Topic: Merit earned by Nigerian Members here in Bitcointalk - page 2. (Read 876 times)

To be honest, there's so much merit going around in forum that anyone who is active and of decent post quality should have no issues whatsoever when it comes to ranking up.

Speaking strictly about Nigerian local board, their merit/post ratio is among the lower ones among all other local boards so no, I don't think that anything weird is going on there (at leats not on the mass scale). Having said that, they are one of the biggest local boards with many active members which may give you impression that something dodgy is going on.

 Has anyone else noticed that Op hasn't come back to defend his claim or has he suddenly developed cold feet? Well this is what happens when you feel it's okay to wake up and start making baseless assumptions because you won't really have enough to back his words.
The Nigerian local board is one of the most engaging areas in this forum and if the Op is wondering how they earn their merits so quickly the only answer is by contributing positively.

Just because these;
(active users + number of merit sources = fast merit circulation)

I didn't know yet but I think they have more than one merit source, right?  (correct me if I'm wrong)

You shouldn't be jealous of them because they deserve what they achieved based on their performance.
You can check on their post history if they abuse the merit system.

The members of the Nigerian board are very hard working and creative at the same time that's why they earn many merits as compare to others. But, it's not right to say that members of other local boards aren't earning many merits because I have seen members from other boards earning a lot of merits in short period.

The Nigerian local board is very active and it seems to me that it has made the biggest progress in recent years If I remember correctly, you got a dedicated board only a few years ago. I was quite surprised when I saw quite a few well-known users writing there.
Recognizability is probably a sign of better quality posters and when we add to that merit source that maybe pushed the Nigerian local a little, it shouldn't be a surprise for a large number of merits there. It certainly doesn't look undeserved.

it's called MUMU POWAAA my friend, deal with it 

I haven't looked, but I have a feeling I'm the biggest "merit fan" for some of the Nigerian members based on BPIP data, because in the past year or so I'd gotten a lot of requests for post history reviews from members I'm fairly sure were from that country.  I don't really pay attention to, much less keep track of, what countries people are from even if it's public knowledge. 

If I gave too many merits to members (Nigerian or not) who might not have deserved them in the opinion of others, I'll just say that I tried to be as generous as my conscience would allow.  That was in retrospect, a mistake and it's why I chose to end my offer.

But there have been quite a few members of the Nigerian community who've shown their passion for bitcoin and made interesting posts (often with a little bit of humor thrown in, which is rare here), even if their grasp of English wasn't the best.  I certainly have nothing against their community.


Toward the end of my post review offer, I was beginning to worry about that merit-sharing, because I would often take a look at the merit histories of the people who were PMing me and see that there was a lot of that going on.  That said, I don't know what country or countries or communities were involved for sure, though I do think it was happening with some of the Nigerian members.  I couldn't tell if it was simply taking the merits I'd sent them and distributing the sMerits amongst their own community members (sort of in lieu of a local board merit source) or if it was straight-up merit abuse.  I just got a bad feeling about it in my gut, because I know the level of shenanigans that shit can get to when it comes to ranking up.  Anyway.

Did you ever notice that it doesn't matter? Let's say that Any local is full of cheaters trading merit back n forth. Eventually they will probably be caught, but how does that help or hurt you? If you are making quality posts and not being a bitch, you will start getting noticed and merited. There are threads where you can ask for help with merits as well. Best to just worry about yourself and not get jealous of other members.

Post your comparison, preferably in a chart so it'll be easy to read. Then next you'll need to understand that a gap (if there is any) does not mean one is abusing the system, there is the option that there are not enough merits circulating in other boards/threads.
If your board is low on merits report to the admin that you want a designated merit source. The Nigerian board didn't even have one until few days ago.

This is not an observation but an accusation with no evidence to back it up.

One is free to make a controversial post using a alt account. But it further shows that this was not a genuine inquiry but a way to cast aspersions.

What if he has evidence but the merits are sent to quality posts. That would be an invalid evidence.

95% or more of my merits comes from English board, despite that I am very active on Nigeria local board. 100% of Satoprincess merits in the last 120 days are from English boards. Mia Chloe started with translation on local board, but I think he is more confidence on English board and he is earning almist all his merits from English board. CryptopreneurBrainboss and Igebotz are good posters.

Merit is not completely accurate but its main purpose is to help quality posts to be more on this forum.

Compare Nigeria with Russia and turkey. We are the three highest posters.

Several months ago, they were complaining about the lack of sufficient merit sources, so I am happy that there has been a positive change. If you find any abuse of merit, please report it here.

Because it's scary. 

OP, how come they can do it and you can’t? Probably because people are trying. I see a lot of good posters in the Nigerian section; although they may not be masters of the pen, they learn and grow. Are you sure that you also put in so much effort? Maybe this is just ordinary envy.

To accuse someone of alternative accounts, you must prove it in practice. Ranting about certain people without evidence is simply showing your weakness.


Try your best, OP.

Point of correction my friend, Nigerians are not merit abusers, but rather Nigerians are creative individuals who are able to post valuable contents who gets them merit easily, and I don't think that has ever been a crime on this forum, because inasmuch as we as a community were able to appreciate the post of newbies in our local board, that doesn't make us abusers. Because what I thought you would have done, is back up your allegations with concrete proof about people on our local board you suspect to be merit abusers. Because taking myself as an example, I will be sharing with you just 2 threads I created which gave me a total of 360 merits consecutively whereby 99% of the merit I got from those 2 threads came from people outside our local board. And here they are;

First: On this thread given below, I was able to have 250 merits in 14days of it's posting, and today the thread has over 301 merits alone
Touching the life of random poor kids with all my 3wks campaign BTC

Second: While on this other thread below, I was able to have over 40 merits on its first 3days of posting, and today the thread has 59 merits alone.
How I was able to donate Books to school pupils with my little Campaign Bitcoin

So with this, I think I should be able to reshape your doubt that Nigerians are not merit abusers, but rather creative individuals who are able to create valuable contents which gives them merit easily. Thank you, Shalom..

 How sure are you this occurrence only takes place in the Nigerian local board or is there someone you're having a personal beef with over there? Like @Mia Chloe pointed out, if you were serious with your 'observation', you would have used your main account and at least done well to provide adequate evidence to back your claim. This thing you've just brought up is indirectly saying there are no knowledgeable and hardworking posters on that board but rather, a bunch of shitposters and merit farmers and yet you say you aren't racist? This had nothing to even do with racism, you just can't get past the fact that there are people who can contribute meaningfully to the forum and get merits for it.
 For those who you feel are quickly getting their merits, can you at least bring up a user who you think doesn't deserve the amount of merits they have?
It's funny but I must commend your approach at getting attention to yourself as a newbie. Others will just hit us with things like "I'm a newbie, I need guidance". You on the other hand decided to take a different angle by playing detective and you'd wonder how a noob managed to get this much experience in a little while spent here. SMH

Firstly op why didn't you post this with your main account instead of using an alt? Because I don't see how some one with zero merit understands how the merit system in Naija board works and even knows the correct board to post this?


Just like poker player mentioned, Naija board had no merit sources for a very long time. And even Brainboss who is our merit source doesn't have much smerit allocation. If you even check the Naija board properly I believe we have only one merit review thread and it was even created of recent this year per say. I'm not saying that there don't exist any merit cycle on our board but what I'm saying is don't generalize the local board in matters like this. We have a lot of active and knowledgeable members on our board that have earned all their merits honestly.

I already notice it before they massively farming in this forum, though this also happens in few other locals.

It's easy, just create alt accounts as many as possible, then they participate in merit giveaway thread or create merit fishing thread. Every merits they got from genuine users and merit sources, they send it to their alt accounts.

Let's say one of the user earn 50 merits, this user can distribute 25 sMerits, then the next user can distribute 12 sMerits, then next user can distribute 6 merits and so on. That's why they're growing very fast.

Unfortunately, merit abuse can't be tagged since people will ask address, social media etc connections first, which is they already know how to hide it.

I agree, although there are 95% abusers on there, there are still few genuine users.

Unless you provide concrete evidence, I don't think there is anything unusual. Before they only had Brainboss as a merit source, and I don't know if theymos ended up appointing another one. But in any case, that merit circulates in a local section is normal and the Nigerian community is quite important in Bitcointalk. I'm sure most of those that come to mind, like Brainboss, Charles-Tim, Igebotz, Mia Chloe, Satoprincess and many others have earned their merits honestly.

Did you also notice that most Nigerian members here in Bitcointalk earn merit very quickly compared to other local members who have been on Bitcointalk for a long time and have quality posts but still struggle to rank up because they can't earn merit? Are there cases in the Nigerian community of merit abuse? I'm not being racist here, just an observation. How do they manage to earn merits like that?