Forum is the pursuit of merits now. Will live strong and persistent. Natural selection.
Merit will not appreciate the quality. Merit should not be the basis of a new rank. Merit is the gratitude of users. Not everyone can get it in the right amount. The number of merits is too large to move to new ranks
How do you know so much about how the merit system of the forum is going to play out?
You have been a member of the forum for about 1 month. The merit system was implemented 1 week after you registered your account.
I suppose that if you do not like this new merit system, then you don't have to use it, right? You have only one month invested into the forum, so far, right?
Says the guy who only had to hang out and post to increase his rank.
What's up your butt? Look I am using nice language, here?
Your coming into the conversation to get in your two cents, makes you come off as a bit bitter and envious, no?
Do you think that I had anything to do with implementing the new merit system?
Here, I am merely talking about it, and you can proclaim my bias.. blah blah blah.. but that likely reflects more on your bad attitude rather than anything to do with me.
Accordingly, the content of your posts suggest that you are unwilling or unable to understand or accept both concepts of system changes and the concept of employing a grandfathering clause type arrangement in order to attempt to fairly transition members from the existing system into the new system.
If you were attempting to make another point, then I am all ears, but mostly what I got from you was a weak-ass diversion attempt at an
ad hominem attack rather than attempting to deal with actual substantive matters related to the merit system.
I found the tone of your post to him to be snarky and dismissive.
So what?
You ranked up under a completely different standard, yet you seem to take a knee jerk defense.
You seem to be reading too much into your feelings about yourself.
As I mentioned a few times, there is a concept called grandfather clause... and peeps cannot know when they are going to benefit from such a clause because peeps cannot necessarily know when they are going to be a grandfather or a grandchild.. or some other status in between. The employment of grandfather clause is to attempt to cause a more fair transition, and that seems to be what Theymos was attempting to accomplish in the transition from a system that never used to require merit into a system that required merit hence forth.
The system is poorly thought out, take it as bitter if you want.
I don't know if it rises to the level of "poorly thought out" , so your word choice does seem to reinforce the correctness of my conclusion that you are bitter rather than attempting to recognize that Theymos had reasons for the way that he rolled out the system.
Sure the system is not perfect, and sure the roll out likely has some flaws, but even conceding those points does not mean that as individuals there are not ways to attempt to figure out ways to deal with it rather than just whine about the negatives and attempt to find maliciousness in those who might speak in favor of something that you don't seem to like in your seemingly bitter childish way, that you have demonstrated.
Personally, I think these forums are kind of a negative on the community anyways. Too factional and loyal to outdated tech. Too many scammers and too much greed.
Well, maybe this reflects your bad attitude about a lot of things in life, besides merely the newly implemented merit system. If you only focus on negative, then likely you are going to see a lot of it. Seems like your choice, or at least something you could attempt to fix within yourself, if you wanted to.
Yet if you ask an advanced question, no one here has an answer.
In most instances, no one is going to hold your hand, except maybe your mom.... so sometimes, you have to do some of the work in order to attempt to achieve what you want.. and perhaps in the end, no one cooperates - however, that non-cooperation from others does not mean that you cannot get advantages by going through the process of asking the question(s) and attempting to help others can also help you to help yourself.
I think the merit system is the slow death of these forums, which is probably for the best in the long run.
You assume a lot, here. There seems to be a goal to weed some folks out, and if the newly implemented system weeds out too many, then perhaps it will be tweaked or if it does not weed enough then perhaps it will be tweaked. It does not seem to be a implementation that is set in stone - even though its current implemented status may take a decent 6 months to figure out how it is playing out and what effects (good and bad) it is having.
But it's still sad to see what Satoshi founded to become irrelevant.
Is this like the death of bitcoin, too... Bitcoin has died a lot, right? Let me assert this: bitcoin is the king of the cryptos, and there is a lot of disinformation out there about bitcoin. There are a lot of attacks on bitcoin and there is a decent attempts at competition and muddying perceptions about the dominance of bitcoin, and through this forum you have a lot of potential to interact with some of the smartest folks in the world regarding bitcoin and the various role of alts and ICOs. You can take a lot of the information with a grain of salt or you can supplement with other forums, it is your choice, but I hardly would conclude that the implementation of the merit system is going to pervert this forum into a status of irrelevancy as you would like to assert. Sure, you can go over to r/btc or bitcoin.com to get your information, and good luck with the bullshit being spouted in those misinformation forums.
But I like how you created a whole story in your head about how I'm bitter and evious because your tone is snarky...
It seems that I concluded based on the context and the words that you said, and your further comments seem to further establish that I was on the right track because you seem to have difficulties engaging in a substantive discussion, but instead you continue to whine about how much meanie I am towards you.... blah blah blah.. makes little sense to me about what kind of objective you are trying to achieve except to derail into meaningless discussions about how the world is out to get you.. and how you are being treated sooo unfair... .