Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 04:03:55 PM

Quote from: mprep on Today at 03:48:43 PM

the posts themselves are repetitive and short as well as none of those posts are currently relevant in regards to notifying users of new payments (as a bump-like post).

How would you suggest a user to handle this?

If I post a new post in a topic, even though the last post was mine, I do that because I want to bump it. If I edit the post, the new content may be overlooked.
If I edit it and also bump the topic by posting "bump" in a new post, that feels ridiculous.
If I copy the post into a new post, add new information to that new post, and delete the old post, it feels like I'm cheating my signature campaign (if I'm in one) by "re-using" last week's post content again for this week.

None of those feels right to me.

If you're the topic's OP or designated by the topic's OP as the user who bumps their topic, you post it as a regular bump-like post (at max once every 24 hours) and once it's no longer relevant (no longer your newest bump-like post), you merge any old consecutive bump-like posts. If the contents of your bump-like post is substantial (as opposed to the functional equivalent of "bump" or "up"), you can do so periodically / once in a while (as opposed to each time a bump-like post is no longer the newest). As not cleaning up substantial (content quality wise) bump-like posts is one of the least serious rule violations (AFAIK only seeing enforcement through merges but no punishment, that is if they were posted with at least 24 hours in between each other), you could also just leave it up for a moderator to clean up.

If you're not the topic's OP or designated by the topic's OP as the user who bumps their topic and the last post made in the thread was yours, you have to edit in any new content into said post or wait till someone else posts. Posting consecutive posts if you're not OP (or designated by OP) is a more serious rule violation and repeated (recent) violations will result in a ban.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 04:31:09 PM

i have over 48000 posts. edit 49000

So far I think 15 were merged so that makes

47985.

now if i have a signature which I do

my count ie lowered from years ago.

say I need 40 posts for max payment.

I make 50

thus 48000 + 50 =48,050 and I get paid for my 40 the max for the week.

with the merges

it is 48000+50-15 =48,035

I get paid for 35

even though these deletions well merges are from years ago.

I think I lost about 40 or 50 usd worth of btc due to the merging.

plus my manager had to ask me for post recounts multiple times.

Also many time the double posts are due to lots of photos for builds which do not work well as a big post.

So the work cost me money and it certainly makes more work for campaign managers.

Lost profits from signature campaigns and more work for signature campaign managers aren't valid justifications for rule violations, especially considering that quite a few of your merged posts were either violating rule 32 (consecutive posts as non OP, often within the same day; e.g. [1] [2] [3]) or rule 13 (bumping your thread more than once every 24 hours; e.g. [1] [2]).