Topic: [Proposal] Enable sending of less than a full sMerit / Gold and Silver merits - page 2. (Read 334 times)
April 05, 2018, 03:43:26 PM
Well half a merit is already there, but I tried to use it, and it didn't work.
April 05, 2018, 02:09:42 PM
This may be a solution for reduce the difficulty of getting merits.
But sadly many members in the forum do merit sharing now. So the most of merit deserving posts get nothing.Simply look merit histories of some low rank members. You will understand what i said. There should be a some way to stop the merit sharing.
But sadly many members in the forum do merit sharing now. So the most of merit deserving posts get nothing.Simply look merit histories of some low rank members. You will understand what i said. There should be a some way to stop the merit sharing.
April 05, 2018, 02:03:35 PM
Decimal points sound like a huge headache when it comes to merits. I mean, so it's like higher ranked members can send full integer merits.
Lower ranked members can only send decimal merits... so if someone gets decimal merits, they have to feel stressed out wishing more newbies sent them decimal merits in order to make them worth.
Gold and Silver merits are the same way. They devalue merits in a way such that you'd need more from newbies or jr members to make the lesser valued merits worth something.
But I like your idea, just needs some tweaking. Like maybe instead of decimals, u could just do 1/2 merit or 1 merit.
Lower ranked members can only send decimal merits... so if someone gets decimal merits, they have to feel stressed out wishing more newbies sent them decimal merits in order to make them worth.
Gold and Silver merits are the same way. They devalue merits in a way such that you'd need more from newbies or jr members to make the lesser valued merits worth something.
But I like your idea, just needs some tweaking. Like maybe instead of decimals, u could just do 1/2 merit or 1 merit.
April 05, 2018, 01:51:24 PM
This proposal is not completely mine; it was inspired by a post of another user in the German forum. I am also not sure if it wasn't proposed here already.
I propose to allow to send less than a full sMerit point, for example half a merit, or 0.1 or 0.3 merit points.
The reason: Lower-ranked users have often very few sMerits to give away. But many of them want to participate and say "thank you" to other users even if they wouldn't send them one of their scarce full sMerit points they own. In fact, this is one of the more frequent complaints I read about the Merit system.
So if they could send less than a full merit, lower-ranked forum members could rate other users more often. This could increase the acceptance of the merit system (which I consider a very positive initiative) among this large user group, and make it less "elitist".
Alternative / simpler proposal: In addition to the "full Merit points", create a lower category of merit points - for example "silver merits" that are valid 0.1 full merit points, and full merit points would then become gold merits. That would essentially have the same effect - lower-ranked users would be allowed to participate more frequently in the merit system.
Technically, this shouldn't be a problem. The only possible disadvantage I see is that merits could, in certain circumstances, circulate slower if high-ranked members chose to give away silver merits or fractional merits instead of full merits. That could be prevented if, for example, the sending of fractional/silver merits is restricted to users that have less than e.g. 50 available sMerits.
I propose to allow to send less than a full sMerit point, for example half a merit, or 0.1 or 0.3 merit points.
The reason: Lower-ranked users have often very few sMerits to give away. But many of them want to participate and say "thank you" to other users even if they wouldn't send them one of their scarce full sMerit points they own. In fact, this is one of the more frequent complaints I read about the Merit system.
So if they could send less than a full merit, lower-ranked forum members could rate other users more often. This could increase the acceptance of the merit system (which I consider a very positive initiative) among this large user group, and make it less "elitist".
Alternative / simpler proposal: In addition to the "full Merit points", create a lower category of merit points - for example "silver merits" that are valid 0.1 full merit points, and full merit points would then become gold merits. That would essentially have the same effect - lower-ranked users would be allowed to participate more frequently in the merit system.
Technically, this shouldn't be a problem. The only possible disadvantage I see is that merits could, in certain circumstances, circulate slower if high-ranked members chose to give away silver merits or fractional merits instead of full merits. That could be prevented if, for example, the sending of fractional/silver merits is restricted to users that have less than e.g. 50 available sMerits.
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