I take breaks. Like sometimes I havent posted for months. Which also was the case from the great depression after last Altcoin crash. Why should only people be rewarded who post here only or mainly for merit and forum rank? I imagine there is whole bot networks just to make money here from sig campaigns. Giving merit to each other or selling it.. I mean really it makes more sense to buy hacked accounts than waste your time hunting for merit and help ruin the forum with spam posts and a merit focused discussion instead of quality posts in a bitcoin focused discussion.
That's the issue with the way that you're thinking OP. One shouldn't be
hunting for merit. That is not why the system was put into place. The system was implemented to discourage spam posts and increase the quality of the content generated by the community. You can look to your activity in this forum as a discussion of yours in any group of friends : you intervene and share your ideas only when you think they add value / create discussion about them right? You're not expecting anything else in return (expect contributing to the flow of the discussion). It's the same way of thinking that you should apply here.
My arguments were completely ignored. I get it you (you as in everyone with a sig) want to protect the system you are benefitting from. But why would someone with a lot of Merit and in Sig Campaigns ever give out Merit? All he would be doing is cause more people to get to high forum ranks and steal slots in the best Sig campaigns from him. You may be an exception but most humans would say what you say then act completely different. Just like for example with cheap meat from insanely large, cruel animal farms. Nobody admits they are buying it yet almost everyone (90%) does it.
What is this tremendous hate for people that are running campaigns for other services? Is this jealously? Do you want to achieve that same "spot" but weren't unable to so far and you feel frustrated? My advice for you OP, since you seem to be focused on just climbing up and get some random campaign, is to first, change your personality. Don't just set a bar for " I want to be a Member or Hero Member to get into Y campaign" because that alone isn't enough for you to reach it. You first have to become the person that is able to achieve those ranks and then you can try to achieve them.
Make your habit (positive/helpful posting) be something consistent. I've had good results applying this way of thinking in other areas of my life. I really recommend that you read this book :
Atomic Habits by James ClearThe reasoning I gave was mostly ignored. The merit system helps fry everyones brain and go for cheap & quick rewards in life only just like with the Facebook/Smartphone generation. But its just like with the meat, nobody ever will admit it to themselves.
All this does is create mindless sheeps who are easily distracted, and having your own opinion and formulating is PUNISHED because swimming with the mass gets you the likes/merit. Its a very bad situation and it will help destroy Bitcoin once the people who can still do analytical thinking will just destroy the mass.
I don't understand this way of thinking mate. There is so free speech in this forum, how can you possibly say that
"having your own opinion and formulationg is PUNISHED"?. Could you provide some examples where you saw that happen?