Topic: Does ranking not guarantee post quality? - page 2. (Read 799 times)

Ok, I think something needs to be clarified here again.
The merit system was introduced to this forum 5 years ago.
Up until that point, all members could earn their legendary rank based solely on their forum activity, not the quality of their posts.
Considering that, it is realistic that today on this forum we have a lot of legendary members who got their forum rank not on the basis of a great contribution to the forum and the quality of their posts, but solely thanks to the fact that they became members of this forum relatively early.
So, I can agree with the opening statement that forum rank does not guarantee the quality of the post.

For sure ranking doesn't guarantee post quality, if you are a high-rank member here in the forum that doesn't really guarantee that all of your posts are going to be informative or constructive post right. But for sure this member has a lot of experience in cryptocurrency so we mostly trusted the replies and posts of high-rank members, it wasn't easy to get to a legendary rank so they also have a lot of posts, if you visit some of the legendary profiles here in the forum you could see that there are thousands of post and merits on their account, it wasn't easy to do that as well as getting merits would take a lot of high-quality posts.

I mean most of the high-rank members do reply directly to the point of a certain topic so I see as well a lot of high ranks have a very short reply on some topics but that doesn't really mean it wasn't a good post since the answer was head-on and straight to the point. So keep that in mind as well, the length of the post doesn't mean quality if that's what you mean.

You shouldn't be so surprised, forum account never guarantee how good the post quality or knowledge of someone. Moreover, in the past to reach high ranks, we only need to increase the number of activities. But now, it is quite difficult to achieve high ranks, we need merits. To earn merits, it requires quality posts.

Of course, post quality is related to the account owner. Even if it is a newbie account, his post can be quality enough if he is an experienced person in crypto space. But a newbie account probably has a lack knowledge about this forum, especially an account with low activity.

I don't think only stupid people who continue joining discussions. Smart people who are interested in new topics, will constantly join discussions. They also may want to help other members who ask certain information, both related to forum or crypto as a whole.

The quality or value of a post can be very subjective. Your assumptions can be different with others.
But if you find the names of some members in the threads below, they clearly have low quality posts.
1. Wall of fame / shame. Shit posts so bad that they are actually funny
2. [Spammer Blacklist] The Shitlist
3. Bounty spammer meets AI Chat generator
4. Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here

However, someone can change. If someone realizes his low quality posts and want to improve it, he can have quality posts in the future. People who learn seriously, can improve their post quality and knowledge.

At first, the merit system discouraged a lot of users, including myself. I thought I'd never rank up, while I was followed by a large period of inactivity, due to a major market crash. Ultimately, ranking up wasn't that hard after all. Some of those members are the exception to the rule of lower post quality. In general, those who have managed to accumulate enough merit to rank up are likely worthy enough to create quality and worthwhile posts. Thus, higher ranks are likely to create better content, but that isn't always guaranteed, because there's still a decent number of users who were already Sr members and above simply by being active and creating content of dubious quality.

before the Merit system was implemented, forum members could easily rank up by simply making a sufficient amount of activity to rank up. so they don't run into difficulties like beginners when the Merit system is implemented.
but you can see, old members who stay active and contribute to the forum. they have the quality to collect a lot of Merit. it is a form of appreciation from fellow forum members.

so we can't judge the quality of a post or the understanding of a topic by their forum rating. the reality was that there were newbies who accumulated a large amount of Merit in a short amount of time. it shows the quality of the posts he shares.

I think high ranking members have more knowledge and broader insights, that's why they get rewarded and rank up. And everyone has a different mindset. So just respect what everyone posts, because everyone has their own rights and opinions.

There is nothing wrong telling that he find some users writing doing nonsense posts if he really did observed that. If it is true, why not spill, at the first place he is not attacking any specific user so there should be no issue regarding that.
As much as we can, we should stay relevant to the topic, I would agree that sometimes the discussion is getting away from the main topic, but it should at least still be connected to the discussion.

Well, i made similar comments yesterday in one of my comments about the needs to disagree with peoples comment respectfully. "You don;t have to say people write nonsense", i find it totally wrong.

Also, when it comes to replying a long thread of topics, sometimes the discussions change direction, and peeps would only reply to the basis they feel they have an idea about. Your state is incorrect.

Improving the quality of posts is not born without reason, if they are written without foundation and only from sources of thought, I think it is still lacking, but if supported by clear reference sources, maybe this will be better, this will continue the tension of the conversation in strengthening arguments and can be conveyed again from what we have said before. Yes. read a lot and know to take the essence of what we learn.

Does ranking not guarantee post quality?? Is that' your question??
...that would actually infer that you assumed it to be true right? But alot of things aren't accurate through assumptions; the right thing to do is ask questions, just like you did.
What makes you think that ranks in here are some kinda sub-forum intermediaries (connectors), that somewhat makes everything right even when they're wrong, or changes people's point of view, appraisals or whatever...?? No!!! Using the word "guarantee" in there is a no no for me.
We all know that every account has a dynamic op behind it,. And certainly,WHAT YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU GIVE OUT!!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

The quality of posts really cannot be focused on ranking factors. Because even those who are ranked legendary, once in a while maybe they can make a post that is of less quality. There are also not a few beginners who have quality quality posts.
But what I have monitored and seen so far, most of the forum members who have gotten quite high ratings such as FM, SR, Hero, especially legendary, mostly have quality posts. So if you think that members who are highly ranked, their posts are sometimes less qualified, I don't blame either. But you need to know, if members in this forum can rise to a higher rank, it's not engineering or manipulation, but it's genuine because of the quality of the posts. You also need to remember, that the members in this forum are all human. Which means it must have increased and decreased in all respects, including the quality of posts in this forum as well. So the posts you see are definitely not the best performance, or it's not a topic that the member doesn't understand.
Because not all the high ranking members in this forum have mastered the whole topic, but have expertise in their respective fields.

Like seriously? I am of contrary view. I maybe a newbie as well but I must commend this forum thus far, especially with the introduction of the Merit system, which I believe is holistic enough to scale up meaningful contributions. Like it was mentioned earlier, what makes sense to you, might not with me, depending on our viewpoints and our need for results.

This is a forum, where a lot of users spring up discussions and problems that require solutions. A lot of answers are provided individually and uniquely  to solve these problems and those asking the questions and observing could extend their gesture by rewarding efforts with the merits. These merits goes on to measure your level of performance and reliability then pushes you up the ladder. I think it is clear that the forum is against shit posts.

Maybe because his name is Dr.Bitcoin_Strange and not Dr Strange. I skimmed through Bitcoin word first time too.

I will never deny that a lot of high rank members are still into spamming and creating low quality post. But know that everything will be learned in time as long as they continue to explore the forum and learn from the high quality post of some reputable members. And by having DYOR, which i think is a must for all of us, we will always improve what we have learned and eventually share it to others so they can also benefit from us.

This forum shows an interactive discussion not because some are stupid enough not to easily understand but because each member has its own ideas or opinions on the given thread. So the more members who have great ideas, the more lively the discussion is. However, I believe the quality of the post is not based on the rank of a member as there are actually newbies who have great ideas on the topics while some higher rank members have less to say about it. So a quality post is actually made if a member is highly knowledgeable or highly experienced depending on the situation given.

Irrespective of the rank on the forum, it's the person behind the accounts that determine the quality of the posts and not the ranks. Bear in mind that some high ranks account you see were just airdropped merits and didn't earn the number of merits you see their account having so don't think they got their because of their quality. Some where privilege to be around the early forum users when only activities matters to rank up and you can get their by barely writing the minimum. We also have spammers in all ranks including the higher ranks so you shouldn't be using those spamming to justify all high ranked accounts.

We also have people from different parts of the world and not native speakers of english and we all know english also has it's effects on posts that are quality. A poorly constructed reply might be considered a bad posts that lack quality but the users might had made more sense if he was a native speaker of english language or had good writing skills. All I'm saying is not all post you see that the users instead to not make sense with their write up but sometimes their english disappoints them. Ranks doesn't mandate quality but it does have its influence if the users grew the account from newbie to whatever ranks he's at now because he must have gained experience and that'll help with his writing provided the users isn't intentionally spamming to make up for the weeks quota of the signature campaign they're enrolled in.

Actually it's an off point because what it portray does not relate with any of the discussion the way I'm seeing it, he used his time to congratulate when it's not time to do such, I believe that it suppose to read stanza by stanza to understand what's the discussion is all about before rendering its suggestions.

Hi... These sound like beautiful words and compliments. But not always what is beautiful is good. Maybe what you convey includes off-topic comments

Hello, I think at least you doing something very good and right your Merit earning is very good for such a short time.

Congratulations and continue with the good work

Maybe OP saw some posts that weren't making sense in the discussion, or were off-topic. It's pretty much the forum reality where high ranked accounts posts in mega threads because they need that 1 or 2 posts to make their campaign quota for that week.

If you want to find something in a large group like this one, you will eventually find it.
Choose what you want, a spammer, a plagiarizer, a high ranked newbie, low ranked professional, someone who is 16 years old, someone who is 60. I don't see anything worth complaining about.