Hey Joe, Its been a great week ahead for quality posts and Meretrix and butka is really great in posting good quality posts. As promised for this week I gave off my 2 merits to butka and Meretrix for their posts. I think you have not read my Edit 1 of my previous post? Anyways I will be giving away merits in definitely until all my smerits are gone. So I don't like to commit myself for 7 or 8 rounds. Can you please update this in the Main topic of yours?

Posts I merited:

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3219459.msg33483815#msg33483815
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3237021.msg33714060#msg33714060

Though I was trying to give off both my merits to Meretrix to his erotic bitcoin novel, it would have been against my rules. But I will keep an eye on this Bitcoin Novel, as it written really well.

The Bitcoin Novel must be posted in a well recognized board so that most of the forum members would read them and pour their merits on him. Such a good quality post present in Off topic is really bad. Hope week 5 would produce the same quality as week 4.

P.S. I would never give my merits to Jr- legendary. All my smerits would be given only to Newbies who participate in this challenge and produce great quality content.

Edit 1 : There is no need of thanking anyone. In this case we guys should thank you for stepping up with such a wonderful idea. As of now there are a total of 17 smerits with me which would be distributed through 8 weeks without any difficulty.

I think that the consolation is for all participants that who did not won the challenge. Consolaton is the comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment and suffered. I'm so disappointed with this.

'' I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you're just a little bit above the average shitposter. Your posts are in mainly megathreads or topics that were designed specifically to farm member ranks and activity. The topics you posted in (and one that you created and then abandoned) are completely unsubstantial, and your posts are also non-contributive and show little effort. While it's obvious that some of your posts took a lot of time to write, just remember one thing: Just because you post a lot of text does not mean that your post is substantial. Please try to partake in conversations that are more related to Bitcoin and Altcoins in the future.'' (Sorry I don't know how to do the manual quote process)

-I guess I'll take the authors advice and read more, take a break for a short while, and starts over.
-I was a kind of little nervous waiting for a "total shit poster" mark, but Thanks God it is above shitposter.(little---) Smiley

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Thanks for your feedback sir, but Bounties is a official part of this forum. Teach other members about how to join bounties and earn money is a good act. Meta section is covered with threads about merit, it shows that there are still a lot of members have no knowledge about merit system, why don't i give them useful information about merit?
Final, we have different thought, i quit round 5. 
Anyway , as i said before, your thread is a bright star in this forum, keep it loong live.
Thanks!

Done, Joe!
Reference: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/3223081.msg33624428#msg33624428

Congrats!  vlad230

And again, I'll provide two (2) Merits for the third place in round five (5).

Thanks a lot, Geraldo! I appreciate the time you invest in this and of course, your merit donation

I've merited this and this post. And with that, you're now disqualified for my consolation prizes, as you've just ranked up from Jr. Member to Member. Congratulations on ranking up with the merit system in place!

I am slightly disappointed with your link to ponzi bitconnect though.

Got swamped this week and missed this round. Looking forward to everyone's post this week and hope to be back in next week.

It sounds like you are too concerned with merit, if you ask me. Big heavy posts are not meant to be more likely to gain you merit. A post shouldn't be any longer than it needs to be in order to fully convey whatever idea you are attempting to get across. Brevity is important, because nobody wants to read a book. If your posts are being deleted at a significant rate, then I would think that you should change your posting habits. This should not discourage you from using the forum completely, unless you are not very interested in being a part of the community, which is fine. I would suggest you use the Search function more, because the thread you created has already been created and is actively being discussed. Stop posting in self-moderated threads, don't break the rules, or post in megathreads and you'll find that your posts don't get deleted very often. There might be a couple here and there, but it really doesn't matter and I don't understand why this is such a concern of yours. You talk about becoming a passive lurker, because you are not earning merit and it has become too much of a concern for you; I would suggest stop worrying about merit, because it honestly doesn't matter, if all you want to do is hangout and post.

It's strange to me that a company is willing to dish you out a portion of their marketing/advertising budget while you have a valid negative trust indicating that you have plagiarized posts. I would think this would be exactly the kind of thing that Joe would find disqualifying. Plus, I wouldn't expect to be around until the end of your project/campaign, because plagiarism is one of the very few things that can earn you a ban around here.

You're also a hypocrite, because pretty recently you also had this to say :


I understand that negative trust users are allowed in this challenge, but certainly a plagiarist should not be allowed. Not that it matters, because you would not place in the challenge. I just don't see a point in wasting anyone's time.