Topic: Thoughts on the new merit system? - page 8. (Read 983 times)
I think it will be a good system. Even in just the short time I've been here I can tell that no one is actually engaging in active discussion. There are threads with 8-10 pages and people on page 7 are repeating the same things that were said on page 2. No one is actually going to threads to engage with people, they were just going to get their post count up. This is not healthy for forum.
You see, there will always be good and bad(?) effect. The good thing is that, it will limit the amount of spammers who only wants to rank up and it would make the users more motivated to come up with a quality post. The bad thing is that, newbies might find it hard to rank up and since there is no criteria for a "merit-worth" post it will be up to the standard of the other user. Anyway, I guess we just have to get used to it and do something that can help the forum.
People are not demanded to post high quality posts, nobody is preventing anyone to post stupid posts (as long as it's not a pure spam). However, if one wants to go up in ranks, he would have to actually contribute to the community by posting good and constructive posts. That's the whole point of the system, it is supposed to be some kind of indication of the user's quality.
I think they implement this merit system is just because brand new members can just easily go to jr member and rush to member in one month because of the burst posting everyday they are wanting to have a fair play on increasing the numbers of ranks. You can giveaways merits if you want to but give it to the deserving people
I admit this is hard at first. Scarcity of merits, saw great quality posts but can't give merits to the deserved writers. But I know in the future when merits are flooding this would be easier. The new system is great but it needs development and we are part of it.
It's will really be hard now to get points and upgrade to the next level. But i think it is good for the community in general. they trying to make bitcointalk the best place you can source for information regarding crypto.
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?
What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
Overall this system helps to avoid extra spam at this forum. On the other hand currently it is too hard to get rank up that will have influence on bounty companies (less people will be involved in bounty companies that it could be without merit system)
You mean alot less spam? Anyway, about the merit... I think there should be some tweaks done to the current system. I believe that right now the problem is that most of the users aren't getting merit with they're posts(even if the posts are good)... Maybe because other users are still not used to this new feature, maybe because they expect a half of a page post to be eligible to win merit... All i know is that getting higher rank will be much harder than before, even if your posts are good
I meant , they added merit to stop the short spammy posts that were occuring just to level up. The problem is even if someone posts very high quality posts is that most people are not even going to bother to send merit to that person.
The new system very strongly complicates receiving a new rank, but at the same time is designed to remove spam and uninterested people from a forum, we will hope that it will help it. On the other hand it would be desirable there is nobody eases by they are who is interested to be at this forum. Personally I can't earn the first merit in any way though there is a strong wish.
You mean alot less spam? Anyway, about the merit... I think there should be some tweaks done to the current system. I believe that right now the problem is that most of the users aren't getting merit with they're posts(even if the posts are good)... Maybe because other users are still not used to this new feature, maybe because they expect a half of a page post to be eligible to win merit... All i know is that getting higher rank will be much harder than before, even if your posts are good
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?
What are your thoughts, do you like the new merit system?
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