Topic: Is new merit system really success ? (Read 413 times)
I think so that this new merit system is a good way for us to improve our capabilities to participate in crypto. We tend to improve ourselves in the best we can, for us to be merited and can join in each crypto activities.
Someone told me that his account (Member Rank) was suspended just days before this new merit system was implemented.
Wonder if it's coincidental or otherwise.
Wonder if it's coincidental or otherwise.
The idea of whole project was to stay weak posters away from possibility to earn money using this forum by taking a part in different campaigns. You will meet here a lot of posts about how good new system is, but almost all of them are simply ass lickers. I am agree with you, that the project doesn't work fullfilly, just like you said, friends give merit to each other and so on. We have nothing to do with that, as I noticed people who support merit and say how cool it is get merits, and those who see the truth and complain, just like you and I, don't. So, we just need to learn to live with those new rules and stop to complain, but concentrate on quality posting.
Let us wait more time to let merit Savage this forum most specially those user who have hundreds of accounts. They will not can't wait to rank up, so, the tendency the one owner will merit his/her other alts. Also the merit system will clean the junk.
Absolutely yes, the merit system has changed everything for the better and especially the behaviours of users. Many of them are trying with a great effort to get merit point. Furthermore, many acts in this forum has evolved for the better, for example, the quality of post because before " the merit system" many users ranked easily with a low quality but now if someone will post badly then he/she will never rise in rank . So the merit system is going so perfect and everyone must accept this new update and some of members should stop complaining and we must deal with this new situation.
I think the new merit system is a success (so far?) because as it turns out, large percentage of people who just post and post non-sense gets to rank up and have the privileges of being a high rank member gradually decreases and that's because of the strong requirement that requires posting quality-constructive posts before going up. Let's just hope for this system succeed.
In bitcointalk forum there are really good posts even that does not earn atleast single point of merits.and there are many spam and off topic posts that earn bunch of merits.
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
you don't have to complain about thisAnd even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
give the best and useful, There are many people here who are fair and professional
sorry, I'm here alone may be same with you and I've proved it
I advise not to take care of things that aren't your job because will not bring change and will have a negative effect on you
success for you !
It seems merits don't matter to you huh? You know full well that most of us here, want to have an alternative source of income besides our job and while it is true that we are participating in different discussions in the forum, we want to earn while we are at it, through signature campaigns, trading investing and etc. Seeing you have a signature on your profile, you can easily understand my point here.
This is the problem. Posting on a forum is not a job.
Most of the time I have been on this forum I have not had a paid signature. I used to use it for referral links so I know my signature gets a lot of hits. But as I've been spending more time on the forum lately and I thought why not get a little bonus payment. The difference is I would be here posting regardless. I consider it renting out valuable advertising space rather than getting paid to post.
It seems merits don't matter to you huh? You know full well that most of us here, want to have an alternative source of income besides our job and while it is true that we are participating in different discussions in the forum, we want to earn while we are at it, through signature campaigns, trading investing and etc. Seeing you have a signature on your profile, you can easily understand my point here.
This is the problem. Posting on a forum is not a job.
Most of the time I have been on this forum I have not had a paid signature. I used to use it for referral links so I know my signature gets a lot of hits. But as I've been spending more time on the forum lately and I thought why not get a little bonus payment. The difference is I would be here posting regardless. I consider it renting out valuable advertising space rather than getting paid to post.
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
Why does merit matter to you? If you came to this forum to learn about Bitcoin, participate in discussions and just get involved, then it really shouldn't make any difference to you.
In bitcointalk forum there are really good posts even that does not earn atleast single point of merits.and there are many spam and off topic posts that earn bunch of merits.
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
The merit system has produced good results that will benefit us "Members" as a whole. Shitposters are getting banned and giving it more time, I'm sure that we will see less of spams posts on different boards in this forum.
So giving merit on a post is more subjective.
Of course it is subjective. How can we possibly come up with a rule on the type of posts you can or should give merit to? People leave them for helpful or constructive posts but what is helpful of constructive is up to the individual.
Second, only certain people give merit to quality posts. while others only give merit to people he knows.
Maybe the most well known users make the best posts? People become known in the community by being active and helpful so it's natural they will get the most merits, though on the flip side merits are largely useless for higher ranked accounts so I would rather give them out to lower ranked ones but to be honest lower ranks tend not to make great posts.
I think there are some problems from merit system.
first, the distribution of merit is not in someone who has the ability to assign a quality post.
So giving merit on a post is more subjective.
Second, only certain people give merit to quality posts. while others only give merit to people he knows.
first, the distribution of merit is not in someone who has the ability to assign a quality post.
So giving merit on a post is more subjective.
Second, only certain people give merit to quality posts. while others only give merit to people he knows.
Whether it is success or not but I am sure that slowly it will affect everyone when they will realise the value of higher ranks. The higher rank will be the greed for those people and to get that one they will no way but to post quality matter in the forum and help it avoid the shit posting. That way they will automatically learn how to make quality posts.
Speaking about the giving merits to friends and exchanging them, I don’t think it will last for longer as such activity can turn into fishy one and those involved in such activities might get caught in bad action. So let’s give it some more time.
Speaking about the giving merits to friends and exchanging them, I don’t think it will last for longer as such activity can turn into fishy one and those involved in such activities might get caught in bad action. So let’s give it some more time.
In term of success I think yes.
Look to these threads how this guy busted because of merit system.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2902250.0;all
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-smerit-harvester-busted-a-must-read-2992561
Look to these threads how this guy busted because of merit system.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2902250.0;all
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-smerit-harvester-busted-a-must-read-2992561
Yes it is effective as I browse also in some bounty campaign, I saw a campaign (I don't want to name it since they may delete my answer), I saw 6 people on the signature campaign, compared to twitter that has already hundreds of participants, like around 300, and more tho hundred for the FB, Imagine six??? That's the effect of the merit too, some realize that they might not earn merit to step on the next rank and receiving same number stake over and over again joining sig campaign.
your account has ranked that is safe if you agree if your account is still a newbie 
Yes, rank is meaningless to me. If you check the date I registered you'll work out that I would easily be Legendary in rank by now if I had been interested to do so. You can also see that my posts have been awarded 103 merit points in the 26 days since the merit system was introduced. That means the system wouldn't have made any difference to my rank if it had always been there anyway, as that's a lot quicker than activity could be gained.
The only reason to care about rank is if you are here primarily to earn money for posting. I'm getting paid for my signature right now but I see that as a bonus, not a reason to be here.
This is a good read and a motivation @TheQuin! I hope that this system will develop in a way where us newly users will not struggle so hard just to earn merits since currently, the standards set were too high and then there is also the scarcity of Smerits that can be given.
If anything what it has done is put off many users that were just here to try and spam forums for post count and activity. I'm sure we can all agree that this has been reduced since the introduction of merit.
All I can do is just give merit where I think it is deserved. For me really detailed post should get top merit and even if a post is just contributing positively to the forums it should get a merit.
Time will tell if merit works or not.
All I can do is just give merit where I think it is deserved. For me really detailed post should get top merit and even if a post is just contributing positively to the forums it should get a merit.
Time will tell if merit works or not.
If you are talking about whether it is helpful for the forum or not, I guess it will take some time to show its effects.
In bitcointalk forum there are really good posts even that does not earn atleast single point of merits.and there are many spam and off topic posts that earn bunch of merits.
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
I think it will be successful to other, and will not successful to other also. Why? I strongly agree with you, most merits given in off topics and with friends because actually that will be the system now. The post that have quality will not be given merit because of what? You will see the difference, and I think merit system is not successful.
Merit system is:
1) Success for the forum.
Yes it is success for our beloved forum i saw it now there are many post that deserved to have an smerit.1) Success for the forum.
But sad thing to know that there are some post who have an smerit even it's look like spam to the sewer.
Merit system is:
2) Failure for shit posters.
Not only for shit poster but those farmer account surely they wont rank up with this new merit system.2) Failure for shit posters.
Hopefully those accounts level red tag by DT members was lessen.
Merit system is:
3) Motivation for members with positive attitude.
And also those members who have honest in forum no cheating or other activity that prohibited by the forum.3) Motivation for members with positive attitude.
Hopefully this new system now did not abuse by the others.
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