This idea gives people the ability to get merits without relying on donators.
Somehow some of you think that this is promoting mass alt accounts and spamming. Well if somebody has the time to create 100 member rank alts and 10 hours a day upvoting their posts for a few merits, then you're braindead.
Besides, do under 100 donators really have the time to moderate an entire forum for quality posts all day?
Topic: New Merit Proposal (Read 360 times)
These beggars are not going to change, what would happen if you put a 29 years old terrorist in a room with two 18 years old girls? he would demand for an immediate jumping session like beggars are demanding for merits.
You don't understand, 1 theymos and few moderators are incapable of serving every street beggar, they don't want you to rank up, either have 350 posts, 250 activity and any amount of merits and then ask a merit source to review your posts or keep begging for merits to have "high salary" and be "excited to earn money by posting on the forum" you should invite other beggars from other streets to come here, register 10 accounts and then join bounties to earn more, no body is charging you any thing, this is a land with government but no taxation.
Just like me, when some of you see the potentials of scamming people, you'll become a *dev and will launch your ICO to have other beggars like yourself promoting it for you.
Here read my attempt of showing how easy it is to become a dev and have people posting:
You don't understand, 1 theymos and few moderators are incapable of serving every street beggar, they don't want you to rank up, either have 350 posts, 250 activity and any amount of merits and then ask a merit source to review your posts or keep begging for merits to have "high salary" and be "excited to earn money by posting on the forum" you should invite other beggars from other streets to come here, register 10 accounts and then join bounties to earn more, no body is charging you any thing, this is a land with government but no taxation.
Just like me, when some of you see the potentials of scamming people, you'll become a *dev and will launch your ICO to have other beggars like yourself promoting it for you.
Here read my attempt of showing how easy it is to become a dev and have people posting:
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Hi guys and gals, I issued a token with 21,000,000 total supply and non-re issuable. you could claim this with only 2 methods.
Do not post any address here.
2) Any used Bitcoin addresses could also claim tokens, if I ever used an address 10 times then I could claim 100 tokens after signing a message with that address.
I need to keep 100,000 tokens for myself as I will have to pay fees to send your tokens. "I actually kept 20.6M out of 21M total supply".
I need some body to help with listing it on an exchange. "you should hang me for this".
I could send all the tokens to an escrow and have the escrow to send out tokens to people claiming them, I'll have to give the escrow some waves for fees and as well the 100K tokens since he/she will be the one sending out transactions.
This is the simplest crypto currency, there is no premine or ICO, I just need the community members to help if they want this to be something successful. "I want money for holy matrimonial purposes, I can launch as many airdrops and ICOs until one of them works for me"
Any body claiming will have his/her forum account name and the Bitcoin address as an attachment to the transaction.
I honestly asked my sister for waves to create this token and have some left to use for the fees.
You could donate any waves if you think this is worth it after I sent out at least 10 transactions.
Donation address:
Asset identifier:
Download wallets here: bla bla bla
This is distribution of all the tokens
Do not post any address here.
Only Senior members above.
1) you could post here and express your opinion and then send me a Private Message with a waves address, whatever your forum account's activity you'll receive 10 times more tokens.2) Any used Bitcoin addresses could also claim tokens, if I ever used an address 10 times then I could claim 100 tokens after signing a message with that address.
I need to keep 100,000 tokens for myself as I will have to pay fees to send your tokens. "I actually kept 20.6M out of 21M total supply".
I need some body to help with listing it on an exchange. "you should hang me for this".
I could send all the tokens to an escrow and have the escrow to send out tokens to people claiming them, I'll have to give the escrow some waves for fees and as well the 100K tokens since he/she will be the one sending out transactions.
This is the simplest crypto currency, there is no premine or ICO, I just need the community members to help if they want this to be something successful. "I want money for holy matrimonial purposes, I can launch as many airdrops and ICOs until one of them works for me"
Any body claiming will have his/her forum account name and the Bitcoin address as an attachment to the transaction.
I honestly asked my sister for waves to create this token and have some left to use for the fees.
You could donate any waves if you think this is worth it after I sent out at least 10 transactions.
Donation address:
Code:
bla bla bla
Asset identifier:
Code:
no sliding it here, this is a serious discussion
Download wallets here: bla bla bla
This is distribution of all the tokens
Suppose I post here some question and some senior member may be Hero or Legendary or anybody else replies to the best of my satisfaction; and I am very much convinced with his reply which increased my knowledge base and I wish to acknowledge by giving him some reward in the form of sMerit but I have nothing in my pocket because I am junior member. So I can not give that member sMerit from my side.
So as per my opinion though you do not give merits to junior members still you shall empower him with few sMerits so that he may be able to send merit point to the person whose post he found to be quality post.
So as per my opinion though you do not give merits to junior members still you shall empower him with few sMerits so that he may be able to send merit point to the person whose post he found to be quality post.
There is something odd with the process og merit system though its objective is good so far as I know which is to promote helpful information in the forum and not just by posting comments or post that are considered as trash. Those comments that are poorly constructed. Well anyway with opinion on dividing merits given to all the members within that thread could be possibly a good idea. Yet, I think also that there are more good ideas in giving merits. Like for example giving 3 merits a day to 3 commendable post. It must be a need to give these 3 merits or else it will be deducted to your merits. So 3 merits could do daily.
Both ideas are terribly stupid. Dividing merits to the members within a thread would be like taking a shower, once the thread was given a merit other people will join in. Second, giving 3 merits a day as a requirement is not a good idea cause there are members in this forum who have a life outaide the forum. Their hard earned merits would unknowingly disappear, that would be to unfair Could you please expound the word upvote?
The google won't say a thing, I do love the idea but I want to understand it more.
Would yah?
The google won't say a thing, I do love the idea but I want to understand it more.
Would yah?
Upvote is a positive vote.
I think the modification we need to the system is a way to completely filter out filler, non-productive posts. Upvotes are a good idea, but if you give that right to everyone, then account farmers will thrive once again.
So in order to combat this, downvotes can be introduced as well, along with upvotes. How would that work? You give the right to upvote and downvote to everyone. If a post gets, say, 20 downvotes, then that post gets deleted (because 20 downvotes would mean that the community agrees that it's a spam comment) and any merit that that user got on that comment thanks to his alt accounts get deleted as well.
So you give the right to merit to everyone, but you also give everyone to mark spam comments with downvotes as well. If a post gets too many downvotes, it gets deleted, along with the merits off of that post, of course. How about that?
So in order to combat this, downvotes can be introduced as well, along with upvotes. How would that work? You give the right to upvote and downvote to everyone. If a post gets, say, 20 downvotes, then that post gets deleted (because 20 downvotes would mean that the community agrees that it's a spam comment) and any merit that that user got on that comment thanks to his alt accounts get deleted as well.
So you give the right to merit to everyone, but you also give everyone to mark spam comments with downvotes as well. If a post gets too many downvotes, it gets deleted, along with the merits off of that post, of course. How about that?
This is a great idea. If a certain percentage of people downvote a thread or post, it could be removed.
I think the modification we need to the system is a way to completely filter out filler, non-productive posts. Upvotes are a good idea, but if you give that right to everyone, then account farmers will thrive once again.
So in order to combat this, downvotes can be introduced as well, along with upvotes. How would that work? You give the right to upvote and downvote to everyone. If a post gets, say, 20 downvotes, then that post gets deleted (because 20 downvotes would mean that the community agrees that it's a spam comment) and any merit that that user got on that comment thanks to his alt accounts get deleted as well.
So you give the right to merit to everyone, but you also give everyone to mark spam comments with downvotes as well. If a post gets too many downvotes, it gets deleted, along with the merits off of that post, of course. How about that?
So in order to combat this, downvotes can be introduced as well, along with upvotes. How would that work? You give the right to upvote and downvote to everyone. If a post gets, say, 20 downvotes, then that post gets deleted (because 20 downvotes would mean that the community agrees that it's a spam comment) and any merit that that user got on that comment thanks to his alt accounts get deleted as well.
So you give the right to merit to everyone, but you also give everyone to mark spam comments with downvotes as well. If a post gets too many downvotes, it gets deleted, along with the merits off of that post, of course. How about that?
Could you please expound the word upvote?
The google won't say a thing, I do love the idea but I want to understand it more.
Would yah?
The google won't say a thing, I do love the idea but I want to understand it more.
Would yah?
Horrible idea and easy to abuse. Nothing to see here folks.
I think the merit system is starting to work. The only change I would suggest is to reduce the maximum individual award for a post to 2.
What is needed is more quality posts and threads, and it up to members to provide these. Stricter moderation would also help. Moving threads to the correct boards, and getting rid of spam posts, and low quality posts that are just there for the sig promotions.
One other thing that would help is for thread starters to post descriptive titles. I don't bother to open threads with titles like these that are currently on the beginners board
- Merit
- Little Help
- Wallet
- Position
There are so many threads on the boards, that you need to persuade readers to open your thread. I assume that a thread with a title like those above is likely to be low value, so I skip over it. I'm sure I'm wrong in several cases, but posters need to remember that they have to "sell" their threads to busy readers.
What is needed is more quality posts and threads, and it up to members to provide these. Stricter moderation would also help. Moving threads to the correct boards, and getting rid of spam posts, and low quality posts that are just there for the sig promotions.
One other thing that would help is for thread starters to post descriptive titles. I don't bother to open threads with titles like these that are currently on the beginners board
- Merit
- Little Help
- Wallet
- Position
There are so many threads on the boards, that you need to persuade readers to open your thread. I assume that a thread with a title like those above is likely to be low value, so I skip over it. I'm sure I'm wrong in several cases, but posters need to remember that they have to "sell" their threads to busy readers.
your idea is not so bad, it's just that in your idea there are some gaps where the gap will be utilized by the less responsible person.
I myself actually wrote a post talking about a complementary system of like-points, convertible to merits, sometime back.
So yeah, I definitely support the proposal in spirit, even if as others pointed out, the details and exact mechanism needs to be refined. We can only tell when merit sources become more active, but I have a feeling it's not as sustainable as a decentralised system.
So yeah, I definitely support the proposal in spirit, even if as others pointed out, the details and exact mechanism needs to be refined. We can only tell when merit sources become more active, but I have a feeling it's not as sustainable as a decentralised system.
We just have to wait until more people can give out sMerit so I don't see many people getting merit until then. It's too hard for the people who have merit accounts to find all the good posts.
I think you're misinterpreting the purpose of giving a different set of users merits each week. Also not everyone should be getting merits, if everyone was rewarded then merits would be useless. This proposal gives different users merits instead of the same users every week.
If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
You can't say that different set of users would be rewarded every week, that would be unfair to users who are constantly giving off quality posts. If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
What's wrong with same users getting merits if that's what they deserve? Can't same users posts different kind of content?
The top users are awarded each week, I doubt the exact same 1000 users will be awarded the following week as well. It seems better than the same donator users getting merits. It's a lot of work for the same donators to be looking fr quality threads and awarding merits every month
I think you're misinterpreting the purpose of giving a different set of users merits each week. Also not everyone should be getting merits, if everyone was rewarded then merits would be useless. This proposal gives different users merits instead of the same users every week.
If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
You can't say that different set of users would be rewarded every week, that would be unfair to users who are constantly giving off quality posts. If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
What's wrong with same users getting merits if that's what they deserve? Can't same users posts different kind of content?
I think you're misinterpreting the purpose of giving a different set of users merits each week. Also not everyone should be getting merits, if everyone was rewarded then merits would be useless. This proposal gives different users merits instead of the same users every week.
If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
If the same users are getting merits, then the same type of content might be rewarded with merits by these users.
If different users are given merit each week, then different type of content will be rewarded.
This system will give a more decentralized approach to the system, which is what crypto currency is all about. It will also give everybody the opportunity to join in with the system and more people might therefore accept the system. Let me know what you think.
This is a centralized forum, and even though it's about something decentralized, it shouldn't be. Imagine how much worse the spam situation would be with no moderation at all.
What's stopping me from making hundreds of alt accounts to easily gain merits? Your idea gives power to the account farmers again, which is a horrible idea and restarts something that shouldn't exist. I think we should wait a bit more time before jumping to conclusions with the merit system, and if you consistently post quality, missing out on some of those posts shouldn't be an issue. Only the people that are here solely for signature campaigns and spam dislike the merit system.
2. At the end of a set period of time (eg, once per week) a pool of merits are evenly distributed among all the members who received upvotes. The amount of merits they get is proportional to to number of upvotes they have received divided by the total upvotes given to all members in that week.
This would give members a float type of merit and a negligible amount also. Small numbers of upvotes(you have received) over a large number(total upvotes given to all members in that week).
For example: you've received 100 within a weekspan and as of now that i am writing this post, i have checked that there's 71920 merits sent since the beginning of the system.
71920/3(weeks since merit system was implemented) = 23973.33333(average merits given per week)
100(upvotes you've received in a week)/23973.33333(average merits given per week)= 0.004171301 merits
Not only this 0.004 merits is not practical, this also increases the difficulty in gaining one.
This can be overcome by only giving merits to the top 1000 or so users for that week.
This system will give a more decentralized approach to the system, which is what crypto currency is all about. It will also give everybody the opportunity to join in with the system and more people might therefore accept the system. Let me know what you think.
This is a centralized forum, and even though it's about something decentralized, it shouldn't be. Imagine how much worse the spam situation would be with no moderation at all.
What's stopping me from making hundreds of alt accounts to easily gain merits? Your idea gives power to the account farmers again, which is a horrible idea and restarts something that shouldn't exist. I think we should wait a bit more time before jumping to conclusions with the merit system, and if you consistently post quality, missing out on some of those posts shouldn't be an issue. Only the people that are here solely for signature campaigns and spam dislike the merit system.
2. At the end of a set period of time (eg, once per week) a pool of merits are evenly distributed among all the members who received upvotes. The amount of merits they get is proportional to to number of upvotes they have received divided by the total upvotes given to all members in that week.
This would give members a float type of merit and a negligible amount also. Small numbers of upvotes(you have received) over a large number(total upvotes given to all members in that week).
For example: you've received 100 within a weekspan and as of now that i am writing this post, i have checked that there's 71920 merits sent since the beginning of the system.
71920/3(weeks since merit system was implemented) = 23973.33333(average merits given per week)
100(upvotes you've received in a week)/23973.33333(average merits given per week)= 0.004171301 merits
Not only this 0.004 merits is not practical, this also increases the difficulty in gaining one.
This can be overcome by only giving merits to the top 1000 or so users for that week.
This system will give a more decentralized approach to the system, which is what crypto currency is all about. It will also give everybody the opportunity to join in with the system and more people might therefore accept the system. Let me know what you think.
This is a centralized forum, and even though it's about something decentralized, it shouldn't be. Imagine how much worse the spam situation would be with no moderation at all.
What's stopping me from making hundreds of alt accounts to easily gain merits? Your idea gives power to the account farmers again, which is a horrible idea and restarts something that shouldn't exist. I think we should wait a bit more time before jumping to conclusions with the merit system, and if you consistently post quality, missing out on some of those posts shouldn't be an issue. Only the people that are here solely for signature campaigns and spam dislike the merit system.
2. At the end of a set period of time (eg, once per week) a pool of merits are evenly distributed among all the members who received upvotes. The amount of merits they get is proportional to to number of upvotes they have received divided by the total upvotes given to all members in that week.
This would give members a float type of merit and a negligible amount also. Small numbers of upvotes(you have received) over a large number(total upvotes given to all members in that week).
For example: you've received 100 within a weekspan and as of now that i am writing this post, i have checked that there's 71920 merits sent since the beginning of the system.
71920/3(weeks since merit system was implemented) = 23973.33333(average merits given per week)
100(upvotes you've received in a week)/23973.33333(average merits given per week)= 0.004171301 merits
Not only this 0.004 merits is not practical, this also increases the difficulty in gaining one.
This system will give a more decentralized approach to the system, which is what crypto currency is all about. It will also give everybody the opportunity to join in with the system and more people might therefore accept the system. Let me know what you think.
This is a centralized forum, and even though it's about something decentralized, it shouldn't be. Imagine how much worse the spam situation would be with no moderation at all.
What's stopping me from making hundreds of alt accounts to easily gain merits? Your idea gives power to the account farmers again, which is a horrible idea and restarts something that shouldn't exist. I think we should wait a bit more time before jumping to conclusions with the merit system, and if you consistently post quality, missing out on some of those posts shouldn't be an issue. Only the people that are here solely for signature campaigns and spam dislike the merit system.
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How can I Increase My Merit Position?Please give me Some Advise.Advance Thank you.
So I have an idea for a new merit system that might work a little better, hear me out.
We have a merit system now - give it a few months to see if it works before you go changing it.
Your suggestion would be abused by multiple accounts.
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