Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 226. (Read 167717 times)

Does merit affects the ranks ? How can i earn merit? Im confused

Does merit affects the ranks ? How can i earn merit? Im confused

Even though asking might become a practice of some, hopefully, asking does not either get rewarded or any kind of wide-spread practice, because I don't think that would have been an intended outcome in the long term, even though it could be a short term dynamic, perhaps?

Yes, because quality is subjective.  And also because it depends on the generosity of each individual. Smerits have turned out to be rare commodities, so some people will tend to save their smerits rather than freely give them out. Another observation is that posters sometimes have to expressively asked for merits if they like their post. So all in all, a new posting behavior has emerged.

Just my observation and thoughts.

all this shows is prove you're nothing but a cheap loyalist to a defunct and currently dysfunctional system that may end up dwelling in past glory (like your rank will soon become)  if it continues to be blinded with this false sense of power and pride in achievements in cryptospace.

Don't let your legendaey rank in cryptoville make you feel like a king in the real world...

After a week now that this new merit system has been implemented.  It looks like merits are very hard to earn regardless of the quality of posts.

I just had a quick look at that dumb Bcash forum and the first thing I found is that for the recent Electrum vulnerability they just copied theymos' post from here. 

Maybe make contests with merit? One who expresses an opinion in your own words, can gain merit. You can create a separate topic. The forum participants will give their predictions and claim the reward. What do you think? Thank you for your opinion.

In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks. The required scores are:

Rank	Required activity	Required merit
Brand new	0	0
Newbie	1	0
Jr Member	30	0
Member	60	10
Full Member	120	100
Sr. Member	240	250
Hero Member	480	500
Legendary	Random in the range 775-1030	1000

You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points can be sent by you to other people.

Certain users are designated as "merit sources". They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month (which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of merit sources (so that people don't bug them too much), though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.

There is currently no such thing as a "demerit". I'm hoping that the positive merits alone will be fine. I could add demerits pretty easily later on if necessary, though.

I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
 - Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
 - Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

Do not beg for merit excessively.

Useful infographics

Forum users have helpfully created some infographics to explain the merit system:
paxmao's infographic
ibminer's infographic
8Habits's infographic
JetSet11's infographic
zentdex's infographic
alia_armelle's infographic

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.
 2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.
 3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.

I am especially eager to have merit sources in sub-communities such as the local sections.

Trivia:

For current members, your initial merit score is equal to the minimum required to your rank. Of that, a certain amount (less than the usual half) is spendable. The spendable amount was calculated based on your current rank and the number of activity points you earned in the last year. A Legendary member who hasn't posted in the last year would still be Legendary, but would not have any spendable merit.

If someone sends you 1 merit, the 0.5 sMerit is not wasted; it is just not shown until you get another merit point.

There are stats here, and you can find someone's merit summary by clicking the "merit" link on their profile.

They are benefited by the fact that they joined early. Also, now that the change is implemented, we better move on instead of crying about the past.


There is a problem with codes, it is easier to game such a system. How can codes check the quality of post ? They can judge content length and uniqueness but that is not what we want. Finally, this forum will not function based on what you and I like.

Personally , after reading 105 pages of the new merit system, i think this will slows down the ranking up of the whole members in this forum much even it made the point that fights against those spammers and shitposters but looks like things are going crazy if you're nearly leveling up.

It's a really hard situation or else theymos should tweaks it a little bit. Make it more easier to achieved because it's likely an impossible mission for getting some sMerits if you're not popular enough ...

This may be abuse of the new system. Such people are being caught and given negative trust. This will make their account useless if they made it for signature campaigns.


You can report such posts and the moderators will take care of that. Just because someone is doing a wrong things and still successful, it does not mean all of us should take the same route.