Topic: [LIST]Open Merit Source Applications,waiting list. (Read 3965 times)

Bumping this one as it tents to drawn too often in oblivion. I'm not sure if theymos is interested in adding more sources at all or just we are not good enough to be sources.. There should be a reason but all we get is silence.

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New application added.

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Another bump.

Do you, jademaxsuy, know about Coin-1's thread that speculates (with a seemingly decent amount of confidence based on algorithmic formulas) regarding which forum members are likely to be merit sources based on how many smerits they are giving out that likely exceeds both how much they were airdropped on 1/24/18 and how much smerits they would have generated based on smerits received?

Sure, we can see that the thread is called "[TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits" but we need not get mislead or distracted in regards to the name of the thread in order to understand and appreciate that such thread is largely attempting to identify and to highlight on a rolling basis which forum members are suspected to be merit sources, as Coin-1 explains in the OP and within other parts of the thread.

I think we can identify some of them as merit source because they are always active in giving merits and not only that they are not giving just 1 merit per post if they think that is worth it. It seldom give 1 merit for those post they going to give merit. I see DdmrDdmr, cabalism13, suchmoon, dbshk and more users had been into this way of giving merit and we can say that they could be a merit source. Anyway, more merit source will be good for us the low rank users to rank up into the next position. We will be gladly to be gone that far knowing that many users now striving to earn merits but sad to say some get bullied. sighs!

Thank you SpaceSuite for making my life easier. The OP is updated Getting a long waiting list.
Hope we can hear from the BOSS soon. Good luck everyone

Time to add two more rows in OP under Recent active applications...

11	BitCoinDream	Application	20-Sep-20
12	dkbit98	Application	20-Sep-20

Well, I wans't. He had 497 and I gave him one (had only one left), so he had 498 at that time when I made this post. It's werid tho. I'll check it with loycev's stats to see if there is something missing. But looks weird yeah...

You are looking at the Sent Merit!!
You need to drink you coffee first

That "Gal"



became a hero on the 28th of July:



(You're only 27 days late with that request)

 

I think Epochtalk will be implemented before we get a merit rise, or at least some people becoming sources  

P.S. Please someone to send 2 merit to this guy, I hate seeing people missing 2 merit to rank up to Hero ... fiulpro. Thanks
... and I hate seeing this:

I'm fine waiting, anyway I have so much to do this summer so the time spent on the forum is not that much anymore.
From September til New year's eve I'll be home on a leave so maybe I'll have some more time then, if the house project is over by then. As i said I can wait, theymos is a great guy so whenever he decides to take some steps I'll be there to help

I was expecting something  to happen around Jun 14 too. I mean excatly six months. Now, we all know how theymos loves to delegate tedious duties to algorithms, but actually the strict 6 months deadline might have been a little bit too much: everyone (or many of us) were expecting a revision around that time, so someone could have "played" with merits habits to present himself ready for that appointment. I guess he might value a little bit of "randomness" or "human touch" dealing with such delicate aspects.

Seems like reasonable... But if we're going to count it by then it should be 3mos or so, though I just hope we really can see changes by this time especially the ones who're asking for another increase just like me.

Just been saving so I won't run out again...

I agree with everything you said, Upgrade00, and I will elaborate by mentioning that theymos had specifically announced that it was not his intention to announce merit sources because he did not want to encourage merit begging (or excessive merit begging, if there is a difference?).

But, surely one of the better threads on the topic of attempting to suss out who may or may not be a merit source (to the extent that they have not admitted being a merit source) has been maintained by Coin-1 through the past couple of years.  It is called: 

   
[TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits

Maybe the name of the thread is not exactly literally accurate, but it is still an interesting thread that largely seems to assign a creative approach and a convincing degree of confidence to which members are considered to be or are not merit sources.  By the way, Coin-1 has been doing a great service to the forum to provide this information, even while source members still can attempt to maintain some plausible deniability, unless some of the source members have actually admitted to their source status (but still, plausible deniability in terms of any time that source status could be removed)...

By the way, one of my own funny stories is that when merit source status was first announced, I was confused by the whole thing, and I had read theymos's assertion that he was not going to announce who were the merit source, and asserted that members will likely figure it out with the passage of time, but then a few posts later, he was finger pointing at me, even though I have never really completely admitted to it, except for just proclaiming that I know things about my practices in regards to smerits, and maybe some other quasi-incriminating but attempting to be somewhat vague admissions.   

No, there's no badge for merit sources, and there's probably no plan to add this;

The list of merit sources is also not made public, it's a voluntary position and there's no need to expose them to scrutiny, anyone paying attention would likely know who they are eventually, but the spammers are not really doing that.

Is there any badge for merit sources, or some plans to add this in future?
It would be good to know them and recognise them easy all if Theymos plans to expand and add more decentralization to merit distribution.

Things changed but I'm still tje same.
Now I have no clue how long we need to wait. Gmaxwell mentioned something about six months or so but now since we already crossed half a year we might need to just bump this until themos decides that it's time.
We wait...

I've really thought someone has opened up a new thread about this, LoL. Didn't know it was just you iasenko. Changed Name. Though how much longer do you think we still need to wait before a few changes on MSs?

Thank you guys for the information, I'll removed the closed one and I will add the new one tomorrow.
The list is getting longer but we haven't heard anything from theymos yet. Now there are more than six months since the last update.

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7 months now...

You can remove this application from the list, as wolwoo ceased trying to become a merit source.

Thank you guys for responding, I updated the OP with a disclaimer note and added the last merit source application.
Hope now it's clear that his is only a list of applicants.

That's true.  Theymos had kind of left it up to each applicant to create his/her own thread on the topic, and possibly it could have been easier to follow in a single thread... which could be part of what Bearded had been attempting to achieve with this thread.