@kingzee I came to bitcointalk for freelancing and not for signature campaigns. When I joined there was only 1 signature campaign going around which was of prime dice. So your idea about people coming here to make money is the right one but I strongly agree with hilarious, you don't want to pay people who bash random keys on their keyboard and make more money than a salaryman in their country. The opportunity which Bitcointalk presents has made money people 'lazy' TBH. You can still make money in many different ways. Just visit the marketplace there are all sorts of tasks for everyone.


I often hear that most legendary users got their merit through the airdrop. It's true. Many people got it from the airdrop but the problem here is you think of merit as bitcoin. People could 'mine' bitcoin through CPUs and GPUs back in the day. Any bitcoin 'miner' today could complain about people who got all those bitcoins for merely just being there and doing very 'little effort' to get those BTCs. Being at the right place and at the right time does matter. The amount of 'effort' put by those people in terms of 'hashing' was way lower than we have today and they still got 'paid' more. You may think its the same case with 'merit' but TBH its totally opposite. If you make a half decent post on a topic you have real knowledge of. Merit will find its way to you.

Also, +3 merit in 24 hours isn't bad for casual discussions if you ask me. Many people struggle to get merit a week. You will eventually get there if you keep up your post quality. I will also suggest you be open-minded. There are far better ways to make money than posting random junk on the internet.