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Quote from: acarli on December 07, 2018, 03:03:58 PM

I noticed that on quite a few forums the moderators do not give out insignificant amounts of smerit. I will certainly post regardless, but I thought that it is discouraging to see so many threads that are 300+ replies but no smerits assigned, not even in any of the threads.

mods aren't merit distributors, appointed merit sources are
so keep posting... as a thread starter or involved in a long thread doesn't warrant a merit
if you feel discouraged just because not getting merit then you're in this forum for the wrong reason

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on December 07, 2018, 03:18:15 PM

First of all, mods aren't responsible for giving out merits--the community as a whole is. Second, whether you earn merits or not depends on basically two factors, 1) Whether your post is good or not, and 2) Your post has to be seen by someone with sMerits to give.

You're fortunate to have gotten as many merits as you have. Many members with your rank and post count have gotten ZERO merits, and they're not likely to earn any for the rest of their miserable careers on bitcointalk. It's not supposed to be easy to earn merits; that's the whole point of the system. If it was easy, it wouldn't prevent shitposters from ranking up and the whole system would be useless.

Thank you for the clarification. I haven't been around here enough to fully understand the roles of moderators. Admittedly, in the back of my mind maybe I want to be "validated". lol. I'll work on that.

Quote from: kingpin4321 on December 07, 2018, 03:34:55 PM

You have become quite synonymous to making post that relates to merit or smerit
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Could your interest be a merit hunt in disguise?
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I strongly disagree with you on that one. Check out my posts.

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The duty of moderators on each"board" is to clean up that board/section and try and keep it as sane as possible,through deleting low content and spam posts or topics
It's not their duty to hand out merits,thats not to say they dont/do,as a matter of fact it's not anyone's duty to hand out Smerits except probably the merit sources which to an extent is their duty, and they'll only do so to worthy posts.

With or without merits,or merit giving mods or members,that definitely shouldn't deter you from coming up with the quality stuff you claim you want to, merit is just an addition,as our major purpose here is to discuss(sensibly through quality topics)
Be careful of the section you'll post your topic,otherwise it definitely may not even merits but get reported for being a spamfest

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You have become quite synonymous to making post that relates to merit or smerit

Could your interest be a merit hunt in disguise?

The merit system is perfectly arrange and is working on very much fine why don't we leave it the way it is and focus on the pressing issues

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First of all, mods aren't responsible for giving out merits--the community as a whole is. Second, whether you earn merits or not depends on basically two factors, 1) Whether your post is good or not, and 2) Your post has to be seen by someone with sMerits to give.

If you're posting in a thread that has many pages of replies, and I don't have a hard number for this, no one is likely going to even see your post. Certain sections like Bitcoin Discussion and the entire altcoin section are full of spammers just posting to get paid. Since anyone with either a brain or sMerits to give is going to avoid those sections, posting there isn't likely to do you any favors.

You're fortunate to have gotten as many merits as you have. Many members with your rank and post count have gotten ZERO merits, and they're not likely to earn any for the rest of their miserable careers on bitcointalk. It's not supposed to be easy to earn merits; that's the whole point of the system. If it was easy, it wouldn't prevent shitposters from ranking up and the whole system would be useless.

acarli

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Hey guys. This is not a bashing post. I was thinking about some cool bitcoin topics and checked out the forums were I could post. Sometimes I like to spend some time making an awesome post. As you know it takes a while to write a quality post that will encourage quality engagement from other users. I noticed that on quite a few forums the moderators do not give out insignificant amounts of smerit. I will certainly post regardless, but I thought that it is discouraging to see so many threads that are 300+ replies but no smerits assigned, not even in any of the threads.

What do you guys think is a solution?

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