Topic: Attention Theymos: This is a sMerit holdup! Hands in the air! - page 4. (Read 21872 times)
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Dont expect too much privilege from theymos you not SPECIAL HERE ,and you are one of those abusing the current trust system please dont pretend of being a nice guy by giving smerits to newbies as far as im here you arent giving a single merit to lower ranks from the past few months and you are just giving it to higher ranks that you know of and what makes your ass turn?
hHmmmm..other sources has managed to distribute their smerits for months without whining to theymos.
hHmmmm..other sources has managed to distribute their smerits for months without whining to theymos.
The point isn't how steadily someone is learning merits. Most people, on the old system, used to become legendary by about 800 activity points. Bob is very close to that and still more than 200 from the merit perspective.
If we believe this isn't an issue I'll disappear back to the technical boards quietly however it seemed something worth pointing out that there's a low distribution on the technical boards.
I expect bob123 to have 1000 Merit before he has 1000 Activity. I thought most users become Legendary far above 800, but you have a point.If we believe this isn't an issue I'll disappear back to the technical boards quietly however it seemed something worth pointing out that there's a low distribution on the technical boards.
I'll try to do my part on those boards, and I've just started with bob123.
I took the lazy route though, by meriting posts that received Merit already.
I agree with this approach. I considered giving merit proportional to activity, but I decided not to because doing so would probably give far more undeserved merit than deserved merit in total. But undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
I've quoted this post a few times recently, and bob123 is one of the users who shouldn't be restricted by the Merit system. 
Is this Jet Cash imitating a shitpost?
No - he doesn't understand when to use the word "amount"
My shitpost account is Flash Cunt ( TMAN is my hero
). but I've gone off that concept, and I'm more interested in tokenised securities. 
Bob123 received only 250 Merit from the airdrop, and has been earning Merit faster than Activity.
He's receiving a steady flow of Merit:
He's receiving a steady flow of Merit:
The point isn't how steadily someone is learning merits. Most people, on the old system, used to become legendary by about 800 activity points. Bob is very close to that and still more than 200 from the merit perspective.
If we believe this isn't an issue I'll disappear back to the technical boards quietly however it seemed something worth pointing out that there's a low distribution on the technical boards.
Bob123 received only 250 Merit from the airdrop, and has been earning Merit faster than Activity.
He's receiving a steady flow of Merit:
He's receiving a steady flow of Merit:
tryninja or bob could do with a showering of merits for their work.
I had to look to see how many times I've merited TryNinja, and in the past 120 days it's been twice as far as I can tell, but who is this bob of whom you speak? Boblawblaw? Bipolar Bob? BobOnMyKnob?In any case, it looks like TryNinja has enough activity to make Legendary status but is short quite a few merits. I'll take a look at some of his posts and see what I can do, because he makes good posts and I respect his opinions on things. He's just one who's flown under my radar a bit, but he's also a Hero member already. I've been trying to merit lower-ranked members (failing sometimes) a little more, just so that the good ones don't get left behind and think it's impossible to rank up. Rank on a discussion forum shouldn't be a big deal, but we all know it is on bitcointalk, so...
Bob123 I meant https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bob123-579628.
He has earnt little merit, his English is sometimes a tad broken but you can work out what he's saying just fine (or I can).
My point is to say that the Bitcoin boards don't get much merit on them to the good users who actually know the fundamentals. Something that, if you're not prepared to learn them or at least have some interest in them, you may as well pm a mod to nuke your account (we are a Bitcoin forum not a gossip about our ranks forum - sort of to the entire community as a whole)...
I was talking about appreciation not rank but trying not to make it look that way...
but who is this bob of whom you speak? Boblawblaw? Bipolar Bob? BobOnMyKnob?
bob123, I assume. He is one of the guys I had in mind when when I was talking about users that do get some merit, but not enough for how good and helpful they are. He posts almost exclusively in the Technical Boards, which probably explains why you don't run in to him much.
Re: TalkStar, I think you are confusing with Talk merit.
It will be a golden opportunity for creative newbie members to earn merits through their lucrative posts.I really think if our forum most valuable members have got the right to give enough amount of merits for a good post than we will possibly see many more great posts and activities from newbies in future.
Newbies have always been afforded the opportunity to earn merits unhindered,the more reason why it's the ones who put their heart to it and try to communicate on the forum who eventually find it a stroll in the park to rank up.And I do not think merits should be the major incentive for one to come up with great posts
With or without merits,this forum would exist,thus with or without it,users should be obliged to treat the forum like HOME.
tryninja or bob could do with a showering of merits for their work.
I had to look to see how many times I've merited TryNinja, and in the past 120 days it's been twice as far as I can tell, but who is this bob of whom you speak? Boblawblaw? Bipolar Bob? BobOnMyKnob?In any case, it looks like TryNinja has enough activity to make Legendary status but is short quite a few merits. I'll take a look at some of his posts and see what I can do, because he makes good posts and I respect his opinions on things. He's just one who's flown under my radar a bit, but he's also a Hero member already. I've been trying to merit lower-ranked members (failing sometimes) a little more, just so that the good ones don't get left behind and think it's impossible to rank up. Rank on a discussion forum shouldn't be a big deal, but we all know it is on bitcointalk, so...
It will be a golden oppprtunity for creative newbie members to earn merits through their lucrative posts.I really think if our forum most valuable members have got the right to give enough amount of merits for a good post than we will possibly see many more great posts and activities from newbies in future.
Is this Jet Cash imitating a shitpost? It approximates one, but the grammar and spelling are not bad enough. The run-on sentence is a good start, though. 
It will be a golden opportunity for creative newbie members to earn merits through their lucrative posts.I really think if our forum most valuable members have got the right to give enough amount of merits for a good post than we will possibly see many more great posts and activities from newbies in future.
@the pharmacist and o_e_l_e_o. In reference to your post https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49087575.
Technical boards are quite under merited because it's normally newbies coming along and saying they have an issue with their client software. These newbies are either one hit wonders or people who are really legendaries here or at least of a high rank who don't want to admit they can't fathem the software... Thus a lot of people on those boards (not just me) barely scrape any merit while those like suchmoon and vod who stay quite a lot on meta along with you both and jet Cash seem to rake in the merits.
Of course it's fine for the likes of me because I don't actually need any merit (unless a new rank gets made) but someone like tryninja or bob could do with a showering of merits for their work. (I'm trying not to be hypocritical but I'm also not very good at it myself).
Technical boards are quite under merited because it's normally newbies coming along and saying they have an issue with their client software. These newbies are either one hit wonders or people who are really legendaries here or at least of a high rank who don't want to admit they can't fathem the software... Thus a lot of people on those boards (not just me) barely scrape any merit while those like suchmoon and vod who stay quite a lot on meta along with you both and jet Cash seem to rake in the merits.
Of course it's fine for the likes of me because I don't actually need any merit (unless a new rank gets made) but someone like tryninja or bob could do with a showering of merits for their work. (I'm trying not to be hypocritical but I'm also not very good at it myself).
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I've done this numerous times, particularly in Off Topic and BD - see a non-shitty post, sounds too good to be true, let's google around - end up reporting the whole farm.
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I've done this numerous times, particularly in Off Topic and BD - see a non-shitty post, sounds too good to be true, let's google around - end up reporting the whole farm.
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In fact, this is a good approach.
Instead of looking for shitposts and reporting them, look for good posts (too good to be true). Shitposters changed their "modus operandi" because it is not working any more because of the merit system and the increasing number of reporters.
They are too smart in fact, one of their tactics is to use alts, one asks a question and the other answers with a pre-made answer. The problem is that you know what they are doing but it is hard to prove it.
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in my opinion connotes that he'd prefer to have it widely spread so as a worthy post would NOT have to miss out.
I'd love to be able to give out 5-8 merits to some exceptional posts (but I would reserve such a large grant to ranks lower than Hero), but previously there was no way I could do this and still have enough sMerits left over to merit all the other good posts I see.in my opinion connotes that he'd prefer to have it widely spread so as a worthy post would NOT have to miss out.
The exact point I was trying to explain. I missed out "NOT", which gave the post a different meaning.
I've made the offer in other threads, but got zero takers. In the PM, just write something like "Merit?" and then a link to the post. I'll either merit it or I won't, but you can be guaranteed I'll look at the PM, the post, and most likely the member's post history as well.
I have seen LoyceV's and one other thread with such offers, but it is rather too bad there have been next no application on those threads, at least the good side is that there have been a reduced threads of users ranting about not getting merits.
Reported for a ban. Sigh.
That's OK, because hopefully you'll know now that when you see a new account like that making an excellent post, always check for copy/pasting, text-spinning, or translation plagiarism. You wasted some merits but a greater good came from it--hopefully he'll get banned and you'll be as chary as I am when meriting noobs. It's sad that we have to be this way, but we do. That'll teach me to try and do something nice. Off to report 100 shitposters in a fit of rage to let off steam.
Everyone makes mistakes, doc. I had a genuine LOL about this. Sorry.
Glad my misery amuses you.
That'll teach me to try and do something nice. Off to report 100 shitposters in a fit of rage to let off steam.
The number of merits sent per month has declined to 15k
Where we can see this figure please?https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsend
You get a fast response to PM's if it's a genuine thing.
It's just stupid to make threads about this sort of trivial stuff. I get that he's worried that theymos wouldn't read the PM's but theymos normally does. The PM's theymos doesn't respond to see the spammers that contribute nothing to the forum, the pharmacist would be listened to by theymos (the first time I pmd theymos, I thought it'd tske ages for him to reply, in truth it was probably between 5 minutes and half an hour - my reply took longer than his)...
It's just stupid to make threads about this sort of trivial stuff. I get that he's worried that theymos wouldn't read the PM's but theymos normally does. The PM's theymos doesn't respond to see the spammers that contribute nothing to the forum, the pharmacist would be listened to by theymos (the first time I pmd theymos, I thought it'd tske ages for him to reply, in truth it was probably between 5 minutes and half an hour - my reply took longer than his)...
Yeah but then we wouldn't know who's to thank (or to blame) for the merit source changes
Oh, god damn it. Just when I thought I had found a genuinely good newbie...
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Reported for a ban. Sigh.
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Reported for a ban. Sigh.
I had a genuine LOL about this. Sorry.
I've done this numerous times, particularly in Off Topic and BD - see a non-shitty post, sounds too good to be true, let's google around - end up reporting the whole farm. That's a big reason why I'm so salty when someone starts harping about mysteriously unmerited great posters hiding somewhere... I really can't see that happening to any appreciable extent when there's 100+ sources looking for them.
Did you pat that motherfucker down for explosives?
Oh, god damn it. Just when I thought I had found a genuinely good newbie...
I did review his post history, and found another post by him on Technical Discussion that was quite good, and so thought he deserved a merit. He also didn't seem like a shitposter. I would have given him a pass on the post you linked, since the usernames are the same, but on closer inspection this post is a direct lift from here.
Reported for a ban. Sigh.
Edit: Banned
I was thrilled to find one just yesterday (here if you are interested).
Did you pat that motherfucker down for explosives? That post was written on a different website, albeit by a person with the same user name. I don't even know if that's considered plagiarism, but the post I linked to was obviously written before the one you merited and no source was given.Is the Bitcoin Development & Technical Board a section that tends to be under-merited?
According to DdmrDdmr's data Development & Technical Discussion has fewer overall merits than many other boards (~7k in 10 months, compared to 12k for Bitcoin Discussion, 27k for Meta, and 22k for Economics). However, it has the highest merit-to-post ratio at 0.566, which is around 2x Meta, 10x Economics and 20x Bitcoin Discussion. So although posts there are generally the highest merited of anywhere on the forum, I still think there are some posts that are under-merited for how good they are.
Besides, i read all thread on those section (since usually there's only 3-10 bumped thread everyday) & i report all recent spam/plagiarism, so there's no way shitpost exist on recent threads.
Good, glad to know you've got it covered. Very glad you got made a merit source, too. Jump to: