Request for sent merit edit button - page 2.

Findingnemo

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Quote from: philipma1957 on September 24, 2023, 06:05:58 PM

even though I have given thousands of merits I always have a stack of them to give.

Not everyone has that privilege, Cheesy

I remember even a few merit sources complain about the low allocation of source merit which is not enough to cover all the good posts they witness.

But editing the merit after being sent is not likely in my choice. (Don't take away someone's joy, even if it happened due to a mistake).

giving a popup confirmation will defeat the actual purpose once they get used to it but it will be a real pain for people who used to send more merits. But what about giving a popup warning only for merit TX if it exceeds a certain amount, in my opinion, a warning for every merit TX for more than 10 merits can serve the purpose.

Orpichukwu

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Quote from: tbct_mt2 on September 23, 2023, 09:09:05 AM

Quote from: Orpichukwu on September 23, 2023, 05:51:38 AM

Your suggestion is nice

Not actually nice. It will make ranks more complicated. You rank up when having enough merit for a new rank, then someone demerit you, and you drop off, do you like it?

It is less important and serious than how managers will pick participants. Their works to select participants for campaigns will be more difficult when applicant's earned merits can change quickly by demerit.

The area where I said it was a nice idea is in the aspect where the OP suggested for a warning page to appear before anyone can send merit to be implemented. I see that as one thing that could stop such a mistake by the OP from happening.

but after reading a few other comments from experienced members, I realise that there is more to it than just implementing that, as users can still have that option and still make the same mistake as they can fine-read through those warnings annoyingly and would not want to read them every time and can just be clicking on next till they get to the confirm page, which is why the main purpose of such an implementation has been defeated.

nakamura12

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I think you have mistakenly press 2 more than once rather than pressing it once. I am sure you didn't double check or triple check before sending because once you click send it cannot be undone but before you can give merit, you need to click on merit button which doesn't send merit right away and that's the time where you input how many merits you are going to send ( quite sure you know about it). There's nothing you can ro about it now but to accumulate smerits again.

philipma1957

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Quote from: Don Pedro Dinero on September 23, 2023, 10:14:12 AM

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 23, 2023, 08:43:38 AM

There is a very good way to avoid sending random merits, not to be greedy, and not to accumulate many merits. If you, OP, were more generous, then sending twenty-two merits at a time would be impossible. Such situations will never happen to people who do not accumulate their merits. Except for everything, don't be sorry; just please the person who got such a gift.

I don't remember having had 22 merits to send out, maybe when the merit system started and we had airdropped merits (I don't remember how many), but other than that I don't think I've even come close to accumulating 22 smerits. I'm sending them as they come along.

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on September 23, 2023, 08:51:15 AM

Some months ago, I was doubting whether to send 2 or 1 sMerits to a given post, and ended up sending 21. It happens every now and then.

As said, I think this happens to those who hoard merits and those of you who have a lot of smerits (top merit earners+merit sources). It doesn't happen to us commoners.

Quote from: LoyceMobile on September 23, 2023, 09:23:15 AM

As the sender of tens of thousands of Merits, I'd hate to see a confirmation pop-up. Once you're used to it, you'll click it without reading, so all it does is waste your time.
I've made mistakes a few times, but in total it's about 0.2% of my sMerit that went wrong. It's not a big deal.

I agree, looking for a solution for such a low error rate does not seem worthwhile.

yeah i have done 10 and 20 vs 1 or 2

and being a source my merits stack up.

even though I have given thousands of merits I always have a stack of them to give.

DVlog

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Quote from: EL MOHA on September 23, 2023, 05:26:08 AM

Woke up this morning and was going through some threads and wanted to merit a post. My intention was definitely to send 2 merits because to that post and then got carried away and mistakenly sent 22, I didn’t even notice until I saw my smerits drained, yeah it is ok to spend all smerits but definitely the amount to be sent should match the content of the posts.

My reason for this post is shouldn’t we have something like a second warning when the confirm button is clicked, like ’are you sure you want to send this amount to so so’

Secondly shouldn’t we have a patch on editing merit sent even if it is for a specified time like how the edit button doesn’t reflect edited when it is done immediately the post is made.

PowerGlove is there a way to go round this?

Definitely pained to have wasted all my smerits on a single post.

Your incident just reminded me of another one that was done by me a few weeks ago. I wanted to send 2 smerits to a post, but due to a slow network or some other issue, 2+ 2 = 4 merits have been sent to a single post two times when the intention was to send 2 smerits. I think I can remember what happened at that time.

First, I sent two smerits, but due to the slow network, the page was loading for a long time, so I just refreshed it after a few minutes and bang! Two extra merits were sent to that post.

KingsDen

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on September 24, 2023, 12:11:31 AM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53133959

Nice to see. It seems that this 11 merits instead on 1 has happened so many times in the forum. This may not be the exact thread I am referring to. That one happened between lower ranked members which made the forum members more skeptical to believe it was unintentionally. Also, from the picture above it seems the one involving Sujonali happened far back 2019. I wasn't in the forum as of then.

Quote from: coin-investor on September 23, 2023, 12:31:35 PM

This is a case of making a mistake and then blaming the forum for not having this feature, this request will be ignored so people will not be too lazy to check and double-check their actions If this happens to me I will just take it and blame myself not from forum's lack of of feature.

This is not about mistakes. It usually happen to newbies sending merits the first time. Anyone not familiar with the forum can make same mistake. I also made a merit sending mistake in another way. After sending merits to a user, I refreshed the page and the action happened twice but I didn't complain. If need be, his request should be put into consideration but it is not among the pressing issues in the forum.

Huppercase

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Quote from: EL MOHA on September 23, 2023, 05:26:08 AM

Woke up this morning and was going through some threads and wanted to merit a post. My intention was definitely to send 2 merits because to that post and then got carried away and mistakenly sent 22, I didn’t even notice until I saw my smerits drained, yeah it is ok to spend all smerits but definitely the amount to be sent should match the content of the posts.

My reason for this post is shouldn’t we have something like a second warning when the confirm button is clicked, like ’are you sure you want to send this amount to so so’

Secondly shouldn’t we have a patch on editing merit sent even if it is for a specified time like how the edit button doesn’t reflect edited when it is done immediately the post is made.

PowerGlove is there a way to go round this?

Definitely pained to have wasted all my smerits on a single post.

I wish this request will be granted.
What if we have simple command if conditional statements, not like having complex system in merit system.
Something like "IF" or "WHAT IF" condition, it will be easier to manipulate this mistake without compromising the security log of the forum, atleast this is not an request that will be hard for the Moderators or Theymos to implement, we don't have to wait for mistakes that are going to be general or as some people are saying its a minor mistakes.

There are even more expert and programmers in this forum that will do more justice to some problems on the forum, we should allow proposal and review them before implementation, this is how bitcoin upgrade has been helpful, the forum shouldn't be left out because if we are talking about fear, many proposal that are impemented on BTC will have died so many years but more and more are still coming.

hugeblack

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This has happened to me several times, but the solution is simple:

1) Install greasemonkey (firefox), or tampermonkey (chrome)
2) Download this code^[1], developer ETFbitcoin and grue, source^[2]

After that, you can send merits, and if you want to resend, you will not be able to send them again (unless you refresh the page).
Personally, I do not see any need to modify the current version, as the number of such errors is less than 1%.

[1]

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name bitcointalk merit
// @version 1.3
// @author grue, minifrij, EcuaMobi, ETFbitcoin
// @source https://github.com/grue0/bitcointalk-scripts/
// @source https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2833350.0;0
// @description A very simple userscript that allows you to add merit without leaving the page
// @include https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=*
// @require https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

(() => {
  var sMerit, source_sMerit, check_onClick = false, oneClick_amount = [1, 2, 5, 10, 50]

  function check_sMerit(msgId){
   // Added by EcuaMobi
   $.post(
   "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;msg=29048068"
   ).then((data) => {
   sMerit = /You have ([0-9]+)<\/b> sendable/.exec(data)[1]
   source_sMerit = /The next ([0-9]+) merit you spend will come from your source/.exec(data)[1]
   show_popup(msgId)
   }).catch(() => sMerit = null)
  }

  function show_popup(msgId){
   if(sMerit!=null && source_sMerit==null) {
   $("#em-smerit-count" + msgId).html('Available: '+sMerit+'    ')
   } else if (sMerit!=null && source_sMerit!=null) {
   $("#em-smerit-count" + msgId).html('Available (yours | source): '+sMerit+' | '+source_sMerit+'    ')
   }else{
   $("#em-smerit-count" + msgId).html('Getting sMerit amount...    ')
   }
   $("#grue-merit-popup" + msgId).toggle()
  }

  // get csrf token from the logout link
  let sc = $('td.maintab_back a[href*="index.php?action=logout;sesc="').attr("href");
  sc = /;sesc=(.*)/.exec(sc)[1];

  // Get remaining sMerit
  check_sMerit()

  // selector for the "+Merit" link
  $('td.td_headerandpost div[id^=ignmsgbttns] a[href*="index.php?action=merit;msg="]').each((i, e) => {
   const msgId = /msg=([0-9]+)/.exec(e.href)[1]

   let oneClick_html = `

One-click send :

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