Topic: Merit system is not working, failed! - page 8. (Read 2690 times)
People do give merit to others, but it doesn't happen really often and doesn't mean that a post is of obviously high quality. Maybe somebody would give merit to smth he finds useful, or funny, or a person meets smb from another end of the world who shares all his major life values.
I think the idea behind the system is good , it reduces shitposts and account farming . This whole forum was pretty bad for the last few months , but the merit system definitely needs some tweaking.
The merit system is not working, look the merit points of people on the forum, it does not move (even for the more relevant posts), the forum established a system which was suppose to penalize newcomers flooding the forum with useless post, but the forum penalize itself, good luck everybody, If you think people will give you merit points for free you are mistaken.
Can't say that it doesn't work. It's like 2-3 weeks since it was invented into this forum. It needs time; users will get used to grant merit to others and it's movements will kinda speed up. Just some time I think.
Perhaps the merit system is not an ideal option, but what to do. This is one way to protect yourself from the usual flooding
I think we need more time, merit system is basically very good for the forum. It will eventually be ok, it is too early to complain.
The new system is not perfect, but
most agree with the fact that we need to solve the problem with meaningless messages.
most agree with the fact that we need to solve the problem with meaningless messages.
I think you're wrong. The merits system is very good but not balanced. Just need to increase the number of "creators of merit" and lower the number of merit to increase the rank several times.
The merit system needs some improvement, but it was the only possible answer to shitposters invasion.
Please note that theymos wrote that - if the merit system won't work - the only alternative will be to ban completely the signature campaigns.
So, instead to complain, I think that it's better:
a) to put any effort to make the system work, with good posts
b) if we have ideas to improve the system, to suggest them to theymos. It's very simple to complain, harder to offer solution.
And I'm very optimistic that me too I'll start to collect some merits :-)
Please note that theymos wrote that - if the merit system won't work - the only alternative will be to ban completely the signature campaigns.
So, instead to complain, I think that it's better:
a) to put any effort to make the system work, with good posts
b) if we have ideas to improve the system, to suggest them to theymos. It's very simple to complain, harder to offer solution.
And I'm very optimistic that me too I'll start to collect some merits :-)
The merit system is not working, look the merit points of people on the forum, it does not move (even for the more relevant posts), the forum established a system which was supposed to penalize newcomers flooding the forum with useless post, but the forum penalize itself, good luck everybody, If you think people will give you merit points for free you are mistaken.
I would not agree with you fully :
- practically people are thinking what are they writing now and that decreased a spam a lot;
- even a good comment can bring you some merits, but it is not easy, I would agree on that.
- It got very difficult to handle multiple accounts now as you better focus on one and that means less spam again.
Perhaps it is not perfect but I think it provided some value.
I think merit has a upper level and it must be 1000. Why can we send merit Legendary i dont understand and people give them also. Why ?
Give it time, it's only few week from the start of new merit system. People need time to learn about it and how to use it. I think it to early to make judgement about work this system or not.
Personally for me it's seem to high 1000 merit for the legendary, but we all come to crypto not for 1 years, right? So keep calm and make good posts.
Personally for me it's seem to high 1000 merit for the legendary, but we all come to crypto not for 1 years, right? So keep calm and make good posts.
The merit system works as because i have send my sMerit to somebody and it went through. But I am yet to receive any merit from anybody despite my activity in the forum. I think most of the members are yet to understand the system.Hording your sMerit will not help you give it out so that the system will work and achieve it purpose.
And I, on the contrary, think that thanks to merit, there is less spam. Because it seems to me that people began to follow what they write and for whom they write. Previously, messages like Hello, Nice project and this kind were very nasty to read.
I agree with most of the comments. there are a lot of member now in this forum. The best way to monitor good standing members that those who create quality post is really putting merit/s. This will really help create a much better platform.
Now, you'll see a lot of accounts that were stuck on having 10, 100, 250 and 1000 and they're barely moving. Why? Because indeed nobody cares on judging whether the comment is quality or not.
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In my personal opinion, I would never give to anyone whom I don't know my sMerits because I would rather share it to my alternative accounts than giving it to other members. Even if you consider your posts or comments having a good quality but still nobody cares. There's thousands of posts happening in a single minute in this forum but I know less than half of hundred of sMerits are given between accounts. And most of them are alternate accounts.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28920985
Imagine if all users thinks the same on using their merits on their own welfare, will this forum improves?, will it contributes on this forum?, did it reduce the number of spammers and shitposters? and the answer is No. Merits are meant to give to others for the efforts and trustworthy answers and also are made to rates how good, how helpful, how reliable and how trusted a post are.
ABUSING YOUR SMERIT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO DO, WHY? ITS BECAUSE IT MAY LEAD YOUR ACCOUNT ON HAVING RED TRUST OR IN WORSE SCENARIO CAN LEAD YOUR ACCOUNT ON PERMANENTLY BAN ON THIS FORUM.
its better to play safe than play in a risky way.
System rewards quality comments.But the system does not know people's selfishness 
It is very unlikely to be able to get in the way of merit friendship.
It is very unlikely to be able to get in the way of merit friendship.
This system closely resembles other forums and rewards those who make useful posts. But I think it will not work out that only half of the Merit you get turn sMerit. A section like ours that for now does not have anyone with the ability to generate sMerits and it can be difficult for someone to achieve this privilege (and few people will probably), it may be that one hour the system becomes saturated and it is difficult for someone to have sMerits to donate. There could be a daily or monthly quota of sMerits for distribution, which would increase according to Rank, to avoid Merits trading.
The idea to appreciate the worthy posts I like but people are too greedy and do not want to just give away these points, the sale of their coins begins, and I think that's not right
I see many complain about this merit system but I think there is a new progress for this bitcointalk forum so we will find many more great projects for the future.
and spam systems will be useless.
and spam systems will be useless.
I think that merit system isnt working.
It would be ok at least to cut requirements for promotion in half.
It would be ok at least to cut requirements for promotion in half.
maybe in the next future admins will change things... if they realize that it is too hard become hero or legendary they will change something..
I think that merit system isnt working.
It would be ok at least to cut requirements for promotion in half.
It would be ok at least to cut requirements for promotion in half.
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