Topic: Joe's Signatureless Challenge Archives - page 10. (Read 10696 times)

Haha RIP you I guess, posted a lot today, was free for quite a bit of time for the first time in ages so manage to cram in quite a few posts. Fingers crossed as always 

Btw next round onwards (not the one that starts from tomorrow but rather the one that starts from the one after tomorrow's round) we need to use a segwit P2SH address in order to participate right?

Thanks for the help!. The last numbers from the url of my profile window =  user i.d. great!.I've submitted my application.

Go to profile and than click on show stats or show posts to discover your user id
example: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/babygun-1080288 where 1080288 is the user id.

Sellingaccs, where can i find my user i.d.?

I have submitted the application via the new form.
Will you manually approve the applicants, and then add them to sheet?

Also waiting for this week's results

Good evening bro, i just joined the signature campaign, thanks.

I have submitted how to confirm my entry? Because i can't not find my in Round 4 sheet?

Your google form looks pretty nice; that's going to make weekly applications into the challenge a lot easier to manage. I also like that you're not making it mandatory and accepting PM applications for those that don't feel they can use a Google Form. Top notch challenge management, Joe! This week is looking to be a big week for the challenge, looking forward to keeping up with the participants.

To apply for Round 4, please fill out this Google Form and submit your application.

YOU MUST SUBMIT A NEW APPLICATION EVERY WEEK THAT YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE.

Additionally (and I know this is going to be a pain in the ass), if you could go back and delete your old applications, it would help prune this thread. I made the mistake of not making this a self-moderated thread, so I cannot go back and delete the posts for you.

Moving forward, I will create a new form every week for applications. If you feel uncomfortable with using the form, such as for privacy reasons, please send me a message so that I can personally add you to the applicants spreadsheet.

Cheers!

Just about a day remains for the round, and I must say that this week is going to be the hardest week for me to grade, by far. We have some real quality content that has been produced thus far, and I can’t wait to see who wins! Great job, everyone!

I’m adding a form for applications for Round 4, so I’ll post it up when it’s ready.

Awesome, thank you so much! I will make sure to update the prizes and top post.

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Great, thank you so much for your donation! I'm very excited to see that others are stepping forward to see an initiative like this succeed. Kudos!

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As indicated in the original post, you can participate and apply at any time. Upon sending your applications, you will be placed in Round 4, unless it is sent after 9PM on Monday, March 26. Then you will be placed in Round 5. Bring it on, and good luck!

I did not understand it, when theymos himself publicly do not want to disclose this information then why  you are so vocal on it.

From below quote, I think Theymos is also in agreement for starting the Merit awarding threads.

Wao. This is a very interesting contest. I would love to participate in this contest! Now I have the opportunity to participate?

BitcoinTalk Username: braindeadgenius
Starting Post Count (including this one): 52
Current Rank: Jr. Member

Hi Joe, seems like i'm late to join this chalenge.
Is there still have a chance for me to join or could you take me to your list for next round?
Glad to be here, very appreciate of your kind effort to newbie like us.
Thank you so much in advance.

Cheers!
Indohunter

RE: The whole merit source thing

First week merit rewards were paid out of my sMerits, not my source merits. I've been somewhat busy recently, so last week's came out of my source. My point is that this is not the only place I'm distributing merits. If you check the Most Generous Merit Sender stats, I am rank 11, which is above the majority of the sources. I'm also not that large of a source; I'm below average. If I had no starting/earned sMerits, I would not have been able to fulfill my end of the bargain for the first week.

Go complain that other merit sources aren't doing their job first, as there are quite a few people on the most merit sent list that are under the average monthly generation. They've burned their source merits, which I would say is much worse than meriting people for good posts. (I assume that was an attack at me, given that I'm the source sponsoring the first place prize for this challenge)

I've checked the posts of those who I've merited through this as well, and I agree that they are good posts, I would not be doing this otherwise. I don't think it would be wise or easy for Joe to farm his own accounts (assuming he has them) without posting "nullius style" posts, and if you were going to do that, you'd get merits anyway. The winners for the past 2 weeks deserve merits in my opinion. My "sponsorship", if you can even call it that is not guaranteed, I could technically pull out of it at any second. If only spammers were left, I'd definitely pull out.

Of course, thank others, I'm saying to all the sources, if you are not up for the task to help theymos, why did you sign up for it? if you were made a source without asking, yet you would like others to point you to quality posts, maybe theymos should reconsider and rethink that you are not a good choice to be selected as a source. if they have no desire to help you, I do and I am willing to put myself under the spotlight, given the merit stats are public and any abuse could disqualify me even from posting here.


Yup, gang bang me. apparently I'm all alone in this and staff made a mistake to make me a source. mexxer-2 where are you man? I need more undeserved merits, these niggers are gang banging me. .

Quote from: BTCforJoe on March 22, 2018, 01:49:42 PM

This goes to show that there are, in fact, more people that understand the ideology behind this challenge.

Yes they do seem to favor laziness, find us quality posts and we'll award them merits. (my alt account joins the campaign and posts quality to get merits, account's price has increased exponentially).

Quote from: BTCforJoe on March 22, 2018, 01:49:42 PM

so I appreciate the members who have recognized the overall value in this challenge, and having a roundup to find quality posts.

That's the thing, I don't think that theymos would appreciate this. the amount of merits in this challenge is extremely insignificant compared to the overall merits generated by sources. 25 members each posting a minimum of 7 posts, 175 in total. and how many merits they can win in total?

Quote from: BTCforJoe on March 22, 2018, 01:49:42 PM

If @digaran had his way, it seems apparent that he believes that only merit sources should be allowed to merit posts, period.

Not my way, theymos has decided this, after everybody has spend their initial sMerits, only sources will remain the active spenders. but your method is wrong, you know for the fact that nobody with a high rank account enrolled in a sig campaign would ever join your challenge, they could earn way more than what you are offering. it leaves us with low ranks, you are providing a way for anybody to enrol with an alt account and post 7 high quality posts to get merits guaranteed.

Quote from: BTCforJoe on March 22, 2018, 01:49:42 PM

I find that the method in which @digaran chooses not to award merits to be much more irresponsible than my method of utilizing this challenge to identify and award merits to deserving posts.

Which method are you talking about? because I have changed my method several times to find the best one. wouldn't it be irresponsible for me to merit campaign managers or my campaign mates? you haven't even applied to be a source, yet you are speaking of responsibility, nobody has expected you to spend your merits responsibly, as you'd like to call it "your own money and merits". it would've been much more expected if you were finding and identifying meritorious posts by yourself. instead you have chosen the wrong method, that is what I'm trying to tell you.

i like the challenge and hope it will help to raise the quality bar and help with merit generation, that is so critical for most of the users now. it would be impossible to completely eliminate the chance of challenge abuse, but it might help a lot of users as well (i hope ))
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/839f421fb2dbc33348c27446253b706c4b23bef0ff85578d05c6cdc02030796b/

As promised, I've sent 2 merits to nullius for this post and I believe that it was their best one, however, this guy is one serious geek we need over this forum.
And, 1 more merit to Blue Tyrant as a consolation prize for this post.

I hope I am doing my job in kinda better way, sorry for being late as I was busy with something.

I would like to contribute more and will be rewarding 2nd place for Round 3 with 3 merits.

Thanks for the support, guys. This goes to show that there are, in fact, more people that understand the ideology behind this challenge. Is it ironic that the host is wearing a signature from a paid signature campaign? Absolutely, it is. Is it also ironic that the host himself is not a merit source? Again, absolutely. But I am putting up my own cash,amen my own merits, as many others are. The 8 merits that the only merit source sponsor provides is done so to quality posts that deserve merit. The moment that quality posts stop being produced by participants in this challenge is the moment that I will revisit the merit rewards. If you look in past posts, I have already expressed my concerns with the amount of merit being awarded via this challenge, and have also commmitted to revisiting the reward structure if and when the time arrives that the post quality becomes an issue. As of now, it’s a non-issue, so I appreciate the members who have recognized the overall value in this challenge, and having a roundup to find quality posts.

Are some of the posts by participants “garbage posts”? Yup. But rather than ignoring these posts, like most forum members do, I provide criticism to help these users to understand why their posts are considered lower than par. What they decide to do with that criticism is purely up to them, just like it’s purely up to the sponsors to do with their cash and merits as they deem fit.

If @digaran had his way, it seems apparent that he believes that only merit sources should be allowed to merit posts, period. Look at my sMerit history. I am not contributing to any so-called merit farming accounts. I do send merit responsibly.

@bill gator, you hit the nail on the head with your reply about becoming a merit source. I can only imagine that the staff have to review countless applications because of the newly-founded merit system. Obviously, they will make a few mistakes along the way, such as the mistake they made when making @digaran a merit source. But this, in no way, means that I am not spending my sMerit irresponsibly. In fact, I find that the method in which @digaran chooses not to award merits to be much more irresponsible than my method of utilizing this challenge to identify and award merits to deserving posts.

So much irony has been posted in the past several pages here, but it doesn’t seem that @digaran will stop with his skewed opinion, so I encourage everyone to stop addressing him at this point, and moving forward. I shall do the same.

Thanks to everyone for supporting this cause, and I look forward to reviewing all the posts of the Round 3 participants!