Topic: Are you a merit source? Thanks for your sacrifice. - page 2. (Read 394 times)

Suchmoon is not talking to you, she/he is talking to anyone else who is reading this thread you created.
In other words, she/he is implying your are indirectly asking for merits. 

I think you misunderstood  ,  he didn't say you are a merit source, he's actually letting other merit sources know that this thread is a merit-begging thread, and that they(the merit sources) should look elsewhere in terms of merit cycling(whatever "cycling" means anyway  )

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There's a saying that a prophet is not always respected in his hometown, I guess this is what the OPs post is all about, that merit sources are under appreciated for their efforts, well, thank you merit sources for all your efforts  .

I am not a merit source and that's why I'm in the best position to make a post like this.

Very nice to understand that this method works for you and to some other persons. I have tried creating a bookmark for good posts, so that I can merit them later. But unfortunately I never used the bookmarks for once . Before I could have an smerit, I will stumble on even more quality posts that wouldn't warrant me to revisit my bookmark.

Shhh, you're going to start the "merit sources are people too" movement. Nobody wants that.

In all seriousness, I don't think its too much of a issue. I try to just merit those that are posting quality content, but at the end of the day it does feel nice meriting someone who might actually need them, and its even better seeing a newer user that you've merited in the past, actually get motivated by it, and turn out to be a top quality user.

If I was in the predicament which I'd nearly exhausted my conjured merit source, and it was between a merit source with a very good quality post or a newer user with a slightly less quality post, but good quality I'd probably give it to the newer user, because it might encourage them to continue. I can always go back to the merit sources post at a later date, which I typically do revisit a lot of old threads, and replies to merit. I've also seen this behaviour from other sources too.

If you're a merit source, I hope you know this is a merit-begging thread. Ignore it and cycle the merits elsewhere.

I decided to create this topic to raise an awareness and also to thank merit sources. Though not all merit sources, but to a few who are dedicated to ensuring circulation of merits to deserving posts.

Firstly, I discovered that some merits sources who also have good amounts of merits earned are denied of merits (maybe unintentionally) by other members of the forum.
The unmentioned reasons could be that;

• They have enough merits, any need of wasting more on them?
• Someone that generates merits from the vacuum and issue people, should have the power to increase his personal merit count

This might sound silly but it's actually the reality. I have seen countless times some merit sources make quality posts in a particular thread and they will go unmerited. Yet, in same thread, you see them issuing merits to posts that are even of lesser quality to theirs.

No wonder when I was a newbie. I made a post that I so much believed was of high quality but no one sent even a single merit to it. I decided to merit myself since I got some smerits . But I was disappointed to understand that I could not merit myself. In same vain, can our outstanding merits sources have the supper power to send themselves a few merits every month? (Not actually a proposal, but an idea decorator).

There is a thread to report unmerited good posts, I hardly see posts of merit sources reported there. It therefore means that all good posts from merit sources have received cool amounts of merits (irony).

Thanks to all dedicated merit sources, needless of mentioning names. I appreciate you all.