Quote from: NeuroticFish on September 20, 2022, 09:39:27 PM

Unfortunately, at a second look, it's no longer that good imho, since this ignores the fact that some smart and worthy people may have a life outside the forum and will punish them for that. Or it ignores the fact that forum users did and will pass away and it will look ugly/strange to see this or that user has became newbie again, somehow ignoring his achievements.

OP's idea is not entirely new, we have discussed a lot the possibility of merit burning if not for earned merit at least for the ones given by default at the start of the system and it's a simple solution for protecting the older inactive accounts, only count the days for which the user has been active and has made at least one post. Anyhow, not going to happen, and what's worse it will create a flood of merit phishing topics so that legendary accounts used only for farming bounties are kept on that level.

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How Will This Idea Help Improve This Forum?
1. It will drastically reduce shitposting

No, it will make all the ones that want to protect their account spam the shit out of this forum with fake stories, it will probably flood the WO with memes for merit begging, and many more.

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2. It will install a sense of seriousness in the minds of every user, especially those that wouldn't want to loss there current rank.

Yeah right, it will just make them think about getting merits, creating another account to store recycled merits, and many more stupid ideas, the first thing people think when encountering a system is how to cheat on it, don't fool yourself this will be different.

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6. This will discourage alt accounting/account farming since it will be difficult to keep them all active at the same time making quality posts to earn merit to keep the ranks intact.

On the contrary, it will encourage them to create fake newbies accounts that will beg or do simple tasks for merit in those topics we have around and then recycle those 0.5 of smerit back to their may account.

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8. 1xshit will have no choice but to leave bitcointalk for good, since in the long run, they will have a bunch of newbies as their promoters, as all their promoters will all loose their ranks to bacome newbies, and newbies don't wear signatures right? Roll Eyes

Do you think a business that scammed thousands of $ and bought tens of accounts here won't afford to buy 20 merits a year for 10 accounts? Cheesy