Quote from: hilariousetc on February 02, 2018, 11:49:34 AM

People really scrape the barrel of what they can try set up a shitcoin ICO for. Monetising merit points in this way would defeat the purpose of them in the first place, but this sort of laziness you admit to is exactly why the system will work because the worst sorts of posters will get nowhere without either A) Just putting in the effort to achieve the merit, or B) bending/breaking the rules to get there. You would be better off just buying an account on the sly rather than dreaming up such ludicrous ideas to bypass the system, but this is yet another reason why there needs to be clampdowns on lazy campaign managers as well because many people will just try get around the restrictions by buying accounts or merit points in some way and they'll still make shitposts once they've achieve this and are on a lazy campaign which will pay them reagrdless.

Do you think this was a serious ICO proposal? Maybe; I should never doubt the limits of human stupidity, and perhaps I am overthinking this. (But why post in meta and not the altcoin forum which allows ~~scams~~ ICOs?) StillIve been questioning why this thread was really made. The oh so busy OP probably put more effort into the post starting this thread than any other post hes ever made (not that that says much). Id expect that spammers are now trying to figure out what to dohow to break the merit system, which is a very big problem for them. I dont care to speculate openly.

The important part is, I think both mods and the community reacted appropriately. The message is loud and clear: Attempts to undermine the merit system are NOT WELCOME. Most responses were more or less outraged. A number of users tagged OP with negative trust. Mods redacted the post and the subject line. Well done.

Quote from: Husires on February 02, 2018, 12:03:56 PM

i'm talking generally. We've been over a week but most of the members have gotten to (3-50 merits point).
In the long term, there will be congestion and merits will be the main factor to rank up (not activity).
I just found a few of the members who were able to collect Points of merit required (except legendary) "less than 20 for all ranks"

Whence this notion that all users supposed to advance on a regular progression through all the ranks? This congestion of which you speak isnt a bug: Its a feature! Well, congratulations, youve discovered the principal purpose of the merits system: To slow down most users rank advancement, and stop many of them entirely. People who arent capable of earning threshold merit for a rank should never attain that rankwhat, do you think everybody deserves to be called Hero or Legendary? Do you know what those words mean?

Quote from: romanovst on February 02, 2018, 08:17:08 AM

Why do you want to rank up ? If you are really busy (with work), you do not need incentives associated with higher ranks.

Red colour added to if of facts not in evidence. Boldface redoubling that.