Since I find myself short of a few merits every now and then, I like to check the merit history of the users I intend to merit.
The question is very simple: Do you do any checks before you award users with merits or not?
Let's see the hope of theymos before begin my discussionThe question is very simple: Do you do any checks before you award users with merits or not?
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
Merit should be used to award good posts, help good posters to rank up. At the same time, merit help to highlight good posts with "Merited by" line and merit history of one user.- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
So if you don't have time to read a post history of one user, you can quickly scan merit history page to find some following things:
- Overview on how good that poster are (that is highlighted by received merit records)
- The overview can be biased by merit abuse so you can move to more in-depth investigation by randomly check some of merited posts
Checking the sent merit records to make sure receivers will distribute smerits, not hoard them is a different thing. It depends on your style. But integrate this step will make a meta-analysis on received and sent merit history of that user. Honestly I don't do this step.
Off topic:
People make requests to have 2 summary statistics for summary merit statistics but it has not yet been approved by the admin, unfortunately.
- Total sent merits last 120 days
- Total received merits last 120 days
