Quote from: muenze on Today at 10:56:35 PM

Quote from: RickDeckard on Today at 10:45:19 PM

That's the issue with the way that you're thinking OP. One shouldn't be hunting for merit.

See, thats the perfect example of a merit-hunting post. You pretend someone is wrong,
claim the morale high ground and theres an issue so you can gain some merit Wink

Thats also how the media has been doing it for a while keeping
everyone hooked. They just make up issues and that gets them attention and clicks.
Which has led us pretty much to mass insinity and people completely addicted to
quick dopamine rewards.

Let's pretend that it's just you and me on this conversation ok mate? I'm going to tell you a secret of mine : I don't pretend/intend to run campaigns related to services advertised on here. So now that we've got that out of the way, why should I be worried about making "merit-hunting posts"? Do you think that all of us are "sheeps" because we defend a system that has been proved to work ever since it was implemented? The same number of voices that support this system would be the same number of voices that would be against it if it was implemented in a poorly way.

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I have tried asking people to give good, cheap altcoin suggestions and 99% I get replies by
people pushing ETH with always the same type of posts that I have no doubt are auto generated
with text spinners or other text tools, maybe even AI.

Again, could you provide some examples where that happened mate? I would gladly read your answers / thread to understand how you got this view of the forum/system in place.

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I mean I get it, its a pretty significant amount you can make here, when people use several
accounts they can probably replace their job. In some countries maybe even already with just
one account.

Then they can use that to push Merit to their other accounts, or to their friends, so they always
receive Merit back. None of that actually improves post quality ever.

You act as if whoever runs these campaigns just trows their money to the first user that goes to them. In reality there are a couple of campaigns (if not all) that have a huge list of requirements other than "be a Member or Hero Member".
Anyone that just tries to "give himself merit" from their alt accounts will face the same problem that it faces in the other accounts : without providing good, positive and helpful posts they won't get their money for advertising.

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Like why would YOU merit anyone for a quality post when you can just merit your friends or
your alt accounts? Not a rhetorical question. You think theres no actual issue with that, why?

I don't think anyone would go to the extent of creating hundreds of accounts to give back sMerit to his main account and then repeat this process without being caught. Besides the tremendous amount of work that implies, with the time that you wasted doing that you could had created some really helpful posts :p
But I'm open to debate on that issue. Do you have any proof that supports your claims?