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tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Stats for total merits of topics and posts (since 24/1/2018 to 11/12/2018):

ABSTRACT

There are 60612 merited topics and 177718 merited posts.
For topics: there are 34148 and 22047 merits sent to topics #178336 (Wall Observer) and #5193860 (10th anniversary art contest), respectively.
For posts: here are 1486 and 1435 merits sent to posts #5.msg28 (the OP of Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum) and #2818350.msg28856522 (the OP of Merit & new rank requirements), respectively.
The medians (p50 in below tables) of received merits for topics and posts are 2 and 1, respectively.

Topics:

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variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
amount | 60612.0 8.9 171.2 2.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 34148.0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Top 50-merited posts:

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+-------------------------------------+
   | rank amount ntopic_initial |
   |-------------------------------------|
   1. | 1 1486 5.msg28 |
   2. | 2 1435 2818350.msg28856522 |
   3. | 3 717 0.msg0 |
   4. | 4 648 155054.msg1643833 |
   5. | 5 538 375643.msg4022997 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   6. | 6 395 5193860.msg52793373 |
   7. | 7 393 5193860.msg53059246 |
   8. | 8 377 2818398.msg28857585 |
   9. | 9 354 5203697.msg53150887 |
   10. | 10 346 5023605.msg45324722 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   11. | 11 327 2683530.msg27411367 |
   12. | 12 325 1545652.msg15536651 |
   13. | 13 323 1840789.msg18316056 |
   14. | 14 305 137.msg1141 |
   15. | 15 293 5114042.msg49909815 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   16. | 16 275 5193860.msg52800357 |
   17. | 17 270 990345.msg10775516 |
   18. | 18 252 5193860.msg53064307 |
   19. | 19 244 1608859.msg16156239 |
   20. | 20 244 2827596.msg28975211 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   21. | 21 243 615953.msg6815569 |
   22. | 22 232 5123724.msg50275206 |
   23. | 23 230 2895261.msg29766601 |
   24. | 24 229 2228.msg29479 |
   25. | 25 224 3232693.msg33646534 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   26. | 26 224 1161170.msg12233132 |
   27. | 27 214 5193860.msg53115743 |
   28. | 28 213 3315347.msg34617121 |
   29. | 29 209 3920469.msg37611040 |
   30. | 30 207 1883902.msg18714400 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   31. | 31 205 5193860.msg53137723 |
   32. | 32 200 5193860.msg53095690 |
   33. | 33 193 2022902.msg20155309 |
   34. | 34 186 5193860.msg52803489 |
   35. | 35 184 532.msg6306 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   36. | 36 180 2833350.msg29048068 |
   37. | 37 178 996318.msg10820715 |
   38. | 38 176 5194117.msg52803618 |
   39. | 39 175 5193860.msg52846255 |
   40. | 40 174 2820637.msg28883168 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   41. | 41 173 5030366.msg45810047 |
   42. | 42 170 4519248.msg40698575 |
   43. | 43 169 5124871.msg50326142 |
   44. | 44 167 2840438.msg29137142 |
   45. | 45 166 1976285.msg19673755 |
   |-------------------------------------|
   46. | 46 161 703657.msg7955645 |
   47. | 47 159 2159012.msg21610436 |
   48. | 48 159 2823221.msg28920985 |
   49. | 49 159 2825523.msg28944688 |
   50. | 50 156 5193860.msg53002575 |
   +-------------------------------------+

Categorisations of merited-topics/ merited-posts:

Topics:

Code:

group | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   <= 10 | 51,609 85.15 85.15
   11 - 25 | 5,861 9.67 94.82
   26 - 50 | 1,893 3.12 97.94
   51 - 100 | 771 1.27 99.21
  101 - 200 | 324 0.53 99.75
  201 - 500 | 115 0.19 99.94
501 - 1000 | 27 0.04 99.98
   1001+ | 12 0.02 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
   Total | 60,612 100.00

Posts:

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group | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   1 | 98,331 55.33 55.33
   2 - 5 | 61,816 34.78 90.11
   6 - 10 | 10,929 6.15 96.26
   11 - 25 | 4,737 2.67 98.93
   26 - 50 | 1,356 0.76 99.69
   51+ | 549 0.31 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
   Total | 177,718 100.00

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Sorry for this big quote, but it is a visual display from boring data. I hope you like it.

Quote from: tranthidung on December 16, 2019, 02:01:12 AM

I dropped 16 transactions with negative merits before getting statistics below.

Total number of transactions : 274144
1-merit transactions: 190048 (69.3%)
Sum merits of 1-merit transactions: 190048
Sum merits of 2-to-5-merit transactions: 213021
Sum of total merits: 540942
Percent of 1-merit transactions (sum) per total merits: 35.1
Percent of 2-to-5-merit transactions (sum) per total merits: 39.4

Bar charts & raw statistics:
Number of merit transactions over groups:

10 categories:

Code:

group | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   1 | 190,048 69.32 69.32
   2 - 5 | 74,035 27.01 96.33
   6 - 10 | 7,122 2.60 98.93
   11 - 15 | 732 0.27 99.19
   16 - 20 | 871 0.32 99.51
   21 - 25 | 347 0.13 99.64
   26 - 30 | 226 0.08 99.72
   31 - 45 | 240 0.09 99.81
   46 - 50 | 523 0.19 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
   Total | 274,144 100.00

5 categories:

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cat | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
   1 | 190,048 69.32 69.32
   2 - 5 | 74,035 27.01 96.33
   6 - 10 | 7,122 2.60 98.93
   11 - 45 | 2,416 0.88 99.81
   46 - 50 | 523 0.19 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
   Total | 274,144 100.00

Percent of sum merits over groups per total merits:

Over 10 groups:

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+------------------------------------+
   | group amount tmerit pmerit |
   |------------------------------------|
  1. | 1 190048 540942 35.1 |
  2. | 2 - 5 213021 540942 39.4 |
  3. | 6 - 10 61434 540942 11.4 |
  4. | 11 - 15 9634 540942 1.8 |
  5. | 16 - 20 16868 540942 3.1 |
   |------------------------------------|
  6. | 21 - 25 8275 540942 1.5 |
  7. | 26 - 30 6539 540942 1.2 |
  8. | 31 - 45 9042 540942 1.7 |
  9. | 46 - 50 26081 540942 4.8 |
   +------------------------------------+

Over 5 groups:

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+------------------------------------+
   | cat amount tmerit pmerit |
   |------------------------------------|
  1. | 1 190048 540942 35.1 |
  2. | 2 - 5 213021 540942 39.4 |
  3. | 6 - 10 61434 540942 11.4 |
  4. | 11 - 45 50358 540942 9.3 |
  5. | 46 - 50 26081 540942 4.8 |
   +------------------------------------+

hornbill

newbie

Activity: 19

Merit: 0

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on December 17, 2019, 03:08:58 AM

Quote from: hornbill on December 17, 2019, 02:53:48 AM

<…>

A like is more of a personal Boolean factor, where as a merit is probably a more multifactor type element (i.e. effort and/or well versed/argued and/or informative and/or novel and/or mind racketing and/or etc.), and not always awarded because you “"like" the post itself.

Note: Likes are also rather banal; merits require in principal a bit more effort to be obtained.

Good point.
Then I see why some may think certain posts do not worth more than 30+ merits.

Thanks a lot for the explanation.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: hornbill on December 17, 2019, 02:53:48 AM

<…>

It’s different to a like really, although it can intersect at times. I have definitively merited posts I do not particularly agree with nor like (although it sure is easier if you do), but that have a good narrative, or seem to be or potentially be useful to the community on the whole.

A like is more of a personal Boolean factor, where as a merit is probably a more multifactor type element (i.e. effort and/or well versed/argued and/or informative and/or novel and/or mind racketing and/or etc.), and not always awarded because you “"like" the post itself.

Note: Likes are also rather banal; merits require in principal a bit more effort to be obtained.

hornbill

newbie

Activity: 19

Merit: 0

Quote from: pooya87 on December 14, 2019, 12:26:12 AM

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 13, 2019, 12:11:29 PM

Post are not suppose to be merit more than 2-5 depends on how helpful and relevant the post.

actually there supposed to be no rules for how much merit you give away, it is your spendable merit and you can use it however you like.

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 13, 2019, 09:26:44 PM

People make good post that deserves to be merited but once you come across such post that normally you think it need to be merit but occasionally the post already has a good merit I think no need to add more to it

let me ask you this: when you go on reddit for example and see a post that has a bunch of upvotes, won't you upvote it just because it already has some upvote or will you do it despite that?
that the same with merit. when 10, 20 different users give merit to a post they are showing that they have found the post useful and the amount of merit they give it shows how much they think it was useful.

Couldn't agree with you more.

I joined and started reading stuffs on this forum simply because I thought it's a great place to start and learn something about my new job which relates to cryptocurrency.
Although I know it allows users to access to many other feature etc. Never see the point of chasing merits also cannot understand why on earth someone cares about how to give/take it in any particular way.

Thought it is just LIKEs as many other platforms. If the posts/replies are good then ppl tell them they like it as semi-reward, right? And a bad one or spam will be reported and taken off anyway.
If I misinterpreted the point of this merits system, please do tell me tho.

Negotiation

sr. member

Activity: 1204

Merit: 270

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It's not okay to abuse the qualifications in the forum because if you can post a good quality yourself that is positively enlightening to everyone then you will be able to achieve the talent you deserve. It is entirely up to you therefore to try the food yourself without looking at the food If anybody qualifies for merit without abusing the qualifications in the forum we will all give him the talent.

Daniel91

legendary

Activity: 3374

Merit: 1824

Quote from: LoyceV on December 16, 2019, 06:21:19 AM

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 15, 2019, 11:16:03 PM

I disagree with you, can find up-to 500+ good post on Bitcointalk forum.

Please post those 500+ unmerited good posts in Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. You'll notice it's a lot of work!

Meanwhile, you haven't merited a single post yet. What's stopping you from doing your share in meriting good posts?

Well, I think we all have different opinions and criterion about good and bad posts.
Generally, more or less, I think that all good posts in this forum receive merits and also I think we have enough merits available for this purpose.
If you really think that some post deserve merit give your merit or post to the post mentioned above.
Also, there are a lot merit giveaway topics already.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: adjed on December 16, 2019, 12:37:34 PM

When a post truly deserves to be merited, it can be merited as many as possible, for example someone might post a topic that and it was read and loved by 1000 people, 200 of them chose to merit the post and what you are saying is that if I read the post and it touches a chord in my heart, I shouldn't merit it just because it has been merited by others? <…>

I was actually wondering about that a few days ago, from a psychological point of view. When we see a post that is (well) merited, we focus on the content, but cannot avoid looking at who merited it and how much. That could lead to:

a)   Nothing, I’m immutable to influence other than the post content itself (poster may or may not also be a subconscious factor, but that’s not what I’m on about right now).

b)   It influences me (conscious or subsconscious) to merit the post, because others have already found it deserving of merits.

c)   It influences me (conscious or subsconscious) not to merit the post, because it has already been merited enough.

Scenario "a" is the most objective one, but I bet "b" and "c" play a heavy hand on some multi-merited posts. That is part of the psychology, and it would be an interesting experiment (conceptually) to do something similar to what Instagram is doing is some places (hide the "like"), by hiding the merits on the posts from viewers (except the person merited), and seeing what happens. Not going to happen on Bitcointalk, but definitively an interesting experiment.

By the way, this is the distribution of the number of meriters per post:

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nMeriters nPosts % Posts
1 138431 77,89%
2 22780 12,82%
3 7589 4,27%
4 3361 1,89%
5 1767 0,99%
6 1121 0,63%
7 642 0,36%
8 423 0,24%
9 323 0,18%
10 234 0,13%
11 167 0,09%
12 147 0,08%
13 123 0,07%
14 93 0,05%
15 57 0,03%
16 67 0,04%
17 38 0,02%
18 36 0,02%
19 45 0,03%
20 28 0,02%
21 14 0,01%
22 26 0,01%
23 18 0,01%
24 11 0,01%
25 17 0,01%
26 12 0,01%
27 12 0,01%
28 17 0,01%
29 8 0,00%
30 8 0,00%
31 12 0,01%
32 6 0,00%
33 4 0,00%
34 8 0,00%
35 6 0,00%
36 3 0,00%
37 4 0,00%
38 6 0,00%
39 4 0,00%
40 2 0,00%
41 3 0,00%
42 4 0,00%
43 3 0,00%
44 2 0,00%
45 1 0,00%
46 3 0,00%
47 4 0,00%
48 1 0,00%
49 1 0,00%
50 1 0,00%
51 3 0,00%
52 1 0,00%
55 3 0,00%
56 1 0,00%
58 1 0,00%
59 1 0,00%
60 1 0,00%
63 1 0,00%
66 1 0,00%
69 1 0,00%
74 1 0,00%
82 1 0,00%
86 2 0,00%
88 1 0,00%
103 1 0,00%
106 1 0,00%
144 1 0,00%
158 1 0,00%
198 1 0,00%
328 1 0,00%

77,89% of the merited posts are done so by a single person, and 12,82% by 2 people. The record is 328 people meriting a single post. Guess which one.

adjed

sr. member

Activity: 400

Merit: 268

When a post truly deserves to be merited, it can be merited as many as possible, for example someone might post a topic that and it was read and loved by 1000 people, 200 of them chose to merit the post and what you are saying is that if I read the post and it touches a chord in my heart, I shouldn't merit it just because it has been merited by others? Sometimes these things are being abused, but if you look closely, most of the merits given away are given for worthy reasons (quality or helpful posts) and last time I checked, everybody reserves the right to merit whoever they like.

FIFA worldcup

full member

Activity: 1134

Merit: 105

Quote from: GSpgh on December 16, 2019, 08:47:56 AM

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 13, 2019, 12:11:29 PM

The way merit are being given out to some post on this forum is turn abused, how on earth will a single post merit 30+ merit? and must of this post are just simple question or answer. Post are not suppose to be merit more than 2-5 depends on how helpful and relevant the post.

I've seen posts that deserve 1000+ merits.

There is enough merits and the admin can make more at any time. If you see someone actually selling merits report to admin but otherwise just forget what other people are getting or sending. Even if you could restrict merits per post it's not going to help you if you don't make good posts.

The example post which you have given is of satoshi and its people love and affection that people have given a lot of merit to that first post. Other than that no post deserve 1000+ merits.
Also you cannot report selling of merits because you have no way to proof that the merit given is by the sale of it.

GSpgh

sr. member

Activity: 532

Merit: 302

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 13, 2019, 12:11:29 PM

The way merit are being given out to some post on this forum is turn abused, how on earth will a single post merit 30+ merit? and must of this post are just simple question or answer. Post are not suppose to be merit more than 2-5 depends on how helpful and relevant the post.

I've seen posts that deserve 1000+ merits.

There is enough merits and the admin can make more at any time. If you see someone actually selling merits report to admin but otherwise just forget what other people are getting or sending. Even if you could restrict merits per post it's not going to help you if you don't make good posts.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 15, 2019, 11:16:03 PM

I disagree with you, can find up-to 500+ good post on Bitcointalk forum.

Please post those 500+ unmerited good posts in Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. You'll notice it's a lot of work!

Meanwhile, you haven't merited a single post yet. What's stopping you from doing your share in meriting good posts?

libert19

hero member

Activity: 2520

Merit: 952

Should have linked the post, but anyway content quality is in the eyes of beholder. What you think of undeserving of merit, the other think otherwise.

connections matter too Grin

Legit_Alt+

jr. member

Activity: 603

Merit: 7

Quote from: Findingnemo on December 14, 2019, 01:00:32 PM

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 14, 2019, 06:51:18 AM

Quote from: LoyceMobile on December 14, 2019, 01:10:46 AM

OP, Admin said merit sources should empty their source. Of they only find a few good posts in a month, they should give all to them so they can merit others again.

i don't really understand what you are trying to say, but I most tell you that admins said all smerit should empty doesn't create room for giving merit to does that don't deserve it. I believed Merit was introduced to this forum so that good poster can reallybe acknowledge not by misusing it. This is turn the forum to injustice place for legit poster...

What admin meant on the post is if you have 150 source smerits to be spend for every month but you can't find 150 good posts in that time, you only can find the three good posts means just give 50 for that three posts rather than wasting source merits.

I disagree with you, can find up-to 500+ good post on Bitcointalk forum. They are allot of place to find good post eg Metal board, marketplace, Altcoin and bitcoin section, political section. Especially in metal board almost all the post here goes along with good information that will educate and add some knowledge to what you already know am not trying to single out any section here as the best but there is always best among the good. Each section has it purpose and function, the forum is larger than what you are thinking just time your to move around forum you will come to understand what am trying to say here.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 14, 2019, 06:51:18 AM

Quote from: LoyceMobile on December 14, 2019, 01:10:46 AM

OP, Admin said merit sources should empty their source. Of they only find a few good posts in a month, they should give all to them so they can merit others again.

i don't really understand what you are trying to say, but I most tell you that admins said all smerit should empty doesn't create room for giving merit to does that don't deserve it. I believed Merit was introduced to this forum so that good poster can reallybe acknowledge not by misusing it. This is turn the forum to injustice place for legit poster...

It can be very difficult if you have a lot of merits to give.

I get more then 100 source merits a month.

To give them away in a fair manner I need to read a lot of threads this is time consuming. I try hard to read a lot of posts. But some times I am busy and I may not fully check the post.

I have given credit on 3 or 4 occasions to posts that were found to be plagiarized. This is a discouragement to me I spend hours looking for a good post to give merits to and it turns out to be a copied post.

I am pretty sure your post here is not copied and it is a good question, so I gave you some merit for it.

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Quote from: DdmrDdmr on December 15, 2019, 09:48:46 AM

If we go over the 274.160 existing sMerit TXs (as of last Friday), only 0,72% are above or equal to 20 sMerits, and 2,45% above or equal to 10 sMerits. The mayority of the sMerit TXs are for the amount of 1 sMerit (69,32%) or 2 sMerits (15,09%).

Code:

amount    nTX       %TX       %TX ACC   
50        493       0,18%     0,18%
49        12        0,00%     0,18%
48        6         0,00%     0,19%
47        3         0,00%     0,19%
46        9         0,00%     0,19%
45        19        0,01%     0,20%
44        6         0,00%     0,20%
43        5         0,00%     0,20%
42        9         0,00%     0,20%
41        8         0,00%     0,21%
40        62        0,02%     0,23%
39        14        0,01%     0,24%
38        10        0,00%     0,24%
37        6         0,00%     0,24%
36        7         0,00%     0,24%
35        30        0,01%     0,25%
34        13        0,00%     0,26%
33        15        0,01%     0,27%
32        19        0,01%     0,27%
31        17        0,01%     0,28%
30        134       0,05%     0,33%
29        24        0,01%     0,34%
28        12        0,00%     0,34%
27        31        0,01%     0,35%
26        25        0,01%     0,36%
25        203       0,07%     0,43%
24        30        0,01%     0,45%
23        22        0,01%     0,45%
22        42        0,02%     0,47%
21        50        0,02%     0,49%
20        644       0,23%     0,72%
19        77        0,03%     0,75%
18        39        0,01%     0,76%
17        47        0,02%     0,78%
16        64        0,02%     0,81%
15        271       0,10%     0,90%
14        48        0,02%     0,92%
13        90        0,03%     0,95%
12        174       0,06%     1,02%
11        149       0,05%     1,07%
10        3791      1,38%     2,45%
9         430       0,16%     2,61%
8         570       0,21%     2,82%
7         1108      0,40%     3,22%
6         1223      0,45%     3,67%
5         10865     3,96%     7,63%
4         10568     3,85%     11,49%
3         11220     4,09%     15,58%
2         41382     15,09%    30,67%
1         190048    69,32%    99,99%
-1        1         0,00%     99,99%
-2        3         0,00%     100,00%
-4        1         0,00%     100,00%
-5        2         0,00%     100,00%
-7        1         0,00%     100,00%
-8        1         0,00%     100,00%
-9        2         0,00%     100,00%
-10       5         0,00%     100,00%

Looking at the above, the vast majority of TXs are of a limited amount, and only a small portion are of high amounts. We could bring case examples of blatant abuse in the past pretty easily, but in the big picture, they should not really represent a significant amount. There’s probably a fair share more of micro-abuse in the 1 sMerit TX segment, as many account farmers are probably happy to have a bunch of Jr. Accounts nowadays.

The best way to abuse is give 2 ,4 or 6 not easy to notice and the recipient gets to send some merit out. giving 10 20 30 40 or 50 attracts alot of attention.

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

If we go over the 274.160 existing sMerit TXs (as of last Friday), only 0,72% are above or equal to 20 sMerits, and 2,45% above or equal to 10 sMerits. The mayority of the sMerit TXs are for the amount of 1 sMerit (69,32%) or 2 sMerits (15,09%).

Code:

amount    nTX       %TX       %TX ACC   
50        493       0,18%     0,18%
49        12        0,00%     0,18%
48        6         0,00%     0,19%
47        3         0,00%     0,19%
46        9         0,00%     0,19%
45        19        0,01%     0,20%
44        6         0,00%     0,20%
43        5         0,00%     0,20%
42        9         0,00%     0,20%
41        8         0,00%     0,21%
40        62        0,02%     0,23%
39        14        0,01%     0,24%
38        10        0,00%     0,24%
37        6         0,00%     0,24%
36        7         0,00%     0,24%
35        30        0,01%     0,25%
34        13        0,00%     0,26%
33        15        0,01%     0,27%
32        19        0,01%     0,27%
31        17        0,01%     0,28%
30        134       0,05%     0,33%
29        24        0,01%     0,34%
28        12        0,00%     0,34%
27        31        0,01%     0,35%
26        25        0,01%     0,36%
25        203       0,07%     0,43%
24        30        0,01%     0,45%
23        22        0,01%     0,45%
22        42        0,02%     0,47%
21        50        0,02%     0,49%
20        644       0,23%     0,72%
19        77        0,03%     0,75%
18        39        0,01%     0,76%
17        47        0,02%     0,78%
16        64        0,02%     0,81%
15        271       0,10%     0,90%
14        48        0,02%     0,92%
13        90        0,03%     0,95%
12        174       0,06%     1,02%
11        149       0,05%     1,07%
10        3791      1,38%     2,45%
9         430       0,16%     2,61%
8         570       0,21%     2,82%
7         1108      0,40%     3,22%
6         1223      0,45%     3,67%
5         10865     3,96%     7,63%
4         10568     3,85%     11,49%
3         11220     4,09%     15,58%
2         41382     15,09%    30,67%
1         190048    69,32%    99,99%
-1        1         0,00%     99,99%
-2        3         0,00%     100,00%
-4        1         0,00%     100,00%
-5        2         0,00%     100,00%
-7        1         0,00%     100,00%
-8        1         0,00%     100,00%
-9        2         0,00%     100,00%
-10       5         0,00%     100,00%

Looking at the above, the vast majority of TXs are of a limited amount, and only a small portion are of high amounts. We could bring case examples of blatant abuse in the past pretty easily, but in the big picture, they should not really represent a significant amount. There’s probably a fair share more of micro-abuse in the 1 sMerit TX segment, as many account farmers are probably happy to have a bunch of Jr. Accounts nowadays.

OcTradism

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Quote from: Polina_21 on December 14, 2019, 12:37:56 AM

In my opinion, merit should be given based on the quality of a post and how useful and relevant that post is.

If the post is good and the topic is old and known to everyone then it should be awarded 1-2 merits.
If the post is new and useful then it should be given 2-3 merits.
If the post is too good and benefits more users, then it should be given 5 merits and more.

But the assessment on helpfulness is very subjective. Different users have different assessments on one helpful posts which result in different sendable merits will be sent to that post. The first point is not too exactly because the common things can be unknown ones for newbies, so any answer to help newbies are always useful. If the answers can help newbies to answer their questions, that are good. As expansion to newbies' questions, if answers are opened ones, newbies can move further and learning more from the answers. They can start with the answers and some given hints to search for more related things.

Upgrade00

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Merit awarding is subjective, and also unregulated. A case where an undeserving posts gets lots of merits is abuse of the system, but little action can be taken against the accounts involved, a negative feedback at most. But if a post is deemed quality, then by all means I think you should give a generous amount of smerits. There shouldn't be a discussion about good posts getting too much merits.
There are lots of smerits and more can be generated by the admins. So I believe if theymos notices a gulf in the merit circulation compared to the quality of posts on the forum an action would be taken, either an increase in sources or source allocation (or both).

aioc

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Activity: 2926

Merit: 567

Quote from: Legit_Alt+ on December 13, 2019, 12:11:29 PM

But it now seems many person now buy it even when they don't merit have any. I don't think this was the primary aim of adding merit to this forum. Please let stop abusing merit...

Please what did you think, what is your suggestion on regarding this? Huh

?

We cannot stop people from buying merit because there are members who are selling it, but if they are caught they will be tagged, selling andf buying merit is a big no-no and every member of this forum knows this, we have to follow the rules of the game even if the reality is it's hard to get one.

Findingnemo

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Merit: 793

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Quote from: FIFA worldcup on December 14, 2019, 11:37:11 PM

snip~
You are just under estimating the number of quality poster here. I still see a lot of good posts still left un-merited so it is not the case that there is no good posts in the forum and merit sources are forced to give more merits on few posts. This is not the case. If you can see the history of merits given by the sources, you will see they are given merits to a lot of posts and the posts are also increasing everyday. The ratio of quality post and smerits is balanced at the moment.

I just have an example of what admin asked the merit sources to do when they can't find enough quality posts to exhaust their source merit.

Merit sources are not getting paid for being a one, so they are spending their free time to find worthy posts which we can't enforce them to do all their time.

Not every good post will not get merits.

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