Glad to see so many good answers, I will reply to the ones I feel I should but thanks to everyone who took part.
Are you trying to say sending smerits within short time is not good?
No, I am not at all saying that. I was just a touch confused how some members are meriting so fast and that leads me to wonder if there is something wrong going on. I never accused or doubted anyone and sorry if I sounded like one.
sending merits isn't bad, you (i) can send merit to any post i found interesting to me or deserved to be merited but looking at the time of meriting the users has nothing to do within. so don't think it is a connected accounts or not.
Gozie51 is not spamming.
All respect to Gozie51 but I just stated the fact that he is part of the spammer list, I never called him a spammer myself
Besides there are lots of users here how do you intends to monitor all user who are sending merits to fellow users, it is better you find something interesting to do than to monitor how merits being sent out.
When you say something like that, you make me believe there is something wrong because if people involved are clean they must enjoy the whole discussion than suggesting me to find something else.
There is something you don't understand here; Smerit is not what you can save back but to send out, you too can also send to users whom you find their post interesting.
I understand but we do need to make sure people are not involved in spending merits in such a way that only a particular group is benefiting and rotating them.
Since your account is purchased (as tagged by Jolly) I think you are only making things more suspicious here
@savetheFORUM keep in mind that some forum members are bookmarking good posts when they are out of smerit, so when they get some they can share it very fast, across different threads/boards. I used to do it before, when I was more active but lately I kinda stopped with that;s practice. So, that's another way how it might look that someone is sharing merit without even reading the posts while it doesn't have to be the case.
I myself do that. But meriting the same user within minutes didn't look right to me initially, it is making more sense now as more replies are pouring in.
Not sure if the posts worth merit or not, haven’t checked out as I think it’s not necessary. Merit worthiness depends on the perspective of respective users.
A few days ago, I had PMed yahoo62278 for having a review on my post as I'm nearly to my new rank
Please note that yahoo62278 had stated somewhere to PM him if someone is lacking of merits for next rank or just to have a look at their post history if they think they are not having enough merit. So, he merited in 2 of my posts. It would also be possible that he merited some more posts if he thought my posts deserved. That would create the same situation as this one.
I do ask for such things to reputed members sometimes but I am sure none of the members involved have messaged each other about it, I am pretty sure.
Nah, it usually doesn't take nearly that long to figure out if a post is merit-worthy, especially if you're familiar with the member's quality of writing overall. For example, if I see a post that's a few paragraphs long by a member like Hydrogen, suchmoon, or pretty much any of the members I'm familiar with, I'm confident that the most deserves merit(s).
Yes although it is quite strange when you see the same group is rotating merits. I will post some stats below to make it clear what I mean.
And if you take a look at my merit-giving history, you'll see I have examples just like the ones you pointed out, where I've given a single member merits for a number of their posts. That's most likely because I've offered to do post history reviews for members, and just a quick scan of someone's post history will tell me which posts are deserving and which aren't. I don't think I need to read every single post in depth. I just check for effort, grammar, spelling, and overall quality. And hell, I've been a merit source for a couple of years now, so it's gotten easier to do.
That's the point but I don't think these members are asking each other to review their post history regularly.
Thanks though, cleared some of my doubts
You may as well add me to your tin foil hat list of half baked suspects because I will make a copy of the urls of posts I would like to merit. Then, when i have received some merits, I'll go back over my list open the various URL's and merit each - usually in a handful of minutes.
I am not suspecting anyone, I am just asking questions based on some different or weird patterns.
I could not find any other member on the forum with a similar style of giving out merits and hence I am creating this thread.
Maybe you forget? The Pharmacist has sent you 12 merit in 1 minute 8 second if you carefully check the history of merit you received in the last 120 days. I see it from the merit history you received and I think there are many merit source that have the same habit, one of which is DdmrDdmr and several others.
That's because I REQUESTED him to review my posts history and when you specifically check for someone's recent posts, it is understandable to see smaller gaps between merits.
