Topic: Thoughts on the new merit system? - page 5. (Read 984 times)
Maybe on a overall scale it is ACHIEVABLE that quality post would receive their deserved merit as viewers are always 10x 20x more than their comments. Still i felt it's so hard cause you wouldn't expect viewers to go through all 100 pages of comments to find the right one, those fighting for merit might just go for merit trades maybe among a group of people (I still not sure how it works).
I'm not too sure about this new merit system. Although these boards have been getting a lot more spam, it will be much more difficult to level up your bitcointalk account. Most people are not even going to bother and give out merit to quality posts.
What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
i cant conclude just yet as merit system has just started, for now i can say its effective againts spammers in the forum that wants only to level up ranks, but well see whats gonna hapoen next, trully this ones really hurt to member to sr member rank, but this is not how to stop spammers i think, spammers are gonna spam no matter what, yhats who they are. What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
In a way it is good for the forum, less spam by new user but I find that the merit system is a little too difficult for those people who really want to level up either by doing bounty or more post frequently as it is something new so they should be having a hard time to get merit for the post or thread they have post
Maybe someone had good intentions to clear the forum of low-quality messages, but judging by how it was done, this innovation will only give a negative result. The gap in the powers between the ranks to the senior member and after him has been widened too. This practically makes it impossible to advance at the ranks, as it was before. Now write or do not write quality messages, almost no one gives merits. Works only exchange of merits and their purchase. In order for this to work, it is necessary not to put so much stringently the necessary number of merits. For example, 90 units of merit between a member and a full member for two months, as it was before, absolutely can not be obtained. Or is the innovation directed simultaneously at slowing progress in ranks?
For junior members and members, I do not at all see the prospect of ranking progress. It seems that they just decided to cut off new members in the forum and strengthened the privileges of senior members and higher. In general, innovation with merit is extremely unfair.
For junior members and members, I do not at all see the prospect of ranking progress. It seems that they just decided to cut off new members in the forum and strengthened the privileges of senior members and higher. In general, innovation with merit is extremely unfair.
I agree.
The difference in the quality of the messages has not yet been noticed. But achieve next rank for beginners, like me now does not shine).
As many of you are aware by now, the proposed 2015-2020 Agreement contains a new, fairly complicated, merit salary system. The new merit system can be summed up in one sentence: Oakland distributes merit money based on performance scores assigned to faculty members by evaluating the faculty member's annual report against a unit-specific performance rubric.
The merit system is one of the reason for a user to ranked up slowly. The user needs to gain merit from other user by getting merit on his posts. This system is a good idea for me because, many users are abusing the forum and creating multiple accounts. By this system their latest account will struggle in ranking up easily.
Maybe someone had good intentions to clear the forum of low-quality messages, but judging by how it was done, this innovation will only give a negative result. The gap in the powers between the ranks to the senior member and after him has been widened too. This practically makes it impossible to advance at the ranks, as it was before. Now write or do not write quality messages, almost no one gives merits. Works only exchange of merits and their purchase. In order for this to work, it is necessary not to put so much stringently the necessary number of merits. For example, 90 units of merit between a member and a full member for two months, as it was before, absolutely can not be obtained. Or is the innovation directed simultaneously at slowing progress in ranks?
For junior members and members, I do not at all see the prospect of ranking progress. It seems that they just decided to cut off new members in the forum and strengthened the privileges of senior members and higher. In general, innovation with merit is extremely unfair.
For junior members and members, I do not at all see the prospect of ranking progress. It seems that they just decided to cut off new members in the forum and strengthened the privileges of senior members and higher. In general, innovation with merit is extremely unfair.
It somehow had to happen. Remember what was the influx of new users, which was the reason for the failure of the forum servers. The forum administration was forced to introduce a system of merit
This new merit system is a good process but unfortunately as usual there are loopholes are there are some sort of agreement between users to share merit with each other to gain the merit score so I don't think this will work on long-term basis.
That won't work as far as I know these merits are traceable which means it would get easily found out who is working with whom and that ship would not sail at all. I do like it as it is going to improve the quality of the forum and that is what we want long term I believe.
It somehow had to happen. Remember what was the influx of new users, which was the reason for the failure of the forum servers. The forum administration was forced to introduce a system of merit
For communication in these branches admins charge +Merit. Only need to write normal constructive messages
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2657895.new#new
It is introduced to merit the post, but i don't think that it is going to make much impact. Most people will not bother to give merit.
It somehow had to happen. Remember what was the influx of new users, which was the reason for the failure of the forum servers. The forum administration was forced to introduce a system of merit
This new merit system is a good process but unfortunately as usual there are loopholes are there are some sort of agreement between users to share merit with each other to gain the merit score so I don't think this will work on long-term basis.
It somehow had to happen. Remember what was the influx of new users, which was the reason for the failure of the forum servers. The forum administration was forced to introduce a system of merit
Bounties are really important part of a forum but they also cause of low quality messages on forum. Because of the some bounty campaigns, last month was a mess. Post qualities were terrible. I hope merit system will hinder spamming and rank farming.
I'm not sure if the merit system will be effective to prevent spammers, the fact there are still many useless posts in this board such as "great project" "I'm interested to join" "good job dev" "it has great future" and many other similar posts made by (mostly) newbie and brand new accounts.
On other hand, it will be effective to prevent account farming because it is now hard to rank up as users need both activity points and merit points to rank up.
I prefer myself to be quite for now about this one and I choose to wait and see the result for the coming results before giving my opinion. What I know every comment opposite to this side can't change of what is already given.
This system is very unfair, it highly favors the older users. A lot of these higher rank users ranked up by posting short messages. It's exponetially harder to level up now, most people won't even bother t osend out merit. Then you throw in the fact that people are going t osell merit and corrupt the whole system.
I agree with you, this new system cannot be justified, it will only benefit the old members that are already enjoying high ranks without the need for merit.
I have a doubts that everyone will use it and good posts may just sink in trash posts and nobody would give them any merit. From the other hand some ppl may start creating high quality posts.
I think that this topic is not for the altcoins section. But anyway, I think that Merit system should be a little but upgraded. What is the sense for me as a high ranked member to give away my merits? Maybe I'm just don't used to do it, but if there will some reward system for giving out merits it would be great.
Bounties are really important part of a forum but they also cause of low quality messages on forum. Because of the some bounty campaigns, last month was a mess. Post qualities were terrible. I hope merit system will hinder spamming and rank farming.
THis merit is good to prevent bad comments on different threads but it may have a bad impact on the new users of bitcointalk as they have to face lot of competition now. Their ranks will increase if both activity and merit increases. now if they don't get merit points from anyone they they may buy these points from another users. I think that nobody in this world will donate these merit points to anyone without any his own gain.
I'm not too sure about this new merit system. Although these boards have been getting a lot more spam, it will be much more difficult to level up your bitcointalk account. Most people are not even going to bother and give out merit to quality posts.
What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
I don't like. Because don't understand how i can get Merit if i am a beginner and can't write posts of high quality.What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
You get Merit when you write quality posts. Someone appreciate your post and give you merit point. The bottom line is if you write spam no one will ever give you Merit, but if you write good quality posts, that help other members, they will give you Merit and you will up rank.
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