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Sooooo I just took a look at my merit and its exactly 350 as of writing, i'm actually not sure how much I have given out but i'm actually curious now as to what my give/take ratio is! I am trying to be more cognizant of giving credit where credit is due. If anyone has any good posts they think are worthy and deserving of merit would you be so kind as to post it in the comments?

Anyways every time I see that number I just can't help but think of the South Park episode w/ the couple talking about the Lock Ness Monster asking them for $3.50 lmaooooo here is the video on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuh8Hip_B3w On another note, has South Park made any Bitcoin references recently? That other one on the Bank of China call in the restaurant about banning bitcoin gets me every time lmao.

https://bpip.org/Profile?id=1978664

You've sent 150 merit and earned 350 merit. You can see other details from that link.

It's good to spend your sMerit (it won't do anyone any good just leaving it sitting around), and you're already doing a pretty good job I would say; out of the 175 sMerit you've accumulated, you've spent ~86% of it. :)

I've spent ~95% of mine (977/1032.5), and whenever my sMerit balance gets too low (it's at 55, right now) I start to feel like I should slow down a bit and work on some "big" posts, so that I can replenish it. :D

Props to you and tread93 for giving back to the community.  When I'm doing post history reviews on request, sometimes I take a look at how many sMerits members are sending--just out of curiosity; I don't take that into account when I'm actually making a decision whether to merit posts.  I try to gently encourage people to pay it forward when they thank me for showering them with merits, and I hope they do, but it'd take more of a madman than me to keep tabs on stats like that.

OP, have you never visited the BPIP site EFS linked to?  If not, I highly encourage you to check it out.  It was Vod's baby before he left the forum, and he did an excellent job with the features.  If I'm not mistaken, suchmoon is now in charge of it (but correct me if I'm wrong).  In any case, it's a site you'll probably want to bookmark.

You can use BPIP to get that stats.

You can make simple math by yourself. Because you joined the forum after the merit system kickoff in December 2017, you did not receive any airdrop merit. All your merit is earned by yourself. It makes the calculation more simple.

Each earned merit will give you 0.5 smerit (sendable merit).
With 350 merit (earned), you get 175 smerit (sendable merit).
Now, you will know how many smerit you have used, by click on Merit button with any post, you will see how many smerit left
Calculating total smerit you have used by 175 - x.

Definitely visit the BPIP site, it's definitely worth looking at. Aside from the merits, etc. You can check some rankings that maybe you are of interest.

Your reference is funny lol. Loch ness monster wants $3.50. Lol. That might have stuck with you to remember that lol.

My ratio is 155/169.5 and that shows I have spent almost 92% of my total sMerits. Its good to send merits to quality posts we see on the forums since that's the only way to encourage a poster. 

I am sure by "big" you mean a quality post. You don't need to write a lengthy post to get merits, if you have quality in your post then few words can give you good reward.

Keeping sMerit is not good, you have to spend them so that you can also received. Op you have tried for not keeping yours and looking at them as if they are increasing every day while they are not if you are not receiving. Others have told you where to check the merits stat which you have sent and the ones you have received.
Op you have sent 150 merits, earned 350 Merits and S/Ratio is 0.96.  You don't have to wait for members to drop their quality posts here before giving them merits but you can give them whenever you see a good merit worth posts and that is your part of appreciating the post.
I have sent 508. I also do the same to give out Merits. Whenever I see a good post I gave merit. Right now my sMerit bank is very low and it contains only 30.

I'm still finding my feet here and I've visited BPIP sometimes ago but I didn't understand some of the stats but when I revisited it now and input my username, all the information displayed about my profile were crystal clear to me this time. Vod indeed did a great job.

Whenever I see a quality post that's worth meriting and if I've some sMerit to throw around I don't hold back because I don't want it to decay. So far I have earned 141 Merit and sent 65 sMerit and I do hope to give more.

Dear op, IDK, what good answers to your question will bring but i want to share mine with you (haha), well we can check our S/R on the BPIP tool and mine is 0.75 which means i have earned 178 merits and sent 85 merits. Actually, i spent a hell lot of time on bounties and never though to get merits, in fact i used to think we have to buy them or have to ask someone so that they can send you, but when first time i posted in my local community and someone sent me 1 merit, it's all changed. (then i was guided by some local community members) of like how things work here.

Since then, i have earned this many merits. Talking of time, i have seen many newbies who were faster than me as they get to understand this forum better than me and thus they contributed more and appreciated more (by merits). well for your query about good posts, then there is a lot you should check mine (hahaha), not asking for merits just kidding, but i think you will find many good posts in the economic or trading section.

First, i checked your merits i thought you would be legendary and then i saw your rank, i was like " what!!" haha, no offense sir, just amazed to see. Actually you have contributed a lot to this forum after reading some of your posts (mostly posted in Meta).

Despite this warning and/or encouragement to spend smerits, there are people who never spends their smerits and they have never been penalised for not spending their smerits, it doesn't also stop them from receiving new merits and funny enough, no earned  smerit has ever been decayed  ;D

I believe merits are supposed to be circulated, there is no benefit in hoarding merits. I don’t know why some users choose to hoard smerits, maybe their criteria for sending merits is high and they hardly see posts that they feel deserves merit or it could be they are just too lazy to find and merit quality posts. While I do not think the number of smerits sent by a person should determine if that person should receive merits, I do believe the pressure on merit sources will reduce if other members spend their smerits on quality posts.

There will never be a penalty for hoarding sMerit and never sharing it.
But this is also one of the links between users, and how loyal you are to other people's posts that have good quality and deserve merits.

This also relates to the law of reciprocity, whoever gives will receive.
If you are loyal to other users' quality posts or threads, then you will get the same or more merits when there are quality posts or threads that you create.

I spend my sMerit on some deserving users.

Besides BPIP, we can check merit details on Ninjastic Space.  :)

https://ninjastic.space/user/tread93

I also often use ninjastic space to know my post stats, activity overview, or merit information.

bpip site actually gives you full details and a total rundown of users profile, including their activeness, progress and recognitions as well as most trusted users. The very first time I explored the site it was very helpful, I think few people already explained it for you maybe just take your time to download the chrome extension if you are using PC.

It might not be that their criteria for sending merits is very high, it is just unwillingness to send merits.
You know some persons follow principles to the later, it could be that those who don't spend their smerits are practicing the principle of holding. As they hodl their btc, they also hold their smerits. It's sounding silly right? But to me it's making a sense. It could be that they believe that in the future, merits could be monetized and they would definitely become merit millionaires.
And then, hence they aren't merit sources, they owe no one obligations to spend their smerits.

Possibly these users are just too lazy to merit a post or find it stressful when the browser creates another tab to merit a post before returning back to the main page. Hopefully when Smerit are being decayed in the future, users will begin to pay more attention to their Smerit and would send them all out before they get decayed. I don’t know if it’s cool or not, but that feature won’t be a bad one either…lol

You can tracking about your merit statistic from how many merit sending and receiving by using this link bpip (https://bpip.org/), put your Bitcointalk username and search there will show about account statistic from merit received last 30 days, last 60 days until last 120 days. Its seems easy for user have received many points merit and try for joining signature campaign without have count manually and I sure all Bounties Manager will use this method for counting the signature campaign participants.

You can tracking which one user have more contribution sending merit to your account there, lets try

here your account merit statistic

https://i.imgur.com/0NKgoB9.png

Perhaps that's the reason no one is fretting that theymos' warning could be carried out eventually. Nonetheless, it's a selfish idea to hoard merit since it doesn't also even benefit the user hoarding it. What's the need then?

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From https://bpip.org/Profile?p=Tread93 data, OP has earned a total of 350 merits and has despatched a total of 161 merits to 52 profiles. That leaves OP with 350 – (161*2) = 350 – 322 = 28.

Maybe some don't really have interest in sending others smerit or they often forget to do so, or probably they also don't know how to identify such post that may deserve merit,  but as everyone has said, hoarding smerit profit not, but that doesn't mean one should give to any post that does not deserve getting a merit, such being low quality post, though it's our right and responsibility to choose and descern who to give but we must also never forget the quality post assessment needed before meriting someone.


There are many merit giveaway threads that has their rules and standards as requirements for eligibility, it will make sense doing that through any of those threads than on replies where it may sound off topic if the thread is not all about application for merit or review.


Unlucky enough for me, i think I've made it up to your ignore list since am unable to apply for your review through PM on my profile, i wish you can give it another opportunity for me to apply back as well.


 

Yeah that's exactly right. I'd rather give those sMerits than let them rot on my storage, though I know that quality also matters on giving one but I am just happy enough to receive merits and to give back to the community. I had also received from you during the april fools' event about your captcha. Thanks about it again.

No. I totally disagree with you on this very statement of yours regarding having member's smerits decay after months of no usage, because just as our faces differs so do our decision making differs also, and not everybody loves to send their smerits when it's still little but loves to accumulate more, unlike others who don't mind sending it immediately after receiving a merit since it's of no benefits to the user. So it will be a great if members should be allowed to send their smerit whenever they feel it's right to whichever post they feel it's worth deserving without been pressured.

I will also agree with your opinions, I also don't think it's cool that in the future there will be a rule that Smerit will decay. I think it is more of a user's personal freedom to whom he will give the Smerit generated from his earned merit. I think any such rule will create pressure on his personal freedom.
Since smerit is created because of his ability to get merit, I think it's better to leave this whole thing up to him Now to whom he will give merit, how and when he will give it is completely up to him However, it is a main responsibility and task to take care that merit is not abused here.

That doesn’t make any sense, there is a big difference between hodling bitcoins and hoarding merits, the forum’s merit page reads There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future.

Merits have zero monetary value and will never be monetized by the forum because trading of merits will cause abuse of the merit system and we may as well go back to the time when the forum had no merit system.

Thanks m8! I appreciate it. I think that is definitely something that I would be curious of as well but ultimately not let me hold back from sending the merit if their post was worthy of such. But anywho I am definitely loving that BRIP page! I had no idea that existed and what a great little tool there. I saw further down in the comments another tool called like ninja something something that was similar but on the post analytical level I guess? Idk looked interesting as well. Definitely going to be referencing those web pages more often for sure, bookmarked!

@OP: to add to the list: see Full Merit history for: tread93 (https://loyce.club/Merit/history/1978664.html) (updated last Friday).

If Merit decay makes people send Merit to posts they don't really believe deserve it, it's not helping. I don't think it matters if someone doesn't spend their sMerit, and I'm pretty sure that's already accounted for in the current Merit source allocations.

I may be biased as one of the largest sMerit hoarders though :P Tempting: only 406 sMerit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendat) to go to be the Most generous merit sender of all time :D

It is surprising to see that you being a knowledgeable member do not know from where you can view your merit transaction history.  While almost everyone knows about BPIP site, many more things can be seen from this site including merit details.You can also make your forum experience easier and more enjoyable by using the BPIP extension.
Here you can see all about BPIP Extension. posted by suchmoon - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821.0
If you want to use this Extension on your Android or IOS device then follow this step. this tutorial posted by Crypto Library - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5436914

Also you can take the help of some other websites to see all other details of bitcointalk account.  ninjastic.space (https://ninjastic.space/) & loyce.club (https://loyce.club/)

Currently showing on your profile has sent 161 merit 76 times, to 52 profiles ( 3.1 merit/profile) and you has earned 351 merit 129 times, from 53 profiles.
You can see all details yourself visit the link quoted below..

I concur with your opinion mate. You see sMerit is more of Merit itself in a bigger version. This is more of a reward for doing good, plus your contributions and should be retained by the awardee as it is just like a pride of your efforts in real life. I will ask this question is it possible for one to destroy his or her life time achievement award given in recognition for their quota and efforts in building a system? The answer I will expect from you is a no.
Same applicable to the sMerit system. It will be nice if in the future the sMerit is allowed to stay as the holder wants it to and when ever they decide to give it out to a post worth it.

I don't think it's surprising at all if you check the OP's pattern of activity on forum via ninjastic.space. The OP only has 13 posts in meta including for few he made in this thread, so it's only natural that I think the OP seems to care less about some things on the merit system.

[1] https://ninjastic.space/user/id/1978664


Then pay attention for this, the OP is really not familiar with that amazing tool.

tread93 you have done a great job, i just went through your sent merits which is 150 out of 350 merits which is normal in that aspect and the users you merits are well deserved the merits based on their quality Post.

Merit's shouldn't be hoarded because new users might think that getting merit is an impossible task and give up on Bitcointalk completely. Onboarding newbies should be prioritised as crypto needs new money to keep the markets going. Those that have been in the game for a while might be either cashing out their profits, or been liquidated with nothing left to buy!

Would be interesting to see charts of how many daily posts this forum gets as a trend line over the last few years. Increasing popularity or decreasing?

Good, give back whatever you get; it keeps the merit system running smoothly if you do.  But about that whole 'decaying' thing....I don't think I've seen an instance of someone losing any amount of sMerits because they didn't give them away fast enough.  I know Theymos put a warning in there back in 2018 when he created the system, but I wouldn't give that a second thought.  Even if you don't give out any merits for months, I'm nearly 100% sure that you'll still have the same number of sMerits as you had.

I haven't finished reading the thread and probably won't since I'm doing a post history review, but has anyone else seen an example of sMerits disappearing from anyone's account because of inactivity?

I will slaughter you yet, fellow Merit Cycling Club member or not.  I shall leave the bloodied sword atop the Building With No Windows so as to wave my own flag, you pretender.  You cowardly drunkard, you.
LOLLY-FOX!!

It’s good way of using the smerits,because it was introduced to avoid of farming of accounts in 2017.As we know 2017 was the year,the bitcoin price had reached the all time high of 19650 in 15 December 2017.This made many people to use of bitcoin as the holding assets and trading like stock.Along with the bitcoin price the forum was reached most of the people during 2017.So the smerits was introduced at that time to avoid of easy rank by the activity alone.After the smerits system was introduced,only the people who had good quality posts alone had a chance to rank up.It’s good one by the forum moderator.



Getting smerits is not an impossible one,if you made a good quality post.The quality post in the sense,the post should be useful to some one.When you had good quality post,many people like suchmoon,El duderino_,LoyceV,The Sceptical Chymist(The Pharmacist),fillippone, Ratimov,Hugeblack, DdmrDdmr are ready to send their smerits to you.


Kindly have a look of this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4523027.0

Make some useful and quality post,the smerits are on the way to your account.Good luck