This is a forum intended for discussion not a fucking career path.

U no make money heere. U only talk bitcoin. No need merit talk bitcoin.

You came to this forum from the Philippines to make money because one of your friends told you about it. You’re not a coder so you can’t help with the dev&tech side of it, you’re not an investor or a startup business operator because you came here to make money, you’re not here to discuss your intrigue over this groundbreaking technology.

The merit system is unfair because you’re not here for the right reasons.

I don't qualify for your rules, but I like what you are doing. You are helping to move around the merit points because you can and you have set forth a criteria. That would have been a better way for them to roll out the system. I hope more people like you launch these types of threads. I'm a BTC guy. Not 100% but it's really the only safe long play, as time has shown us all.

Hi QuestionAuthority,

Just found this topic and will try my luck here.
I am a Full Member and unfortunately the Merit system was introduced just before I would have become a Sr. member.
So as a Full Member you need +150 Merit to get a Sr. Member. - That’s a rocky path.

I also have lots of bounty campaign report posts in my history, please ignore them. (I am student  )
Already noticed that you have a problem with Bounty participants. I generally don’t think that I kind of destroy the conversations in this forum.
The Bounty stuff all happens in separated Threads and I of course be part in everyday discussions, helping people etc.

Here are some of my posts I picked. Hope you find some of them valuable:

btc will not die:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4516435.msg40976452#msg40976452
Teaching students about crypto:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4548119.msg40975257#msg40975257
Decentralized fiat exchange:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4543559.msg40972090#msg40972090
People about btc:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4546875.msg40967922#msg40967922
Explanation about bitcoins energy consumption:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4508317.msg40756749#msg40756749
Explanation about btc PoW, rewards and transaction fees:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4493182.msg40693846#msg40693846
topic about biggest btc mistake:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4445420.msg40677459#msg40677459
Who is Satoshi:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5951.msg40820812#msg40820812
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5951.msg40975903#msg40975903
Answered a question about Masternodes:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4454117.msg40675292#msg40675292
Created a Topic for Beginners, how they can protect themselves from scam:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4264404.msg38516668#msg38516668
A Scam Warning – It’s about POTJ token (Trevon James is included who also advertised bitconnect):
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4497646.msg40475876#msg40475876
This thread doesn’t get very much recognition.

Here we are talking about Mining (especially btc mining):
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2714689.msg40287772#msg40287772
About MEW
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3417215.msg39771796#msg39771796
About ‘chimaera’, A project I believe has a bright future.
It is a blockchain for games and solves the scaling issues with so called games channels (an adaption of the Lightning Network!)
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2721357.msg33400026#msg33400026

Here someone told me you can trust media, yeah of course
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4464795.msg40049292#msg40049292

About G20 (local board):
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2768036.msg32627893#msg32627893
About which coins we have already used (local board):
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2768036.msg32395921#msg32395921
Some Mining stuff
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3220996.msg33552668#msg33552668
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3220996.msg33551053#msg33551053
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4454176.msg40006768#msg40006768
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3574619.msg39984726#msg39984726
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4409316.msg39262480#msg39262480
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/4327503.msg38810516#msg38810516
Here I tried to help a legendary with his Antrouter but no merit for me (local board).
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1392388.msg34566221#msg34566221

And quite a lot of other posts in my local board.
I also helped lots of mining beginners. But newbie accounts don’t have any merits to give.
Unfortunately, I only got Merit on a few posts.
All others were either not discovered or not worth a merit.

Thanks for your time.

You are a seriously diseased gambler. LOL

I’ve seen your support of ETH and it does seem to revolve around gambling. Is there any function of ETH that you think cannot be solved by bitcoin? What is making you support ETH?

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Vitalik Buterin. He used to be Mr. Bitcoin back in the day. He wanted to be able to have single handed control and bitcoins open source hierarchy wouldn’t let him do that. He’s definitely a very bright kid and bitcoin would be better off without him as a competitor.

Really nice what you are doing. I dont qualify for this, but I will definitely come back once I become a full member.

I have been in a lot of forums and I have never seen this merit system. It is kinda strange. I get why bitcointalk is doing it, and it seems fair. But I have noticed it is way too complicated to earn merits. Most people dont even care about it, so they see a good post and "forget" to give some merit. I have been even told "thanks a lot", but no merit  

Anyway, I hope more people like you would do this kind of "merit giveaway"  

Completely agree. It is absurd that a scammer can have a Legendary rank. This could be easily  avoided by implementing "negative merits".

Maybe those "negative merits" could be given only by legendary rank or something like that, in order to avoid spam or something similar (like bcash-reddit-spammers  ).

I didn't mean I support eth personally.  What I meant is that by using it myself, I'm actually supporting it.   When I make payments online some people will only take ethereum now. The whole rollback with the Eth Classic situation really turned me off ethereum.  Eth has such a large attack surface, hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost to faulty code.  All of these "ICOs" (99 percent are scams) are on ethereum so it's not like its going away anytime soon.

I think most of these token projects are pointless and it's really diluting the crypto space.  People are putting shit on blockchain that has no reason to be there except for them to make money off the hype.

I generally don't think that these bounties hurt bitcoin or the forum.
Because you miss the ads? Hope you are kidding.
Bounties bring way more people into crypto than you might think.
It’s a win-win situation for both the startup company and their audience. Sorry but I can't see your problem here.

Also the signature campaigns are in general a good thing.
Just think about it: There are strict rules to follow, like e.g. make 10 constructive posts with min 100 char.
So the people try to make high quality content and also help each other.
It is human nature that you want to rise in rank if that is possible.

To me it looks like you only support bitcoin. If you would close the Altcoin Section in this Forum and ban bounty campaigns I guarantee that it will be very quiet here.

I already met a lot of people in this forum, who only support bitcoin and nothing else. Better take a step back and see the big picture.
The Blockchain is here to stay and that includes not only bitcoin.

Of course >90% of these projects which pop up daily, won't survive the next five years but I can easily name you 10 current projects with a real world use case, which could be a big success.

No problem if you don't want to give me Merit, I am here anyways. Just wanted to give it a try.

But don't tell me that the Bad outweights the Good (by several magnitudes) only because of my twitter report posts.
I am maybe 1 Miner out of 10 in my local board who is regularly helping beginners getting started. I be part in daily discussions and already contributed a lot of quality content.
Don't point the finger at me only because of some twitter bounties.

Anyway have a nice day.