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This concern/question is more like for DdmrDdmr, i guess messaging him for give you the answer you are looking for instead of us speculating the matter, just my two cents.

Many of us doesn't know the clue behind this, I don't know if any other person has being thinking same thing, sending him a personal message will only educate me alone but making it to be open will benefit so many others, I think the reason this forum is created is to share knowledge across each other.

This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.

Did you check this thread [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117342.0) before creating your own thread?

If you check that thread above you'll notice that issue like this ave been discussed and from the last time I checked (it has been a long time though) no one has still being able to figure out if he/she uses a bot or just do it manually, but with the time frame DdmrDdmr does the meriting I doubt that it's manual and besides he has a lot of stats about merit so it should be an easy peazy job for him.

What I did was prepare a list of the last post I merited per active 2019 profile (at the time). That gave me 256 posts from distinct users to re-merit, although the toll was 250 in the end since 6 were deleted posts. The lists was pretty easy to draft up from my merit DB (if anyone wants a similar one I can provide it). That was the easy part.
I then used a Firefox addon called Open Multiple URL and started the mechanical process of pasting batches of 10 to 15 URLs to the addon (it opens one URL per tab), meriting each post, and closing the tab. Sometimes an opened URL would give and error message (for trying to query Bitcointalk too many times in a short period of time), and I’d have to refresh the tab to get to the post. Pretty manual that part.

The overall idea was to re-merit profiles I had merited before, and since I tend to perform mainly 1 sMerit TXs, it would seem fair and conceptually similar to being a bit more generous for once …

0,2K (started off with an eighth part of that, but upgraded during some Merit Source adjustment procedure).

Using my same exact criteria, I make it 146 people you would re-merit (profile active in 2019 and selecting each one’s last merited post). I can provide you the list if you want (in a Google SpreadSheet or alike).

I’d still take human over artificial … for now …

Version 2.0  - 19/07/2019 ( 278 profiles merited (by me) in 30 minutes)

I gave it a rethink, and have decided to go on a second sMerit awarding spree from my personal batch. As before, my intention was to re-merit some posts that I had already merited previously (thus no need for me to review the post’s content) in order to get rid of my personal sMerits in a coherent manner. Since I normally award sMerits in TX of 1 (for the most), this allows me to lose my close to Ebenezer Scrooge complex when awarding sMerits, for a short interval of time at least.

I have currently merited 513 different profiles. Since my personal sMerit batch is a bit under 300, I’ve had to trim the candidates to something reasonable.

Criteria (based on merit data as of this morning):
Award an additional sMerit to the last merited post (by me) of any profile that also meets:
-   The last post merited by me has only been merited once by me (this allows me to not re-merit a same post both on spree v 1.0 and spree v 2.0).
-   Regardless of the rank.
-   The post was posted in 2019.
-   The post has not received more than 10 sMerits, adding up all those received from anybody.

That trimmed my list of candidate posts from 513 to 286, which fits my sMerit budget. Eventually, it was down to 278 posts that I merited, since 8 were either deleted or on ignore. I was faster this time than last time ...

P.D. Holidays will leave me on halt for a week or so now.

I don't know if ddmrddmr sending merits this way is considered manually or automatically.

@DdmrDdmr, has talked and told a lot in his own thread, entitled: 1221 posts merited (by me) in just under 21 minutes–What's got over me? (v 36.0).

Many of us doesn't know the clue behind this, I don't know if any other person has being thinking same thing, sending him a personal message will only educate me alone but making it to be open will benefit so many others, I think the reason this forum is created is to share knowledge across each other.

257 sMerits in 140 minutes.
I rushed it a bit more between 14:28 ..15:30 UTC really: 250 awarded sMerits in those 62 minutes. I really wanted to empty my personal sMerit bag that day in a though out manner.
I had a few tricks up my sleeve to be pretty swift at the task, being one of the primal ones to put household inhabitants on ignore during that timeframe.

Quote from his reply on march 6, 2019


If you check @DdmrDdmr profile carefully, his a normal guy who is just too good at his job as a merit source. I don't think he uses any bot or something. Yes he might have a good operating system with fast and swift response to help him move around the forum very quickly. And then he also said that during this period of meritting, he locks him self away from the outside world so as to focus more. I really appreciate his good works and contributions to the community. We need more person like him here on Bitcointalk.

Collect the posts you want to merit.
Write a script to merit to the posts and define how many merits to send in specific posts. Same to all or random given numbers in an array for each posts?
Run the script.

May be few things need to keep in mind like time delay and things to avoid IP banning.

A good example is few weeks ago TryNinja created a script to update images from imgur to talkimg/imgbb.

I also wonder sometimes the way he send merits to different accounts but I was bother to know because it was not my concern.

Thanks for the good update.
I would be very surprised anyway if he hadn’t improved the workflow since then.

Many of us doesn't know the clue behind this, I don't know if any other person has being thinking same thing, sending him a personal message will only educate me alone but making it to be open will benefit so many others, I think the reason this forum is created is to share knowledge across each other.

Many users wonder about that even I'm not sure how he does it all the time other than opening tens of tabs before spray merit.
There's been some speculation and discussion about the DdmrDdmr merit spray in these two threads, so I don't think the OP should worry too much about it.

True, but he use bot, that should be complicated than manual, because he must know the quality post

Have received merits from at least five different people since january 2023

Yet you would get the clue here. Nobody knows what you are asking. This also made fillippone to create thread on him. So you can also go there to have some information. The way he (DdmrDdmr) responses to post as comments and post does not look a robot as for your thinking. He responses according to the thread but if it was a robot it would have done some out of point comments which doesn't look the same way with the original thread or comment. But he makes comments accurately.

Man, the answer is quoted by YOSHIE on how DdmrDdmr merited many posts.

True, but he use bot, that should be complicated than manual, because he must know the quality post

The day you want to run the bot, copy and paste all the links from the txt file and run the script. Why it's so complected to understand 😉

You're right, the user makes use of a bot to merit posts he likes. However, what's not clear (even to me) is why he merits all posts the same amount. Does it mean all the posts DdmrDdmr comes across and wants to merit are of the same quality as the user only splashes just a single merit on them. I think it's not a good way to merit posts. They should set different meriting threshold for posts. There are posts that deserve more than a single merit. That's what I'm saying.

The way he (DdmrDdmr) responses to post as comments and post does not look a robot as for your thinking. He responses according to the thread but if it was a robot it would have done some out of point comments which doesn't look the same way with the original thread or comment. But he makes comments accurately.

You're right, the user makes use of a bot to merit posts he likes. However, what's not clear (even to me) is why he merits all posts the same amount. Does it mean all the posts DdmrDdmr comes across and wants to merit are of the same quality as the user only splashes just a single merit on them. I think it's not a good way to merit posts. They should set different meriting threshold for posts. There are posts that deserve more than a single merit. That's what I'm saying.

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You're right, the user makes use of a bot to merit posts he likes. However, what's not clear (even to me) is why he merits all posts the same amount. Does it mean all the posts DdmrDdmr comes across and wants to merit are of the same quality as the user only splashes just a single merit on them. I think it's not a good way to merit posts. They should set different meriting threshold for posts. There are posts that deserve more than a single merit. That's what I'm saying.

@DdmrDdmr, has talked and told a lot in his own thread, entitled: 1221 posts merited (by me) in just under 21 minutes–What's got over me? (v 36.0).<snip>

I have being trying to ask this but it do give me a tough time. Is DdmrDdmr using which programs to merits numbers of people at same time, I received a merit from DdmrDdmr early today and I checked it's profile and I see almost hundreds posts merited by DdmrDdmr same time but with different minutes that's not above one minutes, does DdmrDdmr use bolt?? This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.

I think I have seen a post about people asking whether he is even a human?

I think the question should be "Is DdmrDdmr even a human? because I once saw a post like that and seeing different opinions of how fast and diligence he is meriting over 100 profiles without getting tires.

The rules are the same as for humans. But keep in mind:
- No one is allowed to access the site more often than once per second on average. (Somewhat higher burst accesses are OK.)
- Every post must be on-topic. Any bot response to a topic is almost certainly off-topic. Changetip's behavior of responding to user commands publicly would not be allowed, for example.
- If someone complains about an unsolicited PM you send them, then you're probably going to be banned.

Those IPs are not blocked currently. But your other abusive IPs were blocked. Just your quotefast requests (which are only part of what your crawler does) were occurring at an average frequency of 7.6 requests per second in the most recent access logging period. Your requests constituted 3.4% of all forum requests in this period. This is entirely unacceptable and of course resulted in those IPs being banned.

The maximum allowed bot request frequency is 1 request per second. Those IPs are now accessing pages at an average of 2.5 requests per second combined. If you continue exceeding the allowed request limit, we will continue banning your IPs.

Huge difference between posting using a bot and meriting somebody using a bot.
And I have to say this, packing it as politely as I can, but if you ever thought for a second DdmrDdmr is using a bot to make his posts you really need to stop kidding around. Seriously!

I think the question should be "Is DdmrDdmr even a human? because I once saw a post like that and seeing different opinions of how fast and diligence he is meriting over 100 profiles without getting tires. I think he is a genius without limit.

¹I believe only DdmrDdmr can explain how faster he shares his merits.

²Sometimes it's better you used the search option to before you create your post because I believe there have been series of post concerning his merits spray.

With the amount of feedback I'm seeing on this thread, I don't think the OP will ever think of opening a threads like this again, he has to learn from this and improve on himself. DdmrDdmr if you see this (either from directly visiting this thread or through the notification bot), keep up the good works, what you're doing is been appreciated and if you think about doing this again in the future consider visiting the local boards (that's if you're not already doing that) especially those boards with low amount of merit circulating and get some quality contributions over there awarded some merits.

I have being trying to ask this but it do give me a tough time. Is DdmrDdmr using which programs to merits numbers of people at same time, I received a merit from DdmrDdmr early today and I checked it's profile and I see almost hundreds posts merited by DdmrDdmr same time but with different minutes that's not above one minutes, does DdmrDdmr use bolt?? This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.

You're right, the user makes use of a bot to merit posts he likes. However, what's not clear (even to me) is why he merits all posts the same amount. Does it mean all the posts DdmrDdmr comes across and wants to merit are of the same quality as the user only splashes just a single merit on them. I think it's not a good way to merit posts. They should set different meriting threshold for posts. There are posts that deserve more than a single merit. That's what I'm saying.

I have being trying to ask this but it do give me a tough time. Is DdmrDdmr using which programs to merits numbers of people at same time, I received a merit from DdmrDdmr early today and I checked it's profile and I see almost hundreds posts merited by DdmrDdmr same time but with different minutes that's not above one minutes, does DdmrDdmr use bolt?? This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.

I have being trying to ask this but it do give me a tough time. Is DdmrDdmr using which programs to merits numbers of people at same time, I received a merit from DdmrDdmr early today and I checked it's profile and I see almost hundreds posts merited by DdmrDdmr same time but with different minutes that's not above one minutes, does DdmrDdmr use bolt?? This is surprising, I have not seen someone who merit numbers of posts same time before, does it copy all the posts link that he wants to merit and past before meriting them? or it highlights all the user's he wants to merit, to be sincere this is confusing to understand how he does it, if you have knowledge of sharing a bunch merit at a time please explain.