Quote from: hugeblack on January 16, 2020, 07:56:43 AM

Nobody stops you from sending whatever you want to anyone, but you will need a lot of Merits to do it.
It is better to spend time and search for good topics.

Creating topics forcing a lot of people to start SPAM to get more Merits, and those who get 99% of full amount to rank-up will not be difficult for them to get 1%.

Because spamming gets you merits. So going by that logic:

- Those who got 98% of full amount to rank up will not be difficult for them to get 2%.
- Those who got 97% of full amount to rank up will not be difficult for them to get 3%.
- Those who got 96% of full amount to rank up will not be difficult for them to get 4%
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- Those who got 1% of full amount to rank up will not be difficult for them to get 99% to rank up. So essentially, if you can earn merit, than you can earn merit and all merit giveaway threats are pointless.

Quote from: Jet Cash on January 16, 2020, 08:59:22 AM

There must be many new and junior members who have questions about Bitcoin and the Bitcoin economy. We need to encourage them to bring these to the board for discussion. Of course if the question is very basic, and can be solved with a simple Google search, then that won't provide great value to the forum. Always assuming that the Google answer can't be questioned.

"We need to encourage them to bring these to the board for discussion" Most of the stuff I learned about bitcoin wasn't from here. Not saying that I didn't learn anything here but what I've learned here has mostly nothing to do with bitcoin.

Most of those who ask stupid question on forum already know the answer but need posts.

Value of this forum comes from a couple of boards, dev and marketing.

I still think that merit system is kind of flawed in some way since it's not defined by any rules then just:"Give to what you think it's meritable", so with that if a threat requires for a specific answer, first 'correct' one should be merited and threat locked, but just take a look at those threads with 3 pages of dogshit information and the answer given in the second post.

Upvote/downvote system + merit would be better even tho I think upvote/downvote system is retarded on social networks or anywhere where you can express your opinion.