Yeah, finally everything back to normal, and Theymos claimed that it was April fools joke
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33646534
Topic: Activity, Merit, Politeness, fMerit, Imagination, Virtue, Coins, Karma, Posts !! (Read 1335 times)
April 02, 2018, 01:34:45 AM
April 02, 2018, 03:26:52 AM
It's already April 2, Let's sum it up!
Threads like this can easily sort out people with broken sarcasm-meter.
Theymos' thread New new Rank Requirements' title is obviously a joke too! No one says "new new" with a straight face!
Even without the April Fools culture, members that "got it" the first time they saw those stats deserve a round of applause for having a healthy working brain,
otherwise, you need to see a psychiatrist.
Threads like this can easily sort out people with broken sarcasm-meter.
Theymos' thread New new Rank Requirements' title is obviously a joke too! No one says "new new" with a straight face!
Even without the April Fools culture, members that "got it" the first time they saw those stats deserve a round of applause for having a healthy working brain,
otherwise, you need to see a psychiatrist.
April 02, 2018, 02:06:51 AM
Wao! That was a carefully and painstakingly crafted peice of joke. Honestly, I fell for it.
April 02, 2018, 12:47:23 AM
I'm not gonna lie, I actually was thinking this would be pretty cool even though it is a bit ridiculous. It is now past April first and is still there. The stuff is probably calculated using a random generator multiplied with our activity level or something. I definitely was fooled by it. To be fair though, it was April 2nd when I first saw it.
I think we should get rid of merit. Nobody uses it and it hasn't made the forum any different than the old way of leveling up. Just my opinion though.
I think we should get rid of merit. Nobody uses it and it hasn't made the forum any different than the old way of leveling up. Just my opinion though.
April 01, 2018, 10:21:03 PM
I guess it is part of an April Fool's joke as there are no buttons to click to add those "FMerits", "Politeness", "Imagination" and the rest unlike the Merit system. I got to say that the joke got me as I was scrolling through some threads and I noticed a lot of new stuff under Activity and Merit, first thing I did was to visit the "Meta" section and find out there are no official announcement about the system. Also I take a quick look at my profile page and there was nothing new. I was shook at first but its all good now. Nicely done 
I have checked the forum for an announcement too but could found nothing in Meta section besides this topic.
April fools but are you sure?
fMerit - how many times you said something bad about Merit system.
Coins - special coins issued by Bitcointalk (ICO soon)
Karma- you will get karma (+ or -) for bad or good behavior on the forum
Imagination - issued by moderators, no rules attached as for now
Politeness- never try to argue with staff or other people
This is how I think it is. Do you think that I am right?
Actually, I don't know if guys also noticed it. My fMerit points decreased in unknown reason. Earlier I have 327 fMerits but now I only have 166 fMerit points.
Here's my proof.
Edit. What the
Now its back to 327 It makes me feel like I really need to find out how the equation works, because I have no idea how it fluctuates (or it is just a bug that's why is decreased earlier).
April 01, 2018, 08:46:39 PM
This is a pretty good april fools joke imo , as i was pretty confused by it and shocked that we had to go through even more hoops to rank up.
A quick google search made me find this thread and it gave me a mild chuckle
A quick google search made me find this thread and it gave me a mild chuckle
April 01, 2018, 08:34:34 PM
We have joy, we have fun, we have new new rank requirements in the bitcointalk forum.
We have big joke from Theymos.
We have fmerits (maybe fuck merit). Wholy shit, after the thread my politeness point might be dramatically decreased.
We have big joke from Theymos.
We have fmerits (maybe fuck merit). Wholy shit, after the thread my politeness point might be dramatically decreased.
April 01, 2018, 06:19:50 PM
Funny
April 01, 2018, 06:12:17 PM
hilarious 
April 01, 2018, 06:04:17 PM
I guess it is part of an April Fool's joke as there are no buttons to click to add those "FMerits", "Politeness", "Imagination" and the rest unlike the Merit system. I got to say that the joke got me as I was scrolling through some threads and I noticed a lot of new stuff under Activity and Merit, first thing I did was to visit the "Meta" section and find out there are no official announcement about the system. Also I take a quick look at my profile page and there was nothing new. I was shook at first but its all good now. Nicely done
I have checked the forum for an announcement too but could found nothing in Meta section besides this topic.
April fools but are you sure?
fMerit - how many times you said something bad about Merit system.
Coins - special coins issued by Bitcointalk (ICO soon)
Karma- you will get karma (+ or -) for bad or good behavior on the forum
Imagination - issued by moderators, no rules attached as for now
Politeness- never try to argue with staff or other people
This is how I think it is. Do you think that I am right?
Actually, I don't know if guys also noticed it. My fMerit points decreased in unknown reason. Earlier I have 327 fMerits but now I only have 166 fMerit points.
Here's my proof.
Edit. What the
Now its back to 327 It makes me feel like I really need to find out how the equation works, because I have no idea how it fluctuates (or it is just a bug that's why is decreased earlier).
They are using special algorithm and you don't say anything wrong about merits but you think FMERIT times about merits and they can see this from your recent posts after they run the algorithm.
April 01, 2018, 03:38:47 PM
April 1st joke? That is a good one!
April 01, 2018, 02:05:54 PM
It probably is April fools, still it took a bit of work to write that code to asses politeness etc, well time will show (we have to wait for an ann of requirements to level up) Interesting idea it actually could work ... given enough time to for tweeks and tricks
April 01, 2018, 01:11:54 PM
Whether this is a joke or not someone obviously put a lot of time and efforts into it and I think it gives a very different flavor and might shine the dullness of the forum. If it is in fact a joke, perhaps theymos should consider keeping it for a while. It's fun to look at these criteria and ponder on them.
April 01, 2018, 12:46:27 PM
Yeah I just saw this, it's pretty funny, it reminds me of the the stats for a role playing character, like Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy videogames, Diablo... Looks like we will need to max out our characters to impossible levels next in order to participate in signature campaigns. Time to start training.
April 01, 2018, 12:42:28 PM
Not funny at all.
April 01, 2018, 12:37:24 PM
Besides the new stats system I noticed the "Trust" section has disappeared...
No "Trust" has not disappeared .You can't notice the Trust on each of the sections. For example in the 'Meta' section you can not see the user trust rating, but it is visible in the 'Economy' section. There is no change on the "Trust".
I did not know that. Thanks. Learn something new each day
April 01, 2018, 12:32:10 PM
Besides the new stats system I noticed the "Trust" section has disappeared...
No "Trust" has not disappeared .You can't notice the Trust on each of the sections. For example in the 'Meta' section you can not see the user trust rating, but it is visible in the 'Economy' section. There is no change on the "Trust".
April 01, 2018, 12:15:44 PM
Guys, I am beginning to think it wasn't the usally April fool day game because I saw some of Theymos reply to a post. He is serious about this.
Here, he confirmed it is real;
It actually is a real stat (counting instances of "thanks" etc. in posts). But he has a lot of posts.
Here he explained what the virtues are;
The seven virtues are chastity, temperence, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Any true Bitcoiner will fully exemplify all seven virtues, of course.
And here, he explained how the imaginations, politeness coins are calculated;
Politeness, Imagination, and Coins were calculated based on all of your past posts, but they don't update real-time. fMerit, Virtue, and Karma do update roughly every 20 minutes. But only Staff, Donators, or VIPs will find themselves able to adjust their Virtue that quickly.
He is serious about this but most people aren't taking him serious because of the day he implemented it.
This are just joke. Even if you try "Conway's Game of Life" you will laugh at our self that you actually did it. Lets wait until the April fools fever subsides. Maybe we would have a clear vision on it and wake up from this dreams. Here, he confirmed it is real;
It actually is a real stat (counting instances of "thanks" etc. in posts). But he has a lot of posts.
Here he explained what the virtues are;
The seven virtues are chastity, temperence, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Any true Bitcoiner will fully exemplify all seven virtues, of course.
And here, he explained how the imaginations, politeness coins are calculated;
Politeness, Imagination, and Coins were calculated based on all of your past posts, but they don't update real-time. fMerit, Virtue, and Karma do update roughly every 20 minutes. But only Staff, Donators, or VIPs will find themselves able to adjust their Virtue that quickly.
He is serious about this but most people aren't taking him serious because of the day he implemented it.
April 01, 2018, 12:08:08 PM
Anybody want to buy some Imagination points? 
April 01, 2018, 12:04:49 PM
oh my God!! my heart pump up when i saw the fmerit. I didn't know it is a joke.
Chill just relax, we wait for further announcement of sir theymos and hopefully, this new rule now will really help us to rank up.I also confused with my stats and I don't know if that is right, we really need more explanation regarding this or just this is a fool rule to us only sir theymos know.
I seriously hope the "ranking up" isnt accelerated.
It took 2 years for me to get hero status...
It would be very dissapointing to see newbies make hero in short time frames
It took you just two years, but you did not have to take merit into consideration!
And now people still need 2 years to get to that activity as yours, but they still are going to need merits, which are rarely given.Now, with this merit system it is a lot harder to get from one rank to the upper one, because simply because the people are not meriting, just saying thanks in a reply and that's it! The progression should be, imo, based on time spent online in the forum + post count, but structured in a way, that you cannot get from newbie to hero/full member quickly!
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