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
Too many Legendary accounts!
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.
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!
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.
Am sorry,I know am not suppose to drop a comment here since am not as old as you are in the forum. A newbie can not become a legendary in a year time due to your activities. This forum is designed in a way that only legendary members are equal in rank,the only difference is the number of merit acquired by them.
From Newbie rank to Hero rank activities determines your upgrade to your next rank i.e how frequent you post and been active in the forum. For example, a member rank can have 502 merits based on his contributions and helping others out in the forum,this doesn't mean that he will become a Hero member before a Senior Member with 400 merits. The earlier you registered into the forum the more numbers of activities you have than some that came into the forum yesterday.
I will disagree with you way back 2015,Bitcoin was still spreading sluggishly and very few number of people have the knowledge compare to the number of people today. Most Newbies joining the forum today,already have a knowledge of Bitcoin before joining the forum,this will boost up their merit digits when assisting or sharing knowledge on bitcoin related issues. You might be old in a place but someone new can understand the way things is done there better than you because of his experience or research.