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Re: Merit System - Looking for Goals
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VeteranCoin
on 27/06/2018, 21:17:06 UTC

The OP seemed to be asking if anyone made any objectives for this mission before going to war or if they just launched a few nukes and said 'let God sort it all out.' Mission planning is a key to victory for those who actually win. Poor mission planning is what the losing side does -- so teaches history.

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

It is no war. It is an incentive.

Analytical tools are still being developed for it.

Ddmrddmr has developed some here:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ddmrddmr#!/vizhome/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/GlobalSummary
https://fusiontables.google.com/DataSource?docid=1wM2Op6_ol8_0iP0sDEemIGr9weKvIeLPvKsKMpFy#rows:id=1

War can easily include incentives. Yes the merit system may look like an incentive. That does not mean it is not part of a plan. War is when one people-group is attempting to impose their will on another people-group by force. The merit system, make no mistake, is part of the war on spam here. That war will never end. The goal of the incentive system is the "what" you want the people to do. An incentive is just one tool people use to get other to do actions. Incentives are absolutely viable tools of war. I will not into great detail here -- but bad people get paid off all the time in war because some bad people are better than other bad people -- Yeah, incentives, yep, those are used in war.
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Re: Why is Russian President "Putin" talking about world war 3 ??
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VeteranCoin
on 27/06/2018, 17:21:24 UTC
Russia has a strong military, especially its nuclear arsenal. One of the biggest advantages the Russians have over most of the world are submarines that can launch nuclear missiles. That's dam near close to impossible to defend against and the whole world knows it. But as a country, and a world-power, they are a shadow of what they once were because they spent all that dam money on the nukes. Those ain't cheap my friends. Guess who just figured that out? Rocket Man & Iran. It's not hard to get them stop building those because they are immensely costly to build, test, protect and maintain, etc, etc, etc. You can't just build them like an M5 and leave it sitting around. No sir. Way more goes into them than that!

Russia, they need to sound big and bad because on one level they are --the nukes-- and on the other level they are not --the ground war. Mostly they just like to scare the border countries so they can keep using them for whatever they want.
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Re: Merit System - Looking for Goals
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VeteranCoin
on 27/06/2018, 16:56:38 UTC
Hi,

I'm interested in researching and learning more about the Merit/sMerit system that was rolled out here in BitcoinTalk earlier this year. I have read the OP (original post). But there are over 250 pages of replies to the original post announcing this change and I have not been able to find a particular piece of information, and I'm hoping someone can help.

I'm searching for any information on the stated goals/objectives of the Merit system. In particular, I'm looking for anything close to what would be considered "S.M.A.R.T. goals" for the Merit/sMerit system from authoritative sources.

If you are not familiar with S.M.A.R.T. goals here is a post form MIT about them (http://hrweb.mit.edu/performance-development/goal-setting-developmental-planning/smart-goals).

S.M.A.R.T. goals are:

Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time-bound

Here is my question and I would greatly appreciate your assistance, if you would like to offer it:

Does anyone have any references to any stated S.M.A.R.T. goals or some metric based goals of the Merit/sMerit system that they can kindly post links to? I've asked some people about these who seemed knowledgeable and they could not produce them. I can't find these goals myself. If they exist, I would very much enjoy reading them.  I'm simply asking if anyone knows of written, metric based goals the Merit/sMerit system was intended to achieve that they can help me find and read myself.

Some examples might look like this...

-The Merit system will reduce spam by 10% within the first 6 months.
-The Merit system will increase the length of posts by 20% within the first 6 months.
-The Merit system will decrease the quantity of new user accounts by 30% within the first 6 months.

I have seen the vague descriptions that the Merit system's goals was to reduce spam and increase quality. Did anyone produce/set/post more specific goals (again, as described above)?

If anyone has seen any of these from an authoritative source, I would love to read more about them and read that post more thoroughly.

Thanks very much for reading this my fellow crypto community! Have a great day!  Grin

I believe that rather than the S.M.A.R.T. goals (which is a planning technique and management jargon) they use the basic A.R.S.E implementation technique.

Activate - the merit system
Regulate - by punishing the worst abusers using T.R.U.S.T.
Stimulate - by providing M.E.R.I.T to those that deserve it.
Evaluate - with statistics.


The OP seemed to be asking if anyone made any objectives for this mission before going to war or if they just launched a few nukes and said 'let God sort it all out.' Mission planning is a key to victory for those who actually win. Poor mission planning is what the losing side does -- so teaches history.

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Re: ALtcoins Prices
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VeteranCoin
on 27/01/2018, 15:47:28 UTC
I think the market is going to pick up over the next weeks.
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Re: Bitcoin Destroyed my life-bitcoin Investor
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VeteranCoin
on 27/01/2018, 15:46:32 UTC

For one to successfully navigate through the cryptocurrency space successfully he most be very well equipped to an extend about the danger of investing and trading the cryptocurrency market.But most traders out ignorance of how the financial world works will jump in without any sort of preparation or good financial advice from successful players in the industry. Cryptocurrency and other financial investment is a double edge sword and should be treated with causion.

Here we have a man(A redittor with username Myallmymoney) who is currently at his middle sixties who claims that investing in bitcoin jeopardized his life savings and know he has nothing to hold unto.

This Is His Story

Bitcoin destroyed my life.

I went all in at around $1000 with pretty much my whole life savings. I didn’t know much about Bitcoin and just like you i started reading here. Every day i read about how it was guaranteed to go to the moon and all these people getting rich overnight.
I asked many people if i still should get in at 1000 and got the same answer from everyone: 1000 is cheap. We will be at 10k soon.

Continue Reading >>>>>>>https://bitzamp.com/bitcoin-destroyed-life-bitcoin-investor/


You don't go all in into anything. You should always have a Plan B and Plan C in action and ready to go.
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Re: Bitcoin Hack?
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VeteranCoin
on 23/11/2017, 03:56:26 UTC
Bitcoin has never been hacked, forged, copied, or anything like that.
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Re: Will Bitcoin be too big to fail?
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VeteranCoin
on 27/10/2017, 14:10:55 UTC
Great question - they only way I see that happening is when people start trying insure all their BTC holdings and then "if" some big enough goes wrong - which might only be a sudden drop in value that doesn't recover fast enough. So in that case, it would be the insurance company that needs the bail out. Other than that, i agree with everyone else. A decentralized anything can't really be bailed out.
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Re: [ANN] [ACT] Achain - A smart contract platform for enterprise-class DAPP
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VeteranCoin
on 27/10/2017, 04:16:53 UTC
Are any countries banned from this token sale?
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Re: BAN ON BITCOINS!!
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VeteranCoin
on 23/09/2017, 17:05:19 UTC
I dont know why but iam scared of bitcoin getting ban.
Because of the china situation is there any possibility that bitcoin will get ban in every single country


No, it is not possible for every single country to ban Bitcoin.
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Re: Bitcoin starts to rise
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VeteranCoin
on 15/09/2017, 14:23:21 UTC
The price of Bitcoin moves a lot, though more so right now because of all the move to fiat over the past couple of weeks on China's news. With all the extra cash in the market, it can swing faster.
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Re: Are you picky with ICOs?
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 22:48:26 UTC
Yes and you should be. Far too many shitcoins out there. Look at the whitepaper, check the advisors and roadmap. What are aiming to solve / achieve, is it sustainable. Will the coin value be able to grow?

Or is it just a get-rich quick scheme. use your noggin!

Far too many ICOs are based on great sounding but highly impractical ideas. That is a bad plan. Everyone wants to be the next bitcoin - the coin all blockchainers in the world will need. Those ICOs simply can't work. Focus on a fixable problem and get 2 million adopters and you will have a strong coin.

There are only 14 million bitcoin wallets and only 1.2 million ethereum wallets: https://hankyulpark.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/how-many-people-in-the-world-own-bitcoin-or-ethereum/

We need to expand the user count.

Everyone keeps going after the same 14 million people users. The key is to find ICOs that go after new markets and increase adoption of crypto usage.
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Re: Is it as bad as it seems to be?
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 22:30:49 UTC
Bitcoin goes up and down like this. Best time to buy is when it is falling like this. Not a fun time to buy, but that's how this works. BTC will rise again as adoption spreads. That's the way we all win. We have to increase adoption.
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Re: Are you picky with ICOs?
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 21:47:47 UTC
If you like data on ICOs, this is a great site: https://www.cryptocompare.com/ico/#/ongoing?f2=ETH%20(ERC20)
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Re: [KAYI] Kayı - Token that Distributes Dividends
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 21:06:28 UTC
Total token : 1b  Undecided

WOW! That's way too many.
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Re: Does Aliens exist?
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 20:34:31 UTC
The real question is which coins would Aliens buy?
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Re: Altcoins activities
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 20:24:28 UTC
How often will you be posting the list?
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Re: 🌟🌟🚀 [ANN][ICO] PAYPIE 🌟🌟🚀 World’s First Blockchain Accounting Platform
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 20:13:50 UTC
This coins has some interesting backers.
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Re: Altcoins activities
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 20:02:59 UTC
Awesome!

Can your tool also determine sentiment? Positive, negative or neutral sentiment ratings are commonly used in the top monitoring packages.


not sure i can do that

That would be complicated, not worth the effort. This is great data! Nice work.
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Re: I told my grandma to put all her lifesavings in Bitcoin because you guys said
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 19:43:05 UTC
Come on man! You must be trolling here!

The only reason that makes me think there is a chance that you story is true is that I know some other people have done foolish actions like that. For example, putting all the savings in one fancy stock, which filed for bankruptcy, getting into debt to buy one fancy stock and the like.

You’d had better tell you grandma not to listen to what you say.


Yep. Trolling. But this is a pretty good time to buy. As long as you can avoid watching the price and can hold it for a few years. Just my opinion, but I'm long on Bitcoin.
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Re: Are you picky with ICOs?
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VeteranCoin
on 14/09/2017, 19:36:02 UTC
I avoid those get rich quick scams. Rather buy little bit more established coins with some growth potential. I bet 85-95% of these ICO projects will be dead after one year

Depends on your analysis and assessments. Unless you are just new to crypto? If you kept saying 85-95% of ICO projects are dead after 1 year since few years ago then you must be missing too many opportunities then.

I agree, it does depend. The growth rates for ICOs is very high, so far. No one knows what the future will bring, but everyone should do their research!