Quote from: stoat on Today at 07:06:57 AM

The laughable state of this forum, I've been reading this website since at least 2014, most active during 2015-2016 and the website is just unreadable at this point. 99% of the posts are from bounty hunter spammers

Which means you have not been following what is happening on this forum. Also you have only earned just 5 merits before, how can you tell if you are reading posts of a bounty hinder when your account do not have the qualities to do so?

Quote from: stoat on Today at 07:06:57 AM

There seem to be hundreds of legendary accounts and they have all got there through some sort of merit cartel as far as I can see. just spam enough pointless repetitive posts to get to legendary status? Back when I first started reading, legendary status used to mean something, it meant that poster had something useful to contribute. Now it just means they merited themselves with an alt or they bought sMErits online and they spammed the forum enough times.

Back then, there were legendaries that supposed to be newbies, there were heros, senior members, full members and even newbies that supposed not to rank up, but thanks to theymos for introducing merit system that help against spams and more low quality posters on this forum.

Quote from: stoat on Today at 07:06:57 AM

The thing that grinds my gears the most is that there are legendary accounts with a join date of less than a year ago, and here's my account which is operated by a normal user, who has contributed to actual discussion about actual real issues since 2015 with a Senior member level LOL!

Legendary account achieved within a year? You are absolutely very wrong. You do not even know how ranking up and activities are on this forum, but you only just want to post nonsense.

Quote from: stoat on Today at 07:09:28 AM

the site admin should abolish all this corrupt nonsense and just have ads, that means its a level playing field and no corruption. You still make money. You think having thousands of beggars making pointless posts will make the forum better? this is now a low quality forum with low quality users.

Bitcointalk remain one of the best bitcoin forum, but people like you will not want to learn or contribute. The reason you do not know.