I've never joined a signature campaign. I've been a lurker on BCT longer than I've been a member and that's how I like it. I'm not here for any forum rating or status. I'm here for Bitcoin, for Cryptocurrencies, for Distributed Public Ledger Technology. To learn. To ask questions. To talk about Bitcoin. I don't care if you think I write quality posts. I don't care what any one person on this forum thinks about me, my posts or what I had for lunch today. I Don't. F*cking. Care. At all. I don't live and die by this forum, but I love all the information available here from topics such as mining cryptocurrencies to ICO ANN's to random quotes that make me think or laugh.

Don't get me wrong, I love it here on BCT, but to demote members like me, who were stoked to have gotten to Junior Member status without pandering to posting rules and getting merit for what others thought about certain posts, was not cool. So not cool. I was stoked to be a Junior Member without having to stress out on whether or not some a$$hole on BCT thought my posts were quality to him or her. Now that and other simple forum abilities have been stripped from me for liking to sit back and read more than I post. Rad.

And while I can see the point for this demoting move, I don't like being on the receiving end of it. Yeah I get it, blah spam blah shitposters blah insert whatever lame reason you agree with Theymos pulling this demoting stunt here, but as I was one of the affected members who got demoted and I'm pissed. Yeah, I know, I don't care about rank, but it was cool to see that at least I wasn't some lame ass shitposting newbie punk who couldn't post more than once every 120 seconds to all the other real shitposting spam peddlers here on BCT. Now I'm back into that newbie cesspool where every dickhead on BCT assumes I'm some shitposting spammer because I'm a newbie. Back to where some elitist morons won't even take PM's from me because I'm a *gasp* newbie. Oh no, not a newbie, run for the hills Alice!! Unbelieveable amount of elitism at play here. Makes me fucking sick. Thanks for taking away my ability to post more often and do other menial tasks here on BCT Theymos, you're the man, appreciate it bud.

Actually you make a lot of decent points, and you even articulate them fairly well, except for the fact that you seem to be taking this whole "demotion" matter too personally, and seem to be very resentful about the contributions of other forum members who have gained rank through time on the forum.  

Yeah, it is understandable that peeps such as yourself might not want to have new rules, and sure you could follow the suggestions of Steamtyme by buying a copper membership or just keep pressing on as a lurker.  On the other hand, you could post without so much seeming unnecessary bitterness because even though you proclaim that you don't want any merit, you might actually appreciate some merit if you end up receiving a few.

It seems to me that even the most jaded of us appreciate interaction with like minded peeps, and you must like some interaction since you went through a bit of time to formulate your post, even if some of us, perhaps you, happen to seem a bit fucked up and perhaps have some sociopathic traits?

 You certainly seem capable enough to earn a few merits without much effort, just by posting a bit on topics that you enjoy, anyhow.  Or perhaps, you are so fucking self-absorbed that no one is going to appreciate your posts, but actually, I doubt that, because there are plenty of forum members who are similar to you, believe it or not, you seemingly self-absorbed overly emotional fuck.      

Which is all you did before the new rule!! Over a 1000 bot-like reports on 15 pages of your history. . New rule drops you to newbie and suddenly you get a human voice??That too admiring the new system! Stop Man! Just Stop!!

I don't know whether to laugh at such posters or be annoyed at them.   .I hope you stay in newbie hell just a little longer.

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If you are not a bot, then here is some good advice for you:

The decision taken by the bitcoin forum to increased the restrictions and requirements of newbie is good because of this many people who have multiple accounts can be find. Moreover some are not in favor of that,actually in starting i m also not because i do not have a single merit and i lost my position of jr. member and come on newbie position but i think in a long term it will benefit to all of us and people who are working faithfully they have to spot this decision like i m doing right now.

It was nice to read this and see that is a kind of "temporary" solution, I was affected by the downgrading and my project as well but I understand that is a quite useful rule. There should be a news section on BTT in the Home page (at least a running news bar) because it took me a while to find this thread.

I see I have been demoted back to Newbie. Yes, I believe that I have been guilty of building quote pyramids and the like with hundreds of SM links as a bounty hunter. However, I will endeavor to change my ways and provide a better contribution to keep the forum for what it was originally intended. I regret that my introduction to BTT was by ICO bounty recruiters and unfortunately I accepted this as the norm.

Looks like, after introduction of new rules for receiving a rank of Jr. member, became less spam. And also messages became more better. It's unconditional indeed. However the reason can be not absolutely that all began to treat posts more seriously. Just many juniors participated in the signature companies, before innovations. Then all Jr. Members without merit have lost their signatures. Naturally after that the number of messages decreased, many users write both spam and flood just for the signature companies. And without need to write a certain number of messages in a week, many have ceased to write. As not everyone has sufficient knowledge for writing of qualitative posts. And many wrote them in big quantity only because of requirements of the signature companies. I agree that the last changes have done good to a forum in respect of quality of posts. Now many try to write something useful. Therefore, it is worth waiting for real results in a month or two. As they say, this is a blessing in disguise.
P.s. sorry for my bad english,  It's not native language.

If you decide to fight spam on an honest basis, you still need to cancel Merit, which you gave out for the activity of your account and leave only the earned ones.
Then you can judge the results, who has what rating!!!

Thank you for your response. I feel honored receiving a response from a Legend.

I have to admit, that this industry is an exciting one to be part of.

YEAH !
Finally, I feel better!  ^