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i mean think about it, if you want to detect scam, why is the one not being scammed giving the trust? Like DT giving trust?
are they being scammed? they can just anyhow give unfair feedback too!
shouldn't it be real customers?
Concededly, I have not really been giving out trust ratings, so I am not really that personally experienced to comment about the fairness of the situation. But, I do see if you get in some kind of political battle on the forum, then you might attract red trust.
yes, i know i need merits, but prob is also merit is now not even easy to get.
I concede that it could take hundreds of posts to become liked in this forum, and to participate in a variety of threads. I tend to participate in Bitcoin related threads, because that is what interests me. Of course, since I have been on the forum for about 5 years, I have also recently (especially in the last year or so) meandered out into other aspects of the forum, including meta.
what I am trying to say here is that it can take a decently long time to get people to know you well enough to want to merit your posts, and of course, if you get into political battles early on and receive red trust, then it might become more difficult to earn merit - except by perhaps continuing those political battles and trying to get merits based on politics rather than just participating in bitcoin (or perhaps crypto) forum topics.
This creates a tons of newbies who in the end will give up.... Whats the point?
These DTs came in early and get the easy rewards before the rule changes.
These DTs came in early and get the easy rewards before the rule changes.
Merits seem to have helped with some of the spamming and farming of accounts. I doubt that it is fair to assert that life is unfair because you happened to NOT be here in earlier days, before the merit system. There is a kind of luck of the draw there, and yeah, there are likely a lot of high merited members who don't deserve such, but in the end, there is likely some value in trying to figure out ways to benefit yourself personally, whether that is spending less time on the forum, finding other places to spend your time or just contributing to the forum over time, and maybe in several years, you gain more and more credibility on the forum (if that is what you want to achieve?).
finding other places to spend your time or just contributing to the forum over time, and maybe in several years, you gain more and more credibility on the forum (if that is what you want to achieve?).
forget it! newbies eventually give up because of this merit system. Some resort to buying accounts.
spamming and farming of accounts. There are other ways to prevent it, like i thought the max post per week is already enough to prevent spam?
if you don't implement the merit system, buying of accounts will not even happen!
