Topic: Welsh's merit source application (Read 447 times)

I checked your merit history and you are right about the fact that you are spending your Smerits regularly. I hope admin considers that while reviewing your application.

I think you will be an ideal merit source. You have my endorsement.

You deserve it. I surprised you are not yet merit source. I believe  theymos will consider you as a merit source. It's very rare to find helpful persone like you. Best of luck.

Isn't that the beauty of this forum? Conflicting opinions which can result in one or multiple members furthering their knowledge. I've always been involved in one way or another with the forum.  I've always reported posts behind the scenes for an example.

I'm not sure if you are referring to my posts or the ones quoted above. I'm going to assume you mean the ones quoted above as my posts are irrelevant to the application.

Regardless, some users are blessed with the ability to speak clearly, and concisely. I'm not one of those people, and have a tendency to waffle on a little bit. So I completely related to those who might do the same.

Although, that being said the length isn't really a factor. It's only ever a problem if someone is padding out their post for the sake of getting merit. I don't believe any of the posts above are doing this though. I would agree that you generally need to know what you are talking about, but that doesn't mean you need to be 100% correct in your post, and just because you make mistakes in your post doesn't mean that discredits what the rest of the post contains. Also, just because there's unnecessary comments within the thread doesn't discredit from their main points.

I'm not too familiar with Welsh's input history for the forum, but here's something I've noticed.
One suggestion to improve SnR, and it also stands for many others too: Post less, increase quality of what you do post. Good quality posing posts are shitposts. When commenting complex things, you need to know what you're talking about. Lengthy comment, while maybe properly done itself, if done off the actual present discussion or without sufficient depth or knowledge of what have been discussed, decreases signal-to-noise ratio.

Most of the threads/discussions do not require that sort of stretching, though.

I guess Welsh would be OK as a merit source.

I appreciate that people who can be merit sources are starting to "step up" and want to help stop the spam on this forum.

I have been following Welsh's posts and although we may not agree on everything, I do see he's trying to get more involved.

I've also created a thread here: Has the Merit faucet dried up? Solutions? and the need to have more merit sources is justified if you ask me.

Good luck Welsh! I hope you will be assigned as merit source

Thanks for the overwhelming support guys I didn't expect this type of response. Much appreciated.

I was originally going to release the list publicly, and I even started to format it for this (in fact about 20% is still formatted), however I decided against this because I knew that this would result in several replies with people listing their posts in an attempt get merit, and this isn't what I would want the thread to be centered towards. Therefore, if I was going to do this I would have to self moderate the thread. That's when I decided it would probably be better to just apply to become a merit source, and this is the reason why I hadn't applied sooner.  Instead, I looked to offload it onto merit sources, and contacted Jet Cash on what was best to do. Taking into consideration his input, and a few other members that I spoke to I opted to apply for merit source.

I'm not the type of person who sends people things in raw format. As you might of seen recently regarding the images for my report thread I'm very anal about detail, and hate sending people things that haven't been reviewed completely. In the meantime you can take a look at my merit summary as no doubt as I earn merit I'll be redistributing to some of the posts on my list.

I'll see how this application goes, and if I'm not accepted then I'll be contacting all the people I think are good merit distributors, and ask them whether they want my list, and I'll make a full review before sending it out. We all have varying standards, and I only want the good posts merited, and I find myself removing some of the posts on my list when it comes to reviewing them when I've  got merit to distribute.

Yeah good quality posts should be merited too, however with limited merit you tend to merit those who stand out above the rest. I do hope that if I'm accepted as a merit source I'll be able to merit more posts on the fly rather than picking, and choosing what I merit.

Carlton Banks is a great poster, and I quite regularly find his posts being under merited, and his posts are in my list multiple times.

I think I  must have a high tolerance level or something as I currently have 0 people on my ignore list. Not bad considering I've been here 5 years now.

I'm not sure what the criteria of being selected for a merit source was initially, but I'm hoping I've demonstrated via my merit history that I'm suitable. There was several reasons why I haven't applied sooner, but is mainly because with life outside Bitcointalk, gathering the posts, formatting, and releasing the reporting thread. I considered the reporting thread to be more worthwhile, and opted to pay attention to that a lot of the time over this. I'm also a very slow editor when it comes to these type of threads. This thread was started over a week ago, and I still found myself replacing some of the posts with newer ones. It was so hard picking the ones to list here. I think I'm happy with them I think

I'm SHOCKED that (1) you're not a merit source and (2) you had not applied until now. I'd be willing to forgive this dereliction of duty if you get approved with no less than 1000 monthly merits

Seriously though - I think you'd make a great merit source and I hope theymos sees it that way too. Good luck!

I think you are the best example of a merit source and a true "legendary" rank. Since the first time here I saw you replying (and trying to help) any ranks. Instead of boasting your rank, you treat everyone as equal. You never threatened to "I'll put you on my ignore list" and other shit (as far as I know). Other than that, I think you have a good (technical) knowledge of bitcoin and blockchain. So +1 from me!

What took you so long? I expect people like you to be the firsts and stand on front line. I haven't seen you meriting the posts which only you like, that's a promising method and you should become a source.

I often read about the flow of merit getting less, and I've only seen relatively new users "complain" about the fact that they don't have any sMerit to send. When I closed my merit source application, I still had plenty of sMerit left, and I've only recently decided to merit more posts (after I realized "good posts" deserve merit as well as "excellent posts", because the Merit system wasn't introduced to stop people with good posts from ranking up).
And here you are, running out of sMerit all the time! I've randomly checked 3 posts merited by you, and as expected from previous observations, they are good choices. I've merited one of them, and a few from your "10 posts" too.

To summarize my 2 Satoshis: I support your application!

While waiting (it took me 3.5 months), and since I have some sMerit left to give, feel free to PM me your list of worthy posts. I especially liked reading Carlton Banks' post, so reading your list may bring me to parts of the forum I don't usually read. No guarantees though, as I expect many long posts to read

Godspeed and “Theymos speed” on this application please... I find Welsh to be one of those rare posters whose content building capabilities are extremely high, bearing well constructed versed and defended arguments and therefore a joy to read. One can only assume that one’s persona derived from how he contributes to the forum as a poster will no doubt have an equivalent counterpart as Merit Source.
All my support to your candidacy.

I used to think you are already a merit source although I never took the time to see your merit spending list LOL
Anyway good luck mate.

I was expecting that, and If my word has some weight here, I totally support his application. This is a great example of a helping person, with detailed explanations and examples, I see no better candidate for merit source but Welsh as far as I have an overview of the forum members.
Good luck to you man.

I support Welsh's application. I believe that he has a genuine affection for the forum, and would make a responsible and productive merit source.  I didn't read all of the posts, but I've given him a couple of sMerits to award, and I'm sure he will use them well.