Topic: [Discussion] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 - page 31. (Read 19687 times)

Why would I participate in something I don't like if my vote can't change the behavior of those who don't mind doing anything to reach their goal? Besides, I'm not so desperate to get a merit...

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I just noticed that a lot of profiles are completely unknown to me, but this is somewhat understandable if they are active in local or altcoins boards that I personally do not visit. The question is what attracted them to give their vote, guaranteed merit or is there additional motivation in the background...

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As I have already commented on another topic, for some the forum is a job, for others a place where they spend part of their free time, learn something, help others if they can and in the end maybe earn something. But given the current situation in the East, our keyboard warrior may soon have to replace his keyboard with a completely different tool.

Prio 1: stay safe!

Guys .... you will discuss everything here for now, and I will join the discussion a little later. ^{[I have a war started 50 kilometers away from me].}

I came up with this idea:

It really seems strange to see candidates giving merit to those who vote for them. But as it is impossible to block attribution of merits in a specific topic, only the common sense of each user remains. Perhaps you could do it at the end of the poll, rather than during the poll, to try to avoid becoming an influencer.

The only alternative would be for the votes to be secret, with the OP having to accept the DM votes. But that would be crazy for him to manage all the votes and it would take up a lot of time.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's much the OP can do. Just trust the common sense and honesty of other users.
Either way, that's not what will tarnish this initiative, which has as its main objective to animate the community and involve us all. 

Yeah, I imagine it's pretty annoying especially for those in the running of winning something. I bet it could be quite easily done to measure the effect of the merit awarding, since there is definitely a reoccurrence of certain users since they have been giving merit, which didn't seem to be in the running at the very start. Although, that could just be exposure, and natural variation, so it probably wouldn't prove much at all. Although, I do believe the OP has the ability to not include anyone's votes at their discretion.

Don't worry, you only have to beg for forgiveness from your "primary partner".

Was I supposed to be cycling merit and no one told me? My bad. I'll make sure to beg Foxpup for forgiveness. Well, beg even more than usual

Well, technically it's not the same.. and it certainly isn't going to feel the same to the person mistakenly sending it.. but to a morally grounded person receiving it, I'd feel the same way on returning 1K as I would 250K.. if it's not my coin, it's not my coin, and I'd need to send it back.

Regardless, these acts should probably be acknowledged when the amounts are this high, while being wary that we could then have a rash of seemingly altruistic users sending and returning as much BTC as they can to their alts in an effort to gain trust/reputation. Although, I'd have to doubt any of them have 39BTC and would be willing to lose the fees, but who knows.

The problem seems enough to be annoying.

I try to avoid popularity contests because, well, I'm not very good at being popular. I'm not as active with posting, I don't have alts to fluff myself up, and seeing the merit'ing this year, I wouldn't have enough merit to play the 'reward me if I vote for you' games with the merit seekers.. popularity perks of being a merit source, I guess. *shrug*


Nonetheless, I do appreciate the love & recognition I've seen for myself, and BPIP, even if 1 or 2 looked like possibly copy/paste!, but there are enough votes from people I see from legit forum members, who certainly need no merit from me to solicit a vote.. so thank you all, much appreciated.

People, when you do find that special somebody, you gotta hold that man, hold that woman, love him, please him, squeeze her, please her, signify your feelings with every gentle caress, because it's so important to have that special somebody to hold, to kiss, to miss, to squeeze and please! Everybody needs somebody. Everybody needs somebody to looove! ..  I need YOU, YOU, YOU!

Since all these votes are highly subjective, I don't think that's injustice at all, to not nominate someone who you think is doing a wrong thing by giving merits in exchange for votes.


Well, we know for a long time that he has no shame so this is just business as usual.


Yes pls.

I like this idea very much, but let's not talk about it in public anymore, keep it a top secret and wait until voting ends.
Let them spend all their merits and dream how they will spend their rewards 
This will be the first anticorruption law of icopress dynasty.

These copy-pasting monkeys should be banned for plagiarism

This is a funny picture - corrupted meritsourcers gives merits to their noname voters who have never known before

May I suggest to use your vote to counter the things you don't like?

When it comes to money and rewards, some don't seem to be reluctant to draw attention to themselves no matter how wrong it may seem in other people's eyes. In this particular case, merits are used as motivation and reward for those who vote, and it is not surprising that a considerable number of voters are not known to me personally, and I believe others who are active in the forum every day.


I've also noticed that some are simply copying what is in the posts above, or may have received private instructions on how to vote - although I have no doubt that there are a very large number of alt accounts in all of this.


Speaking of immoral things, I think it is not at all appropriate to open such a topic in the Meta board at a time when voting is underway, but as I have already written, some will do everything to win. In addition, personal achievements are shared on the Reputation board - and no one even dared to report that topic.

However, for now I have decided not to vote and I think it will stay that way - there are too many things I don't like and too much hypocrisy, not to use some harder words.

This is a private contest which organized by private sponsors. Their competition - their private rules
What justice are you talking about?

As usual, all winners have already been determined in advance. These are the primary partners of Sportsbet, CryptioS, ChipMixer & BestChange (Ratimov, nutildah, suchmoon, foxpup & others henchmens)

Pure commercial performance, not a fair social-oriented contest

That could be a useful addition for the upcoming years if icopress decides to continue with the ceremony. Somehow I don't think he will make such changes for this edition. He has stated that it's his decision whether or not to ignore votes by inactive and recently awakened users. But that's about it really.   

I don't think Admin needs to do it: icopress could set a rule that disqualifies anyone who Merits posts in the topic before the deadline passes.

This is visible even to the blind. And the funny thing is that this has been discussed for a long time, but in spite of everything, merits are given out for the chosen votes.
I'm more than sure that among the voters who have the goal of getting merit, they don't even know the people they are electing. But, unfortunately, the win overshadows the eyes of the one who claims to win, and the merit reward will continue. Although yes, from the outside it does not present a big problem. It just characterizes the person.

Without pointing fingers, some of the users who are rewarding a lot of merits to voters are nominated for a reason and deserve to be nominees, if not winners in their respective categories. So there are two choices and both are wrong and right at the same time. You either don't vote for them if you think what they are doing is not right. But that is an injustice in itself. Or you vote for them and potentially get merited, and then it looks like you only voted for someone to be merited by that same person.   

It's possible; because I purposely didn't send any merits in that topic to make sure I don't get votes from people who only hope to receive my sMerits. After the initial few days / weeks (during which active legit users already submitted their votes), I almost entirely stopped receiving any more votes.