Topic: Meritocracy (Read 397 times)

All those attributes you enumerated are good to consider when meriting posts but you've to know that in reality we don't necessarily see life issues as apples and oranges. There are diverse angles to life, and not as black and white or short and tall as opposites. The reality is that those attributes are abstract and can only be determined by the assessment of whoever is utilizing or analysing them. This is why I continue to maintain that meriting a post is subjective. Haven't you had any of your posts merited which didn't have any of the lofty attributes you mentioned, a post which you felt wasn't what you would write? Yet, someone splashed merit on it?

Meritocracy for me means using the same benchmark to offer a particular job, reward or incentive. It includes giving a particular incentive based on quality or a persons competence or product rather than other considerations like race, tribe, religion, ideology or colour.

This forum has indeed been a university to me, everyday I learn, unlearn and relearn. The standard of posts and discussion in this forum is very high, hence if you want to make contributions or ask questions, it must be well tailored. You must study to show that you are a relevant contributor. If you fail to study, you would know by the corrections and sometimes harsh words you would receive. I have also become a teacher or preacher of the good new and goodness of bitcoin. Most of the things I have learnt is shared with first my family and friends and others that care to listen.

Originality, innovativeness, creativity and relevance are some of the qualities of posts the attracts merit. But from experience I have observed that there are no clear or statutory principle that guides posts that attract merits. Sometimes you get merits from post you spent less time on, while the perceived quality one would receive nothing. Merit might flows when one comments suits the expectations of a member. Also some posts are merited because of emotions or personal sentiments. For me I am relaxed and enjoying the rhythm of the forum.

On Bitcointalk merit is a reward for uniqueness, content, solution, contribution, creativity, quality service rendered and value added posts. The focus shouldn't be on the merit but rather on ensuring every post counts for it's content and solution. Merit is just a reward for passion a closer focus on content and educative posts will attract merit on its own

Subjectivity plays a role in determining whether a post has quality or not, because everyone has their own way of thinking/judgement. Yet I believe that if one diligently put in the work(do everything within the rules of the forum to make a post), someone must recognize you.

merit is like a compensation for learning and job well done. psychologically, it encourages people to participate but it is now left for the individual to modify his or her driving force of participation. there is more to this forum. educating and learning is part of it. so also is networking and communication that helps to inform and put most persons on track.merit is important but most important is learning about bitcoin and crytocurrency investment.

In most cases many persons might have gotten knowledge of Bitcoin already before finding out about the forum so am not sure this applies to all.
Except for a few maybe.

Nevertheless don't forget that you also have your own quota to play for a deserving meritocracy as you called it, their a saying and i quote " to him who much is given same is expected" but don't be surprised here on the forum it is " for much to be given, much is expected " so you have to sit up and give quality and better things to the forum and of which I think this mutualism is justified.


Take note, at their disposal or wish or base on their personal conviction that your post have some taughts.


It's good to educate but don't give wrong information on areas you're not confident about.


Says who?... the interpretation of a quality post is base on the reader's choice and taught he sees on your post, and its a choice to merit such post or not and  of coourse talking about plagiarism, if will not only denied you merit but kick such user out of the forum.


Pls avoid certainty in this regard, you can make use of (maybe or can) in expression of uncertainties like this since you're not the judge to decide wether a post is quality or not.

Learn about Bitcoin and educate it to others if you can, or just enjoy the advantages on your own because we can't really force someone to do a particular thing unless they have interest on it. This merit crazy is there since the implementation of merit system but my statement about merits all the time is don't chase the merits, let it chase you.

Merit! Merit!! Merit!!!

I see people say much about merit. How to earn it and so on. Tbh, I really do not think that Merit is a problem in this forum. If merit is anyone's problem, the person should study the system and know how to earn it.
To earn merit in this forum is not as difficult as to earn activity.
If I want to increase my merit counts, I actually know the kinds of posts to make that will earn me some merits.
I don't just understand how merit will be some kind of problem to some people and they will not earn it.
The best thing is to forget about the merit and do what brings about the merit.

Hint:
If you want to earn merits, do something that is meaningful that looks different.

Bestowing merit on posts (as it's the case here) or on something else outside here is a subjective decision. It's subjective in the sense that people don't necessarily award them because it's generally accepted that it should be. Sometimes, worthy achievements are often overlooked because those who would ordinarily award them believe the achiever is their antagonist. For instance, political activists don't get any meritorious award by those they seem to be criticising or campaigning against. Yet, activists do well in their line of duty to educate people. Sorry I had to draw that analogy to elucidate my view on that.

I guess you should add a third – Character.

I've seen great posters here who lack that. They talk down on others for no just reason apart from the fact that they disagree on issues, especially those they think they're better off than; maybe because of the rank difference. We've to learn to treat others with respect or perhaps the same level of respect they accord us. Character and Learning to Educate should be encompassing and that's why citadels of learning try to instill that in students.

The truth of the matter is that you could get merit in a hundred ways. Merit spending is unregulated here. Everybody could send merit the way they like it. You don't need to educate to get merit. You could have it by simply asking a question, responding with wit, even responding with sarcasm or an insult, and so on. If you explored the forum, you would know that merit could be earned in various ways in different sections. A meme could be enough to gain merit. An auction or a sale or a new campaign could also gain you merit.

Implying there is no people around whose main objective is to get enough rank to partipicate on signature campaigns.
Still your point stands.

I support it. I will give merit to the one whose fast oozes sincerity. Live posts filled with emotions can never be confused with a post that was written only to fill the quota with his subscription company. Whatever people do here, communication is important, and communication with people, not with robots writing the answers that are far from the given topic.

Therefore, OP, just be yourself, and your attitude towards the forum will always be visible to others. People who come to the forum for money are also clearly visible. They hardly carry out their plans, which cannot be said about those who study and help others.

The forum has its own (un)official rules and the merit system here is different than ones (if available) in other platforms / forums. The initial purposes to create the merit system here is different than why such merit systems created on other platforms.

I mean there are difference and overlaps over other platforms so you can not apply rules of others forum in this forum. The same goes for meritocracy in this forum and in others. Even in this forum, there are agreement or disagreement on how to use merit (from your own earned ones or from merit source allocation)

OK, I agree that learning and education are important, but in general the purpose of any online forum is much broader than that, including our forum.
Online forums are also places for discussions and debates, meetings with like-minded people, exchange of information and news etc.
After all, people can use youtube channels, websites etc. to learn, but the most important purpose of the forum is interaction.
As for merits, members give them for quality and constructive posts that do not always have to be related to learning and education.

It is true that the forum is called bitcointalk, but not everyone came to this forum to learn something, whether it is about Bitcoin or altcoins. The vast majority are here just for bounty campaigns, and they are not interested in anything else - and only here and there some of these lost souls come to their senses and wonder how to earn merits.


I don't think this is some kind of official online school for Bitcoin, but a forum for discussing various topics with an emphasis on Bitcoin. A person who is interested in Bitcoin can easily find out everything important on hundreds of online sites, and if he wants something more, he can join the discussion on this or some other forum. Emphasizing merits in the whole thing is actually unnecessary, because that measure serves something completely different from learning and educating others.

While it's nice to read, I doubt you'll earn much merit from this post. 

There are a variety of reasons a post may get a merit, but a general rule of thumb is that it should be of interest to the reader. It should not be boring, nor one that has been done before, nor one that is spammy or sells a product or service. Simply, it has to offer something interesting or noteworthy. Of course, the best posts aren't always the most clever or entertaining ones. Sometimes, it's the ones that say something the reader needs to hear or point the way in a unique or different way that receive the most merits.

Let me doubt that someone with not too many merits can teach us about meritocracy. I think it is more simple: forget about merits and use the forum for what you are supposed to. Merits will come as an extra reward for the good use of the forum.

Thats a nice read. But for merits to become useful here, you need to do a quality posting with all the knowledge youve known in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency related. But thats not all, also being manageable on ideas and some stuff herr on forum is a good source of merit like on rules and regulations. You can feedback or answer some query from newbies then you can received a merit if you can supply and please someone.

Those have helped even a little is already a good job since you are helping them to learn what you have learned. As what you have said, those who ask merits always doesn't get any merits. If you have read the forum rules then you'll know the rules that you should follow it. What you have done this time already contributed to the forum and at the same also learn new things.