Topic: *Restarted* Post history review offer - page 8. (Read 3669 times)

Well they should give sources more smerits when they ask for it, no harm in that. If a source misuses their smerits it would become known and they can either remove them or give them less.
And if they are not giving you more maybe it's because they don't like the way you merit people, I'm not them, so can't say for sure which is it.

hi The Pharmacist, you have done the best you can,, but if you don't really have the sMerit to share with people who ask for it then it's not your fault, you are one of the best members in this forum, don't feel frustrated with pressure given by merit requesters, if they are aware of what struggles you are experiencing then they will definitely not pressure you. I do think you should "ignore" all those who ask you for Merit their post.

What if there is a child board which is only accessible by merit sources so where one who ran out of merits they can post the user profile for other merit sources to review them. Because I remember many merit sources said they never able to exhaust their source merits so if there is communication system between the people who are being merit source can bring a permanent solution to this.

It's sad to see you in this condition as I am also one of those who was at one time helped by you yo reach my next closet rank with your merit shower but I would say not too feel stressed about it and simply tell members that you will be sharing the smerits to limited number of post depending on the amount you have.

I don't know how many post history request you would be getting after that thread although you have the policy back also but it was not known to mass and every member want to have merits so I can feel the pressure you would be having to cope with them without even having more smerit dump and also remember you are among most generous merit sources but still you are doing great.

If you are looking to find out the thread that he started making clear his rules for the post history for merits then it's here and after some time it was locked by him.He started the thread to tell memeber they can PM him for post history review but you see how the situation have gone bad because he is out of smerits now.

I am very sorry to hear this news from you. The Pharmacist, I've known you for a long time with generosity as a merit source and I think you should be able to keep it up even if you only do what you can. I can't see any other problem other than that you lack merit to share among those who sent you PMs, but you should be able to limit it based on the number of merit you have without having to make it a moral burden.

But for whatever reason, I support your decision in the end. You can still continue your volunteer work as merit source and distributing it to those with quality posts even though you won't receive any more review requests. Finally, I will always remember that I am someone you have helped, so thank you for that, The Pharmacist.

I could not find the thread, I guess my type of guys are too ignorant to find archives. Consider to update the thread title, update the OP of the thread too. Some people will still try to take their chance but in that case just ignore the PMs. You may feel you are being rude but sometimes it helps to ignore unwanted stress.

I'm sorry to see you give up on this, TP (or, at least feel like giving up on this).

Other than using Loyce's thread once (which I slightly regret), you were the only merit source that had an initiative that I took advantage of. Your merit dumps were very motivating to me (especially when I was just starting out), and at least some of the forum improvement stuff that I occasionally spend/spent my time on (SMF patches, etc.) was due to feeling motivated/appreciated after one of your post history reviews. It even occurred to me (naive, I know) that theymos might be predisposed to granting me a favor after I send him the 2FA patch, and that I would ask him to give in on your name change request.

With that all said, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if you have to become a little more selective in your merit giving. I hate to say it, but once in a while I do run into an objectively bad post that you've merited perhaps a bit too eagerly (just being honest; it doesn't happen often and I'll dig up an example if you like).

Anyway, thanks for the hard work you've put into being such a diligent merit source, I'm sure there are more than a few members (like me) that really appreciate your efforts!

P.S. I can't afford to be as generous as Mitchell, but I've left you a present, all the same.

So, I have a question. Is it personal preference, strongly agree with a statement, like the user, super good post, or some other reason that decides how many merits you give a person when you merit them? I try to give 1-2 merits to users when I merit them. The only time I normally give more than that is if I see someone close to a new rank. As a merit source, wouldn't you be able to stretch things a bit further by limiting the number you give to users?

I'm calm as a mizzafizzin' cucumber.  But I'll tell ya, you wouldn't believe how many new requests I get even after that other thread in Meta has been locked for a while.  Members keep saying they came across it and are requesting reviews which I'm just unable to keep up with, and it's frustrating.

When I was doing it by just meriting posts that I came across, I'd always wind up with a surplus of sMerits.  There are members here whose posts are being overlooked simply because of what section they're posted in or for whatever reason, and my goal was to try to help them out in the ranking up process.  When I can dump all of my sMerits each month I feel like I'm doing a much better job as a merit source, and I know I've helped at least a few members to rank up because of my offer.

You have to understand how important I think the merit system is; that's why I probably seem emotional, likely angry.  And yes I'm just a wee bit pissed off that Theymos just keeps ignoring my requests for more sMerits--and that's in addition to his general silence about what he thinks of the state of the system, e.g., whether we need more merit sources and so forth. 

I don't think my request was an unreasonable one, and if it was it'd be nice if I'd at least gotten a response one way or another.  I'm sure Theymos is hard at work developing the new obsolete forum software, but I know damn well he reads threads like the ones I've made, so that's the reason for my FU to him.  I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

I see you are doing everything to get the attention of the main man but he is doing well to ignoring everything that are coming from you LOL

Calm down brother. You do not need to take all responsibility on your shoulder. You can just close the merit thread and update the status. People will start realizing it's closed and will not PM you. I don't receive many emails requesting for post review. I am sure a lot of others too don't receive PMs.

My opinion is that maybe you approach it too emotionally and in the wrong way when it comes to being a good merit source. I have always thought that rewarding posts with merits should be done in a more natural way, and that is through normal browsing of the forum and spontaneous rewarding of posts that deserve it.

I don't know how you review someone's post history, but sometimes even a seemingly good post in the context of the entire topic in which it is located may not deserve merit because it may just be a repetition of something that xx members wrote before. I'm not a merit source, so I don't have a problem with such things - but I try to reward posts that, according to my criteria, are useful and of high quality.

Of course, everyone has their own criteria and I respect everyone who tries to contribute to the forum, especially if that contribution is not financially motivated.

Sad to say this, but given the fact that Theymos kept silent when I requested more sMerits I'm no longer going to be doing post history reviews on request.  I have a number of members who've been PMing me from months back, and those are the only folks I'm going to continue reviewing posts for.  So if you're not getting a bunch of merits from me in the near future, you didn't make the cut (through no fault of your own).

I've simply had too many requests and too few sMerits.  I seriously considered quitting the merit source position as a FUCK YOU to Theymos, but that would just be an emotional reaction which ultimately wouldn't help the forum.  But I'd still like to state it, and I think I just did.

I'll leave this thread open for a few hours if anyone wants to comment, but I'm not going to be answering questions about whether individual members are going to still have their posts reviewed, because as of right now I have to go back and check all my PMs.