Topic: Heisenberg's Merit Source Application for the Indian Board (Read 1273 times)

Congrats brother and cheers

Thank you everyone for supporting my merit source application all these days. I am one among the new merit sources appointed by theymos yesterday. I have been allocated a decent amount of smerits to be spent. Hence, I encourage everyone to contribute for the betterment of the Indian board on the whole, particularly in Regional Languages and probably if you do so, there wouldn't be any problems for you in receiving merits or ranking up in future.

I can very well read, write and understand 4 of the major Indian languages and can partially understand another 2 languages so if your post is of high quality in one of the other regional languages apart from the 6 languages, I can translate using a google translate and merit you provided they are really good.

I do know there are far good Indian members contributing positively in the global boards, but from now on please try to contribute for the local board and make them active again.

A Gentle bump for fellow MS applicant.
I am still awaiting for my one too :-P

theymos! sMerit please!!

Just saw this after the bump. Heisenberg is definitely trying to bring change to a long inactive Indian subforum. He has credited merits to every user with good quality of posts and has himself contributed the forum with similar worthiness. I support his application as merit source for sure.

I did not notice this before.

Application supported.

Hey

I think Indian Sub-forum can really use a Moderator, especially with recent times in India with Crypto, it's more of a need.

Also good use would be a merit source for sure and i support, Heisenberg to be one.

Not exactly. What I meant was, if there doesn't seem to be any improvement or interest in the board on the whole it might be better to close the board instead of rambling over anything. But to the contrary, we have certainly seen many improvements over the last few months with fake Translators leaving the board all together, some members ranking up by contributing to the board, etc. newIndia and Eality have been actively reporting the section and trashing the spam for over a year but still there is very little activity till now. Many Indians have moved onto the main boards with very less contributing to the community.   If this continues to follow, we would lose all the decent discussions taking place out there and certainly would be infested by spams all together.

People have been contributing to the community some way or the other to educate our fellow Indians. In return we could merit them, but that doesn't happen to be the case. It's been over 2 months and we haven't got any response from theymos still. We don't even have a merit source and with the recent regulation practices people are losing interest in the board. If this happens to be, what is the point of having a separate section dedicated to India?  

If none of the good posters are not really interested to post there, what would be the point of having a board? to promote spam? If you just look onto other local boards (Russian, Indonesian), majority of the posters would be sticking onto their local section with very less posting in the main boards.

See this :


EDIT : @Rotten Egg if I didn't take this initiative to apply for becoming a source and troll members like you, our board would have been like how it was last year. Either I may or may not be worthy to become a source, but we need a source for sure.

I thought you were applying to become a merit source for the Indian Board from the topic of the thread. I supported you earlier because I thought that you were doing some improvements to the Indian Board. If you want to see the Indian Board closed better close this topic. What's the point on becoming a merit source for a board you are recommending to close? However, if you want to become a merit source for yourself. Better change the topic as "Heisenberg's Merit Source Application" don't include the Indian Board into it.

Apart from the above, I think you are a valuable member of the forum.

Who would like to post in a Garbage board which was infested by spams, scams, trolls and shitposts for over 2 years? The board is much better than it was over a year back. Till now I have posted only 2-3 posts in the Indian board and even now, I don't really like to post anything there unless there is some activity and interesting topics being discussed.

Good Drama over here.  Of the 257 total smerits which I have received over 1.5 years, only 81 of them have been given to the Indian board. Also neither of those Indians whom I merited in the board were thirsty of merits or were just scumbags. They contributed to the betterment of the board and I merited them. If I didn't merit them, it would have hindered the quality even more than it is right now.

Mod of Indian sub-forum? LOL... The board doesn't even need a MOD IMO. The reports are being handled at a regular rate. The board is completely out of control and there is only a handful of good discussions taking place. The board was once controlled by spammers, shitposters, translation abusers who were running the board right after Benson left the forum. The old timers have left and I am pretty much sure none of them are even interested in the board after all. It would be better, if theymos close the board completely. If there was to be an appointment for a MOD, I would stand for krishnapramod, Eality, amishmanish and newIndia. All 4 have really good report count AFAIK.

sMerits in a more rational way? Apart from @amishmanish, @JSRAW, @avikz, I don't even see any other Indian even meriting there!

Well, I'd like to chime in here. As a long time contributor to Indian board, I'm deadly against making Heisenberg_Hunter a merit source over there. This guy was never an active poster on Indian board until very recently. He said this in his own words...


He gained some merit from Bitcoin Technical Support and threw it to some Indian. Then contacted them in PM to build a rapport. Now coming here and trying to be the merit source. He is also aspiring to be the Mod of Indian sub-forum. His footsteps clearly indicate some dubious plan of abusing the power he wants to gain on Indian sub-forum.

There are lot of other Hero & Legendary members in Indian board, who are contributing over years, as well as using sMerits in a more rational way. They're not manipulative like Heisenberg_Hunter, but definitely better deserving candidate to be merit source of Indian board.

Always support you gues I hope theymos consider you for merit source to Indian Board.
hope continue your helping movement.

Glad to see the community is active and some real discussion going on and i wish you to be the merit source for the local board so that we will have more activity and some real discussion and have a clean local board for the first time  . I hope theymos will consider your application when he is open to add more users as merit source or he will make an exception here for the welfare of the local board and to see more activity and healthy debates .

I supported the merit source application of Heisenberg Hunter.

I always support applications for merit source in any local board because often members in such local sections don't know English well and don't write post in English part of the forum.
Without local merit source they don't have chance to receive merit for good quality posts in local language.

I am pretty sure I won't be getting a quicker response considering the board is much inactive and the merits I gain is little bit sufficient enough to merit the posters. But I don't post much very often to receive merits at a larger rate but I do browse the forum daily for reporting spams and merit a few. If my merit receiving rate gets slow due to me being little inactive in posting, that shouldn't stop me from meriting good posts in the section.

On top of that, as other merit sources pointed out we should bump our application at consistent intervals to show our interest towards the application. Anyway thanks for supporting the application @Pamoldar, @Daniel91 and @Findingnemo, I hope the application would be taken into consideration at the earliest. 

No worries its just a bump.

I am also feels that he can be a deserved candidate on Indian localboard where no merit sources are there currently available.

You have to be patient here and don't expect a quick response from admins.
In my case, I waited several months before admins responded to my merit source application.
I'm sure that you are qualified candidate so don't worry, soon or later your request will be granted.

It happens with me all the time. Good luck to your application. Have my support.

Sorry I don't have left any as I am writing. I hope someone else will send some sMerits for that user.

All the smerits of mine are dried up.

Need few people to merit this topic : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.51898092

This guy is doing an outstanding contribution to the board and he needs the recognition through merits.  

Though I have a strong suspicion that the user is an alt of someone (his initial postings doesn't look like he is new to the forum), merits are meant to identify quality posts.

In my opinion, we really need more merit source members in local sections of this forum.
Many local members write posts only in local sections so if no merit source, they don't have chance to receive merit.
Right now I'm only merit source in Croatian section of the forum and understand how important for local community is our role.
It seems that you are good candidate so you have my full support.