Apart from what you have mentioned, this thread became heaven for the merit farmers and abusers. Whether they do the pushups or not, they report regularly to get some merits, and some forum members never disappoint them. I have been checking some profiles lately and noticed they use some threads to farm merits, and this thread is one of them. Another one is the Buy Dip Hold thread, which they use.
I assume the screenshot you posted is just an edited one. The bold text looks edited. But even if it's not edited, I don't think Satoshi ever said something like that. I will be happy if I get proved wrong.
174 pages I mean damn! haha, what might they be talking about there? I did not come to see this topic before, or maybe I don't remember. If merit spamming is happening here, then the chance to catch them is so low, as the OP said clearing the topic is hard, so he failed to report it to the moderators.
The screenshot is definitely edited, not the bold text, because if you will see the email archives, it is in its original form. The pic they used has a serial number of 129th Email and on the archive, send to Marti is the following.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:57:36 +0000
From: Satoshi Nakamoto <
satoshin@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: RC2
To:
mmalmi@cc.hut.fimmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
> The first time I tried it on Windows, the initial download took a few
> minutes to start, even though it got many connections quickly. I tried
> again twice, and didn't have the same problem again. I don't know
> whether it's related to your latest update or not.
Most of the fixes are on the sender's side, so if you were downloading the network upgrades to 0.2.
How long did the initial download take?
After Google Lensing the humorous picture I only found source on Twitter means it don't have any official source either so it surely proves its fake.
PS: Advance congratulations on completing your 1000 merits you will achieve the legendary rank soon.