Quote from: BlastMechanism on September 19, 2018, 12:24:50 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on September 19, 2018, 12:14:43 AM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on September 18, 2018, 11:58:02 PM

This post by BlastMechanism is likely relevant:

Quote from: BlastMechanism on September 18, 2018, 09:36:31 AM

So eliminate all the bounty threads. And we non-techie persons and "toxic" bounty hunters will just move on to another platform.

If those bounty hunters would stay in their bounty-hunting threads that could be tolerable. The problem is - they're infecting the rest of the forum. And if they could go and earn those bounties on "another platform" they would have done so already.

I understand. What put me so mad was to see the way some more higher ranked members were celebrating like if they were avoiding some kind of deadly disease that new members could spread. And always keep saying what new members should or shouldn´t do to earn merits when almost all the merits that were earned on this forum were gained with the old rules (with no real "merit", probably, in most of the situations).

I'm sure many members (and readers of this thread) understand the concept of grandfather clause, if NOT they can look up the concept.

In essence, when rules change sometimes old and new members are disproportionately affected by such rules changes. The concept of a grandfather clause would allow aspects of the old rules (or accrued benefits, in this case) to be enjoyed by old members, but not by new members. It is considered a fair practice to implement a change, and complaining about such water under the bridge conditions seems like a BIG waste of time because the grandfathering phenomenon is already considered fair and has already been applied in this case.

Quote from: BlastMechanism on September 19, 2018, 12:24:50 AM

And some other more specific things that I will share with Jay in DM.

If you want to PM me (or DM me), then that is fine; however, I don't see any reason that I would want to engage in this conversation in private, especially when it was begun publicly. When I suggested to PM me, I was just attempting to suggest a way in which I would be sure to see whatever continuation post that you would make on the topic, assuming that you are going to make such a continuation post on the various points that you raised and that you need to put together some of the information that you believe would be helpful to substantiate some of your earlier points - and surely I am not discouraging you from doing that because tentatively, I am of the belief that you are going to have some difficulties to provide any kind of clear and convincing evidence to support what you have already said - however, I believe that it is quite possible that providing such further evidence might help to make the matter a bit more clear, and I am certainly not opposed to clearing up matters when that is possible.

Quote from: BlastMechanism on September 19, 2018, 12:53:57 AM

I think there is no point to keep trying to make a point.

Everyone is so suspicious about everyone else. So sorry for that.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with continuing to attempt to make a point and continuing to attempt to learn from your posts and from the posts of others.