I was going to send you 1 Merit for this post but I checked out your post history & its littered with Bounty Hunting spam so Im not going to now, sorry.
Youll never rank up if the majority of your posts are in that shit hole of the forum. More posts like this though & youll rank up.
I always find this argument really funny. This is the one reason why so many newbies argue that it is really hard to earn a merit. They will post a decent and high-quality post and you will point out that they do not deserve it because of their other posts. Then what will happen? that newbie will be discouraged because he cannot remove/delete his past posts and cannot turn to a new leaf and will be forever be judged because of his past post and will never earn (or be lessened the chance to earn) a single merit in the future.
I think itd be much better if 10 Merits were required to rank up to Junior. Im in a pickle here because that post is Meritable imo but I dont want to be responsible for somebody earning money from the forum if they constantly post in Bounty threads.
If 10 was required I would definitely have Merited him.
This is weird coming from someone who uses his/her signature to promote something related to crypto/bitcoin. Anyhow, your argument is just like a false dichotomy. You can be a quality poster while doing bounty at the same time. If your argument is what really is beneficial to the forum, then why not suggest to remove the "bounties board" altogether? There are so many quality posters and doing bounty campaign at the same time. You cannot prevent users of this forum to just choose one.
but I think Juniors should have their signatures removed completely and you only get one until you get ten merit and become a Member.
This concern is always being discussed all over the forum and there is always one conclusion. It is the responsibility of the bounty hunters to manage the credibility and quality of the posts of its bounty hunters.