Quote from: Hatchy on Today at 03:26:15 PM

I was shocked by his reply, he said that here on Bitcointalk that there are two sets of people as the name implies, some people are here to continually do the talking, while some others are here earning Bitcoin. he said that he gave up on his account when he noticed that after spending several months trying to create good post he only got just 10 merits and this discouraged him and made him stop using Bitcointalk. as he said this I laughed out my ass. I didn't know what to tell him at that point, but then I showed him my profile. he was surprised and asked me how I managed to earn that much merit in few months.again I smiled and told him that it wasn't just the merit that drove me, but my ambition to learn and earn from Bitcoin talk. before we departed, he told me that he was going to login into his old account and see if he can earn some merits.

OP, I'm going to be brutally honest with you. As I was reading the above, it struck me that your story sounds completely contrived, i.e., that you just made all of this shit up about you and your friend's conversation. It doesn't ring true to me that two people who know each other in real life would have a chat like the above.

Is is possible such a dialogue could happen? Yes. Given how much bullshit gets slung on this forum, is it likely it did happen? Nope.

If your friend really does exist and gave up on the forum because he wasn't earning any merits, then he was here for the wrong reasons anyway and would have been in the "earner" category just like you probably are. Not that I think membership can be divided into your earner/talker categories anyway, because that's ridiculous; there are plenty of members here who are in sig campaigns because they figure why not get paid to post if that's what I'd be doing anyway?

So I'm calling bullshit on this whole thread and suggest OP lock it up in a hurry.