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Thank you for the advice, I'm learning the ropes on proper merit etiquette, I dont know how to go about determining what post of mine are good quality, If they weren't merited in the first place the way I see it they weren't of quality to begin with ,
Both of us should appreciate that this is a self-moderated thread - so surely Loyce may decide to delete our posts because some of what we are saying seems to be somewhat getting away from intentions of this thread - and surely, if you read the OP we have folks who report meritorious posts of others and meritorious post of themselves, and I am only going to attempt to twist your arm so much.. both Loyce and I have suggested that you make it easier for us (and for potentially others who peruse this thread) to be able to send some smerits in your way.. so both of us have already concluded that you are not really fitting in a kind of begging category or in some other way causing a negative response - except maybe here you are fighting the whole thing.. which just seems strange to me, and I will go through the work and look at a few of your posts, even though I was hoping that you would save me from having to do that kind of work.,. when I have already hinted that I am inclined to throw some smerits in your direction based on what I had already seen... so I am not going to let your battling against the idea deter me.. even if it might surely deter others who don't necessarily want to go through your post but also might have also come to a similar conclusion as I have (and likely Loyce too.. since he already sent you 50 smerits).
Regarding prior posts not receiving smerits, many of us know and appreciate that those kinds of dynamics happen quite frequently in this forum.. a decent amount of acceptable and even merit worthy posts are overlooked and/or even just members feel that they really do not have any kind of sense of the person posting the posts - so some of the smerit receiving matter has a kind of snowballing effects including that some members who are somewhat smerit whores (if that is an acceptable way of framing it) end up getting a kind of momentum that they continue to receive smerits, even though they might have started out as a kind of smerit whore, but once they get momentum, it may well not even matter anymore that how they might have started out (even if it could be proven or not). Maybe there is some resemblance to some of the very wealthy folks in society? after they receive outrageous levels of wealth, they might get all kinds of respect, even though their earlier stages of gaining wealth was not exactly ethical (and in some cases it was illegal or criminal).. and I am not even saying that all members with lot of merits did not deserve them, I am just trying to describe that some smerits start to flow in your direction from momentum rather than any kind of actual improvement in the objective substantive quality - and furthermore there remains a decent amount of subjectivity in smerit sending anyhow.
I'm not really with the alt stuff myself but alts do get me to my precious bitcoin so I don't ever throw them out nor am I closed minded on shitcoins potential. With that being said I know your stance on bitcoin as I frequently lurk The Wall Observer
I think that there are a decent number of merit source members who are disincline to send merits to shitcoiners.. .. but surely there are a variety of personalities and even preferences within merit source members too.
I frequent the following boards
Bitcoin
Economy
and sometimes Meta
I have very few post in other area's
fair enough.. we might be able to see that within just browsing your post history, too.
-edit I also wanted to be clear on that fact I wasn't fishing for merit so posting a few topics "I think" are of good quality feels awkward to me.
That seems to be largely your own self-consciousness coming out with that.. and surely no one really likes a merit beggar, but if you had been characterized as a possible merit beggar Loyce would have likely either not sent you any smerits (rather than 50), he might have still sent you 1 or 2 smerits (perhaps?), and possibly he would not have given the little "hint" about giving us some more posts.. including hinting that he might even send you more smerits after his 30-day limit gets refreshed (in the direction that members are ONLY able to send up to 50 smerits to any other member in any 30-day period, and once the 30 day period runs, another 50 merits could be sent in the next 30-day period... not that he would necessarily max it out again.. on you, and I largely send 1-3 merits to other members per post (once in a while 4-5 smerits.. pretty rare) and I rarely reach a 50 smerit max with any member, either.....)... of course, no guarantees of any of that, for sure.
I was merely asking about the mechanics of the social aspects of it to obtain more of it for future opportunities I was previously closed-minded to.
No problem.
I started thinking well shit I spend a lot of time here why not monetize it.
I suppose there are some possibilities to start to join signature campaigns.. and I was on a couple of signature campaigns.. but just did not want to harass with them anymore... but I can see why some members might want to try to involve themselves in some of that.