As far as I remembered no one has ever experienced decayed smerits. Its just solely a reminder since what will be the point of hoarding it anyway, its not a token with value rising. Well giving it off is the best way anyway, you can help newbies and others to increase they rank as they progress becoming a member here and their contributions.
No need to have a feature for checking it as its not valuable to monitor that anyway.
Topic: Is there any way of knowing decayed smerits. (Read 100 times)
Its more like a deterrent to laziness about merits than a reality.
sMerits dont decay from what I have observed but the above statement should make it a point that members having sMerits should take the initiative to spend those merits rather than hoard them.
Of course theymos might come up with new ideas in future and actually make it a point to decay them. Possible they had foreseen this situation to arise when it was first introduced, people tend to ignore new things at first, but it did not turn out like that.
sMerits dont decay from what I have observed but the above statement should make it a point that members having sMerits should take the initiative to spend those merits rather than hoard them.
Of course theymos might come up with new ideas in future and actually make it a point to decay them. Possible they had foreseen this situation to arise when it was first introduced, people tend to ignore new things at first, but it did not turn out like that.
There's no one complain their sMerit got deducted, so I assume the administrator not yet decayed anyone sMerit.
Even they will do it in the future, I don't think it's something need to publicity, similar like the post your reported will not make the other user know you're reporting someone else post.
Even they will do it in the future, I don't think it's something need to publicity, similar like the post your reported will not make the other user know you're reporting someone else post.
I read this sentence "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
As many already mention above. Decay feature on SMerit supposed to be the plan of Theymos since he didn’t want everyone hoarding Smerit that during the initial implementation of merit system. There’s a fear before that merit might be hoard since it’s essential for forum user to rank.
Merit distribution turns out to be fine which many user keep sending smerit when they knew that their own merit will not be reduced once you send smerit. I believe if decay will be implemented. Both active and inactive users will be affected.
If I remember correctly, the quote dates back to the year 2018/2019, when it was to encourage people to spend the sMerits that were distributed to them for free in addition to the points they collect, but after that the need arose to rely on merit sources more, as most of these accounts were either distributed sMerits or are no longer active therefore. I do not think that this rule will be implemented, and if it is implemented, its impact will be limited. As long as you have sMerit and see a good post, it is best to send it
..."There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too?
We reserve the rights, means that at anytime in the future the admin can choose to start decay of smerits that have been unused for xx number of months or years.Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too?
There has not been an smerit decay in the forum and with how the system is working, there may not be a need to take such action to stimulate users to spend their smerits.
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Smits do not decay, but they have to be distributed to others because we already know that there is no need to keep the Smerits we have to our selfs.
Keeping Smerits to ourselves will do no good for us and others on the forum, so it's good that when we have even just 1 of them we should try to send it out. However, there are a lot of quality posts on the forum that are not being merited, so it is good if we share the Smerits we have.
Since my stay on this forum, I have never heard or seen any post where someone says that his Smerits has been a decade, some user has lived this forum for years and letter come back to the forum with their same account and the Smerits in their account are still intact, if their merits have decade, then they will tell us but no any yet.
Keeping Smerits to ourselves will do no good for us and others on the forum, so it's good that when we have even just 1 of them we should try to send it out. However, there are a lot of quality posts on the forum that are not being merited, so it is good if we share the Smerits we have.
Since my stay on this forum, I have never heard or seen any post where someone says that his Smerits has been a decade, some user has lived this forum for years and letter come back to the forum with their same account and the Smerits in their account are still intact, if their merits have decade, then they will tell us but no any yet.
I read this sentence "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
The sentence is a reminder to some people who would want to accumulate as many sMerit as they can just for their personal gain, I don’t even see how it will be of benefit to them because hoarding sMerits will not increase your Merit. They are letting you know that they have rights to decay used sMerit in case you notice your unused sMerits are gone you should not complain about it. Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
There could be a specified number of years it could be before decaying sMerit which i think is known to the admin alone. No one can see your sMerit so only can know if your sMerit is being decayed though i have never heard or seen someone complain about their sMerit being decayed. Just don’t keep sMerits to yourself so they don’t end up being decayed because the term “future” could mean any time which only the admins know how long.
I read this sentence "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."
It is just a like a reminder now that the merits are meant to be shared and not hoarded nothing more. The warning of it getting decayed hasn’t been implemented just yet because we have seen many members who have been inactive for very long time come on to the forum to share merits which signifies it doesn’t decays.
The only person that can’t spend their merits are banned accounts. This was a new rule after the merit system got introduced and the banned accounts that got airdropped merits then abused their smerits by trading them.
So if this rule can be implemented then we might also see maybe smerits could get decayed in future, who knows? Rules are changing everyday just like DT are been updated almost every month. So it could still happen in the future but for now Nothing of such.
If I read correctly, I came across a post regarding merit decay, which was only to imply that merit was airdropped to members when the new merit system was introduced. A few members were given a few smerit, which I don't remember the ratio to which it was given, and this smerit was the one that was advised not to be held as if it were a coin one was saving to build a house, as they are likely to decay in the future, but I doubt any of that has ever happened before.
Not that this members are give smerits, but rather you get half smerits of the total number of merits you have, so those that were airdropped merits didn’t need to be airdropped smerits again but they got the half of the merits as smerits. People that get airdropped smerits every month are merit sources. Which they are just 109 of them and just 33940 smerits shared in different proportion to them
If I read correctly, I came across a post regarding merit decay, which was only to imply that merit was airdropped to members when the new merit system was introduced. A few members were given a few smerit, which I don't remember the ratio to which it was given, and this smerit was the one that was advised not to be held as if it were a coin one was saving to build a house, as they are likely to decay in the future, but I doubt any of that has ever happened before.
To know if your own merit has a decade, that's left for only you to notice; if that ever happens, the decade ones are supposed to be minus from your total number of smerit that you should have in your profile, and only you can be able to see that.
To know if other users have a decade of merit, I think only a user can know that for sure. Unless there is a way of checking how many merits a particular user has (I don't mean dividing their total number of earned merit by 2), I mean both the merit source and those that were airdropped. If there is a way to view others merit profiles, then I think that can also be possible. At the same time, I still see it unnecessarily until one has to experience it himself before we can push further to know who this works.
To know if your own merit has a decade, that's left for only you to notice; if that ever happens, the decade ones are supposed to be minus from your total number of smerit that you should have in your profile, and only you can be able to see that.
To know if other users have a decade of merit, I think only a user can know that for sure. Unless there is a way of checking how many merits a particular user has (I don't mean dividing their total number of earned merit by 2), I mean both the merit source and those that were airdropped. If there is a way to view others merit profiles, then I think that can also be possible. At the same time, I still see it unnecessarily until one has to experience it himself before we can push further to know who this works.
Your link leads to the user's profile, to the merits section.
Nothing happens to merits that are not distributed. If someone does not share them, then they do not deteriorate and do not disappear. If a user is banned, his undistributed merits are not transferred anywhere. I saw somewhere a warning, or rather advice, not to accumulate merits, otherwise, they may disappear, but in fact, I have never seen such a case.
For many, the accumulation of merit and then a grandiose distribution with the creation of a high-profile topic sometimes becomes a temporary game of merit sources. But it’s better not to create a lot of noise around yourself, but to be simpler, so as not to be greedy and share merit with other users, without demanding from them posts that are suitable for an academic dissertation.
Nothing happens to merits that are not distributed. If someone does not share them, then they do not deteriorate and do not disappear. If a user is banned, his undistributed merits are not transferred anywhere. I saw somewhere a warning, or rather advice, not to accumulate merits, otherwise, they may disappear, but in fact, I have never seen such a case.
For many, the accumulation of merit and then a grandiose distribution with the creation of a high-profile topic sometimes becomes a temporary game of merit sources. But it’s better not to create a lot of noise around yourself, but to be simpler, so as not to be greedy and share merit with other users, without demanding from them posts that are suitable for an academic dissertation.
I read this sentence "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
Is there any way of knowing how much sMerits are decayed of mine and others too? And how it works?
The sMerits decay only of inactive members or active members too?
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