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@theymos: Please add a merit requirement for reaching Jr. Member status. Thanks.Hahahahaha... nullius, you surely beat me to the beat up on the bad ideas of fxstrike post, and yeah you are probably correct in your assertion that Theymos may have been too generous to allow Jr. Member status without any merits whatsoever, and maybe a requirement to receive something like 2-5 merits would helpful to the forum overall to cause better quality posts right from the start, or otherwise the newbie could just be stuck at newbie status, forever and ever....
Actually, I think that the Jr. threshold should be 10 and the Member threshold should be around 30. I am preparing a post with these and other suggestions. My immediate impetus for making proposals is that
I reached the Hero threshold of 500 merit within 27 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes, 22 seconds of active posting. Zero to Hero within four weeks? That should not be humanly possible. Adjustments are needed at the high and low ends; I do think the middle ranks thresholds are appropriate.
(The earliest I can
actually rank up to Hero will be Activity Period 1283, which will start during 12 March
2019. The activity system is oppressive to new users! Legendaries push everybody else down!)
(Edit following JayJuanGees below reply: tag with gratuitous complaint about Legendaries implies
/s. I will follow up later; for now, I just want to make that excruciatingly clear for those reading this thread.)
Edit: As for better quality posts right from the start, it is good for new users to lurk awhile. Some do that by reading the forum for months (or even years) without making an account; they (we) can make good posts right from the start.
Vide my debut post in Development & Technical Discussion, three days after I started actively posting. It discusses covert ASICBOOST, quotes gmaxwell from bitcoin-dev, speaks about miners job of BFT transaction orderingall to analyze the ulterior motives of people who hate Segwit. Is that a Newbie post, in any sense? Whereas users who make an account as soon as they find the forum, and
especially those who are totally new to Bitcoin, should surely be kept at Newbie rank for awhile. They
are newbies! Nothing wrong with that; we all start somewhere.
I wanted to reply to some others upthread, but thus farwell, priorities.