Topic: Merit Bounties - page 2. (Read 425 times)

I'd simply ask you to reconsider your position. My posts have been longer since I got back from my 6-month long vacation. I did a lot of thinking, wanted to re-adjust myself, did a LOT of learning and have been a different person altogether and on the forums. I used to use the forums far too erratically, posting one-liners not because I was paid to do so, but because I was bored and clueless.

I'm not trying to pad anything, I'm trying to type a post up as though I was having a conversation with you. My mistake for referring to you one too many times, but my posts have improved and I am genuinely trying to be thoughtfully helpful here.

My longest posts in the past couple weeks are a couple of days just before merit was released, so again, I feel you need to reconsider.

Your posts have been getting longer and longer since the introduction of merit, you used my handle 3 times in one post. I could be wrong but it looks like you are trying to "pad" to be more constructive

I gave OP a merit point because he obviously put some thought into his posts, which is more than can be said for 90% of users here.  It may or may not be duplicating owlcatz's thing, but OP can write decent English and puts some effort into his writing, and that's appreciated on my end. 

This merit system seems to be working out pretty well.  As I've said before, it's not perfect, but nothing is and I'm glad Theymos is doing something--even though it's not a perfect something.  Doing absolutely nothing just wasn't working out too well.  I'm trying to give out merit points to some lower-ranked members, but there just aren't enough quality posts.  This supports my theory that most new accounts are created solely to spam.

Thoroughly explaining myself and trying to be precise with my words so that I get my point across is merit farming and using too many words? That's 2 high-ranking members offering nothing constructive to the idea at all. TMAN, I was honestly looking forward to reading your reply when I saw you had responded, since you're one of the few people doing something similar to what I'm asking.

I was thinking you would be open to expanding your "contest", collaborating with others and trying to scale what you are doing to a greater degree. Give what up?

I do not want merit. I do not care about ranking up or acquiring these points. I am happy with where I am at, but I thought it would be nice to use the new system in interesting ways. I encourage you to say exactly the same things I have in my post, without losing any meaning, significance or caveats with 10x less words; could be a fun exercise, because I think you're being pompous.

Op you are merit farming, using 10 words when one will do. Give it up

I just looked through your posts all the way back until the Merit system was announced and I cannot see a single instance of you doing something that would resemble what I am asking/suggesting at all. I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding, lying or just don't care. Either way, you have been less than helpful. This is my first thread about this, thanks! Almost all of your merit (if not all of it) has gone to Legendaries or Heroes that do not need or cannot rank up.


If you have a direct link, then I would say that is more than just memory. I appreciate the link, because this is pretty similar to what I have in mind, although it does seem unfortunate that only TMAN is making the decision and there is only one recipient each round(week). I was hoping for a larger scale operation, and I know this community isn't much for centralization, but something maybe very similar to what they are already doing, but more involved or on a larger scale. I was unaware TMAN was doing something like this. It also seems unclear how much merit is being distributed through TMAN and these other various giveaways popping up around the site. It would be nice to have a few more sanctioned, structured merit bounties. Do you guys believe these current contests/giveaways to be sufficient for the entire forum or for the full implementation of the merit system?

I'm also doing this so please stop creating new threads about it, thanks!

If my memory is correct, TMAN is already doing this. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tmans-level-up-challenge-updated-2825523)

There are also other highranks doing this, and even some member. Here's a link (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-of-threads-giving-away-merit-points-for-quality-posts-2832127) that contains these kinds of contest and such that reward low ranks and even high ranks merits that they deserve.

I was just scrolling around Meta, reading about the new merit system and I am seeing so many negative posts complaining about the system that is meant to really improve things around here. I personally am digging the new changes and seeing all of these people uncomfortable just tells me that there is great change occurring.

While I see there are a few threads where users are throwing around their merit to worthy posts, there is still a valid concern about there being a lack of merit to be distributed in relation to how many high-quality posts truly get put out each day by members nobody recognizes. Now this will of course get remedied over time as more merit sources are created and more generous users accumulate merit in their own hands.

However I have a proposal to get the juices flowing and ease some of the fears about distribution. It does not seem to be the world's biggest secret who a few of the merit sources are (Lutpin, for example), and there are many other users with a ton of merit to go around. My proposal is a contest of sorts; we could have users enter their posts or their profiles and after a given amount of time (or every so often) there is/are winner(s) chosen to receive a merit reward. Meaning the greatest poster(s) every week or so would be given a Merit Bounty for their high-quality, significant or contributory posts; preferably from public Merit sources or a pool or merit generated from willing participants around the community.

I'm very interested in thoughts on developing this further, volunteers, contrarians and merit sources are needed. I don't know how you all feel about this, so let me know how you feel; let me know if I've even explained this well enough for you to make up your mind. The parameters are negotiable and discuss-able, but I just have the basic framework and a few different routes/options to play with.