How could you not understand that you're being sucked up to for merits by now by people who have never actually bought bitcoin and never intend on it. You've been doing it for years. Others see you meriting suck-up shitposts, and that encourages them to also suck up to you. Its a vicious cycle. You're basically enabling the next generation of beggars,
encouraging them to perfect the art of ass kissing instead of learn anything else whatsoever. Do you have zero introspective ability?
This is the entire reason they are here, is because you merited this post, which was a response to you:
You brought up a great point and I agree...
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I also liked how you mentioned the importance of flexibility in making decisions.
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The other stuff they write is just a regurgitation of what you've already written a hundred times. They write it because they know its in alignment with your own beliefs, not because they actually believe it.
I can conclude that JJG likes to being ass-kissed. Who would have thought that our gay dancer avatar is into that stuff...

But seriously, I think all your points are valid. While JJG is free to spend his merits as he likes, he also gives a lot to beggars and by that is breeding an ever new generation of merit farmers who only write to please him.
I cannot imagine that he hasn't understood that yet. I thinks he is more working on increasing the number of active users on this forum, whose design, to be honest, is not be too appealing to newcomers... I have actually friends who wouldn't read the WO because of the old design that doesn't work well on smartphones...