Quote from: MagicSmoker on September 17, 2018, 11:42:54 AM

...please make sure their post history is not filled with 1-2 line replies in spam megathreads (or bounty reports, of course).

For example, Delphinus awarded crocus a merit point to get him out of newbie hell after reviewing his post history:

While crocus can string together words into an intelligible sentence or two, most, if not all, of his/her replies are merely rehashing what a thousand other people (or bots) have said on the hundreds of other pages in these spam megathreads.

I was so curious on how that will work out, I even told Delphinus on the other thread he awarded a shitposter merit....
Seems like I was 99% correct:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1997375;sa=showPosts

Quote from: crocus on September 18, 2018, 11:25:41 AM

Yeah and this might gonna happen after a few years of crypto existence, crypto now is popular in the world and lots of people have involvement in cryptocurrency cause they knew and believe that crypto will have a big contribute in ht future so people keep learning how it works.

Such words, much contribution, wow!

I still have some merits left and I was thinking on helping a few newbies but only after the things calm down a little as I don't really want to get tricked by some wolfs changing their clothes for a few days and then reverting to their methods.

And I always checked their history, as it has prevented me from sending merits a hundred times. If the first thing I see is that the user has the last 20 posts of the same size (3 lines or 4 lines) I don't even bother reading them as no normal user engaged in discussing something on this forum will manage to keep that pattern.