I can’t blaspheme you. You’re actually right and I’m the most on point example.

I think I was a Sr when I was around 2k posts and still only shitposting. I was just writing to fulfill campaign requirements and forgot that this is an actually community I’m disrupting by posting BS nobody wanted to hear or read.

I remember this got to a point where the quality posters were making campaigns against signature campaigns. Some were starting campaigns suggesting everyone to push the ignore button for every single user who had ads in their sig. Then there was YoBit and that’s somewhere around the peak of crap Bitcointalk ever ingested. This forum was literally three quarters spammers posting just to touch the minimum campaign requirements. But then things got trimmed down. Yahoo blacklisted me from his campaigns. I was on the SMAS. Nobody wanted me to be part of a campaign because of it. And you know what? Although back then I was PM’ing the shit out of him asking for forgiveness and all, thank you yahoo for not doing it. That woke me up.

Then Bitcointalk introduced the merit system. That’s when things got slowed down so much. There are a handful of users who got airdropped enough merit to be automatically propped up to the  Legendary status but few enough to slow the campaign spammers down. Now there’s still spam and shitposting everywhere around, but it’s nothing compared to back then. We do have some users though who’ve been distributed among the highest ranks without deserving it. The merit system was universally applied though, there was no exception and we have to accept the situation.

On the other hand, there are some users who post high quality stuff only until they reach their goals, whether it’s ranking up or joining their favorite campaign. Spend a few seconds finding out which users have an actual opinion and argument to say and you’ll quickly and easily find out how to read only what’s worth reading on a thread.

I think I said before to Bitcointalk that I’m sorry about my past attitude but that’s not history to erase. It’s more important to embrace positive change and I think most of the shitposters own enough qualities to post more quality stuff if they want to. It’s always worth giving them a chance and at the end of the day, if they don’t want to change now, the circumstances of the future will enforce either a change or critical boredom that will propel them out of the forum.