[Proposal] Enhance the requirements for ranking up to Member position - page 2.

Lucius

legendary

Activity: 3234

Merit: 5637

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Quote from: Coin-1 on February 22, 2019, 08:22:58 AM

In addition, if Members are rewarded with 1 stake in the signature campaigns, Full Members are typically rewarded only with 1.5 or 2 stakes. Account farmers take this disproportion into consideration and send exactly 10 merits to the alt accounts they farm.

It would be interesting to see how many Jr. Members is ranked up with one of two merit donation (2x5 merits or 10 at once), and how many of them is stay only on that 10 merit (not receive anything after that). Only then we would get a slightly clearer picture how many accounts abuse merits, and what is the percentage of alt accounts.

I am not sure that even 20 merits requirement is a problem for those who want to abuse merit system, and on the other hand it may be very discouraging for those legal members who are trying to rank up. It's a very tricky situation for admin, and considering that Jr. Members who are demoted to lower rank need only 1 merit to rank up, these 10 merits increase seems pretty unrealistic.

r1s2g3

sr. member

Activity: 742

Merit: 395

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I also proposed the same thing in my earlier post that Merit requirement should be proportional to activity. I second you in increasing the Merit requirement.

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I think maintaining the linearity between activity and merit will discourage user to create multiple low level account for sig spamming.

Unfortunately I was misunderstood in that topic because I used the word bounty.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

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I seem to have conflicting data on the Merit Dashboard (i.e. needing merits: 8 Legendries were gained, 29 Heroes, 93 Sr. Members, 167 Full Members, 3.130 Members and 9.495 Jr. Members). Not sure why we differ really (If you want to, PM me the list of Heroes so that I can contrast it with my data, and PM you back with the reason we differ).

Regardless, aside from Jr. Member being quite easy to achieve. The other ranks are not (not even Member), and even though one can still cut corners and try not to get caught in the event, demoting members back to Jr. Member would seem like a harsh punishment targeted at a specific segment because it is plausible to reach their rank through merit abuse.

Every tweak on the rank-from can cause the ripple to turn into a wave (no pun intended) in terms of the number of active forum members around, and that has dropped somewhat significantly lately (some for the joy of many), but even so the number of newly created posts with fresh content seem to waver a bit.

Stake assignation is campaign manager discretionary, and the forum should not shift things around rank-wise to adjust to how stakes are being set by them.

LimLims

sr. member

Activity: 1204

Merit: 272

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First of all, not all the Member accounts are alt of Full Member accounts.
Secondly there are also some quality and constructive posters in the forum who with the help of their posting ability has been ranked to Member rank from Jr. Member. Also Getting a single Merit too takes a lot of time. In that case you want to make 40 Merits for Member rank? Shocked

Then the senior and hero account can give their alt accounts 40 Merits and can easily make it Member rank.
By the way nice graph OP.

Coin-1

legendary

Activity: 2618

Merit: 2304

I just created the chart that shows how many forum users ranked up to higher positions since the day the merit system was introduced, and I was quite shocked to see the curve that shows how many Jr. Members ranked up to Member position compared to other ranks:

Please note that these ranks are based on the merit amount regardless of the current activity.

According to these statistics, almost 4 thousand (!) users received 10 merits and ranked up to Member position, and only 222 users earned 100 merits and reached a Full Member position.

I calculated the ratio of ranked up users:

50 (users who ranked up to Hero Member) / 16 (users who ranked up to Legendary) = 3.12
108 (users who ranked up to Sr. Member) / 50 (users who ranked up to Hero Member) = 2.16
222 (users who ranked up to Full Member) / 108 (users who ranked up to Sr. Member) = 2.05
3957 (users who ranked up to Member) / 222 (users who ranked up to Full Member) = 17.82 (!)

In general, a Member account does not significantly differ from a Full Member account. Of course, Full Member can wear an avatar and a colored signature, but both of these accounts have the same font size and clickable links in their signatures.

In addition, if Members are rewarded with 1 stake in the signature campaigns, Full Members are typically rewarded only with 1.5 or 2 stakes. Account farmers take this disproportion into consideration and send exactly 10 merits to the alt accounts they farm.

Therefore, I propose to enhance the requirements for ranking up to Member position. In my opinion, Jr. Member must earn, for example, 40 20 merits in order to become a Member. Members who do not have 40 20 merits should be demoted to Jr. Members. As a variant, the required merit score can be gradually increased over several months.

This post has been slightly edited. Comments are appreciated. Cool

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