actmyname, I will take your wager—but only on double-down terms: Twice whatever you give others, if you think my last 20 posts are overall meritorious—or a red tag from you, if you don’t.
I will reject your wager for a few reasons.
First and foremost, my terms are strict in that if someone has even one low-quality post in the twenty that come before posting on this thread, they will not get the merit. Period.
Moreover, this makes your wager pointless because users should not be rated based on a singular (or a few posts) that do not have sufficient quality. Most people I know that are known for their posts will sometimes shitpost.
The negative feedback would thus have no weight, lest we create an equivalence to it with scummy activity. And in that regard, it's not really a good association to have.
It feels like the only way to get a wager that you might think is impactful is with betting something monetary or sentimental, like your name. Though in the former case, it would have to go to a charity or some third-party member because you will have bias otherwise.
Also just as a final note, you have a lot of merit anyway. I don't think that double the reward should be spent on you
However, if you want to confine to the original terms that I have, then we can see.
I agree with you.
Nullius was on
Meta trying to increase merit requirements for ranks. He said he was an exceptional poster who gets at least 1+ merit per day. He says he made it to Hero in 1 month.
But it seems that he's only been doing so by actively participating in these merit giveaways/contests.
I'm not one to judge or anything. But I feel like he's being a little deceptive in his
Meta thread. It sounds like he's purporting that he's naturally gaining merit points from quality posts, which I'm sure he does... it's just that he's trying to also purport that people can get 1+ merit per day and make it to Hero in 1 month simply by posting naturally and gaining merits from organic threads.
But it seems as though a significant reason why he has so many merits is because he participates in these merit giveaways/contests. In fact, you can see just how much he relies on these merit giveaways/contests by his attempt to draw
28 merit from you rather than just 14. And I especially like the tactic he tried to employ to intimidate you into giving him the merit (which I, begrudgingly, wish I had included in my own entrance into your contest): He was going to shame you for not
inspecting his posts correctly if you didn't give him the 28 merit. I believe you did the right thing by rejecting his proposal.
If merits are so easily attained organically, then why would he have to resort to such? Again, I think that's fine... but I believe he should've disclosed that in his
Meta thread rather than leading readers to believe otherwise.
I'm now really questioning the ease at which one may attain merits from simply posting contributory posts. But, I believe I also see it as a great challenge.
