The merit system is also a joke. All it does is reward cheats and sychophants and entrench those who joined earlier. I doubt many of the Hero or Legendary members would ever achieve anything higher than Member rank if they had to start all over again.
I definitely agree with this. Higher ranking members kept saying we should shut up and stop ranting about the merit system when they never really struggled to earn it.
This will be my last post here but I strongly urge all of you to take my words into consideration:
I've never made a single penny from a signature campaign, a bounty or an airdrop. Not one. I know I have a current sig and its shitty and that's probably why I've only got 24 clicks in 2 months from it. But the point is, I joined as a member not to figure out how to make a valuable account but because I was genuinely interested in cryptocurrency. It has since allowed me to make a living completely, despite never making a single cent from bitcointalk.
When us old farts look at you newbs just constantly spamming the forum hoping to gain activity and merit, its just embarrassing and sad and you're wasting everybody's time, including your own. Like I said in my previous post, think of something interesting to say. Don't just say things and think you deserve merit for them.