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After some thinking I decided to write this merit source application with intention to help other active members who are making good posts.
I have been active forum member for almost 3 years now, and bitcointalk has become part of my every daily routine, as well as writing in many topics including our local Croatian board.

This is my current merit stats from BPIP website (https://bpip.org/):
https://i.imgur.com/rKkRQce.jpg

Thanks to the great BPIP website (https://bpip.org/) and DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4428616.0) I also did some investigation with other members like Rikafip
and we found out that our local board was often times in top positions when we looked at activity and making post, but near bottom when we looked at merits.
I would like to contribute and change that and reward more good posts, not only in our local board but in all other forum sections, but often times I am out of sMerits.

Here are 10 posts deserving more merits:

1. Re: Kako najbolje prodati kriptovalute? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276865.msg55223997#msg55223997)
2. Re: Mjesečna Analiza za Hrvatsku Lokalnu Zajednicu (Bitcointalk Croatian) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182644.msg55217599#msg55217599)
3. Re2: Kako najbolje prodati kriptovalute? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276865.msg55224883#msg55224883)
4. Velike kompanije su pocele investirati u bitcoin kao sigurnu imovinu (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276508.msg55214118#msg55214118)
5. Najam brodova u Hrvatskoj pomoću kriptovaluta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276726.msg55219116#msg55219116)
6. Re: bitcoin priča - merit giveaway (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5233829.msg55055342#msg55055342)
7. Re: Satoshi Nakamoto diskusija, teorije i kandidati (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257373.msg54684891#msg54684891)
8. Bitcoin.org prijevod na hrvatski (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230144.0)
9. Re: Bitcoin Novčanici (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259153.msg55074492#msg55074492)
10. Re: Unban RegulusHr - Thank you theymos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5097792.msg54300969#msg54300969)

There are many more post deserving merits, so I may update this topic in future.
I hope my application will be reviewed and accepted.

Thank you theymos  ;)

The instruction is to quote 10 merit worthy post not to post the links 😜


Hopefully this will not be a serious eligibility to consider. theymos is a good man and I hope he accepts your application. We have not seen merit source application for a while.

Go ahead brother, I am watching your back.

I have seen some members posting links instead of quotes before, and nobody reads huge posts with bunch of text in foreign language.
It looks cleaner this way and it takes less space, but if all the big boys say I need to edit the post then I may consider doing it. ;)

Yeah I've seen those applications too, that had links only. For example, Ratimov merit application (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5197199.0) that was approved. Or Last of the V8s (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251184.0) merit application that is still pending, and no one had any objections.

Just to add that I am glad to see you applying for merit source, as Croatian local board could definitely use one more since we are constantly among most active local boards, and almost always at the bottom end when it comes to merit. Anyway, good luck and I hope that your name will be among those confirmed next time theymos decides to approve new merit sources!

I agree with you, and for merit applications I'd personally rather see a link instead of the entire post(s) quoted--but that's just me.  Theymos is probably the only person who needs to look at what posts you'd merit if you were a source, and I'm not sure anyone else has strenuously disagreed with choices made in that part of the application process (I doubt many members read them).

Anyway, you've got my support for whatever it's worth.  What I'm wondering is whether Theymos is going to add any more merit sources, especially since forum activity has dropped pretty dramatically.  I don't even know if new members are anxious to rank up anymore, since I haven't seen a lot of threads about merit in Meta.  They might be in B&H, in which case I wouldn't be able to see them, but it used to be the case that ranking up was of uppermost importance to any newbie on bitcointalk, because it meant that you could earn more money in campaigns.  Now?  I'm just not seeing the urgency anymore.

But good luck with your application in any case.  You've been a good contributor to the forum and have ranked up from scratch and so I'm sure you're well aware of the importance of the merit system.

It is really more clean and neat to post links instead of quoting the message. In fact, some of the users who will read your application will not read some of the quoted messages. More than that, I am happy that you run as merit source in this forum. I have seen a lot of quality post which deserved to get some merit that you are given. You deserve to be on merit source and hoping you can help the forum as well as the members who are struggling to get merits even they contribute a lot in this forum.

I really don't see any reason why someone's application would be rejected only because he/she posted links to his posts rather than quoting them. The focus is in the post content and local community support. As a member of the Croatian local board, I strongly support @dkbit98 application to become a Merit sourcer. He really is a valuable member of our community and has contributed very much. Good luck with the application.

If you're a close friend of lauda mozprognoz malboroza tman then sadly that has to be a no.
Merit sources should be less concentrated in the hands of close allies or friends.

The distribution already resembles pal points or political points.

It would be best if I were to be a  merit source.

Nothing against you personally but we need to start having some merit sources that are not all mates.
I think it would also be sensible to stipulate you can not be a merit source if you've worn a banner in the last year.

i would like to support this application, as a board member, and also i do not see why links instead of quotes should be an issue for the application

yeah, i got it that application should be filled as per instructions, but links instead of quotes is not that much of a mistake, so presume that application will proceed

all the best

Yo man,congrats on joining the long Merit Source waiting list :)
Better late then never. I'll put you on the my waiting list as well. Needs a bump for sure. Just a tip, quote those posts instead of giving links. Theymos likes it that way :)

This gentleman, I know him personally. Every day always do chit chat with him. This gentleman have a decisive ( little tiny bit cruel) and honest. You guys can criticism him as long you guys have solid proof. With all the contributions he has made in to this forum (especially the Croatian sub-board). I hope that @theymos will make him as one of a merit source. And don't forget he really hate scammer or project that have indication to be scam project. God luck for you senor.

PS : God damn it, read my message in telegram!

Supporting your application and I believe you deserve you. I have noticed you are quite active on the forum and spreading your contributions over the forum as well. I can recall I had to wait almost eight months before approved for merit source. So not sure how long you will have to wait to become a merit source. If I am not wrong theymos not adding merit sources for a long time. So I believe he should add few more merit sources since new members have been joining on this forum continuously.

Anyway, good luck with your merit source application.

This is also my experience, I think I had to wait a few months for theymos to approve my application for a merit source.
It's likely that the new merit sources will be approved together as a group, as part of some new changes to the forum.
In any case, I have known dkbit98 for a very long time and I respect and appreciate his contribution on this forum.
Anyway I know dkbit98 for a very long time and I really respect and appreciate his contribution on this forum, especially his work on detecting fraud on the forum.
I'm sure that as a future merit source he will be able to contribute even more to the forum community.

I fully support you m8. You are very a(tra)ctive member (no homo);D of the forum both locally and overall and all over your body(no homo again);D. Your contributions are always on point and I like your no nonsense emotional approach when writing :D I know you would share merit fairly to anyone who deserves it.

I also want to support dkbit98's proposal.  I know him as a responsible participant in the Croatian section. I remember his investigations into detecting scam projects in the Scam Accusations.  Really respect dkbit98 for her firm position. I have no doubt that a fair merit-source will come out of dkbit98, which will be able to correctly evaluate worthy posts.
Dkbit98, I wish you the best of luck!

Supported from another Croatian local board member.

Dkbit98 is well known outside of the local boards as well so most of you know him already and know he'd do his new job responsibly.

As pointed many times before, Croatian local board would really benefit from another Merit source so fingers crossed for dkbit98 :)

dkbit98 is a high-quality member of the Croatian local board, and as we can see, he has full support outside of our local as well. The Croatian local has been among the most active ones in recent months and having an additional source would benefit everyone. I am glad you took the imitative and deccided to apply.

The most important question is: Is he a she or is she a he?  ;D

+1 for support.

If it's a she, I fully support her being a Merit Source, no questions asked!








Jk OP, you get my support ;D

Thank you everyone for support and suggestions.


Kane you missed your daily portion of bananas or what?
I am not a friend with any of them.

+1 more troll on ignore list

I would like to express my support for Dkbit98's application. He has been highly contributing member of our local Croatian board and has my full recommendation.

It seems to me that you are at the beginning of a very long journey but I'm glad that you have decided and taken the first step.
As you already know, you have the full support of your local community and I'm glad that you also received support from other forum members.
I believe that the question is not whether you will become a merit source but when you will become a merit source and we are waiting for an answer from the admin.

This is definitely a good thing if you are helping your local board to move forward. There are still many local boards where there is no one to take the initiative and the members of those local boards are lagging behind.  In this case, I think collective help is needed.

In regards to your opinions you are making sense but the area I find difficult, which I know vividly that it will be difficult to implementes, is people quoting language's that their not use to, in that aspect what are we quoting a language that we fine difficult to comprehend for, because quoting it means that you have basic knowledge of the language or you can comprehend it slightly, so i have no seem atoms of profit for someone that do not understand language to quote it.
If I may ask, are we going to use translator to translate it first to enable people that is not used to the language to understand it before commenting.

I also give my unreserved support to this applicant. I know dkbit98 from the local subforum but I also believe that he is a very respected member in general. I am sure he will be agile and fair in rewarding valuable posts.
At least until the fame goes to his head!  ;D

IT'S cryptohunter, you know...

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You have my support.

I started loosing hope a bit.. soon to hit 1 year waiting time, for real. Hope you have a better luck with this merit source application.
Lauda was a merit source If I'm not mistaken so I hope theymos will consider that there's one MS less and less distributed merits.

That probably means that theymos is happy with the current merit distribution on the forum and did not have a reason to promote new merit sources. I am sure there is more merit sources that have gone missing beside Lauda and our Regulus (from out Local) so it could be we will have some new sources soon.

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Our Croatian local section could use one more source for sure. I don't remember when somebody got more than 1 merit in single transaction which shows how tight things are. I fully support dkbit98 nomination as well and hopefully he will be one of the new sources when the time finally comes. Best of luck mate.

Surprisingly, Lauda was not (or no longer) Merit Source.
But you can point out the absence of TMAN and chimk (which together represent a large number of merits).

I agree with you.
Generally,  I think that local boards needs more merit sources, people who understand local language and can read local posts.
I see that very good and constructive posts in English part of the forum always receive many merits but in local boards situation is different.
We definitely don't have enough merit sources in local areas and I hope that theymos understand it and will do something about it soon.

When you look at our activity, post quality and amount of merit shared, there is definitely room for at least one more merit source in our local board. Situation would be even worse if we are not so active in the English part of the forum, otherwise it would be  extremely hard to rank up by being mostly active in our local board.

September results were above average for our board (most of the time we are at the bottom end) while this month will probably be worse.

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There is another big merit source that is AFK since May, bones261 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=452769). According to @Coin-1 list of The most generous users giving merits  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4523027.0) he is at 7th spot (chimk at 5th and TMAN at 18th), and his absence is definitely felt at the Scam accusation board where he left big chunk of monthly allocation prior taking a break. Add on that one member from Turkish board that stopped being merit source at his own request, and there is a big gap compared to year ago. Let's just hope theymos sees it like that and he introduces new ones soon.

Lack of merits sent in Scam Accusation section is felt, and I can confirm that bones261 was a big help even in my case, as I received good amount of merits from him.

My Merit source application is still valid, and in case theymos approves it I would pay more attention and send more merits in Scam Accusation board.

I really wish you to become a merit source as soon as possible, you absolutely deserved it.
I particularly appreciate your contribution in the local board and in Scam Accusation board.
I hope theymos will soon promote new merit sources in this forum, it's right time now with some very good applications.

I wish too more merit source to be accepted to get a better chance in getting merit. The more merit source the merrier could it be because they can be a great help in spotting good posta which are relatively could be overlook with few merit source. Besides, not all merit source are always online if course they also need rest and the merit source designation is only an extra baggage for them in here getting free of payment to rewards and look for deserving posts to be merited.

I really appreciates your wish op, its a positive thinking to the forum that will enhance welcomed development to the community as well, because if more merit source increased today it will create multiple chance of people to earn merit, irrespective the total Numbers of people in the forum, it quickly render help to people to rank up,despite that merit is given based on creativity of the user and quality post via research that can yield values in the community.

As RikaFip predicted, last month we fell below 0.2 merit/post ratio, which again puts us in the lower part of the list of local boards.

Merit/Post ratio for period October 1 - October 31

Another merit source would significantly improve the bad statistics and bring a fairer distribution of merits for our local community. Therefore, I also support the dkbit98's application.

@theymos
I am still here and still available.

I guess that theymos waiting for the "right " time before declaring new merit sources.
When theymos concludes from the data that merit sources are needed on the forum, he will select new merit sources.   
I believe that you will also be among the chosen ones  😀

End of the year bump.

@theymos I am still here and available for business :)

Personally, I believe that theymos already has information about your application in his notebook and that in the next wave of promotion of new merit sources and you will become a new merit source.
In our local part of the forum we definitely need at least 1 more merit source.

February special theymos bump.... I am not losing hope :)

We, all other members of the local Croatian community, also don't lose hope for you  :D
I’m sure in the next round theymos will add you as a new merit source. 

Bump for @dkbit98 merit source application!

Despite consistently being one of the most active locals, Croatian board is still in the group of (in my opinion) under merited local boards. We have occasional decent month when merit sources outside of our local board, but only long term solution is to make @dkbit98 a merit source!

https://i.postimg.cc/fTkTV4DR/Merit-Post-ratio-per-local-board-4.png

Regarding it's for betterment of the forum I think it's welcomed development, because all the merit source in the community is a helping hand's to the growth of members in the forum, I support the application because it will create another credit to people in English writting boards also, not only on a local board as stipulated by op, emphasising on the local board alone showing that it's only your local board you have in mind to apply as a merit source, I think some of the English boards have to be in your agenda to shown that the merit will be in circulation, I'm strongly behind your wish op.

Monthly BUMP
for Merit Recycling Club

I totally agree with you and thank you for this information.
It has long been apparent that quality posts in our local community receive less merit than quality posts in other local sections and the time has come to change that fact.

I know I've already lent my support to dkbit98's application, but I'd like to do so again--and I'm wondering why Theymos apparently hasn't added any new merit sources to replace the ones that (I think) have dropped out in the past year or so. 

While it's true that there haven't been anywhere near the number of "how do I get meritz?" threads (or similar ones) in Meta as of late, I still think there ought to be more merit sources, and especially ones who frequent the main section and at least one local board, like dkbit98.  Members aren't bitching about how hard it is to rank up anymore, but that doesn't mean it got any easier.  To the contrary, I think it's harder than ever, and I also think a lot of members have just given up trying to rank up nowadays.  It should be hard to do so, but not that hard.

Him being silent about merit and not approving anyone for almost year and and a half (if I am not mistaken) means that he is obviously  satisfied with the current merit numbers. That of course doesn't mean that people should stop trying to get merit source position.


One thing that might cause the issue is the fact that some merit sources who  had among biggest monthly merit allocations (at least based on their merit sent) are not active anymore, like @bonest261 and TMAN. As a matter of fact, there is even a list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284942.0) of inactive merit sources.

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Exactly. We could definitely use some help, as last month was one of the worst we had so far, maybe even the worst since i am making  Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231446.msg53993163#msg53993163). So yeah, @dkbit98 becoming a merit source would really help us to move from the bottom.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand  words, so here is the last month's local board performances. Croatian board had measly 0.07 merit/post ratio during February 2021. Let's see if we can go lower than that :p.

yeah, there is a discrepancy between post quality on Croatian local board and merit number for the board
it is probably due to the fact that there is no enough merit sources with the community, and other merit sources are not familiar with the languages

graphs provide the fact that there is a low merit number, but post quality could be seen from the members reputation on the forum, not just current merit numbers, seems that there is a number of quality posters on local board, and with just one merit source, it is tough job to connect quality and merit numbers

As a matter of fact, we have two merit sources active in our board, but problem is that their monthly allocation is quite small compared to other merit sources. Some of them  get few dozens of merit per month, while some get several hundreds so even if local board has few merit sources it can still be under merited, like in our case.

Unfortunately for us (and some other local boards that are in similar situation) theymos is obviously satisfied with the current merit numbers so all we can do now is wait, keep writing good posts and hope for the best.

Unfortunately, I have to confirm that this is true.
As merit source I don't have enough merits to reward enough all quality posts in Croatian locale.
That's why I often have to limit the number of merits I share, so that everyone gets the merits they deserve.
I hope this situation will change in the future.

Mr. Theymos, I am still available for Merit Source place, and one of our Croatian local board member and merit source is also not very active anymore so I think the we need one more merit source even more than before and it does not have to be me.

For more information check out this post and latest stats for our local board by DdmrDdmr via Rikafip:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182644.msg57222729#msg57222729

As a member of the Croatian community, I completely agree with the above.
All statistics show that the Croatian part of the forum is at the top in terms of activity and other parameters, but unfortunately we don't have enough merit sources and quality posts don't get enough merits.
Dkbit98 is a respected member of the Croatian community and has the support of the entire local community in his request to become a merit source.
Dear Mr. theymos, I hope that you will soon resolve this request positively.  :D

Dear Mr Sir theymos  :)

If you aren't willing to promote dkbit98 as a merit source (for whatever reason you might have), at least increase the monthly merit supply for Daniel91. A local board with so many quality posters as the Croatian (and no, I am not being subjective, it really is) deserves a bigger supply of merits if you take into account that other boards have 2, 3, or 4 times more than our guys.

Sooner or later theymos will have to re-evaluate merit situation as month after month overall amount of merit shared across the forum is decreasing, with this month having a good chances to reach new all time low. And when it comes to that, Croatian board definitely deserves to be have another merit source, given our board activity and quality of posts.

We need to come up with some precise stats of exactly how much total circulating smerits are decreasing and hence it is difficult for the people to rank up.
I don't think that theymos will re-evaluate the merit situation unless we come up with proper homework and convince him.

Total circulating smerit is decreasing without the doubt, which is expected to happen if you don't replace inactive merit sources regularly. It's perfectly natural for people to take  a break from the forum and come back later, but "problems" start when they are merit sources. Or to quote one of my posts from few days ago



Judging on the amount of merit shared in the first 17 days of May, we might hit new all time low. I am pretty sure that theymos has all this data, but maybe he doesn't think that situation is alarming due decreased amount of posts, so he is hesitant to make adjustments just yet.

Just by looking at how many of our local members are participants in the two top paying signature campaigns (ChipMixer and Best Change), you can get a good insight of the quality of the members posting there. That shouldn't of course be a determining factor, but it's not something to neglect either. No one gets into those campaigns by chance as the screening process is pretty strict.

But our merit per post rate is too low. We practically have to "steal" merits in the general parts of the forum to get some sMerits for the Croatian local as there isn't enough to go around. 

A monthly analysis of the forum confirms this fact.
I think that the quality of the Croatian part of the forum is at a level that requires at least one more merit source.
It seems to me that this situation (lack of merit sources) is similar for the whole forum so I really hope that theymos will soon analyze this situation and promote new merit sources.
We already have very good applications for merit source in Meta, so it should not be a problem to choose very good candidates for new merit sources   ;D