Topic: Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements - page 24. (Read 41582 times)

So what's your Merit image of the day? I think here happened a lot today, good material for memes

I'm about to quote the post to view the image but you are way faster than me. Well, I thought the image contain something special. So lucky I didn't quote it  

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Post something useful. No one will give you Merit if you keep posting shits like twitbook links and etc. just like this one..
Did you even know that we are working on reporting users who posts like this? By looking at your posts history you have no difference from users I've reported lately.
No! It is way much better if the required merits to rank up to Member stays 10 or higher. It is not too hard to achieve 10 Merits if you were posting valuable posts and not twitbook spam links. It is YOU who makes it impossible to receive Merits.

Thank you very much 

cheers

I'm really interested how many Merits were given today, seems to be much more than usual...
Unfortunately I was at work today





Edit

Shit, I can't post images 

So, potentially, you are in agreement with 2weent6 that there might be a kind of widespread abuse of merits given to friends instead of quality of posts?

Maybe you are talking about sources rather than regular members?  And, I would think that it would be difficult to find farmed account kind of abuses that give small number of merits spread out; however, it might be easier to find merit abuses if you starting out with members giving larger quantity of merits, and perhaps patterns can be found, even though I still wonder how systemic of a problem that could be, unless sources were engaged in such an abuse of merit behavior?

Let me guess, no proof, just a "concern"? Many known merit sources have expressed completely different concerns - how to find meritorious posts, how to spread merits fairly, etc. Info about sent merits is publicly available. Please analyze it and show us if what you're saying is really happening or if you're projecting again.


You conveniently forgot the time component. 200 merits since January is roughly on pace with activity. You have no reason to complain.

There is no such thing as "sufficiently good posts to be a Senior Member". You can (but you're not guaranteed to) earn merits if you make good posts. Stop subverting this extremely simple concept into your account-farming POV.

Good to hear that you like to learn. No one prohibit you from joining bounty, the new rule is just for reduce garbage-posting, it is not targeted at any individual or bounty hunters at all.

its sad to see like this they hate spammers and corrupt people on bitcointalk but like this greedy oppurtunist they dont discipline

i dont know how im just making bounty here and making a trading on crypto currency but making rank up here i have no idea but i also want to learn

I am retired I have time > I told thermos to send me some of the list to go over If he does I will post.

The giving of merit still seems to be discretionary, and likely members are going to give merits based on knowing the other person (through posts), and you become known by providing good posts, no?



One good way is for you to attempt to help yourself by attempting to provide good post contents.



You are talking about a merit decay system, and theymos seems to be disinclined towards merit decay for regular members - however, the source merit by merit sources will decay every 30 days if it is NOT used.  

It seems to me that theymos has provided the right balance in regards to not implementing merit decay for regular members; however, there could be some  way to implement incentives for regular members to spend their merits (perhaps?), and that would be a carrot approach rather than a stick approach - yet I am not sure whether that carrot approach is necessary, either, especially given that theymos is continuing to tweak the number of merit sources upwards, both in terms of source members and the total number of smerits within their 30 day distributions  - so time will tell whether more merit tweaks might be needed in the future, and if so, the kind of tweaks that would help improve the reaching of forum objectives (facilitating quality substantive posts).



Surely, your replenishment of merits proposal would likely go against the current direction of the forum - in terms of attempting to diminish merit abuse, especially from farmed accounts and obvious disingenuous accounts, such as trolls, shills, spammers and scammers.  Your proposal of yearly replenishment would come close to turning every member into a merit source - which seems to go far beyond what is currently being strived for.

I like the change myself even though my account is demoted back.What is a bit off when I think about it, is that copper membership is so cheap and gives you a member rank.

This means that for such a small amount of money/investment you get a chance to participate in bounty and get much higher stakes then some Junior member that had quality posts and has 9 merit for example.

To me that looks a bit unfair giving some people that are willing to spend money like that.

This won't be issue if bounty managers would calculate ranks based only on merit, so all copper members with no merit don't get advantage over good Junior members.

Hopefully with the new regulations such as these, the potential shitposter can be reduced. And for Jr. Member suffered a drop in rank keep the spirit, and do not get tired to make a post/thread quality, that can take quick Rank again.

Hopefully there are considerations behind and become the spirit grabbed with the exertion of its own. And I would also keep TRYING despite all difficult or very difficult to move forward. Come along to our friends and struggling. thanks to the SENIOR support and advice.

I think this is an interesting revolution with a good purpose for mutual comfort in this great forum. I strongly agree to eradicate disruptive spam and cheat on trash activities in this group.

Even though my ranking is now from Jr. Member down to being a Newbie again, I still support this great Revolution.

Keep the spirit of Newbie!
Keep working to give the best!!!

True Indeed. But I hope day by day New rules will come to prevent Account farmers. It is not an easy task to catch all account farmers in a day or by a rule!

Maybe it's a very good first step to avoid multiple-clause-sentences like you did it here, it's so horrible to read and understand. This will help a lot and I think most members here just skipped your posts sometimes because they had no interest to wade through your gibberish.
It's better to divide your posts into easier senteces that someone can understand. I think this should be not very difficult to manage.  

But after all I didn't get your post even after reading it 4 times. If someone got his idea, please reply...


Or this, maybe try to make clearer and shorter senteces: 

nice. I am very supportive with this new rule, a lot of garbage posts are scattered. sometimes the information we want we don't see is covered by useless posts, which only chase rules bounty.

in fact, I propose to apply all of the ICO which is a bitcointalk promo must use Escrow, in order to minimize scam ICOs, to avoid fraud, and those who join the bounty must be really slive if they have to have a minimum Jr. member.

I am sorry, my English is not good.

Undoubtedly, these new enhanced newbie restrictions and requirements were expected. I'm glad to see 36 merit sources which were added today:
I will detect them in my thread.

I think that the posting images should be based purely on activity of a member, because nowadays newbies need to make a post worthy of giving at least 1 merit. Typically, a good post contains charts, graphs or other pictures.

This forum is really challenging now, and this is actually good so those who are just posting to make money here will be lessen. I just hope that everyone will get merit based on their quality and not just because they know each other. Also is there anyway to help us receive merit? I mean, why not change the setting that if you don't spend your smerit you will be punished for something. Because as I can see, merit system are not circulating and people already lose it. In addition to this, can you also set some replenishment of merit at least every year? So everyone can still give merit?