Topic: Does Decaying sMerits will be healthy for the forum? - page 2. (Read 529 times)
Spending smerits is really good thing to the forum but it needs to be spend on worthy post,don't have to spend just on random posts which will kill the intention of merit system.And merit sources also try to exhaust their quota will make the more high ranks rather than the normal user's spend on merits.
Just to be clear, are we talking about decaying sMerits that would decay over time to encourage people to continue posting quality content to retain their high sMerit scores or are we talking about decaying sMerit when people are banned for some reason.
The sMerit system can be exploited if someone post exceptional posts for a few months and accumulate a lot of sMerits and then after achieving that goal, he or she starts to post non-constructive posts again. If the sMerit decays over time, people will have to continue posting quality content to retain their high sMerit scores.
The sMerit system can be exploited if someone post exceptional posts for a few months and accumulate a lot of sMerits and then after achieving that goal, he or she starts to post non-constructive posts again. If the sMerit decays over time, people will have to continue posting quality content to retain their high sMerit scores.
IMO the purpose of a forum is to have a meaningful discussion. Many high-ranked members banned, does not mean the community should replace those members ASAP. Thus, decaying sMerit and ban fiesta is not relevant.
Related to sMerit, I don't think decaying is going to be beneficial for the forum because it really takes a lot of time to find useful posts while participating in discussions. Well maybe if it takes one year or more to decay, then I think it's okay.
Related to sMerit, I don't think decaying is going to be beneficial for the forum because it really takes a lot of time to find useful posts while participating in discussions. Well maybe if it takes one year or more to decay, then I think it's okay.
The fact that an smerit is decaying doesn't mean it should be given out irrationally. Any member that needs to rank up should not glutton on other users decaying smerit.
If you ask me the merit sources has been up and doing and even non merit sources has also be involved in the circulation of merit.
You would not be give a merit just because you need it to rank up but you would be giving if you come up with something good
If you ask me the merit sources has been up and doing and even non merit sources has also be involved in the circulation of merit.
You would not be give a merit just because you need it to rank up but you would be giving if you come up with something good
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Theymos might or might not implement that option anything soon, I don't think it'll have any impact because those who still don't want to participant in the meriting process still won't care if their smerit decay or not. Beside theymos has other options if he notice a sudden decline in circulation of smerits which is appointing new sources (which he just did few weeks back) or increasing the allocation of current sources.
Decaying sMerits will force merit hoarders to pass it to others but it does not necessarily translate to promoting lower rank members. Those higher ranks can just send them to their fellow high ranked members. If you spend time reading discussions about smerits, you'll noticed that majority of the higher ranks have been active in searching for merit worthy posts but, according to them, there's only a few.
It has been found out that many high rank user has been ban in the forum. Sad to say that they commit violations like plagiarism. Now, it seems that admin had find a better way that instead of permban, users that has prove its worth in the forum can have the chance in ban appeals liftimg the permban to signature wearing ban for 2 years.
If this signature ban will defeat its purpose to hold more high rank users in this forum then it is also time to create new found good users and promote them to higher ranks.
So in this case promoting good users to higher rank might be done easily when sMerits will be decayed if not given or awarded to users with a quality posting habit. I think this is how theymos had been thinking since he had said it a while that he had some plans on decaying sMerits.
What do you think could be a possible result if it will going to happen?
If this signature ban will defeat its purpose to hold more high rank users in this forum then it is also time to create new found good users and promote them to higher ranks.
So in this case promoting good users to higher rank might be done easily when sMerits will be decayed if not given or awarded to users with a quality posting habit. I think this is how theymos had been thinking since he had said it a while that he had some plans on decaying sMerits.
What do you think could be a possible result if it will going to happen?
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