Quote from: nullius on February 22, 2018, 10:04:11 AM

Quote from: nascrypto on February 22, 2018, 02:16:26 AM

Quote from: nullius on February 21, 2018, 02:01:59 PM

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@nullius Yes, I crossed that line and you can see I mentioned in my response "I just corrected my comment". I did mentioned that I want to earn merit, not beg it; I think I could have clarified it by adding "with their armature posts and intention to adding value to the forum". I couldn't express myself properly in the last line; and I thought, I should remove it. But since it was referenced in some posts below, I crossed that line so that no further miscommunication happens and I take full responsibility of that particular line accepting that the wording was wrong. And, I didn't know about the archiving feature of the forum. Just the negative trust feedback disheartened me since my intention was not begging merit rather to earn it by learning and adding value to the forum (as you can see the same intention in my original comment as well). Unfortunately, the red trust in my profile seems like someone jailed me without giving me any chance to explain myself. Since I joined here, I learned a lot regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain that might needed months if I had to acquire them from elsewhere.

Regarding your question, as you can see, I could apply for the airdrop for Equitybase afterwards and I didn't get any denial/got any message regarding red trust so far.

I like the phrase, I take full responsibility, as well as your expressed desires to learn and to improve your posts. Thus, I will take all these at face value; and I will assume that you speak in good faith.

Whereas if your priority here be truly to increase [your] knowledge regarding the technology, concepts and culture related to [the] blockchain and cryptocurrency, then my negative feedback should not be a problem for you. Go ahead! Learn! A red tag wont stop you from learning; and the knowledge will be beneficial to you.

I will keep an eye on your account. It will not take much of my time to occasionally glance in on your post history and especially, your merit page. If I see consistent evidence that youve been sincere in what you told me here, then eventually, I will consider changing my feedback to neutral or removing it.

Since my feedback specifically pertained to a wrong way to seek merit, one of the most important criteria will be whether you earn merit the honest way. That is: Whether you earn merit for posts which a reasonable person may award merit to. I do not mean posts which I would award merit to. Some reasonable people might award merit to posts which I would not. I can recognize that. No reasonable person would award merit to spam, junk one-liners, gibberish, factually incorrect information, or otherwise objectively low-quality posts. Also, no reasonable person would award merit as a wiseacre, as charity, or for other nefarious non-reasons.

If you dont earn merit the honest way, then my trust feedback is almost irrelevant anyway: Youd be permanently stuck in the low ranks.⁰ My objective here is that, if you show yourself capable of advancing, I do not wish to hold you back or impair your future forum success.

I will not set a specific timeframe. That could be misinterpreted as a date on which I will remove the tag; and really, the only timeframe is that I do not commit to checking on your account indefinitely. Also, there is no need to contact me about thisactually, dont contact me about this. Youve said some good words here. Now, Im more interested in your behaviour going forward.

My advice on where to start fulfilling your expressed desire to learn:

The Beginners & Help forum is a good place to ask beginner-level learning questions. (Yes, I checked your post history; I did not find any posts from you there.) Read this before posting. Also, I strongly suggest learning to ask smart questions.

(Note that as I stated in my negative feedback, intelligent questions often do earn merit. A beginner-level question can be intelligent. Stupid questions are not meritorious. Neither are lazy questions, which show you couldnt be bothered to do some basic reading and thinking, and redundant questions, which show you didnt look around enough to see that a hundred other people had already asked the same thing.)

And dont just talk: Listen! Read! I myself spent untold hours lurking and reading forum archives before I even created an account.¹ Other people have probably asked about many of the same things which may pique your curiosity.

Another excellent starting resource is Bitcoin.ORG. People in Beginners & Help can suggest more reading material, if you ask intelligently.

The foregoing should conclude my involvement in this discussion. Good luck, if you deserve it.

0. I expect that as the merit system develops, an ill image will befall accounts with low rank, activity so disproportionate as to be absurd, and little or no merit. Actually, I think this process may be in the early stages already.

1. If I had instead simply created an account and started posting daily one-liners in spam megathreads, I would now (and for some time passed) be a Legendary. This is why we need the merit system.

Appreciated and thanks for the links. They are really useful.