How about a merit faucet / puzzle? - page 3.

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Quote from: qwk on January 07, 2020, 05:25:34 PM

~ What do you think? Good idea? Stupid idea? I can haz merit, Sir?

On the one hand, your idea is good because it is aimed at increasing the knowledge of newcomers and getting them to take merit for it, but on the other hand, such a distribution of gelding can lead to a quick pumping of alts by tricky farmers.

LoyceMobile

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Jet Cash has tried to engage Newbies in many topics, but without much result.
The ones who open useless topics are the ones the merit system is supposed to stop from ranking up.

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Quote from: qwk on January 07, 2020, 05:25:34 PM

What do you think? Good idea? Stupid idea? I can haz merit, Sir?

I wouldn't insult you by calling it a stupid idea, but it's a bad one IMO. I don't think those illiterate newbies ought to be doing mindless tasks that they'll probably learn nothing from anyway in order to earn merits. That isn't what the merit system is for. It's to prevent said illiterates from ranking up and incentivizing them to join signature campaigns in which they'll absolutely crank out shitposts by the dozens.

If a member can't earn merits by making good posts, let them remain meritless. I won't feel badly about that, and I don't think most merit sources or senior members who've seen the carnage shitposters have wrought would either.

BIT-BENDER

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Great idea you got but still only newbies with the zeal to learn and improve would benefit for these type of competition. I do think some thing like this or in relation to it has been done atleast i know of those by @jetcash and I was a beneficiary of
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53089722
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53083589

Many newbies has to develop the zeal to learn and contribute more helpfully.

Your idea is great and the zealous newbies would benefit -well they are newbies also- aren't they.

qwk

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Well, here's another crazy idea of mine.

I couldn't help but notice that a lot of zero-merit-newbies seem to struggle with meeting at least minimum capabilities in English writing.
Also, being newbies, they tend to voice "opinions" or whatever they believe to be such, rather than insightful knowledge of even basic facts about Bitcoin.
It's not uncommon for whole threads to read like
"I think Bitcoin will go moon" "I too think Bitcoin go moon, Sir!" "Oh, but what if Bitcoin not go moon?" "Yes, I hear whales make Bitcoin not go moon."
Well, you get the idea, and you probably know what I'm talking about.

Therefore, I'd like to incentivize newbies to actually learn about Bitcoin, rather than spend their time in futile attempts at grasping somebody's attention and maybe pity-meriting them.

So here's my idea:
What if there were a thread where "oldies" posted relatively simple "puzzles" about Bitcoin and its history with a clear-cut, easy to research answer?
And the first newbie to post the correct answer would be awarded a merit or two.

E.g. I might ask for a link to the last post of the creator of Bitcoin.
You post "https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29479" and you win one merit.

What do you think? Good idea? Stupid idea? I can haz merit, Sir?

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