Topic: Merit system is not working, failed! - page 6. (Read 2676 times)

I agree with you. Besides why do everyone needs merits for?  Just share your thoughts, do productive replies. and why care about your Rank in Forum?  is it all about business?

i can feel you its really hard for us new in this forum to get merit but i think this is gonna be good for the forum i think the idea of this merit system is to change its focus instead of activity. we know its really easy to have an activity there's too many topic that you can easily reply  you can even create a few accounts then make them reply 1 per day in any topic then they will rank up easily its only gonna take a months tadda you have few accounts that is is the same rank..
i think merit system gonna prevent the multiple account per person . it will change the focus instead to one account to post a high quality stuff
lets wait for a few months merit is too young to say that its not working 

The merit system is in the experimental phase and I think dev and moderators are keeping an eye on it and looking for some exploit in this new system that they established. As  I see its pretty biased on those who are a higher rank than those on the lower rank, the gap in the merit can give and the merit you can get is extremely high and it'll be harder to get merits than you wait for your activity.

I dont want to go to serious argument, but you are missing some important points.

First of all, merit system is too young, therefore need more time to operate more smoothly (might have minor adjustments like this one "Design of merit points' statistics for each users (drop-down list proposed)"). All things have to began somewhere, merit system too. I believe that Theymos had put lots of attempts, huge amount of time to think about the system before launching it. I cannot refuse the fact that at its launch, merits system is a unfair one. It is due to time-to-rank-up lags between users. Someone fell behind their ranking-up-time some hours, others fell behind some days, etc. Theymos could not and will never satisfy all users in the forum.

Merit system might be succeeded, might be failed, but it has changed and will change the forum forever. I strongly believe it will bring positive changes to the forum.

Secondly, please stop complaining, crying, moaning around the forum by threads, your own shitty topics. You have only two options: (1) Accept new rules of merit system, and improve yourself to adapt. (2) Leave the forum forever. If you keep doing this, someone will spot/ tag you with your shitty posts/ topics. Hence, your account will be definitely banned (temporary/ permanently) in the future.

Accept new rules and be helpful!

Good luck.

Why do you want to get higher rank ? If this for participating in signature campaigns, you will have very hard time competing with other deserving candidates with this attitude. If you want to get a privilege associated with higher rank, work for it.

The tech boards seem to be a lot cleaner, and that's a great help to me. I guess that means that Merit is starting to have a beneficial impact.

It's is not fair at it's beginning, but admin have to start from somewhere. He have no choice. Please stop crying, complaining about this.
I would like to emphasize that merit system has shown and will have strongly positive impacts on all rank of users in the forum.

I have been observed the merit is transferred only by and to Hero and Legendry members. I think merit system is not working for what it was introduced. Only the rank is not upgrading but the posts are as usual.

Jr. Member is the highest rank I can reach in bitcointalk forum, thanks to merit system. Bravo!

I had 238 activities when merit system was imposed and i only needed two activities to become Sr.Member. It was my bad luck but i am trying hard to improve my post quality.

I sad 99% and I dont know why did you find yourself in that number?!?!?! Yea like forum is full of legendery membes  who contribute comunity...

I think you should be more patient, just like me.
I up 2nd place, and I have not got any merit, I am sure I will be able to get merit, Be patient.
Everything will be perfect in time.

Hey bozo, you want to talk about my FIVE years of constructive posts, helping build bitcoin and the community?

I deserve what I received.  I'll be glad when the merit system finally causes these drains on the forum to go away.

The merit system for me is working it helps people here in the forum to improve their posts cause nowadays people post here in the forum just because they're in a campaign to reach their quota but with the new merit system most post here in the forum has quality now although merit system has some disadvantages but i think they will have a solution for it since merit system just started.

Im so sick of people who got their merit for free, talking about how its perfect! There are a lot of us who got trown under a train just because we got here a week or a month later! But 99% of you who talk how its good and bla bla bla didnt have to post anything else but bounties and you got full bags of merit for free and now preach us about constructive posts!!!

I've not seen many merit posts being given out on general threads across the board. I know it's happening somewhere, but I've been keeping an eye out and it's not as common as I feel it should be given the requirements to rank up.

It's still early days and maybe people get used to it, but early impressions are that it's not quite balanced correctly.

I do to and I'm also glad that I don't have to neg the garbage posters, which is something I felt was necessary before the introduction of the merit system.   That was not a great use of the trust system, I'll admit, but the outcome was positive overall.   And the sheer number of topics being created by noob shitposters complaining about merits attests to the new system's success.  I'm definitely satisfied with it.

I don't have anything against the merit system ,yes it is good but my point is will a junior member that post constructively stay as a junior member for 1 to 2 years on this forum if he don't get any one to give him merit point? Will this same junior member reach a post of 1000 post and still be a a junior member while a hero member who achieved the same 1000 post results some year back be the same rank? The merit system is going make rank irrelevant. Imagine junior member, Activity 1000 and Hero member activity 1000. Thats it make sense?

the merit system is working fine my friends but if you have 10 merits, your merit number is now 1. so; you can only send 1 score to other people.

50 merits for the OP !!! In my opinion that is a pretty obvious indication that it isn't working. There are many far better guides than that.