Topic: Fear about merits. - page 2. (Read 477 times)

I think it's an error/mistake/bog, due to the fact that the page was reloaded/refreshed,i have seen quite some complaints about it(double meriting),and it's all been down to the same reason(page reload/refresh),hopefully the issue will be addressed soon.

I think this thread made earlier by @OGNASTY would be a helpful one(as regards your fears)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-giving-mistake-page-reload-resulted-in-multiple-merits-given-suggestion-5053799

Most people here are scared about merits as to how they can earn it, but to my knowledge, its importance is being spread very wrongly here. Everyone here focuses too much on the expected results (merits) instead of doing what it needs to get them. Seriously, you're being misled by others that it's damn hard to earn them, instead it's just like you do what you do best - like showing some art, giving some quality services, adding something interesting to the discussion or starting an interesting discussion yourself. Below is a post that I found in a Signature campaign thread which gained 2 merits total from 2 different users as they found that post interesting:


Click on the quote and see the received merits, this shows that sometimes you get merited for fun as well.

Don't post irrelevant things.
When you post, at least try to add something new that's relevant to the topic and don't plunge into topics you don't have relevant knowledge about, because then you'll not really add anything to the discussion but you'll be responsible to make a fool of yourself.

Now, about the actual fear that I personally have:
This, I was going to ask here, then tried myself. I actually wanted to know that if I give merits 2 times to a user on a single (same) post, will it show it on their post or not? Yet, I made a mistake. I wanted to merit the user with 2 merits at first, and then 1 at second, but I accidentally refreshed the page, and to my surprise, the user got credited with 4 merits total by me on their post. You can find the post here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.36441454

This shows that not only are merits our liability to give, but also a responsibility to be handled with too much care. Finally, about the observation: I concluded that the number of merits I gave him can be seen as totalled when we see it above their post, but we can see the exact number of merits given for each time when we click merits and browse and check it under the merits received in the last 120 days part.

Read this thread as well: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.45824612
Use your merits responsibly, don't give too much and just be you if your only intention to be here is not signature campaign as trying to make the exception (those who are here just for BTC) understand this is useless.