I love bitcointalk too but I have a question.
A fork of Bitcoin claiming to be the original Bitcoin.
The are no point to argue with a troll and respond his nonsense. These days he is now very busy to engage with people and let them get into his fake coin. Bitcoin Fake Version would do better if this would have a authentic name instead of what they have now. They could make it CS coin or whatever the fuck they wanted but they had to use the brand Bitcoin has to leverage the industry.
We still have problems sure, and we'll continue to have those problems. I tend to believe we're in a better position than we was a few years ago, based on those changes alone. I think generally removing the newbie jail was a good idea, even if I was conflicted with the idea before.
Introducing merit is playing a vital role than it was before. Before we had many account farmers, continued posting and got ranked up. I would not say there are no account farmers now but the numbers are multiple times lesser than before. Once they find out it's not possible to rank up high then they are bound to give up. However there are some people who have always found a way to abuse the merit receiving tactics though.