Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 173. (Read 167726 times)

You have 18 merit. I take it you sent merit to your friend krassy registered a day after you and vice versa?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/lunarics-1350339    Lunarics  November 26, 2017,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/krassy-1352631     krassy November 27, 2017

if there are no friends here, then no one will give a merit especially to the lower ranks. It does not matter how good the answer or topic was! This is not a democratic system, when only friends are throwing each other merit

You should change your attitude to more positive one. If keep complaining about current flaws of merit system, you will miss magic things of the system, which can, has changed, and will change the forum forever.
Of course, this is one-month system and need to be adjusted somehow in order to make it work more smoothly, and create bigger impacts on bitcointalk users. However, I don't see any inconvenience with current system. I am not sure what you have done over the last month, but you can see that there are lots of newbies, Junior members (lower-ranked members) jumped to Meta; Beginners & help boards to discuss, to help each other. By doing this, they also increase their knowledge, skills, experience faster than ever before. Personally, this is one of magic impacts of merit system. And many things more I dont mention in the thread, and many things more will come in the future.

In merit system, I strongly believe and will go along with it.

I do agree with you that this will increase the quality posts, but it seems like not everybody is aware of the merit system. Where I think it is a good thing, I also think that it might get hard to really get your merit up high. You have to put faith in the hands of people giving you merit, where not all are aware of the merit system.. I think there could be some improvements made, Like a banner you see when logging in on bitcointalk, so it gets more known!

Fully agreed with you my friend, those higher ranks they might a smerit source to the lower ranks member just like from full member to newbie member. So far in 1 month in merit system i saw an improvement on the forum even though those people English is not their native language just like me but they are trying their best in posting. But it is the hardest part now to rank up if you can't reach the required amount of smerit. So, those higher ranks member we are family here in forum lets help others to rank up at least by sharing them smerit. You may check the whole post that they have if she/he deserving to have smerit not only higher rank giving to each other smerit or just because they are well known here.

i do not think that sources holding their sMERIT , but there are also a lot off people like hero and legendary who has sMERIT to give but even do not know that their sMERIT could be gone/or taken in a given time

so come on , all hero's , legendary's and meritsources , let's all get a change for merit not only people you know , if you do not use your sMERIT they could be gone

with regards

Number of quality posts have increased. Spaming has been reduced. Started reviewing / referring / analysing while posting which would make the post more qualified. Really a good system brought forth. This drives us to get merits to move to other stage. Though the merit requirement from Full member to Sr.Member is bit high, number of quality posts have been increased and it supports to contribute the best to the campaigns we join and to the forum.

In terms of ranking up on to Jr. Member you don't need it but as for future usage I think you should better understand that getting a merit was not that simple. If I were you, I wont ignore it so that wont regret it later.

so if i'm understanding it correctly, as a newbie i don't need to mind the merit system?

Wow, time really flies. It is a month now and I only have 15 merits, I think it is time to make a post complaining about the system. 

Oh, you are more succesfull than me, I only got 13 points What a long way to the next rank upgrade.. but you are luckier than me, as you are already a Full Member

It was a great month and i already collected a lot of merit points, A whole 14 points.  I hope that i will receive more in the 2nd month, so, Happy one month birthday to the merit system.

HAPPY ONE MONTH BIRTHDAY TO THE MERIT SYSTEM!

Obviously you are caught up with the new rank up system. The forum is now no longer a place for easy rank up.  It is not that you can't grow up in your rank, but you have to work hard for it. Just impress someone with a fantastic contribution to the discussion on the thread.

How about some very simple tweaks like first of all, REMOVING "OFF TOPIC POSTS" from adding to posts counts for users? That ought to be a great start. New rules like this one are better than the merit/smerit system in my opinion.

If you “join this greeting”, then I promise that you will wind up with dripping-red negative trust feedback.  Now, I will be watching you.

Try the “constructive posting” idea instead.  On a brief glance over your post history, I see some interest in paid signature ads, and some low-quality posts; but I also see more sincere interest in good posting than the general class of idiots whining about the merit system.  E.g., this showed the correct attitude, albeit a total lack of reading comprehension when viewed in-context:


(Yes, most of the Off-Topic forum is pure trash by illiterate morons who are trying to pump their post counts so they can “rank up” for paid signatures.  Some posts in Off-Topic are valuable.  But all this is irrelevant; you replied in a thread wherein theymos was warning not to post off-topic replies anywhere on the forum.  You confused this with the special forum which is named “Off-Topic” because it allows topics totally unrelated to Bitcoin.)

I think with the attitude you have displayed in some of your other posts, you have a good chance to learn and improve your skills and your posting.  That would benefit you, and benefit the forum community; incidentally, it would earn you some merit the honest way.  Too bad you kill your credibility by asking if it would “really work” to turn into a shameful beggar.  People who see that will avoid giving you merit—and by that, I mean the people who have very high merit, and thus might have sMerit to give.  Including myself.

Is it possible to ask for Merit? Well, I see it is, but does it really work? Can I join this greeting or better to concentrate on constructive posting? Thanks.

And his post history doesn't suggest this is an isolated example... 

A member having barely all his posts in ICO related topics (or in local sections) will get rarely merit and this is the point of the system.
Make useful posts = get a reward, simple

I think it's going to be really hard to get your profile to a higher rank with this new merit system
I hope that there will be more upgrades and modifications.