Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 167. (Read 167726 times)

Easy enough to stop that by limiting the number of posts that can be reported each day. And how is this any different from what is going on now, especially in the foreign language subforums, where there appears to be big ol' circle jerks of meriting?

Why instant 1000 merits?

Well of course NOW they will do this if it's implemented.     I said myself that this may or may not be a good idea. 

Merit farmers will create a few thousand sockpuppet accounts, create multiple spam with each sockpuppet account, and then use their main account to report all their own sockpuppet spam.  Voila, instant 1000 merit.

Actually, this sounds like a good idea. And the framework to deal with the potential issue of over-reporting is already in place, in that you are told your accuracy score for reporting each time you report a new post (e.g. - 6 out of 6 for me, last time I checked). So if you have, say, better than 90% accuracy in reporting spam or rules violations then you will receive a merit for each new report submitted (as long as it is accurate, of course).

What do you think of providing merit to those who correctly report spam/shill posts that serve no purpose?  I think this may end up helping the forum as a whole in the long run and could give some low levels a source of merit.  Of course, there is the risk of possibly over-reporting which would lead to mods opposing this as people are just reporting to try to get merit. 

I may have talked myself out of it, but I'm interested to see what others have to say about it.

Thanks, fella. Hope so, who's like us worrying much for dont have any merit will be recognize, time will come.
More power @Theymos and @MeritSystem.

Cool, that explains a lot... I did jump to an unsubstantiated conclusion when I saw those followup posts, so sorry about that. I had checked out posts from those guys and they both do a lot of one-liners in ICO ANN threads along the lines of "Looks like a good project", "Why no bounty campaign?", etc. That activity, combined with their ignoring my questions, and their large merit scores just made me think "WTF is going on with merit?!?!".

One day, I hope to get more than 50 chars for my sig... on that glorious day, I will finally able to include the full quote

Ok I take that advice or whatever it is, thank you, I am not sure whatever you mean but if you think it is my spin thats your, I am not that kind of person, I like to end whatever disputes is with mutual peace

Merits became a business for speculators, .you need to enter a mandatory expenditure ! if not spent for a short period of time, then deducted from you merit..I see many good comments without merit I'm not talking about myself!
I apologize for the bad eng)! I hope you understand what I meant)!

Don't be ridiculous with your seemingly bad motive spin of an assumption regarding facts that are not in evidence.   

I take back the the last part and sorry to your favorite poster

Sorry for that multiple post on multiple thread part, because the rules say no duplicate posting on multiple boards which clearly I can claim innocent (my understanding is creating a new thread post topics and content in multiple board, replying post in the multiple thread is excluded) but its sound more like lawyer's technical defense, I better just offer my apology


and the rest of my post sorry for that



Thank you for your kindness.

Anyone can answer this question, and it does not need to be me.

Surely, I don't know the whole story of your situation, and maybe the whole story does not matter too much because I can gather a certain amount of information merely by looking at some of your post history, your trust rating and your so far received merits.   

The truth of the matter seems to be that you have a lot of shitty posts, and some of your posts seem to be excessively obsessed with merit and NOT even expressing your ideas very clearly.  Furthermore, you received 10 merits for a largely nonsensical thread that you had started, and you received those 10 merits on February 26, so I do not understand why you would need to be so obsessed with merit in the short term because, with those 10 merits that you already received, you have enough merits to rank up to member status, and you still have another 3 months (approximately) before you would even be eligible to rank up to full member, which requires 100 merits, as you likely know.    Anyhow, DannyHamilton negative trusted you on February 26.

If you really are serious about attempting to earn merit and attempting to get your negative trust removed, then you would likely need to work pretty hard to accomplish such.  It is not an impossible task, but it just seems to me that your whole approach, so far, has been a bit wacky with a lot of shitty posts. 

To me, your posts are so shitty that you would likely need to engage in some efforts to improve the quality of your posts and for several months.  Also, you should probably remove your negative trust of DannyHamilton (which seems to have been a retaliatory response from you towards him).  Perhaps after you post quality posts for a few months, then you might want to PM DannyHamilton and ask him if he would be willing to remove your negative trust or if he has some conditions that he would like you to meet before he removes your negative trust.  In the end, your negative trust is not going to stop you from participating in this forum - although it may prevent you from engaging in some signature campaigns, and if engaging in a signature campaign is your main goal, then it could take some time to resolve your matter and with some efforts on your side to consider ways to post quality rather than quantity. 

By the way, I am giving you a general suggestion, and certainly I don't know whether DannyHamilton might NOT be willing to remove negative trust from you, but surely it seems to me that if you engage in quality posting and improve your approach and discontinue soliciting merits, then it is possible that he may be willing to consider such a request to remove the negative trust that he gave you. 

NOTE: I would not suggest contacting DannyHamilton at all for several months, until after you have made some decent and materially demonstrable efforts to fix what he had negative trusted you for.  On the other hand, if DannyHamilton has a policy to never remove negative trust, then your account is going to be labelled with that negative trust from him hence forth.  That is not a death knell for your account, but would just be a factor and a part of the history of your account, that you could still improve with quality posts and discontinuing with asking for merits.

You're cross-posting the same shit in multiple threads and you're off-topic in most of them. That's quite spammy. Create your own thread.

I'm not making an argument based on my moral superiority. It's based on facts, i.e. your post history. If you don't like it - don't spam.

I have no idea whom I'm supposedly protecting. It doesn't make any sense. Is that some sort of an implied threat?

Joel, I do believe you should reconsider what you've just written, and I'll try to help you with that with some suggestions:

1. "merit system is unfair and so is life. I'm actually glad merit system is going to teach you kids real life survival techniques when exposed to sadistic corporate life"
Do you really find this unfairness of life so wonderful and fascinating and you think that "everyone deserves to suffer"? Wasn't this whole blockchain thing a (now, seemingly unsuccessful) attempt to make a new community based on technology that will serve people, instead of having people serving the corporate system? Are you so in love with the corporate system or you just like to watch people suffer (for what psychologists have a proper term, by the way, be careful with that)? Do you really want to live in the future that will look like the corporate present, like the arbitrary merit system? Would you like your kids to suffer, too, as we suffer in our corporate lives?

2. Nobody "needs" a rank update, these people just want to make more money, as you have cleverly noticed. It's the basic thing about your (loving?) corporate system, so what's wrong with that desire?

3. So, if people can't upgrade their ranks, and can't make more money because of that - which is a basic presumption of every corporate system (otherwise it's called "slavery" or "feudalism") - what kind of "wonders" this system does, according to you?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging you, I don't even need merits or any similar sick concoction that the powerful use to oppress and subdue the weak. I just think that your standpoint is not so clear: are you for or against the "sadistic" corporate system? Because, in every corporate system people will want more money, merits, or whatever and they will beg, cheat or kill for it - as they do all the time. It comes together with that choreography, you know, if you love one, you should love the other, too  

I'm going to let my already made comments on the topic or whatever post history that I have (and you have) speak for themselves.

In other words, you are beating a dead horse here, you gooftard (last part thrown in for funzies).
 

Jayjuan i got negative trust for asking for merit... i have to google everything i googled howto gain merit, and a hero rank on the forum said i have to make quality posts, then went on to say even with 100 quality posts i may not get any, because they are so hard to come by people dont want to give them out, and then he ended it with the best way to get merit and (the quickest) is just ask... im only asking you because you are legend rank... is there anyway i can redeem myself and fix it im not trying to have a neg trust, simply followed what higher ranking of official said for me to do... please dont neg trust only want to know how i can fix it.... or what is the consequences because i got neg trust and reported.... and how can i fix it thanks

Its highly relevant to the poster request, I did make sure that it is not affiliate link and also it is not potentially scamming project, where did it say that it is consider spam when I just reply with same answer for the relevant question from totally different thread, If I think some project do substantially good and beneficial why not I share it with others who is looking for it here





Weird that I did not purposely insult anyone and do carefully craft my wording to avoid insulting anyone that you still find it rude or insulting perhaps you use some unusual metrics to measure other people's rudeness and made your conclusion

You seem to protect someone who clearly rude, making your moral ground looks highly questionable

I agree for 100percent with this fraze. Can your give me some merri& Thank's.