Was the forum better before without Merit or is it better now with Merit? - page 4.

Mpamaegbu

legendary

Activity: 2716

Merit: 1225

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Quote from: BabyBandit on December 02, 2023, 05:51:39 PM

Please explain your answer so users like me can get an idea how it was and what you prefer.

It's obvious that the merit system brought a level of sanity and control in the forum and helped push account farmers off the forum or minimized their activities and kicked shitposters in the balls. Though I'm of the opinion that meriting a post is a subjective thing than objective. I've said this times without number. By the way, in the past with your current status of 126 activities you would've ranked up to Full Member long ago but that's not possible now as you've merit to contend with and that will push you to put more efforts in your posts to get merit. You see how a plus it's?

TheUltraElite

legendary

Activity: 2898

Merit: 1253

So anyway, I applied as a merit source :)

I was here 2years before the merit system was started and I am still here after 5years of the merit system.

The good thing/or so we thought, was that alt-accounts would reduce in number and account farming would be discouraged, although the second point has fairly been effective, they eventually are managing to rank up and introduce their own into multiple campaign and defraud them like previously. In other words, there are loopholes and its not perfect, but sometimes merit ends up being a distraction rather than engaging in the community.

So my opinion is that not much has changed, we had bootlickers previously and we still have, its just how democracy works. Suck it up and continue on your one man army life.

robelneo

legendary

Activity: 3416

Merit: 1225

Quote from: _act_ on December 02, 2023, 05:54:40 PM

Merit system was created in 2018 because of the way many people are spamming and having low quality posts. Merit system was introduced and the spam and low quality posts wit
h multiple accounts become reduced. I think this answers your question.

That's true if we don't have a merit system to rank up we will see newbies ranking up to legendary because of activity and post count when their contributions to the community are bounty reports, those who contributed and earned the respect the respect of the community are the one who deserves to rank up.
Merits are a vote of confidence by the community to members who make a great contribution to what the forum should be.

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

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Quote from: BabyBandit on December 02, 2023, 05:51:39 PM

Members, reputable members. Was it better before back then when this forum was without merits or is it better or even much better now with merits?

Before the merit system, as consequence of cryptocurrency market and ICO booming in 2017 and 2018, the forum was flooded with shit posters. Merit system kicked off in January 2018 helped to indirectly eliminate shit posters because they have no available space to spam and get money for their 'works'.

Then another wave of spam returned when those farms exchanged merits to rank up to like Junior member (without 1 merit required back in the day with initial merit system), then theymos launched an Enhanced merit system (with 1 merit required to be Junior member, previous junior members without 1 earned merit will be deranked to newbies). Spam reduced effectively and significantly again.

Then the massive booster of monthly sourced merits caused another issue, when I can see many shit posters rising again. They wrote wall of texts and use those text walls as their fake marks of quality to exchange merit, rank up and spam to work.

Despairo

hero member

Activity: 1064

Merit: 843

I'm registered since 2020, but since I've check the old thread discussions where most users were create one liner posts and there are many airdropped merit users stuck can't receive many merits, I'll say the forum is better after merit implementation.

Unfortunately the current merit system isn't perfect yet, we need to improve in punishment for user who keep meriting each other with his alts or friends.

Hispo

legendary

Activity: 1162

Merit: 2025

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I am not sure whether it was better back then (before the implementation of the merit system) or not, because of the simple fact I joined this wonderful community back during the pandemic. Though, reading the opinions of The Sceptical Chymist (aka The Pharmacist) among other members who joined much earlier than me, it makes sense the merit system helped to halt to some degree the spamming and the account farming. Now obviously takes much more effort to account farm for the purpose of selling them outside of the forum, to the extent many of the farmers probably stopped trying at this point.

No system is perfect, that is for sure, but having a system like this one is better than not having one. At least, that is my humble opinion.

Text

hero member

Activity: 2464

Merit: 594

Quote from: BabyBandit on December 02, 2023, 05:51:39 PM

Members, reputable members. Was it better before back then when this forum was without merits or is it better or even much better now with merits? Please explain your answer so users like me can get an idea how it was and what you prefer.

In my opinion, the addition of merits has brought a positive change to the community. Merits provide a structured way to acknowledge and reward valuable contributions, which helps in recognizing the efforts of members who consistently provide helpful and insightful content.
Before merits, while the forum might have been functional, there may have been challenges in highlighting and appreciating quality contributions. The introduction of merits seems to have added a layer of accountability and recognition, encouraging members to contribute meaningfully and maintain a positive and constructive environment.
Of course, improvement for the better.

The Sceptical Chymist

legendary

Activity: 3500

Merit: 6981

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Much, much better now than before the merit system was created--and I think I've said that like a million times across the span of 5 years already. While I think there's still a big shitposting problem, at least people aren't doing it with a stable of alt accounts that they're ranking up either to enroll in bounties/campaigns or to sell to account buyers. The merit system swept the legs right out from under account farmers, and that was no small thing.

There used to be threads where it was obvious that alt accounts were responding to each other as though they were actually different people; you don't see that much anymore.

STT

legendary

Activity: 4102

Merit: 1454

Better after but also I remember the newest members had a special forum section and only posted there, to some extent that was good containment and discouragement to start new accounts and spam. I guess that was and still is the largest problem. Merit isnt perfect but its generally a good idea to have some limited scoring to posts, I do think it should be a little more liquid for anyone active but I understand it has to lean on the hard money side of balancing things rather then letting it all be too loose and becoming not a worthwhile marker or commodity to circulate on the forum.

Mrbluntzy

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Activity: 392

Merit: 71

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when merit was not yet introduced, members only require activity to rank up but after the merit system got introduced, users now need merit and activity before they can enter a new rank. There are members who are complaining that they can't earn merit to be able to rank up, i think for members now, it's becoming more of a merit hunt than quality post but any member who gets tired of hunting for merit will get tired an leave if they don't earn merit on their low quality post. I am not saying this because I feel that my post is of extremely good quality but I know that the quality of posters before was better than now and that's what changed. I also know that the introduction of the merit system was to help encourage users to make quality post.

_act_

legendary

Activity: 1064

Merit: 1298

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Merit system was created in 2018 because of the way many people are spamming and having low quality posts. Merit system was introduced and the spam and low quality posts with multiple accounts become reduced. I think this answers your question.

BabyBandit

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Activity: 238

Merit: 68

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Members, reputable members. Was it better before back then when this forum was without merits or is it better or even much better now with merits? Please explain your answer so users like me can get an idea how it was and what you prefer.

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