Topic: Attention Theymos: This is a sMerit holdup! Hands in the air! - page 6. (Read 21790 times)

I've got Piggy's bot set up to ping me for any mention of "oeleo" as well, so feel free to miss out the underscores. Or just call me Leo. I would also accept "Leonidas, King of the Spartans" or "Leonardo, the best Ninja Turtle".

Ouch, that hurts.  I thought you loved me--you even bought me dinner and a movie before coitus.

Seriously, why not make a thread about something like this so that the community knows what's going through the mind of a merit source?  Though I didn't anticipate the outcome, it turns out that it was a good thing I made my 'gripe' public, because 1) Theymos acted, and 2) We're all discussing the changes that got made, and all of this is out in the open.  And yeah, my first inclination was to PM Theymos, but I've never done that, don't think he likes me all that much, and didn't think I'd get any sort of response.  I'm sure he gets tons of PMs daily, and I don't know how he responds to them.  Cut me just a tiny bit of slack, eh?

Yeah, I'm glad o_e_l_e_o (I hate typing out his name) got made a source, and because of the sMerits Theymos gave me I was able to merit that post of yours I mentioned.  I didn't get anything near a mega-grant of sMerits, but it'll last me for a while and it was much more than what I had before.

I've no clue as to what Theymos is thinking along the lines of adding new merit sources, but he obviously surprised me by adding new ones yesterday.  I thought it'd be a while before he'd do that, so you ought to make an application thread if you're really interested.  You're another member who I think knows good posts from bad, so I'd support your application.

     Please do apply. The more the merrier.

Woohoo, for the first time I see a merit source complaining about not enough sMerit Cool. Just read Jet Cash's thread about how many good post he is finding lately and I feel like the forum is going toward the right direction finally.
Maybe one day I can also apply for a Merit Source if needed

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsend


Yeah but then we wouldn't know who's to thank (or to blame) for the merit source changes

I got a fast response from Theymos when I pm'd him about a merit source problem. It may be that the more a member send PMs to him, the less likely they are to get a reply. It is best to keep your PMs restricted to really essential messages.

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)...

I guess he meant the latest monthly merits dumped by Theymos fell to 15k.

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Personally, in my analysis, that used merit data dumped by LoyceV, new All-Time-Low of intraday merits found days ago.
More details are available there:

Where we can see this figure please?

 

I think you missed this part somehow.

@the parmacist, you are probably better off sending him a pm...

The title is a bit misleading, I doubt he'll publicly post here anyway and not just send a pm to grant more merits.

I think tennexing what every merit sources has might be interesting and just tell then to give as many times as before but with ten times the amount.

I have no idea when this happened, but someone must have been high af when they decided to make me a merit source

O-e-l-e-o is one of them https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/oeleos-merit-source-application-5093287
And his application was approved speedily,it shows things are rather moving up quickly in here(2019 hasn't started bad at all ) and also the fact that his posts are all quality and he sure will be able to judge which post is worth some merits.
Now there would be less dearths of Smerits in your portfolio,as I can relate/understand how frustrating it is to come across merit worthy posts but not having the Smerits to splash out.

But on a second thought, judging by your spending rate,i don't think it'll be long before you complain about a shortfall again

It's to be expected that different sources will require different amounts, and it's good to know that once you show you are consistently using up your supply (responsibly), you will be given more. It sounds like along with creating the 3 new sources (or more, if some were removed, who knows!?), he's increased supply for the people who need it and decreased supply for the people who don't.



As I mentioned on my source application, while there are more "good" posts by newbies than I was expecting, unmerited ones are hard to find, and I had to spend quite some time actively looking for these posts. Hopefully once word of your thread spreads, these good posts will find us, rather than vice versa.

I would like to see how many Source Merits are sent each month. @theymos: can you show data on that?
The remainder is either airdropped, or created by "trickle-down" Merit distribution.

I've had "my own" sMerit stach >300 for months. Since a few months, I've been trying to keep my Source supply as close to 0 as possible, and started using my own stash.
Then this happened:
My initial plan was to ask for a source increase once I'm out completely, but it didn't come to that.

My thread has no shortage of people wanting to Merit posts, but doesn't have a single link to a good post. I guess it once again shows that merit isn't scarce. Good posts are.

That parsimonious old bugger Jet Cash didn't get a source increase. Serves him right for not being active in his Fit to Talk English project, and for moaning about the poor post quality here.

Likely yes. And/or removed some sources and added more than 3 new ones.


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/top-200-the-most-generous-users-giving-merits-4523027

Congrats, let's spread 'em out.

So do you think he increased allocation to more active merit sources perhaps and decreased allocation to the less active ones?  Theymos will probably stay silent like the invisible hand of Adam Smith that moves the merit economy, so I'm guessing that's what he did.  I too am curious about who the new merit sources are.  I suppose if they don't reveal themselves, they'll eventually get outed in that thread that does it mathematically.  I forget where that thread is, so I can't link to it at the moment.

Edit:
Lol, thank you.  I'm a bit slow at remembering where I see things on this forum and forgot the title of that thread.

Fun fact: the total allocation went down from ~22k to 20735.