The main flaw of the ranks is to have focused exclusively on the activity of the users since having a lot of activity doesn't imply that you publish a lot of quality content. In this way, you are encouraging the publication of a lot of content instead of the publication of quality content.
 
Now that you have implemented the merit system, I would harden as much as possible the requirements for obtaining new ranks by increasing the requirements of merit. For this, you should configure the sources of merit so that they encourage the creation of good content and, in my opinion, also giving priority to other users giving you merit (similar to a +1 system, as mentioned above). During the configuration, you must take into account which sources can be exploited automatically with bots and which ones can not and you will have to maintain a good balance so that the ranks are obtainable but without it being very easy.

Then, the signatures and other additions in the upper ranks would be the reward for good behaviour and for contributing to the forum. Those who want to earn money with signature campaigns should be useful to the forum and contribute, otherwise, the purpose of the forum is completely distorted and it becomes a money-making machine.

Integrating the changes I mentioned above wouldn't require removing them and would be a less abrupt change for the community. I'm curious about how you would implement it to differentiate between users who participate in a signature campaign and those who don't.

This should be banned and prosecuted. Many here say that it wouldn't solve anything because, in the end, the sales of accounts would move to other forums. But it's a question of authority and common sense: don't allow in this forum activities that are not wanted.

This would be too tedious and wouldn't solve anything: either the restrictions to vote are very soft and the system can be abused, or the restrictions to vote are very high and this becomes an oligarchy. In addition, the "prize" doesn't have to be BTC, it has to be a common incentive that shows the appreciation that the forum makes of the user, without the prize being succulent enough to be worth automating.

This would be just a patch, users would stop spamming in those forums but wouldn't cause users to participate in them to create quality content. They could continue to be used to increase activity.

Same error as before: a high rank doesn't imply (currently at least) that you post quality content. It would be an entry barrier to the forum and, if widely used, would increase account sales in order to participate in those threads.

If you make signatures and be able to participate in signature campaigns to become a prize, it would take away the advantages of the effort made to achieve it. Also, it wouldn't be necessary because only good content creators and contributors would have access to them.

Maybe at the beginning it will be quite restrictive, but it will make the forum grow healthy.

I'm not sure about you being allowed to insert GIF, but care to review this.

Signature Restrictions

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Is this supposed to be a sarcastic answer or you're just being stupid?


This is the reason why people like you exists in this forum, you're one of those people thought that spamming posts would earn Merit in the long run. But no, in truth you don't understand the Merit System even in a bit.

Work on improving your self to make quality posts and not like this kind of post that means nothing and can only be considered as a spam post, that is obviously not contributing anything to the forum.

EDIT:

Being yourself, expressing what's in your heart is not enough. Even if you use good grammar that makes it a quality post its still not gonna do the job. The most important element you need is knowledge, if you have the information about the topic you can easily say what is needed.

Though this kind of constructing post do not work out these days(it don't really work but sometimes it is). You must be really knowledgeable not only someone that is expressing your heart, that is just like expressing your emotions and not expressing what you really know.

If you want to improve your post quality, you need a massive information in order for you to give opinions to other members about a certain topic. Reading is the best way to improve our posts, Heart is good to be expressed to your loved ones but not in this forum. Members need knowledge, the reason this site called a forum.

You should have quality posts and for that you need to have enormous venture in btc world

Yeah, some people using very unfamiliar words just to say that they are good in english, which is not required to do, what important is try to construct an answer that is easy to understand but it should be informative also.

It's hard to compose a good quality post, for me it takes almost 15 minutes after posting I reviewed not twice but thrice before I click the post. Although English is not the native language we are just trying hard to learn more in English speaking here in the forum, that's right mate just look the others post or read better the OP statement before you comment.
Keep always reading here in a forum and learned a lot in every section here.

Because for the first time they join the forum, they will be prompted in the main page which contains all the sections of the forum which for them is very confusing, and contains a lot of information to be taken in for their fist time (unless its an alt account, there's no problem).

If you didn't find all sorts of rules that are implemented in the forum, you can find all of them in here:
Beginners and Help

But, this thread is straight to the point: Newbies - Read before posting


Well I though that has the same search engine as google. I tried to search and words that are closer to what you want to find just pops up, but not entirely the exact thing you wanted.