Topic: Thoughts on the new merit system? - page 4. (Read 983 times)

Theymos will surely adjust the required merits in each rank if he sees that most of the people find it hard to get some merits from the sources,because most of the quality posts arent being recognized in each threads,as he said we should wait for atleast 1-2months so he can think about adjusting the required merits.And im sure he will adjust it we should wait further,as the matter of fact i see less people spamming around the forum from the past 2 weeks.

First of all this must be posted in the meta section and not here in the Alt Coin Discussion. Anyways, for me as a member of this forum the merit system is quite good being implemented because this will reduce people who shit posts in this forum just to get the required activity to rank up. Lastly, people now are required to use their minds to post knowledgeable topics/posts so that people will appreciate it and give them merits. My conclusion, people will now be focusing on what they post now rather than shit posting and users will now stop account farming because of more difficult in ranking up.

Something should have been done but I think that this system has its flaws.
At the moment , i believe that merits out there and and gap between ranks is too huge.

I for one dont even believe that I am getting rank up even with good posts it will take a very long time.

Merit system really a good idea, i think it will stop spamming, because some people just post and wait to get rank.

I think differently. I believe this can serve as an incentive for posts with better quality, since you can give way merit points to people according to their posts.
Some adjustments may be needed on the way, of course, but it's too early to say that this is going to be a problem.

I think its a good concept to fight away spam comments. But it will be harder now for members to upgrade their rank as it now depends on number of activities and merit. Unfortunately for me I am about to rank up but my merit is not enough.

It's not cutting down on spam though.  The threads are still littered with nonsense posts like "I agree hugely.  Nice idea dev, I reserve translate much good for Rastafarian".  It's such a terrible system that it's actually created more spam and useless discussions in the form of talking about the terrible system.    I do agree with you that it shouldn't matter, but obviously it does.

we could adopt the level matrix of dota2. you have to do something to level up and at the same time has these commend and report systems in place to prevent abuses like fraud and spams and other unrelated contents.

I think it needs to be developed a bit more, people are too lazy or not bothering to give merit's to other's user's, to avoid competition lol. Certainly, there is some advantages, but still required further work

I am supporting the new system as well, but I think that the merit levels needed for full member,  sr. member and above are a too high.

Everybody who is taking part of bounty campaigns care about level up, because higher level means better pay for the same amount of work done.

I think it's terrible to be honest because from what I've seen, it's not deterring spam at all, and it's getting used as a popularity meter where people who've already attained legendary are giving them to their friends for inside jokes and such.  Other times, it seems to be fueling some sort of virtue-signaling handout system.  By that, I mean that there's a ton of posts along the lines of "post here and I'll see if you're worthy of having these merits bestowed upon you by my holiness".    The whole thing conjures up images of a bored rich person walking into a welfare office and inspecting the crowd of unwashed peasants and taking it upon themselves to decide who deserves their pity and who doesn't, all the while filming it for everyone to see how magnanimous they are.  I don't understand how anyone thought that this was a better system than the standard upvote/downvote that everyone else uses.  Sure, it has it's flaws as well, but this merit system just seems like a giant leap backwards.  First off, merits from what I understand, are a finite resource that decays over time, and is only created by certain crony accounts.  Everyone needs them to "level up" except for the max ranked legendaries, but they're expected to be handed out by anyone who has them?  Why would someone who isn't already max ranked and cares about leveling up give them away, thereby leaving themself with less of them?  Secondly, why is it even possible for a max ranked account to even receive them?  They have absolutely no use for them other than to use to measure their epeen.  Third, just what the hell is a "good" post and what isn't?  And even if you were to exactly quantify the necessary criteria that makes up said "good" post, anybody should know that it's rarely going to be used for that.  Also, there seems to be a significant number of people on this board who aren't native English speakers, so even if they meant to post a well thought out and constructive post, it might not come across that way because of the language barrier.  How often do you think that those posters are going to be deemed worthy of merits?  Finally, if merits are meant to highlight useful or helpful posts, why even have the various boards for noncrypto-related topics?  The merits given out in those sections seem about as rare as a fat vegan.

I think that the system needs improvements. High ranks will not give merits to the newcomers of the forum for good posts, it will already be unfair.

I don't know why so many guys care about the level.
Do we remember the original goal of the bitcointalk forum??
Let more people know the bitcoin and learn more.
So why we need high level??You still view posts even you are
a newbie.That's enough!
I support the new merit system.
No more spam!

If we see the existence of this new merit regulation also can we say for the best post rather and reduce spam, but in terms of the other is also very difficult for us to continue the higher rank again.

Although, we have no choice to conclude the new merit system to prevent spammy posts from the users. If you think that your post deserves a sMerit, then you can look for a thread which gives sMerit for your post, this service is usually can be found on the Services board.

It is good innovative. I hope people that deserve the merit get it and not just spammers, measures should be taken to see that the merit system is not abuse by the forum members.

I like it. But some people has many memberships and they can manipulate it on new users.
And some can sell merits. It is good but so many holes.

I think this is going to be a hard system to deal with because there are times that people do a constructive post but they really don't get any because others are afraid to lose merits. I think there must be an alternative solution to the spammers and I don't think that it should be done this way. And it will be really hard for the new members of this forum.

I appreciate the intention behind the merit system, but the results are terrible.
Now old members have too much power, and the new don't have any real chance to grow up.
So, you'll have a "frozen" forum. Of course, this in some way will stop spam, but... it will stop anything.
I think that very fast there will be some change. We'll see.

Yeah and some good posts didn't get credited also because they're not known here and some don't really even care to give merit and this is the reality.
And when you give high merit to others because yoy really like their post then someone will accuse you that it's your alt account. Like wth they want us to do? Like what if I give 50 merit to theymos, is that mean that I'm his alt account?
Don't get me wrong as I'm not against with this new system but be at least fair enough to everyone.