You definitely understand my viewpoint but my viewpoint isnt necessarily the best one or even the correct one.
This forum was originally about bitcoin because in the beginning there was only bitcoin. Theymos (the person that oversees the forum) is very liberal in his viewpoint. He allows people here to have more freedom than probably any other forum on earth. That is a really good way to run a forum for a groundbreaking new technology that will draw people in from all corners of the earth and all walks of life. That liberal view supports open discussion and provides a springboard for innovation, new ways of thinking about the world and our place in it. We need that intellectual freedom to allow cryptocurrency to evolve. Part of that evolution includes altcoins. Debates and arguments that I watched unfold here (is PoW the right system, is SHA-256 the right Algorithm why not Scrypt, why only 21m coins) have led to the development of cryptocurrency variants by the people that were the best and brightest of the bitcoin supporters. Theymos rightly created a section where they could organically grow and feed off of each other just as bitcoin supporters had always been allowed to do.
That liberal viewpoint and accompanying freedom unfortunately had a negative side effect. It allowed unscrupulous people to abuse the system and begin degrading the forum. Slowly, over the years, people began using the forum to make money instead of brainstorm and innovate. New members came here to leach off of the system. Advertisers of altcoin variants, ICOs, gambling sites and others realized they could make money by convincing posters to spread their product all over the forum. The abuse of Theymos liberal generosity has become so bad that he has had to act. But once again, in typical Theymos fashion, he wont just stifle the open discussions and create a system that crushes the views of the few in favor of the many. The merit system is his attempt to regain control of the forum without overly controlling individual freedom in the process.
I see you're a bounty hunter and are here to make money, but I also see you involved in conversations. More people need to be like you and realize that joining a conversation and participating will help them grow and learn while they are making money.
Yes that is true, everyone got their own point of view and its not necessarily to categorize which one is the best one. There will always be an argument about whether we support bitcoin or probably just promoting another altcoins but that is the thing that make forum more interesting, getting more feedback in a single notify rather than keep asking questions and creating same topic over and over again. Its true that i am a bounty hunter and i'm starting to learn about cryptocurrency by joining this forum, its like hitting 2 birds with 1 stones
However the longer i stay in here, i saw there is no progressing in topic quality and i dont think i can get any more additional information about that. The answer for all of the new topic created here mostly can be easily found in google, and even an old topic thread from a few years ago can still be found active while the Topic Starter already inactive a long time ago. So yeah i think this merit system is good to improve quality of the topic created here
Why are some bitcoin transactions cheap and get the first confirmation fast and others are expensive and slow to be confirmed?
If i may ask, i though that higher fees will get more priority rather than lower fee because block sizes are limited and controlled by miners who mine the block. Or its just a lucky shot for some cheap and fast confirmation while mostly others are expensive and slow. CMIIW
