Topic: Should Merit-Sources send merit based on their feelings or quality of the post? - page 6. (Read 1910 times)

If you are a merit-source, should you always give away merit to good posts even if you dislike the user that created the post?
Or are you allowed to be controlled by your feelings and only give away merit to people you like or don't know?

It's a different a user can give merit to whoever he wants, because it's his/hers own merit and they can do whatever they want with it. But a merit-source how should he act? Without feelings or with feelings?

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.
 2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.
 3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.

I am especially eager to have merit sources in sub-communities such as the local sections.
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It's a different a user can give merit to whoever he wants, because it's his/hers own merit and they can do whatever they want with it. But a merit-source how should he act? Without feelings or with feelings?

But back to my question, what do you think aboiut merit-sources when they handle out merit? They  should give merit to all good posts right, even if a user they dislike made a very good post. Or is it okay to just skip to give that user merit even that he made a very good post?

Of course, I think that's fine and will never interfere with the merit system itself.

In my case, there were only a few Legendary who sent me merits in the last 120 days and they are all merit sources. Here's the list:

Not every good post solves or resolves problems; I've seen legitimate questions from newbies get merits as well, so we're all people, and at the end of the day, it's all about personal preference. What interests me may not interest you, which is why we have numerous merits sources in the first place. At least one of them must be in your category.

Question to the Op; supposing you were in a position to dole merits, would you do that based on the way you feel about the recipient or because the post was worth it? Whatever your answer is, it shows that you'd act based on your individual decision right? I feel that's the same way for the next person. Merits are intended for posts that add value to the forum or must have solved a problem but from the angle you are coming from it seems you are trying to say some merit sources give out their merits to people you feel are not deserving of it, say, like the legendary ranking members.

Example: Two users are posting very good posts and both deserve merit, should the merit-source give both merit? In my opinion yes! But what if he dislike one and like the other one?
I mean that their actions should not be controlled by feelings, it should be controlled by fact and their opinions if the post is worthy or not, but not because they are friend or enemy with someone.

Anyway, its not a big deal. I just thinking about it before I slept yesterday. Cheers buddie.

Do you know what the consequences are? Some of these users no longer submit merit to Legendary because they believe Legendary do not need merit to rank up.

But I'm sure if this mindset continues to develop among low-ranked users, then many Legendary will fall out of the merit distribution.

I often get that impression from non-merit source users where they tend to prefer helping fellow low-ranked accounts rather than sending merit to quality posts made by Legendary.

I can only think of a small handful of members that I could say I genuinely don't care for, but they're at Legendary rank anyway, so even if they made a post that was helpful, funny, or just that I liked I probably would do what I try to do, which is to save the sMerits for lower-ranked members.  I often fail at that, but whatever.

I've got sMerits up the wazoo, so giving 2-3 to a Legendary member isn't going to throw the forum off balance.

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You know humans, if they do not like someone, they will not do anything in favour of the person they dislike. And can theymos know, he can not know. But we have 109 merit source with approximately 33940 smerits given by theymos almost every 30 days. If a merit source do not like you, another merit source will like you unless you are not posting something useful.

This hurts my feelings.

Hey! I was thinking of something this night, this thing about merits and the merit-sources. If you are a merit-source, should you always give away merit to good posts even if you dislike the user that created the post?
Or are you allowed to be controlled by your feelings and only give away merit to people you like or don't know?

It's a different a user can give merit to whoever he wants, because it's his/hers own merit and they can do whatever they want with it. But a merit-source how should he act? Without feelings or with feelings?

I don't trying to blame anyone, or create any drama and I am not disappointed with my low merits, I am quite happy and proud that I already got ten merit and being a member rank, so I am in no rush what so ever to rank up, I actually love the farming and the journey, because when and if I reach Legendary nobody can say I didn't earn it the right way. I rather let it take years of honest farming then months of cheating.
But back to my question, what do you think aboiut merit-sources when they handle out merit? They  should give merit to all good posts right, even if a user they dislike made a very good post. Or is it okay to just skip to give that user merit even that he made a very good post?

Maybe this come as bit confusing, I am sorry my English is not 10/10. But I hope you will understand! Great weekend everyone. / BabyBandit.

Hey! I was thinking of something this night, this thing about merits and the merit-sources. If you are a merit-source, should you always give away merit to good posts even if you dislike the user that created the post?
Or are you allowed to be controlled by your feelings and only give away merit to people you like or don't know?

It's a different a user can give merit to whoever he wants, because it's his/hers own merit and they can do whatever they want with it. But a merit-source how should he act? Without feelings or with feelings?

I don't trying to blame anyone, or create any drama and I am not disappointed with my low merits, I am quite happy and proud that I already got ten merit and being a member rank, so I am in no rush what so ever to rank up, I actually love the farming and the journey, because when and if I reach Legendary nobody can say I didn't earn it the right way. I rather let it take years of honest farming then months of cheating.
But back to my question, what do you think aboiut merit-sources when they handle out merit? They  should give merit to all good posts right, even if a user they dislike made a very good post. Or is it okay to just skip to give that user merit even that he made a very good post?

Maybe this come as bit confusing, I am sorry my English is not 10/10. But I hope you will understand! Great weekend everyone. / BabyBandit.

I'm a little bit more careful who I give merits to these days as I feel like I've been burned by too many users trying to rank up alt accounts. Sure, you're allowed to have alt accounts but it feels a bit dishonest when people try to pretend that they are not themselves. I've even seen accounts that I know are alts talking to themselves, lol.

It probably goes without saying but users who have less-than-forthright intentions, write bad posts, or are just a-holes are going to be less likely to get merits than honest, constructive, pleasant users... Its just human nature, and its something that can't be changed.

A merit source should not give merits based on the people they like or don't like, they should hand out merits to the posts they like or they think are worth giving merits.

While feelings are always attached to us humans, but sometimes we need to perform our work by keeping our feelings aside.

Or are you allowed to be controlled by your feelings and only give away merit to people you like or don't know?

You know humans, if they do not like someone, they will not do anything in favour of the person they dislike. And can theymos know, he can not know.