Topic: Merit system -> People started sell it violating rules. What do you think? - page 2. (Read 393 times)

That's even a bad habit don't be like them. We should follow rule in the first place . Don't get ban or red trust. all you have to do is focus on reading rules in forum site and by the way you need to post constructive post and be good to everyone.

First off, this should be in the Meta thread.

Second off, you just complain and don't offer and insights or solutions.

And you wonder why it is hard to get merit?

Take a moment to scan the forums and see who is getting merit and where they are getting it.
You will notice something fast.

The biggest thing is, there is hardly any merit being thrown around in the altcoin discussion forum!

And is that surprising? How many quality posts are there here?
How many people would be writing something that deserves merit, thus giving them a chance to distribute smerit to others?
Yeah, none at all.

Altcoin discussion forum is filled with two types of people: Bounty hunters making mindless posts and noobs asking the same asanine questions over and over.

I havent forgot this. And wrote above that buying merit or account you can be banned cause its contrary to the forum rules. Im writing about that people dont give merit for good posts or do it too rarely, they started sell it with price 1 merit = 10 $. How do you think is this normal? Is this for what merit was created? And if you were junior member, not Hero (of course), whould you think the same, that this system is fair? I see that only Hero and Legends like it

These two options are not a very good solution as opposed to the current rules, nothing is rigid, run with your ability to keep your posts consistent and good for every day, the more advanced it will grow for you personally, most people more like to keep their ration awards until they rot, very indifferent to someone who is good at discussing, I often see many people I think deserve a reward but they do not care about it, so life alone does not make you complain about the present circumstances.

And you should also know where the more appropriate place to discuss this.

you are forgetting another choice you will be getting banned or getting redtrust due to the abusing the marit system lol and that's even worst than stay in your rank forever. Just do what you can do and never try to hope a lot for your post to get merit anytime. This system is really fair.

Thats not my way to rank up, i even didnt think about this posting this message. As you can see, i wrote that firstly i thought merit system is good. But some time later i see that people are not getting merited but there are a lot of groups where they sale it with price 1 merit - 10$. Of course thats violating the forum rules, thats why i write here to know what people thing about this system now. It was conceived for enother reason but greedy people turned upside down

This post it should be in Meta. If that’s your way to rank up, is not it questionable? The DT will also see your post if you are deserving of merit. Buying a merit is violating the forum rules so it should be avoided. So the merit system has been implemented to make a quality post. Not to buy or sell merits.

There are advantages and disadvantages that the merit system gives to the community,

first in advantages is that it will train every users here in the community to post good and great article related to crypto currencies and this will help a lot of newbies in gaining knowledge.

More constructive post as what you said the lesser the shitpost.

the great thing is that you will be rewarded on what you contributed on the community.

and then here comes the problem due to merit system there are lot of people not getting a high rank,
the reason is that the giver of merit not seeing them why?
1. The author is not that popular (Jr.mem or lower ranks)
2. The authors post is not inclined with the community wants because most of the community users
    always talks about "if you have 1 btc what will you do?" this is kind a redundant and shit post.
3. The author doesn't give enough information.
4. the Post reach is quite too low.
5. The giver of merit are getting corrupt because they own multiple accounts so instead of sharing the merit to another user they just sent it to their other account.


All in all the merit system has it's own advantages and disadvantages. but this is a head start for great community i hope that the administrators will improve this system for better and greater community of bitcoin and crypto people.

The system is not working, i haven't seen a way merit system has improved quality of post by member of forum what is the importance of merit system when people can buy it with money.

How do you think how many time do you need to get 100 merits to be a Full member? I bet that even in 2 years you will not be Full. Of course if the rules are not gonna be changed. But lets hope for the best

Very controversial issue.
Buying a ready and rolled out account is always risky.
Buy merit is also controversial, because people can buy merit, write posts and then these most pumped-up accounts and continue, which certainly can raise the price of already pumped-up accounts.
Probably the idea of rewarding merit for information and useful posts in itself is very correct. It's a pity that the people are very greedy and nobody shares this merit.

Me too. So we are with our rangs forever

Hello. I think it wasn't a good idea firstly. I made more than 200 messages after creating merit system but I didn't get any merit. And I am not going to buy it.

I think the merit system is really flawed, because there has been several shit post on the forum
So i think there needs to be a review, maybe the merits per rank should be reduced and considerate to encourage forum users.

The collection of merit is indeed difficult and hard to get, but i think it is not impossible, so lets keep quality posts and educative comments.
Merits will come sooner sooner and more benefits from the forum too.

Only if founders of the forum could have known this, before implementing the merit system, that merit system could also be traded for some good money. Though currently ranking up is more difficult, but if you got money you can get your self ranked up quite easily just by buying merits.

Wow yea anything can be bought huh.  Maybe a system like reddit karma would work out better.  

I think, that if you want to sell a merit this fact will be detected by arbitrage of bitcoin talk forum. Because merit is the main indicator of the quality of your post. That's why you must try to make post interesting and useful. Another way is going not under the law...)

There are just insufficient merit source. In my country, there are only less than 5 merit sources. The community of my Nation is surprisingly big in this forum. How can those <5 merit sources accomodate us all? The merit system is not so perfect as it seems. Shit posting still exists. It was not fixed nor eradicated. People just get tired exerting efforts that aren't given back enough credit. No matter how many posts you comment that have sense, 99.9% of the time, it will just be ignored.

Absolutely agree with you, 90 to Full member is unreal. 15 normal

Yes, i wrote that you can be banned becouse of buying merit ot accounts