit, legendary membership or "minimum post" coverage, it should be a forum for free writing and sharing ideas.