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Topic: Merit spree is underway. - page 3. (Read 1649 times)

mk4
legendary
Activity: 2870
Merit: 3873
Paldo.io 🤖
November 19, 2019, 07:57:23 AM
#21
This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

Goddamnit. Theymos back at it again with his army of alt accounts to spam the forum with the CryptoTalk signature campaign. *sigh*
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 16328
Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23
November 19, 2019, 07:06:37 AM
#20
Yet another proof quantitative easing, in any form it might be implemented, is a recipe for disaster.
legendary
Activity: 3290
Merit: 16489
Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
November 19, 2019, 06:43:16 AM
#19
Code:
if($smerit+$source < $merits && $ID_MEMBER!=35)
    fatal_error("You do not have enough sendable merit.", false);

I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink
@theymos: It looks like your "emergency update" broke things:
Did anybody face any problem with merit that send by theymos for the 10th-anniversary contest? I have faced some problem when theymos sent me merits for second time that, I see, I received some merits in my merit history but when I click on the link of which post merited, But I can not find any merit on the post that send by theymos. I have also checked others' profiles for making me sure. But I also faced the same problem/error on others' profiles too.
The user above has received this from you:
Code:
Today at 04:25:17 AM: 3 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest
Today at 02:04:18 AM: 10 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest
November 18, 2019, 08:53:04 PM: 50 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest
These are the posts: 50 Merit, no Merit (instead of 10) from you, and 3 Merit from you again.

Update: it looks like it's fixed now.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 16328
Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23
November 19, 2019, 05:52:07 AM
#18
I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink

You are the one to blame!
This is proper Quantitative Easing on Merit Economy!

It's the first time on the Bitcointalk forum that all members have the same chance to win several dozen merits for such an easy task.

This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

We want hard/sound money, we want hard/sound merits!

I put here yet another smiley  Wink so we don't fall into the Poe's Law paradox
staff
Activity: 3304
Merit: 4115
November 19, 2019, 05:42:34 AM
#17
This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.

Goddamn that's a lot of merits though.
Yeah, its a one off thing though to sort of get the community involved with the anniversary so I think its an exception where we can reward users on art they've created instead of quality posts.
legendary
Activity: 2744
Merit: 1708
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November 19, 2019, 05:21:27 AM
#16
Great opportunity for newbie accounts to get a nice chunk of merits and all they have to do is to create their own art about Bitcointal 10th anniversary.

There are still many newbies and junior accounts with not enough knowledge about BTC or any other cryptocurrencies and such a contest is a great chance even for a higher rank.

As we can see Theymos gives real nice merits awards to these pieces of art which were created by members personally and cost at least some effort.

It's the first time on the Bitcointalk forum that all members have the same chance to win several dozen merits for such an easy task.
legendary
Activity: 2268
Merit: 16328
Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23
November 19, 2019, 04:33:04 AM
#15
My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

I didn't thought the pages would still be counting, but I think you gave to much time for the Art-thread Smiley

I woumd have gone for 10 days or something, 10 days to celebrate 10 amazing forum years  Cheesy

Maybe i'm wrong, but this was a long period.

Longer periods allows for best art.
Art requires time.
Photoshop theme filling or low effort requires no time.
So in the end the choice to give more time was correct.

I guess the final BTC prize and the reference
Quote
to a ton of merit, probably at least 500 in total
drew a lot of attention.

legendary
Activity: 2674
Merit: 13168
BTC + Crossfit, living life.
November 19, 2019, 04:27:14 AM
#14
My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

I didn't thought the pages would still be counting, but I think you gave to much time for the Art-thread Smiley

I woumd have gone for 10 days or something, 10 days to celebrate 10 amazing forum years  Cheesy

Maybe i'm wrong, but this was a long period.
legendary
Activity: 1890
Merit: 1727
Be A Hope
November 19, 2019, 04:17:49 AM
#13
My head is going to explode
He looks at each work in detail. This is both kind and fair. Thank you @Theymos
hero member
Activity: 2128
Merit: 532
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November 19, 2019, 12:29:08 AM
#12
I'll finish this some other day.

Past page 61, I might not merit the really-low-effort photoshops/template-fills anymore.

You might wanna assign more staffs to go thru the designs with you. Those extra Merits might motivate them Cheesy
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
November 19, 2019, 12:20:13 AM
#11
I'll finish this some other day.

Past page 61, I might not merit the really-low-effort photoshops/template-fills anymore.
hero member
Activity: 2422
Merit: 875
November 18, 2019, 11:47:54 PM
#10



Breaking News:
There has been Merits Rain observed in BTT from last night and it look likes  heavy rain will continue for next few days.  Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
November 18, 2019, 11:47:02 PM
#9
LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.
First, the art contest will end in next three days, then they will stop soon.
The contest ends Nov 22 18:04:28 UTC; submissions after that are not guaranteed consideration. BTC will be sent all at once, probably a few hours after the end time.
Second, it is as same as the merit sytem, participants of the art contest have to submit good arts in order to receive merits as users have to make good posts to earn merits.
Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been.
Maybe it is not true because some jokes like April Fools also attracted them.
hero member
Activity: 2030
Merit: 578
No God or Kings, only BITCOIN.
November 18, 2019, 11:45:29 PM
#8
Personally I expect it will be somewhere around 8000 to 9000 (in the top ten of highest weeks).
I expect around 10k for the 10th anniversary.

Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been simple.
That's not all I guess because some want that awesome badge as well that'll be able to display on their profiles. So without further ado, I updated my submission reply for my third entry for public viewing, I keep it idle for days but I guess this is the best time to unveil it. Grin

- Between 1 and 20 (depending on number of submissions) people will receive art contest recognition badges:
hero member
Activity: 1659
Merit: 687
LoyceV on the road. Or couch.
November 18, 2019, 11:35:07 PM
#7
I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...
Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been.
mk4
legendary
Activity: 2870
Merit: 3873
Paldo.io 🤖
November 18, 2019, 11:34:47 PM
#6
LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.

Goddamn that's a lot of merits though.
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
November 18, 2019, 11:17:31 PM
#5
Who knows at the end of today, theymos will write: "I am out of sMerits, please help me all merit sources!"  Cheesy
Code:
if($smerit+$source < $merits && $ID_MEMBER!=35)
    fatal_error("You do not have enough sendable merit.", false);

I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink
legendary
Activity: 2310
Merit: 4085
Farewell o_e_l_e_o
November 18, 2019, 10:42:18 PM
#4
My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...
I wonder that with the latest massive explosion in the 10th anniversary art contest, how high the upcoming spike in weekly merits will reach with the coming weekly merit data dump from theymos?

Here is the list of total weekly merits by now, sorting descendinly.
Code:
. list merit week

     +-----------------+
     | merit      week |
     |-----------------|
  1. | 30960    2018w4 |
  2. | 19979    2018w5 |
  3. | 13313    2018w6 |
  4. | 11745    2018w7 |
  5. |  8833    2018w9 |
     |-----------------|
  6. |  8767    2018w8 |
  7. |  7837   2018w38 |
  8. |  7317   2018w11 |
  9. |  7261   2018w10 |
 10. |  6952   2018w12 |
     |-----------------|
 11. |  6744   2018w13 |
 12. |  6632    2019w2 |
 13. |  6423   2018w14 |
 14. |  6130   2019w13 |
 15. |  5644   2018w37 |
     |-----------------|
 16. |  5542   2019w42 |
 17. |  5494   2018w15 |
 18. |  5454   2019w19 |
 19. |  5354   2019w24 |
 20. |  5317    2019w3 |
     |-----------------|
 21. |  5271   2019w15 |
 22. |  5214   2019w20 |
 23. |  4975   2019w43 |
 24. |  4965   2018w18 |
 25. |  4929   2018w25 |
     |-----------------|
 26. |  4913   2019w10 |
 27. |  4829   2018w42 |
 28. |  4803    2019w1 |
 29. |  4766   2018w19 |
 30. |  4764   2019w18 |
     |-----------------|
 31. |  4742   2018w16 |
 32. |  4735   2019w45 |
 33. |  4730   2019w44 |
 34. |  4726   2019w25 |
 35. |  4688   2019w16 |
     |-----------------|
 36. |  4687   2019w23 |
 37. |  4667    2019w4 |
 38. |  4638    2019w9 |
 39. |  4612   2018w17 |
 40. |  4609   2019w12 |
     |-----------------|
 41. |  4580   2019w21 |
 42. |  4575   2018w47 |
 43. |  4565   2019w41 |
 44. |  4538   2018w23 |
 45. |  4526   2019w14 |
     |-----------------|
 46. |  4525   2018w45 |
 47. |  4521    2019w8 |
 48. |  4520   2019w38 |
 49. |  4491    2019w5 |
 50. |  4465   2018w26 |
     |-----------------|
 51. |  4448   2019w17 |
 52. |  4445   2019w22 |
 53. |  4395   2018w39 |
 54. |  4367   2019w26 |
 55. |  4357   2019w40 |
     |-----------------|
 56. |  4353   2018w20 |
 57. |  4332    2019w6 |
 58. |  4326   2019w11 |
 59. |  4318   2019w39 |
 60. |  4310   2018w40 |
     |-----------------|
 61. |  4278   2018w27 |
 62. |  4277   2019w29 |
 63. |  4247   2018w28 |
 64. |  4236   2019w33 |
 65. |  4225   2019w27 |
     |-----------------|
 66. |  4221    2019w7 |
 67. |  4194   2018w22 |
 68. |  4176   2019w30 |
 69. |  4167   2018w29 |
 70. |  4119   2019w28 |
     |-----------------|
 71. |  4043   2019w37 |
 72. |  4011   2018w32 |
 73. |  3953   2018w43 |
 74. |  3864   2018w21 |
 75. |  3863   2018w31 |
     |-----------------|
 76. |  3839   2018w24 |
 77. |  3816   2018w41 |
 78. |  3809   2019w36 |
 79. |  3805   2018w50 |
 80. |  3805   2018w34 |
     |-----------------|
 81. |  3769   2018w51 |
 82. |  3765   2018w48 |
 83. |  3747   2018w46 |
 84. |  3661   2018w30 |
 85. |  3631   2018w33 |
     |-----------------|
 86. |  3622   2019w34 |
 87. |  3590   2018w36 |
 88. |  3571   2018w49 |
 89. |  3549   2019w31 |
 90. |  3540   2019w35 |
     |-----------------|
 91. |  3347   2018w44 |
 92. |  3338   2018w52 |
 93. |  3207   2019w32 |
 94. |  3072   2018w35 |
     +-----------------+
Intra-week merits (from 24/1/2018 to 11/11/2019)
Last two days dropped due to incomplete weeks (2019w46)

< snip >

Time series plot
This is a difficult question but I am sure that this week we will see total merits distributed much higher than 4521 - that is the median of total intra-week merits (over 94 weeks since the birthday of merit system).

Personally I expect it will be somewhere around 8000 to 9000 (in the top ten of highest weeks).
Quote
- 50% of observed weeks (94 weeks) have total intra-week merits above 4521, whilst the rest 50% of them have total intra-week merits below 4521. 4521 is the median - p50.

Who knows at the end of today, theymos will write: "I am out of sMerits, please help me all merit sources!"  Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1638
Merit: 1329
Stultorum infinitus est numerus
November 18, 2019, 09:51:21 PM
#3
My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

Fun thing is that, after you write this comment you just nonchalantly continue spreading merit one after another. Congratulations on breaking the 2000 merits in one day mark (As of my post, theymos has sent 2055 merits in total since he started the spree). Also, huge congrats to the people who received it.
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM
#2
My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...
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