Quote from: S.Sandberg on April 24, 2018, 08:40:37 PM

not only merit is already very hard to get, but it also freeze a lot of accounts into their current levels.

a lot of members that were a few points away from being "full member" are now frozen into "member" for a few months if not a few years.
a lot of jr members, newbies etc....

That's the idea innit?
They can still post and read with their accounts, even a newbie account can do it. With this system in place, they just won't be spamming shitposts everywhere trying to earn tokens.

Quote from: S.Sandberg on April 24, 2018, 08:40:37 PM

the merit system is like "ok, your a new to the game ? ok then f**k you, you just had to be here earlier."

Yes, you're late to the game. Fuck you. You shit post everywhere, so fuck you.

DO you realize that when most old members joined, they didn't join here to earn money from signature or bounty campaigns? We did it cuz of our enthusiasm and anyone who does so even today, can easily earn merit. Look at me I don't even try and I get merit and I don't have to circlejerk with anyone for it either. So quit being a salty bitch.

Quote from: S.Sandberg on April 24, 2018, 08:40:37 PM

proposing a merit jail is just like trying to stop a fire using oil. good luck.

Depends on the oil and it's flashpoint, I might use vegetable oil to smother a flame.

Quote from: S.Sandberg on April 24, 2018, 08:40:37 PM

if such jail were to exist, people would eventually move to some other forum.

Those people are welcome to move to other forums, right now! No other crypto based forum that I know of employ a signature space from which you can earn. I dare them, leave this place.

Quote from: S.Sandberg on April 24, 2018, 08:40:37 PM

twitter already have put a serious blow to bitcointalk.org in terms of crypo-related traffic ratio (%).
you certainly don't want this forum to lose the edge isn't it ?

err ... you drunk?

Quote from: pugman on April 24, 2018, 04:59:10 PM

I don't think if someone already has said in this thread or not,but a lot of people create accounts for asking questions related to issues they have with cryptos or to know why they are banned and the like. These people mostly don't care about merit,which is good. So why should they pay for the actions caused by literal dumbfucks who's only motive is to earn from this forum.
And theymos believes in freedom of speech and stuff like that,he wouldn't do anything like that. Spamming has comparatively reduced. It has become smart spamming but still.
These sort of restrictions are not required right now,merit is doing its job very well. Only people who have their sole objective to earn via bounty/airdrops/sig campaigns are unhappy about this merit situation as they have to rank up.

Think of this like a more stringent housekeeping. Its required for an efficient place. And housekeeping costs money!
And this Merit jail wouldn't hard block anyone from posting anywhere, they'll just have a longer post interval wait time. And anyone can express their freedom of speech within the jail as well.
I just think something like this would keep the rest of the forum increase the quality of interactions between individuals.