Topic: [April fools] New new rank requirements - page 16. (Read 11667 times)

I strongly support this new methodology for computing various elements of rank.

I believe that an objective evaluation of the essence of a person, their character, is best performed through the review of a combination of factors such as those that you identified.  While a valid case could be made that the current Merit system is essentially a human-moderated form of judging and assessing overall "worth" of an individual to a community, such as through the relevance and quality of their posts (which on a forum is arguably the most important criterion), the separate computations make quick evaluation of a person and/or persona easy and convenient.

• Do not like impolite people? No problem, skip low politeness users.
• Value pretty pictures? Imagination is your metric.

I especially appreciate the graphical representation based on infinite iterations of Conway's Game of Life using the 10 MSBits of the rank elements.  Personally, I would have thought the highest byte would be sufficient but I am not an expert in the area of forum rank dynamics.

I think you've managed to balance the various factors and implement a robust ranking system.  I propose that this system is permitted to demonstrate its resilience and that perhaps adjustments should not be considered for some period of time to ensure that any "adoption issues" do not impact decisions to make adjustments seem necessary when in fact they are just artifacts from switching to this more resilient system.  Perhaps the issue should next be visited one year from now, on April 1, 2019.

In any event, great job theymos.  There will be little to object to or complain about now.

Best regards,
Ben

this is sure sir?

Wow Impressive and hard to rank up I guest we need an another adventure sir/madam! to our rank up! This is great and Wise plan to avoid Spam and Violence.

Honesty if I had 10 BTC, I would definitely buy your account "sir/madam", if it is in fact, up for sale (sir) coz in the long run I would definitely recover that 10 BTC investment simply with Signature campaign alone, not taking into account the amount of money one could earn by selling your merits (sir).  If I were you (sir) I would seriously reconsider your offer and really re-value your account.  I would say it's worth at least 3x 10 BTC, easily.  Would spreading paymenst over a 24-month period work for you (please sir)?  Btw, I don't think there is a way yet to quantify, value or monetized the "politeness" earned.

Thank you sir theymos for improving rank rquirements. It was first time when I called someone "sir" lol. Maybe all these things like Karma, Virtue or fMerit looks complicated and confusing and I can't understand how exactly everything works, but I think it's great.
And when I visited forum first time today, I completely forgot that today is April Fools Day, because it's Easter day

New method is incomprehensive. There is not a calculation system form some new features. Only fmerit is calculated with a formula. The puspose may be useful but the road to the purpose is complicated. Please

I can't quite understand what fMerit really is Sir. Please explain to me and I'm kinda hoping that this is a April Fools joke. I don't get the need for these type of stuff, is it really necessary?

Really good one!
When you see number of posts concerning merits, I let you imagine the # of posts concerning all of these!

How do you calculate virtue & karma?  I understand everything else but these two:

Virtue
This is an upright, God-fearing community which will suffer no witchcraft or other heresy. This stat measures your moral virtue. Warning: those with low virtue may be visited by the holy inquisition.

Karma
This is how many non-scammer trust ratings you have both sent and received. Due to our strict moderation of the trust system, this is sure to be a highly reliable measure of your reliability vis-à-vis the trust system.

In addition to the imagination, you need to add humor. Funny messages are more interesting to read. Who will write funny messages, +1 will be added to humor.)

w00t my accounts got to be worth at least 10 BTC with my politeness level!

Almost all of us was fooled XD Thank To Theymos
But if this will be true then we're  fooled again by our own minds

Yes sir, so exactly sir). So much burns the fifth dot in those who have no sense of humor. Thanks to the joke administration for 5 points)

Nice job. Happy April Fool's day.

April 1

well this is certainly interesting and also confusing if this really gonna be implemented in this forum.
gonna be like a high class society gathering when someone reply to the other i'm just smiling with wide open now.
and THANK YOU SIR..

I wish I actually knew what day it was, but thankfully, I never do thanks to my work schedule.

*Insert you gotta be quicker than that meme @ Ranks*

I think this is a growing positive endeavor for better progress in development to minimize spammers activity, and certainly a highly effective innovation for better progress.

modern biologists do the same in fact but they use DNA analysis with haplogroups so if we had some 17th century muscovite sample we could always say the people who lived in Moscovia were half Uralic and half Turks and they're not even slavic nords at all... unlike the citizens of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. At least technically moscows were vassals to the Horde up to year 1700 so nobody would call them anything but 'tartars'.