Everyone thought that the merit system cut the spam from its 2017 ATH.  Alas, it seems that the spammers were more demotivated by the onset of the 2018 bear market, which approximately coincided with the new merit system.

“Go, spam spam spam, go!” :-/

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By a magical coincidence, it is empirically CONFIRMED SCIENCE that this 30-day limiter expires after not more than a time of exactly 30 days (2592000 seconds):

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Quote from: LoyceV on November 11, 2020, 10:39:07 AM

I have them for everyone (and I did include the source link to find them),

Thanks.  Either I’m blind, or I was just being rhetorical. 

Quote from: nullius on November 11, 2020, 02:14:31 AM

Got one for me? 

It looks like the image hotlink will always load the current image, thus making any caption misleading after the passage of any significant time.  I suggest adding a caption to the image itself, and switching to PNG.

Tests on the current 976210_blue.gif:

Format	Bytes	Savings
GIF	1995
PNG (ImageMagick)	592	70%
PNG (OptiPNG)	402	80%

N.b. that the PNGs would fit into a single packet at most people’s path MTU to the server.  For the optimization of professionally run sites, cutting RTT latency of page loads is much more important than bandwidth savings.

ImageMagick can also easily add the caption with -annotate and related font settings (or, of course, the corresponding APIs for whatever you are using on the server).

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Quote from: Alamin1444 on Today at 09:46:00 AM

I just start working to get merit.This post really helped me to understand merit distribution system.

If anyone reading my Replay please Suggest me where i need to post i mean good quality post to get Merit? 

Help me with that! 💓

I was about to direct this user to the appropriate forum, till I checked his post history and saw that he already has a thread in Beginners & Help:

Subject: Merit & Difficulties 😑

Quote from: Alamin1444 on Today at 06:51:42 AM

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I needed merit so badly but i can't earn it i am trying to post in BTT with new topic but It's really not working .

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Love you guyes For the Replay💓.

Quote from: Alamin1444 on Today at 09:55:20 AM

I know everything About crypto currency & i can post,no problem with that.

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I create my account 2 years ago but i never used it. So from few months i start joining bounty i thought this platform is just for Bounty then Day by day i try to Learn & understand about BTT.
now i know what mistake i did!  😢😢

Protip:  Shoot at it until it dies.  The merit system was created to get rid of idiots who treat this forum as a “platform just for Bounty”.

That is the purpose of the merit system!  For you see, a “platform just for Bounty” is a useless cesspool from which all of the legitimate users would flee.  Incidentally, that would cause the money to stop flowing here; so don’t whine about attempts to save the goose that lays the golden eggs.

If you truly “know everything About crypto currency”, then—the results shall speak for themselves.