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Topic: [staff] xandry: may I ask an explanation? Response received! - page 5. (Read 2709 times)

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I noticed the exact same post today. I've seen staff and non staff give merit for many posts that report abuse, but xandry's merit history shows that most of the posts he merited have been deleted.
That doesn't highlight good posts, which is what the merit system is supposed to do.

In this case this is bad according to Welsh input on my merit system flaw.

If the moderator is a merit source an action is required for this sort of phenomenon.


P.S. Statistics of my reports are available to administrators

mdayonliner, do you have any more questions?

Maybe you don't trust the forum administrator which is appointed xandry staff of the Russian section of the forum?

The user Alex_Sr clearly indicating that the merits were awarded to help the staff (xandry) on moderating the Russian section.
My guess is they are reporting the posts and if the report comes out good then they are getting one merit for each report.


update:
Is this correct?
Yes, it's making sense perfectly.

Merit is not a good moderating reward in my opinion cause people can make 500 alts and boost reports on the main account Roll Eyes
I agree with this logic. People can easily rank up their main account using this trick.
legendary
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So let's say there is a spam topic, a person who would want a merit should report by clicking on the "Report to Moderator" button and at the same time requires to post a message that he/she have already reported the topic to the moderator. After the mod have checked the validity of the report, he will award the person with a merit (in that report post) and deletes the entire topic.

Is this correct?

#EDIT
If yes, I agree with coinlocket$ that it can be abused.
Abused in a way that anyone can make an alt account to post a nonsense topic and followed up with a report post from his/her main account to gain an easy merit.
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There's likely no easy way to prove that you haven't been abusing the merit system. But, it doesn't matter too much if it's being abused on a small scale. It will likely only become a problem if a merit source was abusing the system and there's ways to tell whether they are abusing it.
In this case this is bad according to Welsh input on my merit system flaw.

If the moderator is a merit source an action is required for this sort of phenomenon.
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I noticed the exact same post today. I've seen staff and non staff give merit for many posts that report abuse, but xandry's merit history shows that most of the posts he merited have been deleted.
That doesn't highlight good posts, which is what the merit system is supposed to do.
legendary
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Merit is not a good moderating reward in my opinion cause people can make 500 alts and boost reports on the main account Roll Eyes
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Time for the topic to be locked. Response from xandry


Thursday, June 21, 2018 @14:19 BST: For obvious reason the archive.is of 1st to 44th comment
An update reading is here please...
Another update reading

The moderator xandry gives merit for helping in moderating the forum. Russian section of the forum is very big sizes. And we promptly report the posts or threads violate the forum rules. For that sometimes he get merit...

In Russian section merit awarding for helping the mod is not ok looking in my opinion. Especially when it is coming from a staff and a possible merit source (my wild guess  Smiley). Have a look: #, # etc.

Do you think this is a right way to award merit? This is not helping these users to improve their posting skills in the forum. I am pretty sure people will have different views however I am interested to hear it. I would appreciate your input in it.

Merit has been introduced to encourage high quality posting behavior. This explains everything...
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
 - Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
 - Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

I am calling out xandry for an explanation. xandry, may I ask an explanation? As a member of the forum I/we have the right to learn a valid point of view since the whole thing is not ok looking.

Thank you xandry in advance.

PS: The whole thing popped in my mind when I done creating this topic: List of members achieved 0 to 100+ merits.
Closely consider looking the isQuestionable? column. The column is no longer available.


Title changed: Merit for helping on moderating the forum (?!) Highlighting staff: xandry to calling out [staff] xandry for an explanation
Title again changed to [staff] xandry: may I ask an explanation? suggestion from AverageGlabella
30th June 2018: Body contents edited a bit
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