Merits from your friends? | Bitcointalksearch.org

madwica

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Quote from: Siopao on February 11, 2018, 07:42:47 PM

Giving merit is up to the user and it's not illegal to give it to your friends. However, merit should be given to posters who give quality and constructive post to the community. It should not be abused and given to friends with only the intention of 'being friends'.

Make sure the post of your friend is constructive and dont give merit because it is your friend both of you will be tagged.
Also there are many users saying they have many friends in this forum but in real life it is their "alt account".

Siopao

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Giving merit is up to the user and it's not illegal to give it to your friends. However, merit should be given to posters who give quality and constructive post to the community. It should not be abused and given to friends with only the intention of 'being friends'.

cynical

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Quote from: madwica on January 27, 2018, 11:55:17 PM

Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

That is not totally illegal, you are the one controlling smerit available into your account but remember the main purpose of the merit system is to recognized the member who did more constructive/quality post.

this is the only point that matters.

Merit is to promote constructive and helpful posts and topics, end of story.
If your friend posts something of value go ahead and sent him/her merit.

In the long term we want this forum to survive and not fall into the realm of poor quality posts and nothing of value to anyone.
If this forum doesnt last what would the alternative be because AFAIK there isnt any other forum that comes close.

its up to everyone to promote good quality content and the merit system will grow alongside,
we are still in the very early stages of the new system.

LemonF3

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Merit: 1

Quote from: katinko on January 28, 2018, 04:07:29 AM

Quote from: madwica on January 27, 2018, 11:55:17 PM

Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

That is not totally illegal, you are the one controlling smerit available into your account but remember the main purpose of the merit system is to recognized the member who did more constructive/quality post.

Hoping that smerit will not be abuse by many account farmers and if they do that much better to tagged them and make them in trouble.
Merit point should be given to those deserving member and not only given because they are friends i am against in that, we need to be fair all the time.

Merit is given to those who are worthy for it. Merits from friends is okay if that friend is true to himself that there is no something in return. The true essence of giving is not expecting something in return. Merit is for quality posts. So maybe everyone must bear it in mind.

pham42760

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Quote from: Saveplus on February 09, 2018, 01:44:37 AM

Merit from your friend is not illegal when you made a constructive and a good quality of post.As long you will not here in bitcointalk just to earn and not posting a shitposting and spam there is no problem with that.

Exactly. Giving merits away for high quality posts, don't care that those from your friends or not. Only sending your sMerits to high quality posts (those account, in turn, will receive both merits and sMerita). You won't lose your merits, just lose sMerits.

Saveplus

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Merit from your friend is not illegal when you made a constructive and a good quality of post.As long you will not here in bitcointalk just to earn and not posting a shitposting and spam there is no problem with that.

Vod

legendary

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Quote from: Tambu on February 08, 2018, 04:10:01 AM

Trading merits to your friends is not against the rule.

TRADING merits (you give me one, I'll give you one) is frowned upon and will result in negative trust if detected.

coolws

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Activity: 126

Merit: 20

From my opinion, the answer is not totally illegal. sMerit system is one way to avoid spams and post quality thread here. Even if someone get sMerits from quality posts much than excepted. It's still better to say this action may be more meaningful than useless posts. As a Jr Member for me, I know sMerits are hard to get especally hard to get sMerits from local section in the forum, but I would not beg for sMerits or ask friends for sMerits. The more I post quality threads, The more knowledge about blockchain, crypto currency I have. So do not complain it any more, you can look my account, I have only 8 sMerits, I'm a Jr and lower rank than you. I'm still struggling for sMerits. And I'm pretty sure most of people in the forum are the the same as me.

appalosail

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i think there is no problem as long as they made a real genuine high quality posts. this answer is just same for "it's ok" if someone earn money for working with signature campaign as long as they post the good things and never doing spam for that. it shouldn't be any problem with that.

superjeyy

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Quote from: Adioliver on January 28, 2018, 12:59:53 PM

Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

I don't think giving merits to your friends is something illegal unless and until you merit your friend's shitposts.If you want to merit your friend's post then merit some good quality posts of your friend.
If someone is begging for it then you should ignore such people.And we should totally avoid trading of merits and never even think of encouraging this.Merit system is really efficient and we should respect it by using it in the right way.

What Adioliver said is on point. If your friend is without a doubt someone who is informative and helpful to this forum then there is no reason why you shouldn't give him recognition for being a responsible member of this forum. I think that there are boundaries to everything, so when you're just helping out a friend to rank up but doesn't come through with constructive posts, then you yourself is the one who is misusing and abusing the system. Illegal, maybe not for now, but it is your responsibility to award the merit to people who are deserving for in the end what you'll do will reflect on you and your genuine intentions.

Tambu

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Quote from: TimtheYoutuber on January 27, 2018, 11:32:31 PM

If the whole idea is to reward quality posing users, and slow spam down. Then farming for it, or giving it to someone just because they are your friend should be against the rules, however would be hard to prove. So it is likely just unethical.

Trading merits to your friends is not against the rule.
I haven't read it here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-new-rank-requirements-2818350
As long the post of your friend is qualified to a quality post, giving merits is not an issue.

MainIbem

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Why must people think of circumventing rules?

Taki

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Quote from: TimtheYoutuber on January 27, 2018, 11:32:31 PM

If the whole idea is to reward quality posing users, and slow spam down. Then farming for it, or giving it to someone just because they are your friend should be against the rules, however would be hard to prove. So it is likely just unethical.

Technically so, but if the case is only one and the post which got Merit is done well. i think this time there will not be any questions to those person who gave a merit to a friend. Am I wrong? I see that many of quality posts do not get even one Merit and here on the board we have a lot of examples when Merit was given to one line posts and something simple.

Chingchangfu

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Quote from: jtipt on January 27, 2018, 11:33:33 PM

Trading merits for 'something' is against rules and will get you into trouble. Friends giving you merit or you giving merits to friends is alright, you can give merit to anyone as much as you want even if the post is completely shit, no one is going to stop you or take action against you. Although if you are taking merits from your alts that will get you into trouble.

How would you know if they are using alts to boost their merits?
What if the account that gave you merit is from your friend?
Then what would happen to both of your accounts I am just curious about it.

appleyard

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So to be able to get merits from your friend you should create a good and quality post and link it to you friends to be able for them to merit it. then this is obviously one of the way to abuse the merits. i already read some of the topics from telegram about this so it happening right now.

Theo222

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Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

i think it will be legal becuase the decision is on your side if you see their post are so good you can send them merits but if you send them and you see that they got shitpost i think it will be illegal.

futurecapitano

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Quote from: ZenRoy on January 28, 2018, 01:03:21 PM

Just the same as Smerits can be abused by high ranking members, friends can also take advantage of this which are the 2 big flaws I see in this new system.. Why don't we just stick to forum mods deleting nonsense posts or hiring more mods to make sure everything is clean rather than give it to the hand of members who might just abuse the system?

How about something like this one? I have created a topic on Merit Measurement Scale, let's see and discuss.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-about-merit-measurement-scale-2841364

cmmhbct

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Quote from: tbct_mt2 on January 28, 2018, 10:45:04 AM

Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

Of course, you can buy/sell/exchange merits (acutally sMerits) with others. However, I don't recommend you to do that, it violates the forum's rules. Your account will under radar of admin and moderators, under extremely high risks of banning, might be permanent one. Don't do that, please.

Otherwise, you should only focus on qualities of your posts, increasing them a little bit daily, which in turn raise the probability to receive merits from others for your posts.

Since the launch of merit system, users should and have to give their priorities on quality first, rather than quantity. The merit system help each member in the forum to be a better one daily, even with farming accounts or spammers. They have to brainstorm in order to have better way to adapt, if not, they can not survive in the forum with new ranking sytem, right? That might be better for all.

otrkid70

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Quote from: appleyard on January 27, 2018, 11:23:57 PM

is this legal share merits with your friends? and some one is begging for it? or else give merits and trade for something?

Nope! That would be blatent abuse.

katinko

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Quote from: DarkStar_ on January 28, 2018, 01:22:00 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on January 28, 2018, 06:58:35 AM

~~My signature campaign already announced to require all participants to have earned at least 10 Merits four weeks from now. That gives a (large) monetary value to Merit.~~ Update: this won't be required yet.

Some of yahoo's campaigns are starting to drop the payment for those without merit, and I anticipate more campaigns doing something requiring merit soon.

Much better to give importance this merit in signature campaign to make participants pursue to post good quality to be qualify in the higher tier of payment. also this is the main purpose of the merit system to avoid shit posting and the account will not subject to rank up if they do not gain merit points.

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