We are not really talking about shitcoins here or the extent to which it might be prudent at all to include them in your investment portfolio, but surely each person does need to figure out those kinds of allocation matters - including the extent to which they might get involved in shitcoins - especially if they might already know about bitcoin and they are attempting to decide how much to get involved (or invest into) bitcoin.

For sure there are ways to accomplish individual objectives, and some folks might have trouble really figuring out the various possible investments even if they might end up accomplishing the first most important step which is to figure out how much of a budget that they actually have for investments.. whether they have any discretionary income (extra income after accounting for their expenses), and then if they do have discretionary income to figure out the extent to which they might make changes in their life (or even have some upcoming changes in their cashflow/employment status) that would contribute towards their considering their cashflow into the future - once they might have had assessed their past investments (if any).

So choosing assets to invest into is still only one part of the formula, and the likelihoods of getting stressed out over some of the current events (or dynamics in the macro dynamics) might partially indicate that the person is not having a lot of success in terms of figuring out his/her own finances and the creation of some kind of a road path in regards to personal finances will likely help with psychology and also likely help with choosing which assets to invest into, what proportions and maybe even various ways to make progress towards reaching staking level goals - depending on which assets are choosing and target levels that are chosen, too.


I am planning on making a response over in that thread soon.. maybe even today or tomorrow.. and I read through the first 3 pages.. so I am getting close to being able to respond.. .. and at the same time, there might be some things that you are asking me related to merit sources that I have no intention to really getting into any of the nitty gritty - and you likely can review various sources about merit sources, and even some of the threads in which theymos had introduced the addition of such merit source practice in January 2018. 

There are a lot of threads out there related to merits and merit sources... and this one is good to give you some numbers, comparisons of various members and even members sometimes making comments (or complaints) along the way.. of course, there is no need to read every single response inside those kinds of threads.. but sometimes you can still see that various discussions had taken place, and maybe even members complaining more in the earlier years.. but then maybe not complaining as much in recent times.. and maybe complaining about anyone who complains in recent times..  .... which I am not even suggesting that some of the current complaints might not be valid.. and I have even participated in some of those conversations without even wanting to necessarily repeat something that I might have posted about 1 or 2 years ago.. or maybe even my ideas have changed, or maybe I am not even wanting to discuss some things.. and then just telling the member to go back in history and to figure out some of those matters.. to the extent that the issues matter or if there might be a specific question that is tied into something that happened or why, then surely it could be a better frame for a question, rather than just generally asking about some kinds of things that might be answered by browsing through some of the threads related to the topic.


Yes.. there are some members who use those kinds of bots to notify them if their name had been mentioned in some forum post, or maybe if they are a bot, then they use themselves to notify themselves.  I deny receiving any such notice prior to yesterday, and if I had received notice prior to yesterday, I did not recognize it, appreciate it or understand it.. sufficiently enough to actually realize that I "should" "look into it"..