Topic: This article worth 50 merit ??? (Read 545 times)

I know that I should open a new thread and very controversial one to get much attention from members. But when I browse the forum I see all topics already there. I am 5 years on BTT and created only 7 topics. Sometimes when I look at a new account and I see that he is 3 months here and already opened 25 threads I can't stop laughing. I have almost one year followed BTT forum without registration. I have spent a lot of time to educate myself about Bitcoin and Litecoin because only this 2 coins were in existence and to mine at this time. After I have registered took me about a half year to learn how to post quality content, answers. This was the first forum I have ever registered.

I agree that something has to be done with spam and accounts farming. Let's hope that in few months we all learn how to use merit system and finally members will award others with their precious merits for valuable content not only because they are friends or know each other. As for now a lot of merits come from merit sources and legendary members. Other people are holding their merits for a better occasion, I think.

Lately, I have supported one member and after some time he quotes my post and says "Thanks you helped me a lot I appreciate this" and continues discussion asking me questions but not awarded my post with merits. I didn't support him to receive merits. I put myself in his situation and just thought that this will be fair to do. Didn't thought about merits when I was writing my supporting post. But later I started to think about this situation and +1merit screams louder than 1000 words. Something like this happens to me not the first time that I am quoted, people engage in discussion with me but rarely somebody gives merits.

I haven't made a lot of friends here in all these years because I thought that forum is not a social media portal. My big mistake.
Like I said let's hope that with time abusers will have no more merits to give and random members get used to this system and there will be no problem for anybody to give a merit or two to somebody who helped you or just for the post you liked.

It will soon end until they don't have smerits to send anymore. We may see some of these for a while but because they get only half of the merits received as smerits they'll be out of smerits to trade.

At this point, where merits are being handed out in ones and twos,  there's really no reason for anyone to give 50 merits for a single post.  However, it's very subjective how posts are valued, and that's the whole reason why I'm not tagging merit abusers.  There are probably still members here who don't know the value of merit and don't give out a lot, and they might just want to give out 50 at a time.  Eh.

However, I'm not stupid.  I'm sure there's a damn good chance when you see 50 merits given away that those were bought, or it's to an alt account, or to a "friend".

Yes, I wrote 7 days 1 post I can throw link, but it's in Russian language and does not fit in 1 post, it's 12 pages in Word document. Why is this not very useful? I do not know, maybe because of that I wrote in Russian and in russian topic people almost never give merits or its merit system very bad

I also stumbled upon a post that received 50 merit for no reason.

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There is no reason for this post to receive 50 merit points. He just stated that they are still discussing and pinkman12345 gave 50 merits.

Profile of hkdfgkdf : https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/hkdfgkdf-1184165
Profile of pinkman12345 : https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/pinkman12345-288496

I see some of your recent post and i know that you are good at english speaking and you deliver it good, but it is only a reply for others. In my opinion, it is good if you can make a thread about some trending topic or make some analysis and deliver it in a statistic that can attract a lot of discussion, i see so many of member doing that right now. Remember to make it good and not a same topic as others, or it would be categorized as spammy thread.

Greedy is one of human basic nature, so it's not strange that the forum members always tried and finally find a way to abuse the forum rules.

It is one of the most serious abusements on forum rules. You are right that such abusement might put those accounts under high risks of red taggings, but currently, it is totally based on subjective decisions of forum users to tag someone or not.

Personally, it might be better if the forum has new rules on merit abusements and official punishments for each level of merit abusements.

This is hard to look at this situation with merit abuse for regular members doing their best to rank up. We try to write good quality content and be helpful. Still, we struggle to get few merits even with higher ranks. This is not a problem only for new accounts to rank up now, higher ranks have the same merits needed and even more 100, 250 or 500 of them for next rank. Look at my rank, posts and how much merits I got in last 3 months. I invite you to evaluate my posts and share your opinion about I will take criticism with understanding.

This dsgust me a lot. I know that every system can be gamed or cheated by people, but buying merit for ranking up account is sick. Not only it is an abuse, but it shows your quality of a low and shit person and it risks your account to be red tagged or banned in the future thus making your money go to a waste. It is really good if this forum has a solid security system about merit abusing.

Here's a link to the section Reputation

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And how do you like that? 50 merits for a meaningless post.

That would be a good punishment to those who abuse merit system even some user did try their best to create constructive and good quality post only earn 2 to 5 merit while the picture you provided received 50, seriously? Giving merit that amount is already treated as abusing of merit. Bitcointalk admin and other members tried to think of a way to keep this forum well organized.

You wrote "7 days 1 post"?  What's that even supposed to mean. 

Look at how many posts I've written and how much merit I've received since the whole thing started in January, and you won't hear one word of complaining out of me.  It is true that I'm already a Sr. member, but wearing that hero badge of honor is a goal of mine.  It just is going to take time for you and me both.  Be patient.

That post is not worth a single merit point. But you know, if you want to make people find you out, give yourself 50 merits, or buy merit points, or tell your friends to give you 50 merits which is an utter stupidity. Either they wanted to outsmart us or they clearly were dumb. Like, why do people want easy things... Is it hard to make a bit of effort and make a good post? Anyway, people will continue to violate this system...

That user has many alt accounts and they have been tagged. What else do you want?
Your posts are either oneliners, paraphrased articles or topics like this one ATTENTION - SECURITY WITH MyEtherWallet - which has already been answered and explained million times. I don't want to mention your other "how to" topics obviously created to farm merit(how to use italic button, how to post smiley, how to write post using keyboard, how to close bitcointalk using "X" button )

People would do it just for one reason: signature bounty campaigns. Being a Full Member you will be able to earn more with one campaign, so they treat it as an investment. Though it is really silly and you will earn more investing in crypto and it won't take you so much time. And it is not ethical and against the rules, of course.

In the world there are a lot of crazy people and sometimes they do inexplicable things. Maybe he wants to have an account with his nickname.
Instead of creating a new topic, it was necessary to post  here.

Where did you heard that? That would be a ridiculous price anyways. Can you imagine someone paying $15*50=$750 to get 50 merits? Why would anyone do that?

But merits are not for sale by rules. Whoever cheats may face a ban.

I heard merit is soo expensive about 15$ for 1 merit

Thanks, actually my post here wants to wake up people who intend to buy and sell Merit.
The law always has a flaw, but we must not abuse it for self-interest .

Great catch, actually! I can see, that the link in not working anymore (at least for me), hence the moderators took an appropriate action. There is nothing else to add to the previous posts at this point.

One thing I believe it deserves, is a merit point for you. Get it.

Hope that helps to answer your initial question.