I feel like BitcoinTalk became some sort of "earning opportunity" over the years and now it's now just a bunch of people who are new to bitcoin and can barely form sentences in english. What happened?
I think that the more Bitcoin gets covered by news posts, social-media, etc.. The more people join the forum and spam bounty campaigns and seem to be spamming posts to earn merit which is something that you wouldn't see in the last years.
You have a point, but I disagree with your opinion.I think that the more Bitcoin gets covered by news posts, social-media, etc.. The more people join the forum and spam bounty campaigns and seem to be spamming posts to earn merit which is something that you wouldn't see in the last years.
1. You wouldn't earn merit if you only create spam posts.
2. Rank up system before merit system was implemented is sucks because you can rank up based on your activity only, you can create one liner spam posts and 2 years old account, you'll rank up to legendary easily. So, merit is far better than previous.
Since on bounties you'll be accepted even if you're a spammer and no strict rules about it, there no solution except the manager more strict to accept participants and report spam post to moderators.