Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 01, 2018, 03:56:44 PM

Quote from: hilariousetc on May 01, 2018, 10:34:55 AM

ou could literally have as many Hero accounts as you wanted just by logging in once a day to claim a giveaway and 1.4 years later you'd have an arsenal of Hero accounts farmed to do what you want with.

And I'm so happy those days are over. Let the noob shitposters bitch and moan about the system, but they'll either adapt to it by upping their game or give up. Either outcome is a win for the forum as a whole.

Quote from: chocopapaya on May 01, 2018, 03:47:32 PM

Bitcointalk really turned to shit last year.

No, it wasn't just last year that it turned to shit. One of the first things I noticed even before I registered here in 2015 was that a lot of writing sounded like it came out of the Bizarro-Superman planet, and also that no one replied to any post other than the OP in a thread. It was obvious very early on that there was less discussion going on than people churning out posts without reading anything in turn. There are a lot of threads that ask a basic question, and if you read the replies you'll see the same answer duplicated dozens of times--and it's not necessary. That's been going on for years.

Exactly. bitcointalk has been circling the drain for years and sig spam has been a problem as long as I've been here but the spam today doesn't anywhere near compare to how it was back then and the longer we left it the worse it got until it obviously reached fever pitch. It's a simple fact that the majority of people signing up to this forum are doing so just to earn and they see it purely as money making site. Most of the people here these days probably have little to no actual interest or knowledge of bitcoin and are only here because their friend/schoolmate/auntie/ dog told them they can make easy money here and we can see this in the sort of threads they post in or create. This is why the Off Topic and Politics boards are such a mess because they're often the only boards they can post something about. And then there's the dozens of threads that are created almost every couple of days asking how you heard of bitcoin or bitcointalk and they're filled with the same answers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3363270.msg35226256#msg35226256

When you're young, can't speak English very well and know little to nothing about bitcoin what are they expected to do? Factor in that they probably have multiple accounts and it's just a recipe for disaster. Something needed to change.

Quote from: suchmoon on May 02, 2018, 02:18:46 AM

Quote from: abiiiii on May 02, 2018, 01:37:16 AM

Them guys keep missing our point because they do not know the struggle at all. Wish you guys would go back to being a newbie or jr member and let us watch you rank up. Show us that doing our thing and creating helpful posts will give us profit.

If you're posting here for "profit" and you're having a hard time - that's great, this means the merit system is already working.

The only people who are complaining about this are those who's profit is effected. The merit system doesn't curb anyone's ability to post here but just earn and this is all it's ever been about. As for us going back to Newbie I'm sure most of the higher ranked users in this thread would have no issue in getting the required merit if that happened as we have no issue in making quality contributions. Many of us already have a lot of merit that we don't need but we got it for making great posts. If anyone else made them then they would get the points too, but most people aren't interested in writing anything more than a line or two these days unless they're complaining about something.