If you consider merits as a form of appreciation for a quality post. Then should one be allowed to recognize or reenforce the approval they gave to something they considered quality, or should they be limited from doing so?
If you put it in this perspective then you see that it actually is a feature rather than a bug. The accidental double merit issue has been fixed already by the slow down time. Now anyone doing so does it deliberately.
Topic: Re-meriting the same post: bug or feature? (Read 332 times)
The 60 seconds delay is only to prevent accidental double clicks. Other than that, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to Merit the same post more than once. Re-meriting many posts is for instance a good way to easily get rid of sMerit, for instance when I see a good post that I gave only 1 Merit a long time ago (when I was still poor in sMerits).
Meriting one post and re-merit it later is good, and I know DdmrDdmr does it (maybe monthly). It is good to use one merit to mark a good post when you don't have too many sMerits left. After that, when you have more sMerits, you can easily come back to re-merit those good posts that already been marked in your meriting history. It is a type of approach to avoid the need to mark good posts with spreadsheet or browser bookmark. 
Remeriting a post by the same person, occurs a little bit more than I would have though:
- There are a total of 320.970 sMerit TX as of last Friday (204.897 merited posts).
- 5.356 posts have been remerited at some point (be it by accident or deliberately).
- 11.292 TXs are involved in a remerited post by the same person (original + remerit TXs).
- 1.538 people have remerited at least one post.
That is therefore:
- 2,61% of merited posts have been remerited.
- Av. TXs per remerited post: 2,11.
- % TX Involved in Remeriting: 3,52% (original + remerit TXs).
- % TX are of a Remeriting nature: 1,85% (remerit TXs: (11.292 – 5.356) /320.970).
So 1,85% TXs are of a remeriting nature, although there are some specific cases that lead:
Top 10 Remeriters:
Top 10 Remerited Posts (scroll to the right to see all columns):
Complete list : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IY99lLrkEMg3PAPJ5Z1r0r-Yg2PnR6VH9TM59FetbKk/edit?usp=sharing
- There are a total of 320.970 sMerit TX as of last Friday (204.897 merited posts).
- 5.356 posts have been remerited at some point (be it by accident or deliberately).
- 11.292 TXs are involved in a remerited post by the same person (original + remerit TXs).
- 1.538 people have remerited at least one post.
That is therefore:
- 2,61% of merited posts have been remerited.
- Av. TXs per remerited post: 2,11.
- % TX Involved in Remeriting: 3,52% (original + remerit TXs).
- % TX are of a Remeriting nature: 1,85% (remerit TXs: (11.292 – 5.356) /320.970).
So 1,85% TXs are of a remeriting nature, although there are some specific cases that lead:
Top 10 Remeriters:
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user_from UserFromName nRemeritedPosts nTXs AVG TX/Remerited post
1582324 DdmrDdmr 739 1556 02,11
24140 qwk 441 899 02,04
459836 LoyceV 176 371 02,11
359716 ETFbitcoin 165 353 02,14
153634 dbshck 124 256 02,06
1000199 krogothmanhattan 120 314 02,62
1053119 Halab 116 239 02,06
1059082 hugeblack 61 124 02,03
60820 DannyHamilton 56 112 02,00
1852120 fillippone 50 112 02,24
1582324 DdmrDdmr 739 1556 02,11
24140 qwk 441 899 02,04
459836 LoyceV 176 371 02,11
359716 ETFbitcoin 165 353 02,14
153634 dbshck 124 256 02,06
1000199 krogothmanhattan 120 314 02,62
1053119 Halab 116 239 02,06
1059082 hugeblack 61 124 02,03
60820 DannyHamilton 56 112 02,00
1852120 fillippone 50 112 02,24
Top 10 Remerited Posts (scroll to the right to see all columns):
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user_from UserFromName user_to UserToName page_title URL nReg nMeritsTotal
112208 Vlad2Vlad 389271 Limx Dev [ANN][Main] Bitcore- BTX - Partnership with JAXX and Magnum Wallet! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1883902.msg18714400#msg18714400 9 100
925926 gawlea 188198 Piggy The Movement DAO | Fully Decentralized Organization | Borderless Collaboration https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068554.msg29359715#msg29359715 9 18
152486 by rallier 790823 alpsea Merit Bağış Alanı - Unofficial https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2820637.msg28883467#msg28883467 8 12
1000199 krogothmanhattan 1026500 rusbitcoinuser [INFO] New Casascius Tracker (in development) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4878711.msg43934785#msg43934785 8 26
1852120 fillippone 1164368 GreatArkansas 10th anniversary art contest https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193860.msg52805482#msg52805482 8 37
112208 Vlad2Vlad 2436 Hal Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833 7 100
359716 ETFbitcoin 1221633 jnano Pruned mode syncing doesn't cache file writes? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2291857.msg52103058#msg52103058 7 7
112208 Vlad2Vlad 1027143 bible_pay BiblePay | 10% Charity | POBH CPU | Sanctuaries (Masternodes) | Orphans https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg24403715#msg24403715 6 100
1000199 krogothmanhattan 1852974 grbox2002 Free 1oz Bitcoin Coin -Limited to first 10 people- USA address only https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088114.msg48808919#msg48808919 6 10
1000199 krogothmanhattan 904524 ChiBitCTy [Charity Auctions] Random Lots/ Charity Auctions -Haven Project-Save The Bees! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3248727.msg33830334#msg33830334 6 20
112208 Vlad2Vlad 389271 Limx Dev [ANN][Main] Bitcore- BTX - Partnership with JAXX and Magnum Wallet! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1883902.msg18714400#msg18714400 9 100
925926 gawlea 188198 Piggy The Movement DAO | Fully Decentralized Organization | Borderless Collaboration https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068554.msg29359715#msg29359715 9 18
152486 by rallier 790823 alpsea Merit Bağış Alanı - Unofficial https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2820637.msg28883467#msg28883467 8 12
1000199 krogothmanhattan 1026500 rusbitcoinuser [INFO] New Casascius Tracker (in development) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4878711.msg43934785#msg43934785 8 26
1852120 fillippone 1164368 GreatArkansas 10th anniversary art contest https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193860.msg52805482#msg52805482 8 37
112208 Vlad2Vlad 2436 Hal Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833 7 100
359716 ETFbitcoin 1221633 jnano Pruned mode syncing doesn't cache file writes? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2291857.msg52103058#msg52103058 7 7
112208 Vlad2Vlad 1027143 bible_pay BiblePay | 10% Charity | POBH CPU | Sanctuaries (Masternodes) | Orphans https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg24403715#msg24403715 6 100
1000199 krogothmanhattan 1852974 grbox2002 Free 1oz Bitcoin Coin -Limited to first 10 people- USA address only https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088114.msg48808919#msg48808919 6 10
1000199 krogothmanhattan 904524 ChiBitCTy [Charity Auctions] Random Lots/ Charity Auctions -Haven Project-Save The Bees! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3248727.msg33830334#msg33830334 6 20
Complete list : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IY99lLrkEMg3PAPJ5Z1r0r-Yg2PnR6VH9TM59FetbKk/edit?usp=sharing
legendary
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Merit: 6524
Fully-fledged Merit Cycler|Spambuster'23|Pie Baker
Looking at your merits history in a rush, the only case I saw is the one when you merited ChuckBuck. Is this the case? If so, as far as I see, there is no bug, as the time interval between the merits is ~5 minutes (you sent 1 merit at 8.32 and the second one at 8.37). The limit is of 60 seconds or less between same amount of merits sent to the same post. But you sent the second merit after 5 minutes, thus there is no bug, in my opinion.
As far as I know, this bug has been fixed by theymos a long time ago, the time being set to more than 60 seconds (for sending the exact merits number as before - meaning the bug you described). Did it reappear? Or did you try the bug at time intervals bigger than 60 seconds?
I was sending a merit for the first time. I clicked on the send button and was not redirected to the thread (I thought the merit page will be closed and I'll be redirected to the post) then I refreshed the page. Nothing happened and refreshed another time and got a popup saying I have already merited the post. Then found out that I merited that post twice. legendary
Activity: 1680
Merit: 6524
Fully-fledged Merit Cycler|Spambuster'23|Pie Baker
As far as I know, this bug has been fixed by theymos a long time ago, the time being set to more than 60 seconds (for sending the exact merits number as before - meaning the bug you described). Did it reappear? Or did you try the bug at time intervals bigger than 60 seconds?
Also, I'm not sure if it's a bug or not but refreshing the Merit page after meriting a post resends the same amount of merits
Unlike upvotes which are unique per user, Merits are basically social credits.
So yeah, nothing wrong re-meriting
So yeah, nothing wrong re-meriting
Sometimes, people decide to send merits in fractions so that they merit a wide range of post before they run out of smerits, I've seen some users fractionally merit some posts repeatedly over period time, at least I'm very sure DdmrDdmr does, I got 3 merits from him on this post, all of which comes at 3 months or more interval.
This is true, there are some users who are doing this, lately Ive noticed two or three guy, send me merits on the same post but when I check that on my merit page, its the one theyve merited before. Double spending of merits or prolonging could be both okay for me. It's also good to spread the merits. But It also happened to me that I send merits twice without not knowing I double click it. Fickle isnt it OP but its okay. Generousity is tolerated here in a good unintentional way. 
If you don't want to merit a post/topic you have already merited (but you cant find your name there) there can be an easy solution : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52202913
It just need to be implemented.
It just need to be implemented.
legendary
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Merit: 6524
Fully-fledged Merit Cycler|Spambuster'23|Pie Baker
I understand. That's what I also felt prior writing the topic, but I wanted to ask though. Maybe I was wrong. Listening to more opinions can make things more clear sometimes. Thank you all for confirmations.
Sometimes, people decide to send merits in fractions so that they merit a wide range of post before they run out of smerits, I've seen some users fractionally merit some posts repeatedly over period time, at least I'm very sure DdmrDdmr does, I got 3 merits from him on this post, all of which comes at 3 months or more interval.
I remember there was a post for double spending the same amount of merits within 60 seconds, which was fixed by theymos, but I don't remember anything about what I highlighted here.
The 60 seconds delay is only to prevent accidental double clicks. Other than that, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to Merit the same post more than once. Re-meriting many posts is for instance a good way to easily get rid of sMerit, for instance when I see a good post that I gave only 1 Merit a long time ago (when I was still poor in sMerits). 
I honestly doubt that's a bug, as I don't see a reason why you shouldn't be able to re-merit the same post. Sometimes you give less than intended, or you don't have as much as you wanted to give in the first place, so you may come back and re-merit the post.
Happened to me few times as well, coming back later to some good post and giving more when I could afford.
Happened to me few times as well, coming back later to some good post and giving more when I could afford.
legendary
Activity: 1680
Merit: 6524
Fully-fledged Merit Cycler|Spambuster'23|Pie Baker
I observed that currently it is possible to "re-merit" a post / topic you already merited before. I was wondering if it is a bug or a feature of the merit system.
In part, I see it as a feature - for example, you wanted to give a specific amount of merits to a post but, by mistake, you give a lower number. In this case, you have the possibility of offering other merits to the respective post.
However, in the original post regarding the merits system I don't remember to see this specification. And from here, the question: bug or working as intended?
I remember there was a post for double spending the same amount of merits within 60 seconds, which was fixed by theymos, but I don't remember anything about what I highlighted here.
Any idea?
In part, I see it as a feature - for example, you wanted to give a specific amount of merits to a post but, by mistake, you give a lower number. In this case, you have the possibility of offering other merits to the respective post.
However, in the original post regarding the merits system I don't remember to see this specification. And from here, the question: bug or working as intended?
I remember there was a post for double spending the same amount of merits within 60 seconds, which was fixed by theymos, but I don't remember anything about what I highlighted here.
Any idea?
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