Topic: search and merit (Read 273 times)

If you are browsing every day in Beginners & Help Section, there tons of queries out there posted by Low-Rank Members. If you spend some time reading each and every reply in the thread you will notice that there are some High Rank Members who are constantly answering their question.

It's just that they are continuing to clean the entire Section by commenting to newbies to avoid spamming activities.

Yeah, I really have to agree with SFR10.

Many merit sources complain that they spend a lot of time looking for good posts to merit
I am not a source. But a I spend a lot of time looking for a good question which was not answered yet. Very hard to find.

Based on the 3 years that I've been here, I have to disagree with you.

Because this is a "forum" and that's what users normally do.

but too many people never get an answer.


well, why else would anyone help and answer questions? not enough good Samaritans here!

Depending on the question, most users (newcomers) already do that in the following boards (Beginners & Help and Meta).

Why it always ends with "merit"?

Good afternoon.
I have an idea:
to create in a forum something like a notice Board where inexperienced users like me can post their queries. And more experienced and less blind users could help to find the right topic – and to earn some merit for it: something like conducted 50 grandmothers across the road-got his merit. An example of a situation:
       "grandma: here in article write that you have a personal account BTC to copy, and I do not understand what a personal account BTC and where to find it
Guide: there was good article about your question in this thread - ....... (here, probably, it is better to specify all the way, and not just a link. just a link from a stranger-scary a bit)
Grandmother: Oh, thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for " - the guide keeps the screen of correspondence with grandmother as proof of his good deed, and after 50 grandmothers he got his merit... from the sponsor, who will show interest in this system
The advantages are as follows:
    1) much less mess on forum. Beginners will not be a million times smash their noses into the wall and mumble their questions in all possible inappropriate topics (well, because on forum, the devil would break a leg! I didn`t keep a link to interesting topic. Now I can`t find it again: the list has changed, and forum search engine as always does not work, and there is no place to ask!)- means less burden the moderator.
   2) at Least some opportunity to earn merit for those who would be glad to help the forum, but don`t  have the gift of the printed word. There will also be an opportunity to grow the silent workaholics, who each day sifting through dozens of bounty and do not spaming on the forum!
  3) there Will be fewer bad articles. Now these articles are written in the hope of getting a merit, because there is no other way to get it honestly. Because of these articles, this information noise, it is now impossible to find a good article on the forum-although they are here too
So, on the one hand, there will be fewer reasons to write these bad articles.
On the other hand, "guide" will get their measure if "grandmothers" get where they need to (to good information posts) – which means that good articles will be much better seen among the existing trash. And if they can see better, the authors will be clear that the niche occupied, it is not necessary for the subject to write.
Sorry if I'm not original: on the forum I could not find almost anything – repetition of my idea I also didn`t find. But you never know.