Quote from: JusticeForYou on December 23, 2018, 10:01:04 AM

Theymos as left with some very rare time to operate here, there are much thing to be rehandled here some which have already got very good suggestions from the forum members and just waiting for a single step to be applied. But unfortunately, we can just suggest here. All is in the hands of the great Theymos.

Wouldn't you think it would be prudent, then, for him to delegate some responsibilities to other members? Yet he hasn't. In fact, right around the time he put the very weak 1-merit requirement for Newbies in effect, he had time to ponder and make a thread about whether bitcointalk should have a Youtube channel. I don't think it's a problem of Theymos not having time. It's something else, but I can't tell if it's indifference, indecisiveness, reluctance to make large reforms, a combination of these things, or another reason entirely.

Quote from: Marshall14 on December 23, 2018, 01:30:00 PM

The problem is with shitposters and not with ranks,putting it out as explicitly a rank problem is rather unfair and saving the shitposting high rankees some sticks.

Not every shitposter is from the low ranks, to be sure, but I've read many threads in Bitcoin/Altcoin Discussion and it seems pretty clear to me that the vast majority of them are low-ranked members. That's become even more true since January when the merit system was introduced, since fewer of them are ranking up, lots of new accounts are being created (and not ranking up), and quite a few older accounts have been banned as evidenced by appeals threads in Meta.

Even Theymos knows realizes this. Why do you think he put that 1-merit requirement in place for Newbies to rank up to Jr. Members? It's because people are flocking to bitcointalk as a place of employment, and most of them are incompetent at the "job", which is usually to write posts in English. Most of the Hero and Legendaries I see posting can write pretty well. A lot of the shitposting older accounts turn out to be bought, and I've caught and tagged quite a few of these.

So yeah, it might seem like discrimination to you, but to anyone viewing the situation even somewhat objectively it's pretty obvious that any restrictions ought to be aimed at lower-ranked members. Campaign managers who only accept Sr. Members and above are doing the right thing for the forum.

In any case, this is a private forum--it's not a country, a court of law, a government, and most importantly it's not a workplace. No member of any rank should claim he's being discriminated against because of not being allowed to join a bounty or sig campaign or if restrictions aimed at certain ranks are put in place. People who come here thinking bitcointalk is some kind of equal opportunity employer should be disabused of that notion as quickly as possible.