This is the article I wrote describing the Bitcoin Talk merit system. It is written from the perspective of a merit source -
The Bitcoin Talk merit system
It has been a great help in reducing spam, but many members still do not stop to think about their posts, and the effect that their text, content and styling have on their readers. For example - using emboldened and capitalised text to emphasise words may be good for search engine optimisation. but it jars on your readers, and slows down their scanning of your text. As a result of this, you are less likely to receive merits as awarders with limited reading time skip your post.
I expect that this thread will generate a number of full quotes of the opening post, and this is another thing that reduces the meritability of a post. It will be apparent if this does happen that the poster is not reading the thread, but just banging out a spamming reply,
I'm a merit source, and I usually have around 200 sMerits available to reward posts. I would love to reduce this, and I don't have any difficulty in giving away merits, and the merits I award are replaced in 30 days anyway, so there is no incentive for me to keep them, in fact the reverse is true. My problem is in finding posts to merit, and I have tried numerous ways to generate these posts and threads. For example, the Fit to Talk project is pretty quiet at the moment, but in the past it has been able to generate 20 or more merits for single posts by members. So please don't say "Why do people find it difficult to award merits?", but say "Why do members find it so difficult to make the effort to create decent posts?".
thank you for sharing the link above, I will take out time to go through the thread 💝 The Bitcoin Talk merit system
It has been a great help in reducing spam, but many members still do not stop to think about their posts, and the effect that their text, content and styling have on their readers. For example - using emboldened and capitalised text to emphasise words may be good for search engine optimisation. but it jars on your readers, and slows down their scanning of your text. As a result of this, you are less likely to receive merits as awarders with limited reading time skip your post.
I expect that this thread will generate a number of full quotes of the opening post, and this is another thing that reduces the meritability of a post. It will be apparent if this does happen that the poster is not reading the thread, but just banging out a spamming reply,
I'm a merit source, and I usually have around 200 sMerits available to reward posts. I would love to reduce this, and I don't have any difficulty in giving away merits, and the merits I award are replaced in 30 days anyway, so there is no incentive for me to keep them, in fact the reverse is true. My problem is in finding posts to merit, and I have tried numerous ways to generate these posts and threads. For example, the Fit to Talk project is pretty quiet at the moment, but in the past it has been able to generate 20 or more merits for single posts by members. So please don't say "Why do people find it difficult to award merits?", but say "Why do members find it so difficult to make the effort to create decent posts?".
