There have been 3,758 merits distributed in this thread. Of those, JJG has dished out 2,269 of them and received 265 of them.
JJG's merits are the only reason anyone continues to post here (along with a couple of other threads y'all are also regularly posting in).
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There're 502 pages already on this thread with 20 max post each which means we have a total page of 502 x 20 =>10,040... which means if JJG had given 2,269 post a single merit each(which can't be totally accurate as some comes with 2 sometimes ) then we have a total of 7,700+ unmerited post which is way above average.
Depending on how you see posts, if a post is worth meriting then it worth it

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Nobody's learning a goddamn thing, except how to be a bigger suck up.
I learned alot already which makes me contribute here most times,before this thread I don't really know what's DCA and neither do I know what's buying of Dips,when I joined this thread I got corrected alot most especially by JJG which made me understood better... besides the thread was here before I joined .
Thus, day by day people like me, traders ,newbies....keep joining the thread willing to know more, they fvck it up just like me at first because they know little or nothing about it but we keep correcting them NMW and this brings up new discussions everytime

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This thread has been active right from it creation, the purpose of it is to help investors (new and old) on how to enhance their investment, not just that alone but many discussions has been done which has impacted positive thoughts into many users. What may have been the reason why this thread is called upon as negative impact to the forum, spam? merit haunt? or exactly what? All these are also felt on different boards and sections in the forum not just this thread, meanwhile a lot of informations shared here are informative to most of us that is why the thread is having much engagements.
Every users are entitled to their smerits and should be distributed according to posts they know is quality enough and it is a singular decision, @Jayjuangee distributes his smerits to those who he deems fit and it shouldn't be a problem to whosoever.
It's a pity to anyone who would want the thread locked because more users to come are definitely going to find benefits gathering information from these thread while discussions on the thread is happening not while it is locked.