Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on August 05, 2019, 12:39:17 PM

Quote from: dkbit98 on August 05, 2019, 10:11:41 AM

Probably true... BUT we could add rule that restrict that service and ban users for cheating

That would be impossible to enforce. There's no way to tell if someone else is logging in to an account to complete these tasks. IPs tell you nothing useful due to VPNs or Tor. This could also be done by relaying the questions to the third party over a platform such as Telegram or Discord, so bypassing the account login altogether.

I wouldn't be against having to prove some basic bitcoin knowledge in addition to earning merit in order to rank up from newbie, but providing it as an alternate route to ranking up (i.e. bypassing merit) is too open to abuse.

Yes, knowledge quiz/test should be one legit way of earning a merit,
without interacting with other users, and it can be limited per rank.
Easier questions for lower ranks, harder for higher ranks.
It should be optional, not mandatory (excluding registration)

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on August 05, 2019, 01:15:57 PM

Quote from: dkbit98 on August 05, 2019, 08:08:22 AM

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At some point in the past I believed quiz type floodgates may be useful at some (early) stage. I probably though so when the forum was thriving with spam (even after the Merit System was set in motion), but interesting as it may seem subjectively, objectively it seems:

- Easily cheatable: There can only be so many questions to a Quiz on a given topic. Even if you randomize the questions, eventually the will end-up in an external document or database (by crowd-reporting of the questions) and made accessible to all, defeating the purpose.

- The idea of a forum having mandatory quizzes taken at some point seems like an overkill. One thing is taking a quiz for fun, but another is having to do it at some stage/s as part of the procedure to participate in the forum.

Basic registration quiz would be FORUM RULES related,
so I don't see any harm in that, and it would benefit and help users break less rules,
as 90% users even don't know what the rules are, and they get banned even if they don`t have malicious intentions.

And even if they cheat, they will learn forum rules better, by simply repeating it.
Detect what rules are most often broken and create questions.