Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 14. (Read 167808 times)

Maybe if I ever use a real chart program, but for now I won't add it.

I want to inform you that my newest updates fix the mistakes from my previous codes and analyses. Sorry for that but let's enjoy the update with same jumps from new-era users.

I think if LoyceV can include this parameter (creation dates) into his charts that will be cool. The parameter can be displayed by a vertical line.

No indicator for new era users and where they began on the forum. I guessed it is what my code in the thread for weekly merits of top 100 merit earners is inaccurate.

That thread was created before the day merit earning beasts like Ratimov, zasad@ joined. You are different because you joined forum before merit system and the initial code I used is correct.

I will check my code and correct cases like Ratimov. I will merge the creation date dataset to fix such cases. They will book to the top. See their p75 values. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55533518

I am in freefall too!
Where are all those merits gone?


Is there a Merit black-hole?
The only one I can think about:


"I felt a great disturbance in the Force Merits, as if millions of voicesBitcointalk userID's suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

I'm sometimes surprised to see how crazy you people can be... leave the poor Loyce alone working on improving his AI stuff....


PS: you only needed to quote and replace the UID.....

Me too!

I am posting slightly less but whatever, bitcoin is going up, that’s all we should really care about.
Like yourself though, my merit earning has slowed right down.

I have them for everyone (and I did include the source link to find them), here's yours:

I have not been generally following your activity, so this is more or less idle speculation; but knowing your personality, I guess that perhaps, it could be something like this, maybe?


N.b. that I do not necessarily refer to what are usually deemed “politically incorrect” opinions.  For example, in the Wall Observer, some users were recently infuriated after I essentially restated (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) the condemnation of drug abuse that I made when I was at Newbie rank.  (Sharply and repeatedly.)  N.b. that nutildah’s rehash of Timothy Leary’s (and/or MKULTRA’s) nonsense received 12 merits, including 4 from a known merit source who rarely ever merits anything in WO; whereas my only drug-related post that received even a single merit was more of a fact check and a matter of basic decency, less about the drug issue in itself.

—Oh, does it sound like me, eddie?

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Got one for me? 


How’s this for a mini-burst?  I do think that it is meritorious to say honestly the things that many others may fear to whisper—and especially to express rational viewpoints that are altogether unpopular.  (Although I seem to be more to the extreme than eddie; perhaps I have been exercising a bit too much free speech lately...)  Decency toward someone who occasionally merit-bombed anti-liberal posts is also meritorious. ;-)

Allow me to vizualize this:
You seem to receive Merit in bursts once in a while, probably related to your posting indeed.

My rate of receiving merits has fallen straight off a cliff, lol..

Their hasn’t been a lot of very interesting things to post about lately, but dang..

To increase the merit circulation, although I have never seen anyones unused merits to be decayed so far.

It's possible that people have alt account and they are abusing the merits. If such abusers get selected as DT member and they abuse by meriting their alt account, there's no way you can prevent it. However, if the posts deserve merit, I think if someone else was a merit source, they would merit the posts. So, same to same although it will be abuse if they give merit to themselves.

There might be some people who are buying merit to rank up and getting accepted in signature campaign but don't forget that most campaign managers now have a look how much merit an user gets within last 120 days and of course their post quality which meam ultimately such merit buyer will get no much benefit.

Hey dude,

Why did you try to make noise?
Is it enough for you to make noise in Bounty?

So I noticed it says unused Merit can be decayed at some point in the future - What's the point of this?  Is it just to keep people from stagnating their Merit and not using it?

Also, what are your thoughts on people here using their numerous alt accounts to abuse the Merit system?  Granted, there's not much to "abuse", but someone who has a dozen alt accounts, say one of them gets selected as a Merit source, couldn't that have a negative impact on the system?

EDIT (wanted to add): Are you worried about people paying for Merit just to rank up?

I'm not complaining by any means, I like the new stuff.  Just wanted to ask a few questions.

It just difficult to make a good start and I am just like newbie too. As I mention in my post that I was doing bounty reports and social media promotions so you could not expect me here to make a good post. Besides I do not want to prove anybody here that I should learn the way other users expected me to be. I have my own senses to learn and I know that it will not be that easy. Seeing threads in technical discussion without even the background of basic in cryptocurremcy seems to be a disaster.

I just started here take a look with my low quality topics on bitcoin below for your ready reference series, meaning I have to search for more topics to learn on my own.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5275461
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55173846
Bitcoin wallet address ..still in the process of making the post.

It may take a while to do the other series for I do have other set priorities. I do not want also to flood the B&H section of my created thread where I think my post will fit to the audience like me the newbie.

 I joined here in the forum and benefited a lot and I thank the forum for that. However, I do not know how to give back so just continue to do my business here to get the things I am  interested to and that is to learn about bitcoin.

I know it may not be that much but that is the best I could do as a newbie.

When are you going to start?  Soon?  Have you started already?  I did a quick glance at your recent forum posts, and there are NOT too many that are getting posted within bitcoin specific topics.  Sure, you have some, but not a lot.  You have many recent posts in the altcoin and gambling sections, and it does seem that you have more posts in the bitcoin sections in recent times as compared with the beginning of your more than 2.5 years of forum posting history.

One thing is saying and another thing is doing, and one basic step that any person can take is to merely start to engage in Dollar cost averaging investing in bitcoin, even modest amounts on investment into bitcoin on a regular basis - such as even $10 per week.. and that will get you to regularly be investing into bitcoin and thereafter likely paying more attention to bitcoin specifically, and perhaps even motivate you to get involved in a variety of bitcoin related discussions that are connected with your investment into bitcoin.

Probably there are more bitcoin talk members who have sendable merits and are willing to send their smerits when they see your posts and your contributions in bitcoin-related discussion threads.

Sure, like you mentioned, erikoy, if you are spending a lot of time posting about bounty campaign crap or spending time in the gambling or the altcoin section, members who have smerits that they can send might browse through your posting history and NOT want to send you any of their smerits.  Perhaps?

Bounty posts are considered shit posts, spamming and plagiariazing are worst. I can't blamr people who join the forum just to earn few cents. This is the way the look at it and sometimes it could not be appropriate to think that users or people here just because of their self interest. Anyway, I myself too become selfish doing bounty hunting before but it change when I was able to realize that it could not help me to earn and it also hinders me to learn getting pre occupied with bounty tasks. For now, I want to learn especially about the bitcoin system how it works like in the payment system. I have been here for 2 years still not having a clue about bitcoin process like doing transaction not until I participated in technical discussion.

Not only this post is merit begging, an activity is really frowned upon, but also you materially failed to provide any reason for your request.
As I usually want to help users, I dared to venture in your post history and I wasn't able to fine any one worth meriting, as they are merely campaign signing post.
Best way to gain merits is writing useful posts, believe me.

In my observation it is easier to earn merits through creating or starting a thread that is helpful rather than participating discussions even if your ideas are on point. Not all users has given the chance to earn merits in just participating discussions unless the reply is clearly exerting some efforts to point out the discussions for the OP to absorb the information. However, most of my threads are just motivational and not really to earn merits but because of the users around that are also helping and promoting the welfare of the forum they consider some of my posts to be merited.

This is one of the good thing to happen in the forum. More users are helpful to motivate others to participate actively in discussions rather than joining bounties that could only resort to shitposting due to posts required to earn rewards  in the bounty campaign being joined.

The rank and merit system is indeed effective in minimizing the shitposting activity resorting to other users become helpful lately to earn merits. I guess giving them 1 merit would be fine to continue their attitude on being helpful. However, rewarding merit is still a users decision to give if it is deserving or not.

Why do you need 1 merit?

That post can help you. Your post history reflects that you are spammer and all of your posts can be reported as spam.

I agree with the above observations and suggestions of OcTradism and suchmoon.

Additionally, merit sources are not the only ones who have smerit that can be sent to other members, as we know.

Anyone who has smerit can send them to other members, and accordingly, for every 2 merits that are received by any member, the merit receiver will earn 1 sendable merit for those 2 received.

We also know that a large number of sendable merits were airdropped when the merit system was implemented on January 24, 2018. Some of those members who received airdropped smerits have not sent all of their sendable merits, so any of those members could become motivated to send smerits to any post(s) that they determine to be interesting or helpful in some kind of way.. usually, bounty seekers are not going to inspire others to send them smerits or even to be the kinds of threads that attract the receipt of smerits (as has already been stated).