It's taken me 28 posts to "earn" 50 merit points. It p's me off that some people are being given 50 points for average or worse posts. This is why I think merit points should be awarded singly.
Jet Cash, at 01:08:46 UTC today, I sent you one of my (then relatively few) sMerits
as to your complaint about your status on another thread; it was not
the first one I’d sent you in that thread, either. You may presume that I understand your situation. I also have spent some time lurking in your threads in Serious Discussion and Ivory Tower. You may presume that I appreciate good posts and good posters.
I am also presuming here: I presume that you are referring to me. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Thereupon, I invite you to
peruse my post history from start to finish, and also the list of
recent merits awarded to me. Most of both are in Development & Technical Discussion, which should give you a hint. So should this:
- For personal reasons, I was inactive between 2018-01-05 02:24:31 and 2018-01-29 23:58:40. Thus, I was inactive for almost the first five days of the merit system; and I have now only been active for less than 48 hours of it.
- Since I had previously made quality posts which people remembered, I accrued 17 merits whilst completely inactive. After I became active again, my older posts accrued not less than another 19 merits. All of those were in Development & Technical Discussion. All were technical in nature. 5 points at once were for one of my posts in a discussion of Bech32 involving one of BIP 173’s authors.
- Within my first 24 hours of renewed activity, I earned 22 merits for new posts. Most were in Development & Technical Discussion. Most were for technical posts.
- I could continue, but I think I made my point.
Now, generally, am I one who should be said to make “average or worse posts”?
In this thread, I was given quite ordinary merits by multiple persons earlier on. I kept up with this thread as it heated up, because I loathe forum garbage, and I don’t want to see the new merits system wrecked by farmers. I pushed soniclord’s buttons, deliberately. He first responded by spilling forth some pertinent investigative information, as I expected and desired; that better established the timeline.
Then, he responded by simultaneously throwing 50 merits in my face and negative-trusting me.
That, I could have neither expected, nor even imagined.
At first, I was actually upset by the merit points. I want to
earn those, and do it in a natural manner by continuing to write quality posts. I do put in considerable effort and time; frankly, I also want some measure of how valuable my posts are to others who simply have nothing to say in reply; in December, I’d oft wondered about that. Now, I am unapologetically proud at my aptitude for earning merits; in a matter of days, I had earned merit points almost equalling my activity level. I had 79 merits, purely on the merits! I did not want a dump of 50 merits tossed in due to getting into a flamewar with a whack job who has bizarre ideas of revenge.
Then, as I said above, I realized that I fully, meritoriously earned these, too:
The 50 merits temporarily befuddled me; I didn’t know what to do with them. I place great pride in earning merits by meritorious action. Then I realized, I did earn these. If I am being treated as actmyname and Lauda combined, I fully deserve +50.
I wrote that before I saw your post. (I prepare all my posts in a text editor, not a browser textarea, and archive them on my local disk.)
If your derisive remark was directed at me, I invite you to look to the substance of I’ve posted. I am comfortable standing on that.
Edit: P.S., to give you an idea of how much I detest spam: My mod report stats currently say, “You have reported 151 posts with 100% accuracy”. Almost all of that occurred in the month of December. I started actively using this account on 1 December 2017, and was absent for most of January.
