Quote from: alani123 on November 14, 2019, 12:28:53 AM

Now with the merit system and activity locks, older accounts have an advantage in terms of how much their signature space is valued. It'd be interesting to see how many of those personal signatures are rented or in any way paid for by third parties. Perhaps for legendary users with outstanding posts there's a considerable market even outside of the campaigns.

You made a very arbitrary comment, without evidence. I agreed that good posters have higher odds to be hired by third-party companies which don't officially promote in the forum through signature campaigns. Nevertheless it is worthy to note that those sort of users are very limited and most of them already took part in ChipMixer and other good campaigns.

The OP shows that there are 28% (28 users) of top 100 merited users have worn their personal signature. Now, let's me show you more details.

In descending orders, 29% of them simply wear their personal text, 25% of them wear their self-advertised signature (for their services, topics); 14.3% of them wear their donation address and the same percentage for the forum's 10^th anniversary; 7% of them wear their personal sites. The rest three categories with 3.6% (~ 1 user) for each, wear their personal image, third-party signature and signature ban.

What we can see from the result?
Among the top 100 merited users, only 1 user have worn the signature of third-party company (Bybit) but I don't know it is a paid signature or not (I guess not).

Code:

. tab sigdetails

   sigdetails | Freq. Percent Cum.
--------------------------+-----------------------------------
   10th anniversary | 4 14.29 14.29
   donation address | 4 14.29 28.57
   personal image | 1 3.57 32.14
   personal sites | 2 7.14 39.29
   personal text | 8 28.57 67.86
self-advertised signature | 7 25.00 92.86
   signature ban | 1 3.57 96.43
   third-party signature | 1 3.57 100.00
--------------------------+-----------------------------------
   Total | 28 100.00

Details:

Code:

. list username signature sigdetails median p25 p75 min max if signature == "personal", abb(30)

   +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | username signature sigdetails median p25 p75 min max |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  2. | fillippone personal personal text 47 33 63 23 113 |
  7. | micgoossens personal personal text 25 24 38 16 62 |
  9. | VB1001 personal donation address 23 16 31 5 54 |
11. | theymos personal donation address 22 12 41 1 119 |
14. | loyvesmayfamilis personal signature ban 20 4 29 0 49 |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
15. | Veleor personal 10th anniversary 17 12 23 2 81 |
16. | achow101 personal donation address 17 10 29 1 60 |
26. | JayJuanGee personal donation address 13 7 16 3 57 |
29. | Carlton Banks personal personal text 12 10 18 7 60 |
30. | TheFuzzStone personal self-advertised signature 12 7 15 0 53 |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
32. | minerjones personal self-advertised signature 12 3 14 1 23 |
33. | Coding Enthusiast personal self-advertised signature 11 5 17 0 45 |
38. | chimk personal 10th anniversary 10 5 13 3 30 |
44. | xtraelv personal personal text 9 3 18 0 47 |
45. | Goran_ personal third-party signature 9 5 10 0 21 |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
51. | philipma1957 personal personal text 8 5 12 2 26 |
52. | jojo69 personal personal text 8 4 10 1 18 |
57. | Last of the V8s personal personal image 7 1 25 0 43 |
58. | krogothmanhattan personal self-advertised signature 7 3 10 0 28 |
60. | Jet Cash personal personal sites 6 3 9 0 16 |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
78. | Quickseller personal personal text 3 0 8 0 18 |
81. | qwk personal personal text 2 1 5 0 10 |
82. | Vod personal personal sites 2 1 4 0 14 |
85. | Alex_Sr personal 10th anniversary 2 0 7 0 18 |
87. | OgNasty personal self-advertised signature 2 1 3 0 7 |
   |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
96. | theyoungmillionaire personal 10th anniversary 1 0 4 0 25 |
99. | nullius personal self-advertised signature 0 0 0 0 3 |
100. | ICOEthics personal self-advertised signature 0 0 1 0 8 |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

* @loyvesmayfamilis: has a signature ban that has not yet expired.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 13, 2019, 06:50:12 PM

By the way, I think you'd be a good candidate for Chipmixer but obviously I have no say in the matter. When a spot does open up, there are usually a lot of really good applicants and DarkStar has to choose someone. Don't feel bad about the rejections and my advice is to just keep trying when spots open up.

It is my honor to have a very good feedback from you. It give me more strength and belief to keep doing good things that I have continuously made since late of the January of 2018. Who knows, someday I might be on ChipMixer.

Good attitude changes our lives (I should limit to my life but I think it is right for all). In January of 2018, I did not believe that I can rank up to the Full Member rank but today looking back I have been a Hero member and I definitely know I will rank up to the Legendary rank (just a matter of time, merit requirement does not a matter with me). Now, my targets naturally raise higher. I want to participate in the ChipMixer campaign.

In a summary, for newbies, I would say:

Good attitude --- Knowledge increases --- Good posts --- More merits --- Higher ranks --- Higher income (from signature, that is a privilege, not a rights) --- Top ranks --- Top signature campaigns --- Higher reputation.

Merits --- Ranks --- Income: It is a very interesting cycle.