So the forum thinks people who haven't merits are scams. I have 140 activities and still didn't get any merit. it is good to remove scammers spammers. but what will happen to real enthusiastic people?
Due to restrictions of some bounties, I can't even get stakes from some bounties also.
Merit has nothing to do with scams. I correct that for you. Anyway, 99% of your posts are bounty entries, do you really expect to gain merit from that kind of posts? Real enthusiastic member doesn't care about merit, rank, and bounty.
I think this restriction does not solve the problem of shitposting, 1 Merit not enough.
People will just buy it from the high-rank sellers for their army of junior member. I personally saw today a guy bought 60 merits for his farm in the telegram chat.
If we want to stop an army of Junior member bots, we need to add more restriction.
As I see the main problem is bounty campaign with encouraging people to make more post or bump ANN tread.
There a few solutions which I see:
1) Don't take Jr. Member in signature bounty only member+.
2) Too many messages with social reports and "joined"? Encourage all bounty managers to use Google forms for weekly reports.
To implement this we need the strict rule for bounty manager to not encourage shitposting.
As theymos said in OP, he's reluctant to add more restriction because he doesn't want to create an "unwelcoming" atmosphere for
real new newbies. The administration of this forum has nothing to do with bounty so your solutions can't be enforced by the forum, unless you can convince thousands of bounty organizer to enforce such rule. Btw, posting "joined" is no longer allowed and will lead to permanent ban
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