Topic: Some suggestions to future merit giveway thread starters - page 2. (Read 471 times)
I'm also with your idea. I also notice that when I joined a merit giveaway and I did receive merit but when I check the merited post instead the post I made providing the link of my post that I think is constructive or merit worthy the merited post is the one got merited and not the post I provide. I'll provide an example of what you mean. Let's say that this is the post that is merited from the user who started the giveaway rather than clicking the link I provided and redirected to the said post that is worthy to give reward.
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Haven kept an updated merit giveway thread from different users for the last 4months+ I have notice some common mistakes or will i say misuse of the merit system from different giveways threads starters and I'll like to give some suggestion.
If you're thinking of starting a giveway thread, this thread [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source can serve as a perfect example of how your giveway should be structured and how it should be managed. The style of your thread is a personal choose but you should try to keep the thread as clean and decent as possible to avoid misuse therefore;
I choosed the beginner and help board to post this information as it's the most likely board for merit giveways threads. Hope I get my message across.
If you're thinking of starting a giveway thread, this thread [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source can serve as a perfect example of how your giveway should be structured and how it should be managed. The style of your thread is a personal choose but you should try to keep the thread as clean and decent as possible to avoid misuse therefore;
- Style of meriting your applicants: You have to understand merit was implemented to highlight quality posts so when a link to a post is submitted it'll be more appropriate to merit the submitted post not link to submitted post. As meriting the link simple means you're highlighting that post as a quality post instead of the main post the link was supposed to redirect to.
Also meriting the main post instead of link is more beneficial to the OP as merited post are likable to draw more attention of reader and also other meriters which might give the OP additional advantages in recieving more merit on his post but on the link it has no benefits so if you're using the meriting on link to serve as a form of recognition of deserving post, you can do that with reply after the main post most have recieved merits.
- Most advisable to use a self moderated thread: A self moderated thread helps you moderate spam/off topic reply on your thread which in return helps reduce the workload on moderators in regards to reviewing off topic or spam posts.
- Use a submission format: To make things easier for you to review, you should employ a submission format for your applicants instead of just requesting for a link. Maybe you can ask for the category the post they're submitting can fit in example; was the post a guide, opinion, technical reply, analysis, help to other forum user etc something that give you an idea of what you should look out for when reading their post.
- Put more emphasis on past unmerited post: To avoid getting taking advantage of, you should concentrate on unmeriting past contributions that must have been missed since that was the initial idea behind giveway threads that way new post or reply won't be made just to take advantage of your merit giveway thread and over time this criteria can be adjusted to accommodate more future posts.
I choosed the beginner and help board to post this information as it's the most likely board for merit giveways threads. Hope I get my message across.
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