Quote from: digaran on March 14, 2018, 04:11:15 AM

Can I participate with my alt like nullius and others? you should pay people and ask them not to post at all. facking lol, there is a participant named Sellingaccs. OP's activity and merits are the same. account and merit farmer. second facking lol. you are literally selling merits. nullius with his godlike avatar could join with his alt and farm these merits. after having enough merits for a senior member rank, he could sell the accounts and share the profit.

First of all, the nature of this challenge makes it difficult for users to create quality posts from multiple accounts. While I have let alts join the challenge, @nullius hasn't enrolled in the challenge with his alt (@Meretrix). Because this issue was raised (sorry for just seeing this post; I must have missed it during the time it took me to create the next post after yours), I will create a rule that any participant that gets caught for joining with an alt account (simultaneously with their main account in the same round) will be disqualified and banned for the entirety of this challenge and all future rounds.

You have accused me of "farming" merits. I think that is a very irresponsible statement, and it shows that you have no regard for my intentions of making this forum a better place by spending HOURS (yes, hours upon hours) maintaining this challenge on a weekly basis. I have never asked anyone for merits, and I never will. I have no control over who decides to award me merits personally (here or in any other post of mine), but I'm willing to bet that none of them have questioned my ability to make great detailed posts, including within this challenge, which shows my overall commitment to the forums, its members, and the overall crypto community. The fact that you would make an accusation like this towards me makes me question your ability to properly identify and award merits as a source.

I am "selling merits"? Huh

I would ask you to explain this in further detail, but I don't think you have the ability to do so. You will just use and portray your personal opinion, which has no factual basis to prove that I am taking any form of payment for providing this challenge. It started with me donating $25 and merits personally. I never asked anyone to donate any cash or merits to this challenge; they volunteered to do so. I have never asked for payments (cash, BTC, or merits) of any kind from any participants or sponsors, and I never will. So stating that I am selling merits is a blatant form of disrespect to me and the community members that have CHOSEN to be a part of this. They are not promised anything in return, and they never will be.

You seem to have a bone to pick with @nullius. That's fine, but don't criticize and make false accusations towards others because of your dislike for him. You're souring a great opportunity for members here to make some bitcoin and merits for avidly wanting to improve their posts. Yes, while a lot may simply see the $$$ behind this challenge, most of them are dedicated to wanting to improve their post quality. The ones that are in it just for the money obviously have not re-enrolled or met the requirements, as is openly evident in the public spreadsheet from week-to-week.

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If you replace nullius with OP, you'll have a merit farmer who is also getting paid. if anybody on this campaign is receiving merit and money for the same post quality of other people who'd receive no merits for their posts. if they have substantial post quality, let them earn merits like everybody else with substantial post quality.

Again, how am I getting paid? I have never once asked for anything for my actions, and I am personally putting up my own merits and money to fuel this challenge. The winners of the first two rounds have had meritorious posts, and finding suitable posts to merit is a non-issue. If anything, this challenge is helping to create and identify more meritorious posts on the forums, and I don't anticipate that changing in the (hopefully) many future rounds to come.

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If a merit source is enrolled in a signature campaign, he shouldn't merit any member from the same campaign. if you are not a merit source, apply to become one. if you haven't been selected as a merit source, don't act like one and don't create a service to have merit sources as sponsors. it is like being denied to become a source but then going and making a thread to tell merit sources what to do. doing it your way. (I know you are not forcing them to be your sponsors).

I have never applied to become a merit source, and don't plan on doing so. I am not acting like a merit source. I am giving away my PERSONAL sMerit for this challenge. Again, I have never asked for sponsors; each and every one of them have volunteered. Why, you ask? Because they have each identified with the true positive nature of this challenge and its efforts to clean up the forums. I ask you to please get off your high horse and stop talking down towards me and the donors of a good cause. There is no ulterior motive here. None of the sponsors, myself included, are expecting anything in return, so for them to get shit on by an almighty merit source who happened to get lucky enough to identify 10 good posts for their application is not a fair assessment and action towards them.

Quote from: digaran on March 19, 2018, 05:30:06 AM

Come on Joe, announce the winners already. I was going to merit don DarkStar_ with 3 merits, since he is a campaign manager and I'm taking my job very seriously as a merit source, I have asked him to provide a username to me for 3 merits. he said: "beggar, if you insist, merit one of the little birdies of mine".

Your spite is unreal in this very statement alone. I was considering not even addressing it, but I will. But just the part about you taking your job as a merit source very seriously. Don't let that misconstrue your abuse of power by thinking that it actually gives you some sort of power to be demeaning towards others. Yes, you are taking your "job" (which implies that YOU are getting paid, not me, like you've previously stated Roll Eyes

) very seriously. Too seriously. It's not a fucking job. You don't get compensated for it, but the fact that you have called it a job implies that you feel you deserve some sort of compensation. In this case, it seems as if your ego needs stroking or your back needs patting because you became a merit source. You won't get that from me, or anyone else you've insulted in this thread. You are a little shit, and you can shove your almighty merits up your ass.

Quote from: digaran on March 19, 2018, 04:53:04 PM

Either I'm being ignored or nobody could see my posts. I have merited the third winner. you could thank the head of the family a.k.a don DarkStar_ those 3 merits were meant for him. it means that I shouldn't be treated specially and differently just because I'm a merit source.

And are you saying that you merited a user because of your spite towards another user? Is that a responsible method of awarding merit, especially as a merit source? I truly do not understand what you're trying to say here. Again, you must have let becoming a merit source get to your head. Because I have never considered treating you differently because you're a merit source. I personally don't give a shit that you are a source.

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In the future I might need to join the family, however I will not merit any of the family members a.k.a Chipmixer's participants from my source merits, I would have wanted to be accepted and treated like a really trusted man. you might ask yourself, why would this beggar do this if doing it would probably get him nowhere? he might be playing a long game to earn the trust of the forum for hundreds of Bitcoins.

Now you're stating that you will not award merit solely for the purpose of one user's actions, just because he is a campaign manager of a signature campaign that has 58 members in it? You're blatantly admitting that 58 users of the forums, regardless of their substantial post quality, will never receive a merit from a merit source because of your disdain for one person. @DarkStar_ has absolutely no control over what or how I post, and if he were to tell me to change the way I post, I would tell him to fuck off. This just shows how irresponsible you are as a merit source, and I personally think that it is enough grounds to make theymos aware of your irresponsible behavior. It's obvious that time has shown that you are not worthy of being a responsible and fair source of merit. At least to me, it is. I don't speak for anyone else, but I will be making a personal complaint about your behavior to the staff of the forums. You're letting your personal emotions get in the way of your "job". For personal reference, if you were my employee and expressed this same type of behavior, I would terminate your employment immediately.

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Not really. this is who I am, there has been no other cases in which somebody would invest a considerable amount of trust on me. this is the first time to be a merit source. bottom line, do not treat me differently, I'm not here to use the system for my own benefits. there is no benefits in 20 sMerits anyways right? in my arrogant and insignificant opinion, what you are doing Joe, is producing more spam. I mean what happens to 3 winners and 22 losers? would they delete their unqualified posts or they have just increased the amount of garbage posts?

Maybe you haven't taken the time to read the original post. Or taken the time to review the spreadsheet. Or the hours of commentary I have provided for each participant after reading EVERY SINGLE post that they have made. Or the critique that I give them in helping them to try to improve their post quality. Or the willing participants who have taken the time to read the comments and proceed to THANK ME for this service, and for the opportunity to improve their English and posting quality. Even if the "garbage posters" weren't a part of this challenge, they would still be across the forums posting "garbage" to get their post counts up anyways. At least here, they get constructive criticism and feedback. Whether they choose to heed my advice or not is up to them, not me. I don't force them to be a participant, and I don't make any personal guarantees that they will win. But thank you for at least prefacing your statement with your self-aware confession to your opinion being arrogant. If anything, however, you're the one producing spam in this thread.

I was thinking about addressing you privately regarding this matter, but because you have chosen to call me and a few members out publicly in this thread, I have shown you the same courtesy in reciprocating your own actions.

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Don DS, note that everything I've just said above, is an act, lies. we all know that I'm a lier, beggar who would do anything to earn money. I will merit 1 at a time and wont merit the family members in rows. like 1 merit to a random nigger, 1 merit to one of the gang members of the don DarkStar_leone.
Disclaimer: I need merits, where is my supervisor a.k.a mexxer-2 to give me merits in bulk? don't make me beg, I'm trying to build a character here. just a single lol.

This is not worthy of a detailed response. But I'm just quoting it in order to reference it. Have fun deleting your posts; I've archived each individual page, as well.

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EDIT: Did I just get trolled? I think I've just come to realize that @digaran is not actually a merit source. Well, shit. Roll Eyes