Topic: Why I haven't merited some 0 merit members - page 2. (Read 921 times)

Good job bro, I'm also trying to figure out what I can do, hoping to get something from you soon 

I found three that were suspicious, but I didn't spend time doing a full check.
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I'm a newbie on the forum, many people are just trying to learn and find out reasons people yell scam about exchanges, masternode coins, et al. I'm not out any money from this, the interest I have is in the community. Too many are being wrecked from bad actors and we're not doing much about it but "oh you learned!" in the selfish communities I'm reaching into that tend to be very dedicated to the wrong things.

I grew up on bbs's, moved to IRC, learned to build a business online with early dial-up internet and did seti project and other distributed computing initiatives. not many of them had a decent community and like this forum, there's a lot of technical discussions still published since 2008 on a simple machines lamp server stood up in someone's ad-hoc co-located overpowered virtual machine.

I miss that community of the "good ole' days."  I miss seeing people standing up for motivated individuals and helping them along like it's a great mission... we still have, just not much in crypto like I see it in it's watered down form. I go back to IRC, and I find empty channels, new projects with 2 people in them, developer chats without a single brogrammer, and a few misguided hackers that still do the same things I remember them doing in 1991, only now they have kids.

To the core of the original greys of any community, it's my pleasure to meet everyone, and I feel like merit is a strange way to validate if someone is genuine or not. If people of honor exist, they won't have to tell you they are honorable. 

in my best old man voice "In my day, if you wanted street cred...."

actualy i start this job to have an experience and knowledge about this site.   and i realize that the more you post the more merit you have.

I decided that I would look for some members with 0 merits, and see if I can find a post that deserved merit to get them started. I've managed to find 2 so far, but I thought it might be interesting to new members if I explained why many didn't receive any awards.

The first thing I did was to choose a thread that looked as if if it might be interesting. Then I scanned through for members who hadn't received any merit. If the post contained misinformation, or looked as it it had been made without the poster understanding the topic, then I skipped it. Of course I skipped any misuse of quoting or formatting as well. If the post appeared to have been made with some thought, then I looked at the members post history. If it was mainly one liners, then I backed out, and I also looked for bad quoting habits. If I saw two or three reasonable posts, then I checked for plagiarism, and skipped out if it was detected. If the post passed all these test, then I awarded one or two merits.

Don't forget that this is a personal opinion, and other merit awarders may not have the same ideas as I have. I didn't check dates or boards either, so some awards may have been for old posts on less merited boards.

From a merit Sender’s point of view, meriting a person who has not being merited before is rewarding, but also requires in my case more checks than meriting a person with a merit track, specially if the merited person has been merited by reputable forum members previously. In those cases, although some historical post checking may still be needed, I kind of trust to a certain degree their judgment, and may end up skipping a step or so in the KYM process.

This is my worst ever merited user. Thought he will change his/her way after getting merited but instead he/she continued in the old ways. After this experience before I merit any user, I must do a thorough background check to prevent this mistake from happening twice.

Good job bro, I'm also trying to figure out what I can do, hoping to get something from you soon  

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I decided that I would look for some members with 0 merits, and see if I can find a post that deserved merit to get them started. I've managed to find 2 so far, but I thought it might be interesting to new members if I explained why many didn't receive any awards.

The first thing I did was to choose a thread that looked as if if it might be interesting. Then I scanned through for members who hadn't received any merit. If the post contained misinformation, or looked as it it had been made without the poster understanding the topic, then I skipped it. Of course I skipped any misuse of quoting or formatting as well. If the post appeared to have been made with some thought, then I looked at the members post history. If it was mainly one liners, then I backed out, and I also looked for bad quoting habits. If I saw two or three reasonable posts, then I checked for plagiarism, and skipped out if it was detected. If the post passed all these test, then I awarded one or two merits.

Don't forget that this is a personal opinion, and other merit awarders may not have the same ideas as I have. I didn't check dates or boards either, so some awards may have been for old posts on less merited boards.