Quote from: dvtuyen on September 17, 2018, 03:22:59 PM

Today, I login to Bitcointalk and saw my rank as Newbie. Please let me know what happened?

New rules for newbies!!

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.

But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.

With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

Don't be lazy to read because sometimes the answer to question is waiting for you.

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I am a bounty hunter but I'm not good at English. So I rarely participate in discussions.

Even me I am a bounty hunter and not also good in english but trying to do all my best to learn through studying. Sharing your thoughts and ideas here in bitcointalk forum is not restricted but in the a good way.

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What happens if the project requires Jr.Member rankings? Is this the end for hunter?

Probably Yes! If you are focussing for asking what happened instead of creating knowledgeable post.

I think this kind of post is the reason why jr member required merit! Lol