Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 01:23:03 PM

The people who come here don't necessarily spend all their days and live through sig campaigns. It's not that hard nor that time-consuming

You're right, it isn't that hard, but that's the issue. A lot of people are actually coming here and "doing bitcoin full time" and this is their "job" now, but they're doing a shoddy job. The problem is is that some people do just sign up here to earn by getting paid and they literally have dozens to sometimes hundreds of accounts just churning out rubbish on each of them, and that's why we unfortunately need the merit system.

Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 01:23:03 PM

But WHY do all of you guys belittle Juniors, Members, and Full members this much? Sig campaign managers put (word-count, time, etc..) limits on their campaigns all the time. I'm sure that you could pick any random senior and hero participating in the same campaign and you would see very little difference in post quality, as long as they both adhere to the sig campaign rules.

We don't, but for some reason you think we do. We belittle the shitposters, who just so happen to consist of a lot of lower ranks a lot of the time, but there are shitposters of every rank. People are tired of all the spam, not just spam from lower ranks, but systems need to be put in place to stop spammers farming as many accounts as they like and the merit system severely curbs that.

Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 01:23:03 PM

What I don't understand (or I do understand it.. I just don't like it), is this stance towards lesser ranked members. WHY don't you want them making money too?

You seem to be confused about something here. We don't want shitposters making money for spam. People shouldn't be able to get paid for posting rubbish regardless of rank. I don't care about others making money. In fact, I think it's great if people can make some money here just for posting, but not for writing crap about something they know nothing about.

Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 01:23:03 PM

I'm an example of many, the lowest accepting campaign takes Senior with min 260 merit, average is a lot higher now. WHY do I need to put in so much extra effort to become eligible? It's purely unfair, because just a few weeks ago, I had the same possibilities open to me like you did. But right now, the gap has gotten so much larger, that it just benefits you guys, the ones who already made it past the red line.

Poor you. You're literally complaining that you have to put effort into your posts now. Have you ever thought that you or your attitude might be part of the problem? People have become so entitled here it's ridiculous. We have no control over what campaigns accept as their minimum thresholds, but I think they should have higher standards and much more so. If every campaign did then we wouldn't have an issue with spam in the first place and we probably wouldn't have needed the merit system either, but campaigns are lazy and were paying for spam constantly and something needed to change.

Oh, there are also lots of campaigns you can join, even as lower rank, but I suspect they don't pay as much as you'd like and the fact that you can't get onto a higher paying campaign straight away and without any fuss is probably what's annoyed you so much.

Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 01:23:03 PM

It's a shame I can't view all members to prove my point, but there's probably a shitload of existing hero members that make posts of mediocre quality. The same quality that a junior sig campaign member would do write to barely fit his post inside the post count rules. But because the merit system was uneven from the start, it makes it look a lot worse than what it already is.

There are lots of shitposting Heroes (and every other rank), but this is why campaigns shouldn't just accept anyone based on rank and should take each user on a case by case basis, like ChipMixer does. A mere rank doesn't mean you're a great poster, but you need a higher rank for a bigger signature and that's what most of the campaigns want or are paying for. That doesn't mean they should be paying for spam though.