Topic: Releasing of rank in yearly - page 2. (Read 727 times)

That would have been a good approach but I don't think that will be happening because the merit system seems to be working or so everyone says. And if the merit system is working, there won't be need for other alternatives to rank upgrading.

You are wrong, perhaps looking on some data will change your mind. Merit is doing it's job just fine regardless a minor number of abusive members using it for their own interest. Every system has a System Loss which is completely ok.

Just forget it and concentrate on getting merits. Merit system will stay because it doing good for the forum and stopped creating multiple accounts and farming them. People will still spam as this is requirements of signature campaigns (not spamming, but posting not less than N posts). Who cares that most of the members stopped ranking up? It's not hurting the forum anyhow, even if I (and 99% of others) stay as Member forever, I'll still stay in this forum posting every day.

You have to forget about merits and ranks. Just enjoy your time here spent on reading and educating yourself. Finally when you learn how to post correctly, quality content you will see merits slowly parking in your account. Especially if you create some useful content like guide or summary.

OP will never rank up when there is a lack of knowledge and writing skills. Merit system already reduced spam, account farming and encouraged members to be much more creative. I see much more quality answers and interesting discussions.

The merit system is good and works perfectly. Only people who always try to abuse the system should be blamed. Not merit system, not Theymos because he tries to grow this forum in a healthy way or members who were lucky to achieve higher ranks before merit system was introduced.

OP you have to accept this and move forward with your Bitcointalk account. If you can't then the best thing you can do is to search for another crypto related forum where you can still rank fast enough. There is plenty of them and few best ones even run bounty campaigns similar or even same as on BTT. I advise you to do it quickly because all crypto related forums are growing fast, especially with bounty listings. They will introduce additional requirements (like merits) very soon when user base grows significantly.

Well, this is a bitcoin forum, so it's not a surprise for me...

I hope it won't change. If a fixed or maximum time frame (even a year) will be introduced for the rank up process, the account farmers will farm a lot of account for a year and they will surely rank up to the next level, so this won't stop the spam here...

That makes no sense whatsoever.  I'd also point out that most of the merit abuse occurs between alt accounts, and it's usually low-ranked members and not the good 'ol boys' club like you claim.  I've seen plenty of older members meriting lower-ranked ones, myself included.  Yes indeed I've merited Legendaries, but I happen to like their posts better in general and I have certainly tried to give merits to newer members.  That claim that merit passes between old-timer friends just doesn't pass the smell test.

As far as the OP goes, I'm not quite sure what he's suggesting--seems like a minimum time frame between ranks?  Whatever it is, it's probably not going to happen.  When Theymos implemented the merit system, I suspect he did so with the intention not to make any major changes to it for quite some time.  As I've stated before, we're all lucky he created it in the first place.  It took a lot happening on the forum to get him to do it.

If OP, really has the heart to make the forum better and in quality then he would not complain and suggest any obvious suggestion of a lazy person. Merit is merit, be an admin and you'll change rules implemented. I have the freedom to speak and so do you.

You're right, being here in this forum is a privilege not a right. Ergo, we should contribute to the system in order for it to survive.

Being a members it's our responsibilities to keep it safe from being abused but sadly only few know it's significance.

In the long run, we all gonna suffer the consequences of our foolishness.

Bitcoin Talk is a meritocracy
https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/10/meritocracy/

When you start to work for an organisation, you may begin by sweeping the floor, but you can't expect to become the managing director just because you have been there for 5 years. The organisation wouldn't flourish if most of its staff were managing directors.

The Merit system works exactly the way it was intended: only people with good posts are allowed to rank up. Do you want proof? This thread is filled with people complaining about the fact that they can't rank up anymore. It's not the first topic in which low rank users without merit make all kinds of suggestions to go back to the way it was before the introduction of Merit.

Can you link the post where he says that?

No, it won't happen at any odds, because your suggestion is totally contrasting the original purposes of Merit System.
I don't think Theymos will take your ideas into consideration at any probabitly.
Merit system launched to keep shitty posters stucked at lower ranks in the forum and has performed well several months after its start.

According to merit system there is no time table to change their rank. If someone have adequate activity count but no merit then he/she will not be fit for upgraded membership. Also if someone has merits but no activity rank then he/she would not be upgraded member. To be upgraded member must need merit as well as activity point. If you have 1000 activity but 0 merit then you will have on jr. membership.

Good suggestion but I think it has majour flaw, there are thousands of account here that have not been opened for years, that means automatically those accounts too would be upgraded to new rank, the recent merit deployed is affecting alot of people  and need to be reviewed but not to this

That is true, also I am afraid of sending merits, because when I send some merit to someone then I'm suspected of multiaccounting...

I see that you already have activity 95 and absolutely no merit. Earlier, before the introduction of the system of merit, you would be able to get the rank of full member in a month. It turns out that you write only low-quality messages, no one has given you any merit. I think, in a few years, when you do not get to the rank of full member, you change your mind about this system of merit.
In general, I have previously thought about this. I waited for people to ripen to such an idea. If someone does not want others to quickly reach high ranks in this forum, you can simply extend the time between ranks. This vseravno will be better than actually prohibit their promotion at all, leaving only loopholes for their own.

Of course Bitcointalk is not the nucleus of anything , but bear in mind that especially in bullish markets people could make a fortune just out of Bounty Hunting on this website,

and the amounts earned / month were typically higher than even the competitive salaries in many developing countries, so there is tremendous value embedded in this forum,

and enriching talented and intellectual people from disadvantaged nations matches very well with the liberating anarchocapitalistic spirit of CryptoCurrencies.

I support your thoughts. Getting 10 merits to become a Member is so hard though you are posting quality posts. How much more getting 100 merits to become Full member?. To ranked up with existing merit system is really just a dream nowadays. Happy for those early birds on this forum as it is advantage for them. I think merit sytem must be demolished and introduced new ranks in order to top ranked not be overtakes by new comers instead of freezing the ranking system. Distribution of merits is actually unfair as others giving sMerits to their personally known account owner and to those having multiple account gives to themselves.

Pretty much truth although the merit distribution was broken down and a fair amount of them are given in altcoins;sad to say those points are given to thread creators and not content creators. What can you do though, don't complain about the system move on and lead a life that doesn't focus on bitcointalk.org as the nucleus of your day.

Merit system doesn't encourage me at all. All I see is that the system doesn't work as it was intended. The number of spam messages haven't decreased so much. But to get a higher rank will take almost eternity now.

I support your view that accounts should be upgraded automatically for more than 6 months. This will not cause the abuse of false accounts. Many newbie have not been upgraded. This will hurt the enthusiasm of new people in the community, and it will be bad for the development of the forum.