Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 236. (Read 167717 times)

I looked through your posts and do not see anything that is "really really good posts"

perhaps the issue is you are not a native English speaker, so your idea of a good post and others are two different things..

There are several people offering free review services. If you think you have written worthy posts that have gone unnoticed then seek them out and ask them to have a look. If they agree that the posts deserve merit they will award it.

common, it won't happen. Writing  knowledgeable and informative comment does not guaranties you anything, merit simply might not be available in the topic you write )

Yes i am dead serious with Demerit because if it is implemented, No one dares even a high rank that will try to spam or create shit posting ever. They will think first and edit all the things that they will post or comment in every thread. if i where to @Theymos i rather make the ACTIVITY or POST = MERIT   to be fair with all ranks and DEMERIT will be the guide which post or comments are spam or shitpost. In demerit section there should be a reason why this post gets a demerit. You need to directly address the problem not create another problem.

That is the whole issue.. what you are trying to do is dishonest.

you are not providing value with your posts, you only care about earning a few satoshi's.. that isn't cool, that isn't what this community is about. Like it or not the new system was bought in to fight the spam produced by people like you.

Just write a really, really, really good post and you shouldn't have any problem accumulating 90 merit. And I'm sure if you do create such a post, you'll have made the forum a better place because of it

It's a bit dishonestly. When I should be Full Member tomorrow, I will stay a Member with 10 merit because I was a Member at the moment of implementation of new requirements and all my 170+ posts where done in past. To gain 90 merit I need do the same amount of worthwhile posts   Maybe Merit should be automatically counted according to activity, not the rank.

Well I think this new merit system start by theymos will really help this forum to be get alive with a good quality post. Because many of the users will be obligated to write a knowledgeable and informative comment in order to have a merit. So that those people who will rank up was been screened by this new system.

Are you afraid of Demerit because you might end up becoming a Jr Member because of your posting or you don't have enough BALLS to agree?

Has it not occurred to you that some campaign managers put a lot of time and effort into supporting and contributing to this forum for free? They may also have a job to do here but some of them do a lot more besides that.

Name: ColorlessK
URL: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/colorlessk-1029845
Merit: 134

Name: aTriz
URL: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/atriz-135920
Merit: 587

Not really true.

Top-merited users, all-time
1340: theymos
638: Lutpin
482: satoshi
290: TMAN
275: explorder

One out of the top 5 is.

Top merited users are campaign managers. richest users.

Yes it's a bit like that when you read between the lines...
Anyway this new system might bring an higher quality of posting. Lately with the "Rank race", lots of thread were polluted with useless and/or low quality posting...

yes you and your math is right but i think you forgot about merit source
read this
and this is written in the first post of this thread by moderator
"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 are more info about merit source in the first post on this thread
and there explains well that how you can be a merit source

Excellent idea! It should be taken into consideration by devs.

thx for explaining it. I was wondering how the merit works. I think this could be a good solution against spammers. since another person awards you a merit that means that it's very possible that you made a good and helpful comment

I would give you a merit or two but I don't have them I have just two questions for you: are you serious about the point 5? You really think someone is bothered by spam posts? This system is conceived to slow down the growth of the forum and to separate the upper class from the commons like us (which is not such a bad thing, if you ask me - these guys have created this forum, answered so many questions and did so many favors to juniors that they deserved to be the upper class, kings, Gods, or whatever they like to be).

The math is simple: cause everyone can give only the half of the merits they get - half of the people will advance to the upper levels (most probably even much less, cause merits will tend to group together around certain people or groups) And that's just the first round. If we all had, let's say 100 merits to give to each other, in the next round we will have only 50, then 25, then 12, 6, 3, 1 and at the end - nothing. So, basically, by introducing this system of descending number of merits that never renew in the hands of the commons, the forum is locked and can be unlocked only by the mercy of Gods. And then, if you like to advance, only a God can help you with that It doesn't have anything with the quality of the posts, the quality will remain the same, of course, only the posts of the commons will sound more stupid, empty-headed, and God-fearing (or this is a pleonasm, in fact, because these three are the same?) because people usually tend to adjust to the system when it's forced upon them

And the second question about the point number 3: guess once who has the unlimited number of merits to sell (again: I support that, they deserved it)
Hail to Gods ('cause they give merits) and cheers to commons ('cause they've made blockchain and this forum and Gods possible)!

Though its very appropriate, its getting harder to be promoted to higher rank. Of course, quality post should always be considered and  to avoid spam.

same as you , I should have become Sr Member tommorow , Actually I'm also register in 2014 , reason to register account because that time I've join one project (captcoin) created by EcuaMobi, but project discontinues , plus that time motorcycle accident , thank god I'm fine now , so no time to stay in this forum , after few year , I come back in 2017 and start again to active my account

I saw that Moderator decided to increase merit to everyone with activity >=775 , I'm hope that he also increase merit to Full Member > Sr Member and Sr Member to Hero Member , I think this two rank also same as Hero Member > Legendary , previous allocation was not fair