Quote from: technerd on January 26, 2018, 06:32:55 PM

Quote from: adotrulez on January 26, 2018, 05:25:22 PM

I have a long list of reasons why i detest this new system:

1. It DOES NOT IN ANY WAY REDUCE SPAMMING, it only changes the game to hustling, begging and trading the so called shit merit
2. I already foresee these so called merits becoming some high value market commodity...i hear people are already buying and selling the damned thing! Well, I for one do not have a dime to give to anyone in the name of trying to rank up.
3. What happens to true lovers of the community like me who have been ranking up through honest and detailed as well as informative posts all this while? Suddenly that motivation has gone out the window.
4. It has officially killed the ability of anyone to genuinely rank up cos even if one deserves to be 'merited', no one is willing to give them out freely.

In summary, MERIT SUCKS AND THIS DECISION SHOULD BE REVERSED TO PRESERVE THIS COMMUNITY from going into half communism, half capitalism mode.

There!! I just posted a very long non spammy write up but thanks to the new system, it doesn't count for dust!

I completely agree with this (but sorry, would love to send you some merits though as you can see, I dont have any to send your way).

One of those who can be negatively impacted will be those who are true interested in coins. I for one visit the different threads because I have a genuine interests in those coins. Now with this merit system, I may never move up in ranking unless someone notices my posts and sees value in my posts. This is subjective and can also be subjected to chance.

Just sad that these distractions have hindered genuine people from focusing on the main reason for visiting this forum.

LOL, how about I send you some and you send them back to me?

You can see why although this forum likes to paint the image of a free society it in essence, will never be. One minute I am working really hard, with honest and informative posts to help contribute meaningfully as well as grow my rank so I can earn more by participating in bounties of projects I feel are truly legit and have something to offer to the cryptospace, the next minute I wake up to this new, lame and unnecessary paradigm shift in our beloved forum.

All this does is place more power and riches in the hands of those high ranking members we look up to but cos they have earned their ranks by working hard here over time, and decrease or even destroy completely the ability of new comers to grow.

Afterall, we were all once newbies and many of us never spammed, trolled or created dummy accounts to rank up.

I hope Theymos and the other admins Reverse this rule for the hardworking, honest and sincere demographic.