Why people get merited without op being merit? - page 2.

sheenshane

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Most times the topics are not deserving of merit some topics just seek clarification and the comments that supply the answers to such questions get merited. And secondly, merit is a subjective offer only the merit source knows the topics or content that appeal to them before they merit the content/post.

I tend to agree with it because it doesn't mean you created a topic and it deserves to get merit, still, it will vary how quality it is. As repeatedly mentioned above, merit was subjected to the quality post that gives information, it doesn't matter if this is a reply or an OP thread.

It's being said by @DdmrDdmr above and it's explained very well, I hope this enlightened you now and try to give a better shot next to your posts and to potentially get merit. If you keep making such a good and helpful discussion, you will never know that someday you will have merited one of your posts.

Upgrade00

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Quote from: Promisefyneboy on July 12, 2021, 11:36:08 AM

This is good post, i m just being introduced into the forum and i really want to know how this merit of a thing works here and there. please put more light on it.

There are several links on merit and ranks, but in summary;
• Users merit you for posts they find quality,
• For every merit you receive, you get half in smerits, so 1 merit would produce 0.5 smerits but you can't spend this till you get another merit taking your smerits to 1,
• You can send your smerits to posts you find quality, it does not affect your merit count,
• Merits an activity determines your rank,
• Do no focus to much on either, rather concentrate on the discussions and available information on the forum.

Promisefyneboy

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This is good post, i m just being introduced into the forum and i really want to know how this merit of a thing works here and there. please put more light on it.

Findingnemo

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Quote from: Wakate on July 12, 2021, 08:13:06 AM

I have noticed some things in this forum which I don't really know why it is so. I believe that creating quality posts and posting comments that has potentials of giving solutions and impacting knowledge to an op is of great importance here.

I do see people being merited from other people's post even when the post has no merit. Some persons are so smart that, they we just attack the post Immediately without no good reasons rather than trying to correct the op and later get merited. Sometimes I know some posts are as useless as the op and it is not bad if a person get merit from it for good comment.

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?
It happens here always and I think knowing the reasons would not bad.

Giving merit to a post is highly subjective, only user who wants to merit it can decide that so we can't expect every good post to get merit and also don't expect every merited post to be a good one, the one who merited that post may liked it or learnt something from it just like the way of responding.

suzanne5223

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I understand your stance, for what's what people give merit to posts independently to whoever they wanted but if you feel that a specific post deserves to be merited you also have the privilege to report unmerited good post to the merit source.

About people attacking the OP instead of correcting her, understand this is internet where people don't show much respect and the last time I checked we are all from different backgrounds, understanding and morality but if you understand the internet code of conduct you will easily overlook people assault and use it as a motivation.

Desmong

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Quote from: Wakate on July 12, 2021, 08:13:06 AM

I believe that creating quality posts and posting comments that has potentials of giving solutions and impacting knowledge to an op is of great importance here.

This is a forum where learning is constant except you choose not to admit to every single advice that is given.

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I do see people being merited from other people's post even when the post has no merit.

Yes, posts that are of great interest is likely to get merited.

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Some persons are so smart that, they we just attack the post Immediately without no good reasons rather than trying to correct the op and later get merited.

This is left to individual reasons of responds. If the context of the post is poor or misleading, attacking it would be a good idea to reduce the number of shit posts.

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Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?

Everyone has right to merit any posts of their choice if the post has good quality, since our reasoning faculty is quite different from each other. You can't force merit on a post...note this!

DdmrDdmr

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Quote from: Wakate on July 12, 2021, 08:13:06 AM

<…> Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?

"Quality" is a subjective matter, and what one considers as quality may not be seen as such by others, or rather frequently it may be the n-th time the topic is being treated (the longer one in the forum, the more repeated OP topics he will see). In addition, many topics are created clearly to obtain merit, and not so much to elaborate on a given topic. When the intention is blatantly clear, it may produce the opposite effect.

Any post could be meritable, regardless of its position within a thread. Nevertheless, often OPs get merited more than other posts within the thread, especially if they bring something fresh to the table and expose it in a decent enough manner. The first posts answering or adding comments within the thread are also reasonable candidates, providing their content be of interest. The further we go down the thread, the more repetitive the answers tend to get, which normally correlated to being more distant to receiving merits. This is not a fixed pattern though.

Charles-Tim

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Quote from: Wakate on July 12, 2021, 08:13:06 AM

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?
It happens here always and I think knowing the reasons would not bad.

I registered last year March. Check some of the topics I created at the time on only page 9

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53982691
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53990969
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54008321
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54021683
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54107672

Go through all my topics, 90% or more of my topics were merited.

So, try to make quality posts is the answer, irrespective of it being a topic or normal post replies. Also do not just create topic and leave it, try to engage in the replying discussions, accept mistakes and improve the more.

bitmover

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Quote from: Wakate on July 12, 2021, 08:13:06 AM

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?

Merit is about post quality, not about post position.

The OP may be asking something silly, sometimes even spamming something that was already repeated over and over again.
Then someone replies below with a comment he researched about before posting, telling something new and useful about that silly comment in the OP.

This is the most common reason

Wakate

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I have noticed some things in this forum which I don't really know why it is so. I believe that creating quality posts and posting comments that has potentials of giving solutions and impacting knowledge to an op is of great importance here.

I do see people being merited from other people's post even when the post has no merit. Some persons are so smart that, they we just attack the post Immediately without no good reasons rather than trying to correct the op and later get merited. Sometimes I know some posts are as useless as the op and it is not bad if a person get merit from it for good comment.

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?
It happens here always and I think knowing the reasons would not bad.

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