If you have one thing to change

[Power]

Bitcoin is already popular and no one can stop it although it experienced crisis but still it has the highest volume in the market. If you have one thing or anything that want to change in bitcointalk platform or anything from it, what is that and why?

[Mlhits1405]

For me if i have a chance to change the system of bitcointalk  i think its back to basic like what before especially for ranking system so that manny people will benifits of it but lets us be aware of it because other people are very abbusive  thats why bitcointalk right now is so very strick about post they delete it if it is not to much relevant to the topic.

[sugarchrisp]

Just how difficult it is to rank up on their forums.  Even ignoring the fact that you need merit, it would take almost three years just to accumulate the activity required to rank up to legendary.  Merit on top of that makes it nearly impossible for people to attain those levels.  I know lots of people there have over 1000 merit, but they were mostly grandfathered in when the forum originally switched to merit as a ranking system.  It's not a horrible way to go, but it sucks royally for anyone who is trying to start there fresh.  On top of all that people are extremely stingy and almost cruel in how they dish out merit.  I've seen posts on there that are absolute garbage that have received 10+ merit each, and it happens all the time.  People make posts saying "make me laugh and I'll give you merit."  The shitposts that came out of that, it's just a nightmare.  Meanwhile, if you try to make posts that help people you get mocked for trying to help, or someone points out that the information is already there and tries to accuse you of plagiarism.  There's no way to really move up aside from pure attrition and making TONS of posts that are also all helpful to someone. 

[altcoingamer]

Just how difficult it is to rank up on their forums.  Even ignoring the fact that you need merit, it would take almost three years just to accumulate the activity required to rank up to legendary.  Merit on top of that makes it nearly impossible for people to attain those levels.  I know lots of people there have over 1000 merit, but they were mostly grandfathered in when the forum originally switched to merit as a ranking system.  It's not a horrible way to go, but it sucks royally for anyone who is trying to start there fresh.  On top of all that people are extremely stingy and almost cruel in how they dish out merit.  I've seen posts on there that are absolute garbage that have received 10+ merit each, and it happens all the time.  People make posts saying "make me laugh and I'll give you merit."  The shitposts that came out of that, it's just a nightmare.  Meanwhile, if you try to make posts that help people you get mocked for trying to help, or someone points out that the information is already there and tries to accuse you of plagiarism.  There's no way to really move up aside from pure attrition and making TONS of posts that are also all helpful to someone.

I agree with your points but another problem that Merit creates is everyone just talks "AT" the topic creator, instead of having organic conversations.. when people get participation credit for just having the ability to freely discuss without having everything being so micro judged, the conversations tend to be more organic, since being active and simply participating is enough.

[sugarchrisp]

Yeah, I gotta admit I rarely ever checked back on topics when I was on bitcointalk posting just for activity.