Topic: fillippone Merit Source Application - page 4. (Read 1715 times)

I support fillippone's request. As a participant, he started from nothing and gained respect with his careful and well researched posts. As a merit giver, I've always seen him give to worthy posts. As for being "somewhat established", I have little doubt he is!

Agree and agree, and I support this application as well. 

It's also good to see members are still applying to be merit sources, because I haven't seen many applications in the past few months.  Jet Cash has expressed his frustration at the "job" of being a merit source, and I understand that fully.  The merit system is important for the forum, and we need merit sources who want to do the job and who know good posts from bad. 

Good luck, fillippone.  Hope you become a merit source--I know you're qualified, and the only issue is whether Theymos is adding any more sources.  Personally I think he should, but you never know.

Thank you all for the support in this application to  everyone who merited and/or commented in this thread. I did appreciate this from every one of you.


That’s an interesting question.
I have been regularly short of sMerits, so I usually send one merit per post. In some cases I sent two, or more, but I would say it’s rare. I do so because I think it’s important to signal the appreciation to an higher number of posts, rather than signal the “measure” of this appreciation using more than one merit, leaving unmerited other posts.
So yes, at the moment I am almost flat to 1 merit per post, and I am often short of merit and I am struggling to keep track of to be merited Posts (that’s why I like the idea of a  “suggest for merit” button, theymos are you listening?).

If I had a sufficient sMerits allowance I think I would merit more the post that are insightful and might push me write a post on the same topic. Again, because it means the post triggered a thought circulation on the forum. Of course having a lesser constrain in sMerits amount , would allow me to award more the posts deserve more. That’s for sure, but I think it’s always fairer to merit two good posts with one merit, rather than meriting one with two merit, leaving unmerited the other.
Another criteria I would use is giving more to poster who demonstrated to help merit circulation, I am already leaning to merit less “sMerits Hoarders” (as long as you can understand who those users are).
I hope I made myself clear.

I support this application. The posts I've seen from you outside of the Local boards are very regularly high-quality, and you've backed up your case with a lot of very convincing supporting data. I had a look at the posts you have linked and they are all high-quality posts that are indeed deserving of reasonable amounts of merit.

One question for you: if you theoretically had infinite sMerit, what would be your criteria for awarding more than 1 merit to a post? How about 5? 10?

Its always a pleasure to read you, and your posts are really worthy and informative.

You are a great value to the forum.

I hope your application gets approved.

This is one of the things that makes you a good candidate. The other thing is that you are going to be merit source for normal (English) areas and Italian too.
You have my support.

Thought you'll never applied, I have observed you develop into a well established member of the community, imparting the forum with your knowledge as a result getting the rewards you truly deserve. There's no doubt you're capable of executing a perfect job as a merit source
based on your smerit rewarding history.

Don't think you need my merit though as you'll probably get more of those on this application but understand that you get my support for that which you seek for. Your appointment would definitely get more merit into the WO thread, no doubt you got the WO family support 😁.

@Theymos: A worthy candidate IMHO.  A real asset to the forum.

Your merits speaks for you, you're a legendary member by merit, but still hindered by activity, it is enough to tell about how good a poster you actually are, and enough criteria to qualify you to be a merit source.

I have come across your posts most times on the forum and I must say they are more often than not very good.
I love it when one applies to be a merit source, it shows dedication and zeal to make the forum grow, and to rank others through that process. I hope theymos acts on this, even if not now, later.

I am not hesitant to say that this guy is one of the nicest and intelligent guy i have ever encountered in the inter web. #Nohomo

No one needs to take my word for granted, please check his post history and check his content.

I believe he might be a good choice for MS because he has history of sending all s-merit to good posts only. 

So my support for fillippone aka Italian stallion.

LFC couldn't say it better.... fillippone is a true bitcoiner and very positive attitude forum user, always behave and act as more should do, I notice when he receive merits he isn't hoarding them but send them out where needed (of-course supply is limited and always need to gain first before able to send some later...), also active in multiple boards and creates good threads himself.

I support fillippone where I can support him, and believe he can be a good MS   (if granted would be well deserved)

I hope my 7 merits for your effort will brings some LUCKY 7's LUCK

Just saw this & I’d like to show my support. fillippone is a great asset to the community, a really interesting & cool guy, his post quality is outstanding & because he is heavily involved in several different language speaking areas of the forum he’s a must as a MS.

You have my backing buddy.

I will be supporting this application buddy. Come on theymos, this guy deserves it also please give some kind attention to my application too :-P

You really take too much test :-D

I have been mulling my merit source application since a few weeks, and now I think I am ready and confident enough to ask to forum administrators to become one.
It was probably this post by Micgoossens that made tip the scale to “Go!”

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I am relatively new to the forum, the low number in activity is a clear sign of this, but my way in this community has been quite accelerating.
I don’t want to dig too much into details of my history on the forum, you can find a lot of those in my infamous merit thread, but I think it will suffice here to say that I put a lot of effort in the forum, I am always thinking about bitcoin during my day and I usually trying to actively participate in the forum. I think  my merit history testified the success of the merit system, even if I never bent my writing style and habits to “farm merits”. 
I am a regular contributor in the Italian, Economics and Beginners&Help boards mainly, but I adventure on different board from time to time (I even posted in the Spanish board summoned by Ddmrddmr!).
I try to contribute with original content. I usually take an idea from an article, a video or a tweet and I elaborate on this to share some insight or knowledge to the forum, at my best possibilities.

When I am not writing stuff myself, I like to dig the forum for gems: there’s a lot of material here and I usually find good food for thought.
This is why I have writing periods, when I accumulate merits, alternate to lurking/reading periods, when I deplete my merit stash. And this actually happens quite rapidly, finding myself with good posts, many of the time I even agree with, that would need to be merited, while I am out of sMerits.
As I explained here it’s not always easy to “remember” good posts to be merited in the future, this is why I am asking to be made merit source. The higher smertis allowance would make me easier to merity insightful posts, providing then a positive feedback loop to users, and making merit system even better.

As I am posting in the Italian Board I am also noting  that this local board is suffering with a constant lack of merits circulation. As I earned a lot of merit elsewhere, I think I am a net “importer” of merits into the board. This board was born at par with other ones, but has been struggling lately:


(credits to Ddmrddmr BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard)

In the last 5 months I am been involved on sending or receiving roughly the 38% of the total merits on the Italian board. I think it is huge for a single user.


I guess Theymos has a clear view on this, probably has to do with some “dormant” merit source, but I think it’s a point to be considered.

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If I were a Merit Source, I would use my sMerits as an additional stash to be used like to reward using the criteria I have been using so far, as I already detailed in my merit guide post:

• First criteria is the original instruction by Theymos: meriting a post for the effort, even if I don't agree with it. This is the most important one, but also the most difficult one, as implies a certain "neutrality" by the merit sender. A well written and formatted, thoughtful post deserves a merit. This is not equal to time spent writing a post. I have seen totally unuseful walls of text.
• Knowledge: I will certainly merit a post spreading knowledge on the forum. Knowledge is the key to the Merit System in my opinion. Someone anwsering a question, helping some one else to solve a problem, or even posting a intresting requests should surely be merited, as it contributes to spreading more knwoledge about bitcoin.
• Post that keep the Bitcointalk.org a clean, polite and relaxed environment, to be liked by everyone. I tend to avoid drama, retaliation or any kind of feud. Hopefully I won't neve be engaged in one of those.
  
  

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Here you can find a list of good posts I found. I am going to update them while this application is pending if I manage to find better ones.

1.  Re: BITCOIN PUMP! by Plutosky
2.  Re: Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2019 Q3) by coinlocket$
3.  Re: { LIVE TREND } analisi del momento by  Paolo.Demidov
4.  Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers! by Mrxtraf
5.  Re: Progetto Libra - Globalcoin by Plutosky
6.  Re: quadro RW: ALTRE ATTIVITÀ ESTERE DI NATURA FINANZIARIA E VALUTE VIRTUALI by duesoldi
7.  Private Key by 256 coin flips by MrFreeDragon
8.  Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion by JayJuanGee
9.  Re: [meta] Rust in Bitcoin reference implementation by CarltonBanks
10.Re: Misconceptions about Bitcoin and Altcoins by Steamtyme

Other insightful posts that were excluded because merited while this application was pending or because better post were found:
1.  Re: BITCOIN PUMP! by Plutosky
2.  Re: BITCOIN PUMP! by Plutosky
3.  Re: BITCOIN PUMP! by Plutosky
4.  Re: BITCOIN PUMP! by Plutosky
5.  Re: Raspberry Pi 4 performance by CarltonBanks
6.  Re: [meta] Rust in Bitcoin reference implementation by gmaxwell
7.  Re: Progetto Libra - Globalcoin by Plutosky
8.  Re: Game theory involving Quantum Resistance protocol by pereira4
9.  A common myth- Segwit Reduce Fees by nc50lc