Quote from: friends1980 on December 06, 2020, 11:44:52 PM

As noble as you're idea may be - and I really do believe it is -, it's probably not the best one. I've seen a lot of newbies recently who've gotten Merits for a few posts here and there, where the Meriter hadn't really looked any deeper in the newbie's post history. As soon as these guys reach Jr. or Member level, they join a campaign, at which point they start flooding the forum with spam. I don't have to tell you that many of them are here for one reason only: bounties.

I'd warmly recommend you to do at least a minimal quick check of the poster's history to make sure it's not a complete shitposting spammer who had one lucky shot. Otherwise, you might be unwillingly sponsoring a (future) spammer.

Very true. Always check post history! Especially with Newbies, but not only! Every experienced user should know this.

Also, it is usually unwise to send more than 1 merit at a time to Newbie - it is risky. Newbie does not have much history for you to judge. Merit thresholds for ranking up are way too low. Spammer needs only a little bit of merit for reaching Member or Full Member, way too easy - then he can make money by filling the forum with trash. Only send >1 merit per post to Newbie if it very much looks like not a spammer.

Well - I will try this.

My best posts are, in my opinion, my "artistic" posts. But maybe not to everyone's taste.

I think so far, my best post of general interest was the post that earned the very first merit for my account. However, I do not want to ask for any merit for it. I am proud it got 2 merits from 2 different people, only because it is a good post - not because of asking for anything. Please don't ruin it.

hatshepsut93, you participated in that topic. I replied to you several times there. Is it not wrong to ask you to consider meriting a post you saw, which you did not already merit? Isn't merit system working best when you see good post in the course of discussion, and you send it merit because you think it is good?

For same reason - I will not ask you to consider this post and this post in the same topic - two more of my best, both of which received merit from people who just thought they were good.

I think that this post deserves at least 50 merits - for reason that it shows I am not trying to rank up to spam the forum:

Re: How you can earn money from bitcointalk.org?

Quote from: The-None-Above-All on December 02, 2020, 02:02:32 AM

WHY THERE IS SPAM, ILLUSTRATED

This gets 0 merit, and people argue against it, and arguments against it get merit from big name accounts:

Quote from: Jawhead999 on August 12, 2020, 03:16:50 PM

Bounty campaign is not worth it, only wasting your time with worthless coins, avoid it.

Keep in mind, signature campaign is only a bonus from your dedication to forum... similar like people give merit (bonus) on a high quality post.

It is correct.

If you're ONLY here, or MAINLY here for signature campaign, then you should go away. You are spammer.

Everybody should stay away from the shitcoin bounties.

OP gets 9 merit by focusing users on rank and merit, and sending them to chase shitcoin bounties, spam campaigns, and scams: Roll Eyes

Quote from: Cadaver20 on August 12, 2020, 03:03:06 PM

Signature campaign:
You can earn money weekly by participating in the signature campaign. However, most signature campaigns do not accept low rank profile. That's why you need to rank up your profile. If you want to rank up the profile, you have to earn merit.
You can visit the following thread to know more about this....
Merit & new rank requirements

Bounty campaign:
You can earn some money by participating in the bounty campaign. But for this you have to be very patient. Because after a bounty campaign for a certain period of time, the payment is too late and low. Some campaigns will not pay you. But for a low rank profile, bounty can be a good way to make money.
You can visit the following thread to know more about this...
Bounties (Altcoins) <<<EDITOR NOTE: worst spam source, all users there should be banned>>>

"SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR SPAM!"

OP is very wrong.

If good user here for discussion, then rank up and merit will happen naturally. Don't even think about how to do it! (unless, lolz, you are like me, Newbie want to post noncommercial images with no paying for Copper account... stupid restrictions only made because of spammers and other abusers! Less than 24 hours after signup, I already got 1 merit I need... this is my 14th post, next activity period starts in hour and a half... I will post images freely, starting in about two weeks from now. Cheesy

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Best users are those who DO NOT CARE too much about mere status symbols = rank and merit. (Same like in the rest of life.)

I decided now I want 100 merits, so I can have avatar. AVATAR NOT FOR RENT. I want to put a censored version of fine art there, to make a point about freedom and culture. Or maybe something else... I did not decide yet.