Is there a "karma whores" list on reddit!? Do you have a link to it?
If you believe someone is cheating or abusing the merit system then you can leave a negative feedback on his trust page. This is how we are supposed to deal with merit abusers.
With all the drama going on here, "merit whores" list is the last thing we need.
Topic: Readdit Karma whores=Bitcointalk merit whores :) (Read 494 times)
Plagiarism is against forum rules, so if you found anyone who does that they should be handled by moderators, no need to create badge for that.
You get comment karma every time you make a comment.
No, that's not how comment karma works. In order to get comment karma, your comments have to be upvoted by others, you don't get it by simply commenting. So those that write nonsense get nothing at best, and they can even be downvoted and loose karma. Karma is used as a relative measure of activity which is why subreddits have metrics of minimum karma to participate. Bitcointalk already has an activity metric. I don't see a point to merit at all other than bragging rights.
You can be very active shitposter on reddit, and you probably won't receive much karma, therefore preventing you from joining most popular subreddits. It is similar with bitcointalk, you can be very active shitposter here and you will gain activity, but you will never reach higher ranks and some benefits that it offers.So i would say that both reddit karma and bitcointalk merit have its purpose.
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So imho while Merit is useful, Karma is not.
@NeuroticFish Depends on how you define the word "Useful". Having a higher amount of Karma allows you to post on certain subreddits, they are basically "sub-boards". On more popular subreddits like "r/videos" newbies can't post/share a link. Since these subreddits receive millions of impressions every day. Having a top post on one of these Subreddits can be quite beneficial if we are talking from a monetary perspective. There are special subreddits that you can only join when you receive X amount Karma. I remember a board for only "Merit-earners" was proposed here as well but I think it never became a reality.
This is interesting.
An analogy I could find is the Ivory Tower, just I guess it's not so "important" as r/videos. I will correct my post.
Indeed maybe there are some flaws or whatever, but merit discourage a lot of members to create new account and spam all over the place with useless posts.
There is merit in the merit system.
Also those that completely don't care about ranking up or sigh campaign etc those members can still talk free, ask questions and have non problems from anything.... only those with some wrong intentions have a few more problems cause of the system...
There is merit in the merit system.
Also those that completely don't care about ranking up or sigh campaign etc those members can still talk free, ask questions and have non problems from anything.... only those with some wrong intentions have a few more problems cause of the system...
Indeed, merit has more than one use - money/bounties as it maybe could be understood from my post.
I just tried to find one of the uses of Merit and actually the use case for which people are trying all the "tricks" OP was disgusted about.
I do not think that it would be right to highlight individual members for this. If you find some post by a member to be against the rules, you can always report it. The merit whores have some common characteristics though that can be used to identify them like they just rewrite the top merited posts, try to post attention seeking threads in meta and so on. Howerver, the merit sources have got used to all this and can identify them from so far.
You get comment karma every time you make a comment. Karma is used as a relative measure of activity which is why subreddits have metrics of minimum karma to participate. Bitcointalk already has an activity metric. I don't see a point to merit at all other than bragging rights.
On the other hand, you could be downvoted so imagine posting some controversial comment and seeing it accrue like -100 or even worse.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
I probably have even less experience with Reddit, and I've heard of karma points or whatever they're officially called but I never understood what their purpose was. I think they're just for bragging rights on reddit, and I guess you could consider merits to have that same function here, even though merits do serve a useful purpose, forum-wise.Reddit karma is not useless at all. Beside bragging rights, there is actual use.
Most popular subreddits usually demand you to have certain amount of comment karma (karma you get for comments) in order to make posts there, or even comment. That is their way to fight spammers and newbie accounts.
For example, if you want to make comments in one of the most popular crypto related subreddits, /CryptoCurrency, you need at least 50 comment karma, and in order to be able to make posts there, you need at least 500 comment karma.
You get comment karma every time you make a comment. Karma is used as a relative measure of activity which is why subreddits have metrics of minimum karma to participate. Bitcointalk already has an activity metric. I don't see a point to merit at all other than bragging rights.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
I probably have even less experience with Reddit, and I've heard of karma points or whatever they're officially called but I never understood what their purpose was. I think they're just for bragging rights on reddit, and I guess you could consider merits to have that same function here, even though merits do serve a useful purpose, forum-wise.Reddit karma is not useless at all. Beside bragging rights, there is actual use.
Most popular subreddits usually demand you to have certain amount of comment karma (karma you get for comments) in order to make posts there, or even comment. That is their way to fight spammers and newbie accounts.
For example, if you want to make comments in one of the most popular crypto related subreddits, /CryptoCurrency, you need at least 50 comment karma, and in order to be able to make posts there, you need at least 500 comment karma.
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So imho while Merit is useful, Karma is not.
@NeuroticFish Depends on how you define the word "Useful". Having a higher amount of Karma allows you to post on certain subreddits, they are basically "sub-boards". On more popular subreddits like "r/videos" newbies can't post/share a link. Since these subreddits receive millions of impressions every day. Having a top post on one of these Subreddits can be quite beneficial if we are talking from a monetary perspective. There are special subreddits that you can only join when you receive X amount Karma. I remember a board for only "Merit-earners" was proposed here as well but I think it never became a reality.
Sort of. If you get a lots of post karma on specific post you will get best link award. Same goes with “best comment award”
Interesting. From the trophy page, that's where we can see a bunch of them, including "Inciteful Comment". Guess I'll just happily earn my sweet karmas
I want to be a Karma whore, so I've given myself 69 Karma. 
This is just the number in you profile. Doesn't mean much. This is like number of likes on Facebook or Instagram. If you have a lot of karma, you can have a unique badge.
Wait, there's a unique badge for having loads of Karma?
Sort of. If you get a lots of post karma on specific post you will get best link award. Same goes with “best comment award”
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
I probably have even less experience with Reddit, and I've heard of karma points or whatever they're officially called but I never understood what their purpose was. I think they're just for bragging rights on reddit, and I guess you could consider merits to have that same function here, even though merits do serve a useful purpose, forum-wise.On the other hand on Bitcointalk the merit is necessary for ranking up, and higher ranks translate into admission and higher pay at bounties.
Right, and that's why members (especially lower-ranked ones) find them so important, and it why there used to be so many threads in Meta a while back dealing with merit issues. I'm glad that trend finally burned itself out, by the way. It was getting really annoying in Meta for a while.What would be the purpose of the thread?
Ridicule certain folks? Make fun of them? Discourage them from posting?
Probably, and I don't think a list will get made anyway. There aren't any "merit whores" that I can think of, and I never thought of anyone who wanted to earn merits really badly in those terms. In fact, the reason I try to be a good merit source is to help out members who need merits to rank up. Merits aren't exactly like Reddit's karma points in that they aren't just used for ego-boosting purposes (which I think is what the karma thing is all about). Anyway, no merit whore nominations from me. Ridicule certain folks? Make fun of them? Discourage them from posting?
Some cynical old bastard might say that this thread is whoring for merit.
While we're at it, what's a "readdit"?
While we're at it, what's a "readdit"?
This is just the number in you profile. Doesn't mean much. This is like number of likes on Facebook or Instagram. If you have a lot of karma, you can have a unique badge.
Wait, there's a unique badge for having loads of Karma?
A karma whore is a Reddit user,who deliberately uses Reddit to boost his karma score by applying different tricks(re-posting old content for the sake of gaining more karma,etc)
There are individuals, that post "you are re-posting old content " (without any proof) on unique content, that was posted for the first time. How do you call that kind of person ?
I'm not sure it's the same thing.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
This is just the number in you profile. Doesn't mean much. This is like number of likes on Facebook or Instagram. If you have a lot of karma, you can have a unique badge.
The good thing about “re-posting” old content or not even the content you only made will result you into having a permaban here cause it counts as plagiarism. Unlike Reddit where you can re-post anything you want and still benefit and receive karma here in BCT it would just be a matter of time before someone will catch your plagiarism and end your membership here. Yeah plagiarizers might count as merit whores here but I can consider them as a dumb whore for thinking they can get away with it.
Crosspost happens often but so does reposting the same old content.
Funnily even when Redditors realized the content was plagiarized, the OP already had like thousands of upvotes.
Nevertheless, I find the "whores list" unnecessary since everyone out there is for Merits. As long as no direct copy pasta.
Funnily even when Redditors realized the content was plagiarized, the OP already had like thousands of upvotes.
Nevertheless, I find the "whores list" unnecessary since everyone out there is for Merits. As long as no direct copy pasta.
I'm not sure it's the same thing.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
On the other hand on Bitcointalk the merit is necessary for ranking up, and higher ranks translate into admission and higher pay at bounties.
So imho while Merit is useful, Karma is not.
I have limited experience in Reddit, but I don't know of real use for that Karma.
On the other hand on Bitcointalk the merit is necessary for ranking up, and higher ranks translate into admission and higher pay at bounties.
So imho while Merit is useful, Karma is not.
Indeed maybe there are some flaws or whatever, but merit discourage a lot of members to create new account and spam all over the place with useless posts.
There is merit in the merit system.
Also those that completely don't care about ranking up or sigh campaign etc those members can still talk free, ask questions and have non problems from anything.... only those with some wrong intentions have a few more problems cause of the system...
Can you cite an example of who they really are that same goes apply for the forum's merit? AFAIK if you posted a same content and it isn't a translated version that be presented on local then that's a forum rule violation and you must notify the mods about it. Lastly, I am presuming that mods here are far more active compare to Reddit.
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