Topic: Should Merit-Sources send merit based on their feelings or quality of the post? - page 8. (Read 1854 times)

First, remove the word "should."
Each merit source acts at its own discretion. Someone gives out merits of 50 pieces, and I doubt that people who receive such a number of merits are among the favorites; someone distributes merits even for plagiarism; and someone will give merit to an account with a negative tag.
The word “should” is inappropriate here, since you cannot influence a person to do something if he does not agree with it. But I like merit sources that distribute merit without delving into emotions. If a post is good on the topic, you can earn it, just like if there is a good joke and it deserves merit.
There are a lot of questions in Meta this week about sources of merit. Why does it seem to me that one person sometimes answers himself? Sometimes you can hide behind an alternative account, but the behavior remains the same.

Merit should be awarded to posts that are quality or high quality and a forum member should not use it as same as Like on Facebook or Twitter. It is applied for all types of forum members including merit sources.


But remember.

Merit sources are human, not bots so they do have emotional when distributing their sourced sendable merits (sMerits) but it is not big issue. If your posts are good, you will receive merit from merit sources or non merit sourced users.

There are 109 merit sources so why do you worry about one or two merit sources dislike you?

What you mean by feelings? Feelings for what?

Feelings for the usernames? Like Baby Bandit oh I should send him some merits ... I don't think so

Well we aren't posting our selfies here and I don't think someone will develop feelings for someone based on bitcoin price, unless you know him/her personally.

Secondly I think merit sources and sMerit senders are same while sending merits just merit source have some extra merits to send.

This is the main point you want to ask but you repeated same point again and again. Merit source giving merit on the base of  posting quality and how one post value to other forum members regardless of who is behind the account. No one know who is managing the account and no need of disclose . often you will see that Merit are given to the people which post style is align to one.

If i were Merit source definitely I would give Merit on the base of posting quality and there it hold no significant wheather I like user or not. The People I don't know if bring best thing which i like will get definitely Merit from me.

Depends on how strict you are when defining what counts as emotion.

For example, it is widely accepted that meriting in local boards that you speak the language of is a good thing. There are several reasons for that. For one there are tons of people that use bitcoin around the world but most of these forum is for English speaking audiences only. Local bitcointalk communities for countries where there are thousands of bitcoin and crypto users are nowhere near the level of activity said country and language might have. So meriting local community participants to encourage them rank and to and bring more quality global traffic on this forum is going to be all around beneficial.

However, what is it that drives one to appreciate and want to reward usage of his mother tongue? In part it is emotion for sure...

In the end I don't think we should be judging people's emotions too harshly. We all have them, we all think based on emotion to an extent. The thing is to not overdo it.

What is the problem? I disagree with some members in the forum, but they perform a good role in other boards or in local boards. If a person spams or does something that I do not like, I will be put him on my ignore list, but there are more than 100 Merit source members and I sent merits to many other members who can sent 1/2 of it to that account.
If that account is on everyone's ignore list, the problem is with you.

Farming. You farm your way up to something, whatever it is. it's a term I got from when I played World of Warcraft.
Here you farm your way up to Legendary rank, but you do it the right way. That's farming for me.
Farming is not a negative or bad thing. Farming is something that take long long time, example in the game World of Warcraft you maybe farm gold, or better gear.
And I have no need to go to bounties board. Thanks anyway.



If a person think this post is about to getting merits to me, they should go to sleep bro.  
I never ask for a merit anywhere and never will.  
But see you, you asked for merit I can see and got like 50 free merits. So maybe it's not so bad at all?  
To be serious, I will never ask or beg anyone for a single merit, as I said. I love the journey and will farm my way slowly up.. let it take years, it don't bother me. I am in no rush to rank up here.

Love BabyBandit.

What is "farming" you refer to in your posts? Do you have live stocks, is it a wheat farm or ? Lol
If by farming you mean account/merit farming then you are in the wrong place, you should go to bounties board, so many fruitless opportunities are present. Neither farming nor bounties have any future.  To answer your question, merit sources should cry while meriting someone they don't like, and laugh otherwise.😂

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Honestly unbiased sources are rare, but I hope they keep it that way. For example(rhetorically as if I'm a source) "I wanted to merit your post but mentioning "farming" made me think twice, which I will keep on my mind anytime I see your posts.  However if you contribute selflessly, I might change my mind."

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Edit: alright you got me, I'm an old dota fan, never liked WOW, just don't refer to farming, it's considered a bad thing around here.😉

Don't talk too seriously about merit sources, especially if your current account doesn't have much merit. Because later there will be people who comment that you are asking for merit. Yes, many people like to speculate and accuse, but when they are invited to discuss and argue, they disappear and don't come back again

Merit sources can send their merits to anyone. That is their right because merit is subjective and not moderated

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.

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.

UPDATE 18th November: I now been on the forum a bit longer then the time I created this topic and I truly believe being a Merit-Source is not as easy or fun as it may look like.
So I want to take the time to say Thank you to all Merit-Sources for giving us your spare-time. 🙏