Topic: LoyceV's Merit source application - page 2. (Read 2486 times)

We're up to 80 merit sources at this point. That means you've got to be somewhere in line for processing. I've already given my endorsement, but it seems kind of silly that there is no way of knowing whether or not you've been viewed, reviewed, processed or rejected. The only answer you will be aware of is if and when it is a "yes". I would like some more transparency on this front, as it leaves less room for confusion and us sitting here in a daze. I imagine you haven't been accepted, because I haven't seen an increase in your merit sending; plus this thread is still open and being bumped.

The first batch(es) were probably, if I had to guess, done in some kind of order of necessity. Local-boards probably are getting priority as theymos originally mentioned. I would assume theymos is trying to spread the sources out based on their activity, which is going to make it increasingly difficult to become a source that primarily roams around the "main" boards. I'll quit my rambling, I just wanted to give my opinion on there being no notifications or information on the status of your own application, besides what can be described as an educated guess.

Side-Note, why do you think they seem to come in batches of acceptance rather than one at a time? That behooves me a bit, unless theymos sets aside a particular chunk of time to bang out a bunch of applications and always manages to find multiple sources within that pile.

sometime it is enviable to see someone who barely can differentiate between walking stick and blockchain can afford to have huge ignore list.

That's the only way to do it in my opinion. It's very subjective, just like my ignore list, but I think there is such a diversity of merit awarders, that it gives anyone who makes a reasonable and interesting post the chance to gain merit.

Surprised you haven’t been selected yet buddy.

It's quite simple: I merit posts that I deem worthy. Have a look at my Merit summary to see which posts I've merited.

Lol what? I'm not looking for "ideal posts".

Theymos didn't ask for it.

Ok, asked a different way...how do you merit posts now?

• What criteria calls your attention?
• How do you determine how much to give?
• What do you use as a guide or ideal post to compare all other posts to?

You don't mention any of those details in your original post.

I wouldn't bump this if I was.

Kinda like how I created this thread: I won't read boards that I'm not interested in, and I will Merit posts just like I do now. I would, however, increase the number of Merit per post such that I'm close to using all sMerit per month. I now usually give just 1, sometimes 2, and an exceptional 5, as I am in no rush to run out and be unable to Merit good posts later on.

Were you one of the lucky 20?!

More seriously, if you were to become a merit source, what your criteria be for the following?

• Reviewing posts around the forum (there are a lot of boards!)
• Assessing the merit-worthiness of a post
• Determining how much merit to give a post

Thank you.

Bump

20 new Merit sources were created.

@bill gator: I just keep bumping this, as I have no idea whether or not theymos has seen the thread.
It seems the first batch of Merit sources was quickly processed, and since then Merit sources have been stuck at 57 in total.