Topic: Merit & new rank requirements - page 238. (Read 167717 times)

sews. ifn ye caint sales ur ltcz, and i rite sum qualitittiefied posts,you can git a meritoriously feelin

..ur mum

I'm hoarding "merit" hoping in the future to convert it into LTC

What makes you think that any of your opinion is valid? Just because you have a huge pile of sMerit to give out somehow this makes you an authority on what deserves praise?

Most of of what you post is merely drivel, nonsensical shitposting. Why don't you just put this whole thread on ignore and quit double posting?

Looks like you are living in a pie in the sky world.  You want to predict the future before it happens, and then you have a self-fulfilling prophecy.   

Yeah, you could end up being correct, but my earlier points still stand including that your high level of negativism from the get go is still not even attempting to either give the new system a chance or to work within the parameters of the new system in order to figure out the good, bad and the ugly and to be constructive in your whole approach, whether that is brainstorming with others or making suggestions.

Your challenge here is a bit much, and likely has the opposite effect.  In reality, I should just ignore you rather than even quoting anything... even though you made some decent other points, but your points are not the be all end all, there are a lot of ways of framing matters, and there is not ONLY ONE way of looking at things, which happen to be your own way.  Get a grip.        (see trying to find some humor in your nonsensical attempt at seriousness).

Actually, you are correct that there are a lot of ways that folks might end up overinvesting in crypto in one way or another, and that becomes a kind of gambling, especially, if you end up having a decent amount of value in one place or another, and then you either get robbed or some exchange does an exit scam or something like that. Many of us in the space a long time come to realize that scams proliferate the space, but there still remain decent ways to navigate the space and take reasonable risks rather than extra risks. 

Another thing is that sometimes you might not realize the extent of the risk that you are taking, especially when aspects of your portfolio increase so exorbitantly in such a short period of time, but your security precautions do not increase to a reasonably equal level.  I ended up getting screwed pretty badly at one point too (in early 2017), but I guess that I had some luck in the matter, too because I did not really feel a need to take a break from my crypto activity because of such high level of getting screwed over, and I think that in my case, the subsequent exorbitant BTC price increase almost negated (in some ways of calculating) the level that I had been screwed in terms of my total holdings.  I mean really from early 2017 to late 2017, we had a 20x price increase... which really helped because we had already experienced a 4x price increase in 2016, too (at least if we start calculating from October 2015)... so the outrageously high level of gains - even going quite  a bit beyond expectations can help to deal with some of the losses and to put into a better perspective, but still hopefully each of us can learn from our mistakes to improve our own practices and perhaps through forums like this brainstorm with others who go through similar experiences in order to help each other whether that is logic or exposure to new facts, practices or procedures. 

Sometimes there may also be new practices or procedures that come on line (in this evolving space), and I suppose getting ranked up will help each of us to be more credible and sometimes share higher levels of insider information with other members that we come to trust through networks like this (but hopefully always with a bit of a grain of salt).

Come on JayJuanGee, you can do better that this. I can understand that for a moment this has been the best answer that your Legendary mind could think at, but luckily other parts of your mind are able of a higher level of debate than this shitposting oversimplified reasoning.


I extrapolate how things are likely to unfold in the future based on the available data. Not enough data after 4 days? Perhaps. But it is never too early to try to figure out which will be the outcome of our actions. Had more analysis been done on the consequences of this change before implementing it, quite likely it could have been done better. But it's never too late to improve things. Unfortunately, you HAVE to try to forecast future events for doing that.


You assume, optimistically, that the best side of human nature will be able to tune this system in a way that it will start to work. I assume, pessimistically, that the worse side of human nature will unfortunately prevail. I hope you are right. But it would be useful to think at a plan B for the case you aren't. A merit system would surely benefit the forum... but only if it will be the merit system which was supposed to be.


Just consider mine like an early warning. History tells us that people rarely listen to early warnings and eventually they punish that who is telling them what they don't want to hear, instead of being thankful as they should. Google the myth of Cassandra, if you don't understand what I'm talking about.

They are already being given negative trust by some of the trusted members here. You can help the forum by reporting such a behavior. I think once the members here have spent the default merits that they have got, we will have a better picture. Thereafter, it will be merit sources mainly giving the merits and I hope they consider the trust of the member as well while giving those merits. This will ensure that cheaters do not have any access to merit points at all.

Your further explanation does not contradict what I said, it merely elaborates on what i had said, so we are largely saying similar things... to make similar points, and that is that your activity level could have been a lot higher based on more posts, and you may have fairly easily been able to reach legendary status before the change in the system had you posted several more times before the change took place. 

Seems like water under the bridge at this point if you are wishing that you would have ranked up prior to the change.

Great improvement! The tread were getting more and more like a mess. 50% just were trying to reach the activity score, by publishing rubish posts, with no sence. Thanks for the improvement, probably It will force me to come here more often.

You don't really need to 'collect' the points - the hope is the points follow quality.

Sold Merit are not less fake.

What will happen to members who sell or offer to sell their Merit? Will they are be banished? Or will their merit be canceled?
I mean only - because of the quality of the posts.

Huh, new system. Seems pretty complicated to rank up at the moment, considering how "valuable" merit points are right now. Oh well, I'm not one to talk, who doesn't like collecting fake internet points/karma/merits/likes....

Yeah, am not a fan of it either. Maybe i am being a bit pessimistic about it though.. and it all works out better than i predict. It's early days so maybe i shouldn't be drawing too many conclusions just yet.

Right ... even if I would get one merit for every post I am writing, and do one post per day, my activity will be at least 1240 until I can possibly hope to become a legendary.    But's that's how life goes, especially in crypto. Sometimes you lose and other people win, sometimes it's the opposite. As in trading, what matters is that you are continuing to contribute quality decisions and posts. I think I might actually just ignore all this stuff, as someone suggested. 

You are completely right. The distribution of the merit and its initial state is another point.

One can ask oneself, for which reason they had not simply take the current activity points and possibly converted 70 or 80 percent of them in Merit.
And indeed for "all" active members.

Members with 2000 Merit probably do not know anymore how many of their postings do not contain more than 3 words.

There's pros and cons in the new system, those who are creating multiple accounts will have a hard time to rank up their account and it will absolutely decrease the number of users who aren't creating constructive post.

It was a big advantage for those who started earlier because they were able to attain their current rank before the merit system occur. There are chances that some high ranks might sell their sMerits because they do not need it somehow.

I do not like the new system that much also but lets all start to strive creating more productive post that will help other new members in order to earn merits and rank up our account.

If you PM'd him about the distribution being unfair he talked about it in another thread.

I think, its way to hard to earn some merits, because they seem to be very rare at the moment. Maybe that will change with time.

"in that time span" ... that's true, I absolutely support that Lauda.

But, I'm a Full Member since more than 4 months, rank-up should be in two days. 2 days for 150 Merit isn't a big time span, right?

The distribution of Merit was just unfair and should have been calculated from the activity points using some fair formula. theymos hasn't responded to my PM anyway.