Merit & new rank requirements - page 305.

JayJuanGee

legendary

Activity: 3934

Merit: 11405

Self-Custody is a right. Say no to"Non-custodial"

Quote from: Benezim on January 25, 2018, 03:46:32 AM

I see a lot of merits given to Legendaries in this thread - what's the point of this? I mean, other than boosting their egos, Legendaries don't have any actual use for merits.

Should we not disable merits for Legendaries? sMerits are a scarce resource, after all.

NOT

Seems like you have a groundless objection, and a proposal that comes off as resentful merely because legendaries have been awarded with Merit.. (or grandfathered in).

By the way, merits and smerits are not the same thing. Roll Eyes

tambenile

jr. member

Activity: 64

Merit: 1

Quote from: Lutpin on January 25, 2018, 03:56:14 AM

Quote from: Benezim on January 25, 2018, 03:46:32 AM

I see a lot of merits given to Legendaries in this thread - what's the point of this? I mean, other than boosting their egos, Legendaries don't have any actual use for merits.
Should we not disable merits for Legendaries? sMerits are a scarce resource, after all.

Yes and no, right now, merit sent to legendaries is wasted. Likewise, sMerit not being used and sitting in an account is wasted.
If I have a lot of sMerit I wouldnt use, why not give them for an exceptional post, even by a legendary, to show some appreciation?
I'd still have enough left to reward posts from lower members after that.

Another aspect: If they make high quality posts and you send them merit, that is a good example for newbies.
They can check which kind of posts gain merit and learn how to increase their post quality that way.

Sorry sir but did you send any of your sMerits points to another ? And what rank is that one ? Can you picture it for me please ?
P/S: No offense to you but only to figure out how hard you guys can give some sMerits to other people ( the normal one not fabulous and famous like you). You can get them easy doesn't mean others can.

Happiest

member

Activity: 207

Merit: 22

I specifically used my time to read this thread right from the beginning. I must confuse this system is a good attempt to wipe away shit posting but it is also another way to drive this forum to some kind of politics play where by some higher ranked members will be giving out merits based on friendship, popularity and ass-licking (it has already start happening). Look at those whom are highly happy about this system are those whom have the power of merit allocation are been placed on their hands. Even if we know people whom are giving each other merits, they will still try to prove you wrong by saying that those they gave it to deserve it. I think the better way to have done this is, is for the admin to be the ones to allocated the merit and not fellow forum users. Even if it takes months to rank up through our merits; it is the best because you will know that you are thoroughly been judged or evaluated through what you contribute. But with it been in the hands of fellow users; a user with excellent posts will take up to months if not years to rank up because some higher ranked members view the low ranks as nothing. If you think am wrong start up a new account and post high quality post to run this test.

Lutpin

copper member

Activity: 1904

Merit: 1874

Goodbye, Z.

Quote from: Benezim on January 25, 2018, 03:46:32 AM

I see a lot of merits given to Legendaries in this thread - what's the point of this? I mean, other than boosting their egos, Legendaries don't have any actual use for merits.
Should we not disable merits for Legendaries? sMerits are a scarce resource, after all.

Yes and no, right now, merit sent to legendaries is wasted. Likewise, sMerit not being used and sitting in an account is wasted.
If I have a lot of sMerit I wouldnt use, why not give them for an exceptional post, even by a legendary, to show some appreciation?
I'd still have enough left to reward posts from lower members after that.

Another aspect: If they make high quality posts and you send them merit, that is a good example for newbies.
They can check which kind of posts gain merit and learn how to increase their post quality that way.

Boriss

full member

Activity: 728

Merit: 115

I welcome idea that would stop people from randomly bumping up their post count with meaningless posts.
Also i think this is very good tool because it stands in the middle of the "post count- Activity number" and "Trust system points" that people barely use.

It will probably be abused, but any system becomes like that at some point. How admins will respond to that kind of problem will lead us to conclusion how good will Merit points become in a few months or a year to come.

exus

full member

Activity: 146

Merit: 111

I hope there will be at least 1 merit source for each Local section of the forum.. i usually make posts in my language Roll Eyes

undeadbitcoiner

sr. member

Activity: 910

Merit: 273

Undeadbitcoiner Will not DIE until 1BTC=50K

We needed this to control spam posts,
This is really welcome, Thank you
Someone in the post said better give merit than Thank you just want to tell in advance gave Merit before posting this post.

Quote from: Calangaman on January 25, 2018, 03:39:36 AM

Great initiative !
Can I send merit points to the admin ? Cheesy

Yes of course just click in MERIT and give.

Quote from: Benezim on January 25, 2018, 03:46:32 AM

I see a lot of merits given to Legendaries in this thread - what's the point of this? I mean, other than boosting their egos, Legendaries don't have any actual use for merits.

Should we not disable merits for Legendaries? sMerits are a scarce resource, after all.

Merit is specially for best posts and proper posts so i believe this post should get merit as much as possible.

alisafidel58

full member

Activity: 364

Merit: 127

Quote from: bbcolex on January 25, 2018, 03:35:31 AM

Just wondering if Its OK if I offer a service and then I ask for merit in return?

Depending on the service, if its tx acceleration then negative will be given to you instead of merit points. On the other hand you might be tagged for doing such service "Begging for merit points, avoid like a plague".

Its hard to tell since there is no such rules given by Theymos about this. Why not try to do a service and lets see what the DT`s will have to say about it. Just be ready for the outcome of your action.

Quote from: bbcolex on January 25, 2018, 03:35:31 AM

Is that even legal ?

Legal or illegal only Theymos can answer that question, im sure that there will be services that will be opening up in the following days to come and it will have the eyes of "you know who".

mstfprcn

hero member

Activity: 700

Merit: 553

Turkish local board of the forum is very nervous and they think already given merit points distrubition is unfair.

It have to be shared according to current activity point , and may be extra points for trust points as well.

hope that moderation will fix this unfair distrubition.

Regards

Benezim

full member

Activity: 420

Merit: 142

I see a lot of sMerits given to Legendaries in this thread - what's the point of this? I mean, other than boosting their egos, Legendaries don't have any actual use for sMerits.

Should we not disable sMerits for Legendaries? sMerits are a scarce resource, after all.

afanase

jr. member

Activity: 32

Merit: 1

Quote from: tambenile on January 25, 2018, 02:48:47 AM

Quote from: yourcatsofat on January 25, 2018, 02:41:51 AM

Quote from: arallmuus on January 25, 2018, 02:28:35 AM

Quote from: yourcatsofat on January 25, 2018, 02:25:21 AM

So, the main question is why did not you give merits based on activity?

Because being active in the forum doesnt mean that you dont shitpost here. This is pretty much better than the old system

Quote from: krishnaverma on January 25, 2018, 02:30:20 AM

Because it will not stop spam posts. Activity can be gained by just making posts daily one on average. Merit is to ensure that people make quality posts.

I do not think 99% of high-quality posts will give Merits. I understand that BCT needs to stop spam. But I think merits is not a good idea. No one will give smerits to Jr or Member.

People are so innocent when thinking that someone will give Newbies and Junior Member or even Member some sMerits. LOL

Do you think that the community can survive if all members here just become selfish. It is mentioned that sMerits may be nullifed and thus there is no point in hoarding them.

Calangaman

sr. member

Activity: 602

Merit: 250

Great initiative !
Can I send merit points to the admin ? Cheesy

batang_bitcoin

hero member

Activity: 3080

Merit: 603

Quote from: alisafidel58 on January 25, 2018, 02:48:03 AM

Quote from: batang_bitcoin on January 25, 2018, 01:54:04 AM

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theymos will make a 'merit' page to see on how often members are giving merit to other one. And people who are giving merits to others are transparent and can be seen so there will be an obvious if "guy one" send merit to "guy two" most of the time. But this will be hard to determine on who are those people doing this thing all of the sudden, looking at their post one by one.

For now let's adopt this system and it's better to give credit to the valuable posts that contributes to the forum's greatness.

If you can see in the image Theymos has already acquired some merits which will eventually take up some space of your screen. If you acquired too much merit from different user here it will be annoying to the eye and obviously Theymos will do something about it and will have to add minimized option or hide.

Yes he mentioned it that he'll do something about it in the future.

Quote from: theymos_away on January 24, 2018, 10:29:37 PM

Quote from: CodyAlfaridzi on January 24, 2018, 10:23:03 PM

theymos need to make a public list of sent and received merit of a user, like a trust summary. This will easily solve that problem.

I will do this in the near future, maybe tomorrow. Also top merited posts/topics/users.

Quote from: alisafidel58 on January 25, 2018, 02:48:03 AM

Hypothetically, abuse from user will happen for creating such group in the following months or so, and another "great chase" will start to happen leaving yet another hard job for DT`s and moderators.

It may seem viable, but there are still some flaws towards the new merit system and for sure abuse will come along next to it.

Abuse will come along but for now let's see on how things will work on and when we are there, there will be another action to solve on it. But it will be exposed if there will be people who started to involved themselves with such activities about merit. For the meanwhile, all of us are liking this merit points system.

bbcolex

full member

Activity: 686

Merit: 100

It's somehow good for the forum , to regulate and lessen alts account. But harder for those people like me to earn a merit. Just wondering if Its OK if I offer a service and then I ask for merit in return? Is that even legal ?

Avirunes

legendary

Activity: 3094

Merit: 1472

Quote from: Ginzink on January 25, 2018, 03:28:19 AM

Happy for the change, maybe there will be less posts of the type newbie asking about ICO in a thread for a minable coin without any ICO

I guess that would hardly change. Projects still pay for bumping their ANN's. At the moment this is only at a level that encourages signature campaign participants (mostly) to pace up the quality of their posts. So you would see a nice change in increase in quality posts in forum but its not gonna put an end to those bumpers.

jimmywh

member

Activity: 140

Merit: 22

Since cryptocurrencies have taken off, the amount of low quality posts on BCT has increased significantly. I really welcome this kind of initiative. However, I am excited to see whether it works as intended or not.

Ginzink

full member

Activity: 462

Merit: 118

It may be abused by the account farmers as said by others, but it will make it harder at least for them and that is a good thing!
Now i just need to come up with some high quality posts to gain 150 merit in the next two months when activity would rank me up Tongue

Happy for the change, maybe there will be less posts of the type newbie asking about ICO in a thread for a minable coin without any ICO

Orino Suimuri

member

Activity: 129

Merit: 10

RedTube & Rasputin Party Mansion

Hello, I try to understand the system. I'm relatively new here, but I agree 100% about the need to stop shitposters (I hope I'm not one of them, even sure I need to improve the quality of my posts, and the merit system gives me a good motivation)

Btw, it seems to me that it's a little unbalanced as starting point, if I understand well:

now - as member - I have 10 merit points, by default.

Full members have - by default - 100 points

What I'm trying to say:

If anything goes well, in just a month me too I'll become Full Member, but it's very difficult to believe that I'll receive 100 merit points, even if my posts were masterworks.

May be I'm doing a poor evaluation, but it seems to me that a so big different evaluation in starting point gives a too big advantage to high rank members, and it will make impossible for low rank members to grow.

(oh, may be I'm wrong, and anyone will be generous in giving merit points).

It's not a critic, I'd just like to know if I understood correctly the system, and if what I said is just bullshit of if it makes any sense.

Thank you.

yourcatsofat

sr. member

Activity: 644

Merit: 250

So funny. Very positive feedback from Hero/Legendary. Nothing to say

BoXXoB

legendary

Activity: 2018

Merit: 1108

Not long since I wondered when something new is being brought up. I see this as a move to the right direction. Obviously there are things to iron out but I have faith this will bring positive changes.

I'm of course worried about people gaming the system which is inevitable but doubt there's anything that couldn't be fixed.

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