Quote from: mikeywith on March 14, 2019, 12:21:28 AM

Thanks everybody, I do hope that I have inspired a few members at least, the purpose of this thread is to show you that it's very possible to become a self made any rank. I know it sucks to have to do more work than those lucky once who were here early and got their airdropped merit, but this should not stop a newbie from becoming a legendary, it's only a matter of time and effort.

good luck to everyone.

This is clearly not true. You need to wake up and see most "new" members are only interested in the discussion boards or ann boards. It is very strange for a new member to join a board to sit around on the meta section spouting support for clearly broken systems that control the members of that board and those manipulative and proven untrustworthy controllers.

The "lucky" airdropped merit group did a lot more for this board than the "self " cycled merit gang. Some people were clearly shafted by the airdrop when matched to the actual contributions they made here. They still are being shafted because they are primarily working to fill the missing pieces of this end to end trustless decentralised arena and have no interest in the "merit" boards.

Noobs here that have a lot of merits generally follow this pattern

1. highly active in meta (strange)
2. highly supportive of the broken systems of control
3. Never "fall out" with the merit merry go round cyclers, and tend to regurgitate their nonsense repeatedly.
4. Oppose strongly those that
a/ prove how broken the systems are
b/reveal the manipulations and gaming of those systems for selfish gain employed by the "merit merry go round crew"
5. Slap on a gambling/mixing sig and start their own gainZ

Merit is at best misleading and is certainly impinges on free speech. It is the worst thing that happened to bct aside from icos. It would have been okay if it was left as a hurdle for account farmers and bots. Trying to apply any other meaning to it and saying it equates to trust is of course false.

Mikey is more worthy of merit than most of the merit merry go round but still has no real idea of how thing ACTUALLY operate so continues to spout nonsense and runs from any debates that start to lead to the trust in plain sight. He tries to be fair in some cases. However it is annoying to constantly see this merit system fanzine from him. I have taken time to demonstrate how it is broken and abused pal credits that impinges on free speech and yet I see him still blathering on about how great and fair it is.

Stop pushing merit like it is actually "MERIT". It is political pal credits in the vast majority of cases. It is misleading and dangerous junk.

Congrats to you Mikey that is fair enough but stop with the other false and ridiculous assumptions that you seem to KEEP making about the merit system.

TLDR

1. noobs that hang in meta supporting provably broken systems and their abusers = high merit
2. noobs that don't hang in meta supporting provably broken systems and their abusers = low merit
3. noobs that don't know about meta board and just use the discussion/ann boards = low merit
4. noobs that present the truth regarding the systems of control and the abusers of those systems = no merit