Is self-meriting possible? - page 2.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

Is it possible to merit yourself?

That's not feasible; if someone can merit himself, it will be incredibly simple to move up the forum ranks since, in my opinion, they'll just be flowing merits to their own posts rather than those of others, and they'll be sending merits to some of their less-deserving submissions. LOL When I first started using these forums, I used to constantly check my Smerits and wish I could still mail them back to myself so I would have more merits and rank up sooner.

Quote from: Cantsay on March 12, 2023, 12:06:22 PM

Instead of creating a thread about it, why don't you try it yourself and see? I believe you have enough smerit to try. Btw the answer is NO
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I just checked, you've 27 merits and sent 13 merits meaning you have exhausted all your smerits.

When you were a newbie, you asked questions because you needed more guidance, and the forum members didn't leave you behind; instead, they did everything they could to assist you. Accordingly, I believe that asking questions for more clarification and guidance is one of the major roles that these forums play when it comes to assisting newcomers.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Meriting your own posts is not possible. I believe if possible, that will negate the core value of creating the merits in the first place. People merit your post based on the ways they feel about the positivity it portrays in the forum and encourage you to keep doing that or do more

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Quote from: octobuzz on May 03, 2023, 07:25:33 AM

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

OP didn't say about giving merit to multiple account, you will understand if you read OP again. Said about giving merit from own account to same account which is not possible in reality. Community members have already discussed this in detail in this thread and told the op how and why it is not possible to give self merit. So you should read this thread again and that will further help you to increase your knowledge about Merit.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

The function and use of Merit is to appreciate other people's posts that are considered to have quality, as well as other people assessing your posts. Nobody respects themselves, it's impossible and its unprecedented.
What's the use of Merit Source if you can respect yourself. Merit system to reduce spammers roaming the forums, without an additional number of merits you won't be able to rank up, that's the reason Admin chose several Merit Sources to spread sMerit on quality posts.

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Quote from: octobuzz on May 03, 2023, 07:25:33 AM

Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

It is not exactly self-meriting, mate. It's owning multiple accounts, from which you send merits to one another. I would not say that lots of people do this on the platform and they get away with it. Once, when merit system was only presented, that was an issue as far as I concerned. But this is against forum rules and nowadays there are a lot of people who make sure that this does not happen and report to moderators in case it is happening. Measures have been taken quite a long time ago and such accounts are just get banned.

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Quote from: octobuzz on May 03, 2023, 07:25:33 AM

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

If you can read what the OP is referring to, you will see that is completely different from what you are saying, the OP is not saying having multiple and sending merit to each other, what he is saying is that having just one account and after creating thread or comments, then you trying to merit yourself, not sending merit from another account.

I think trading of merits from different accounts is not allowed on the forum here. Having multiple accounts is allowed but you shouldn’t cheat with those accounts, if you are sending merits to each other, then you are already cheating.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

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Typically now there's no way that you can make a loop with your merits and getting abuse with this, seems like you want to immediately rank up.
That's the purpose of merit which is give and take once you find a quality post why not give those merits to well-deserved content and the same with you. Once they find a good quality post created by you; there's a chance you'll get a merit.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

And what would be the point of the whole Merit system if it were possible?
It was introduced precisely so that you could exchange with others, for valuable posts, valuable information and useful information. Of course, theoretically, you can exchange all the way with your second account, or another person (collusion), but this is a fraud. And such an action will be noticed, after which it will be possible to get a negative trance. Or managers will no longer be allowed to participate in signature campaigns.

It is best to become useful to the forum and earn merit honestly. For example, to give advice in an area in which you are well versed, and others are not.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Have you ever found a similar case happening before, I mean have you ever found someone sending merit to himself.? The merit system is designed to reward other users posts that are considered worthy or qualified, someone will give you merit if your post is considered worthy. You cannot send Merit to your own account because the system limits it.
Thanks for asking this simple question, some users are still curious about how the merit system works because in the post history they made there is a +Merit button.

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Quote from: Cantsay on March 12, 2023, 12:06:22 PM

Instead of creating a thread about it, why don't you try it yourself and see? I believe you have enough smerit to try. Btw the answer is NO

You probably did not read the complete post before making your comment. The poster clearly said that he doesn't want to default hence he's making the thread in order to hear from others but your response is challenging him to give it a trial which is wrong. You should have just answered and add little information you know about self meriting thou it's not possible.

I might be right or wrong for referring OP as masculine gender Grin

never mind!

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No I don't think self-meriting is possible, even if I see an option of such I won't even try it,

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I wouldn't blame you though if you feel curious because I think I harboured such a question when I was starting out. As tempting as it seems, it ain't Gon be possible else like someone pointed, what would then be the point of the merit system? Doing such would invariably look like you saying "hey guys, no need to merit my work, I think I can do that all by myself, hehe!!" Grin

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Quote from: _act_ on March 12, 2023, 12:10:57 PM

Is it possible to frown about what is not possible? Only what I know some members frown about is to be meriting alt account with another alt account, I guess that is what you meant.

I don't think that you understood me correctly. I didn't say that meriting your own post from the same account if frowned upon (simply because its impissible to do that), but instead that he shouldn't merit his post from his alt account, which is frowned upon and will end up badly for him.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

Is it possible to merit yourself?

What a weird question haha
it sounds similar to the people who ask about the Bitcoin (Is it legit).

No
Alt meriting is also prohibited
Enrolling Multiple account is Same campaign is also prohibited
Merit Fishing is also Prohibited
Asking for merits (Seems prohibited i am not sure but it puts bad impression)
Account farming is prohibited

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What do you mean by "self-merit"? If you mean from your account to your own account, no, and if you mean from your alternative or secondary account, yes, but it's disallowed since that other account is not permitted. Be prepared if you insist on using that secondary account since the Bitcointalk community takes the merit system seriously, and attempting to game it by self-meriting may result in severe results such as losing credibility, being reported by moderators, or even being banned from the site.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

You just tried half of it. If you tried it all, not half you will see that it is impossible to merit yourself.

Click on Merit, type the number, enter, you will get a notification.

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You cannot send merit to yourself

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

On your account no! There is no such feature that it can make it available but if you have other account or alts possibly yes but that is considered cheating and abuse cause meriting yourself (other forum account is prohibited). Not sure but this must be done by many to gain more merits and increase rank.

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Quote from: Stepstowealth on March 12, 2023, 12:04:55 PM

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

It really sounds silly it's self-serving and merits don't serve their purpose if the system allows you to merit yourself, I have not thought of meriting myself but there are others who merit their alt account but these are two different accounts on one possession, even if the system allows it, people will think that you are cheating because it's self-serving, as long as your post is visible and it is a good one here it can generate merits even if it takes days or weeks or months depending on the members who read and appreciate your post.

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Quote from: DdmrDdmr on March 12, 2023, 12:20:44 PM

Conceptually, what would be the reason to merit oneself? I mean one could believe that his post is smashing and deserves a self-pat of the back, but besides some trip down the ego lane, the only other alternative would be to try to increase his merit counter per se.

On other social networks people sometimes like their own posts to later view them in the list of the posts that they liked, so basically bookmarking their post for themselves. Merit could have been theoretically used for a similar purpose, but it's limited to only the last 120 days, so it can't work like that.

Maybe we do need a "like" system parallel with merit, because it does have upsides and not a lot of downsides.

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