What is offered here: I am giving away 10 merit points in total to different Jr Members and newbies. How to Participate:1) Make a quality post below quoting a post that you made after Jan 24,2018 (day when https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0 was announced) and that failed to get any merit. You can quote more than one posts but include it in single post below. It will increase your chances of getting merits. 2) I cannot read posts other than English and thus do not submit such posts below. 3) This giveaway lasts for 2 weeks 6 weeks in total. So you have submit your application in that time. Do not send me any pm for this otherwise I will report that. 4) I may check your past history before giving the merits. This will be done if there are huge number of people applying. How to increase your chances:1) I will give preference to members who are first to reply to threads posted. 2) Quality posts need not be lengthy essays in my opinion but they should address the issue asked completely. 3) I will prefer those members who need 1-3 points to reach next level. I can make some minor changes based on how this goes. All the best. |
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User: krishnaverma
Position to Apply: Member
Posts Start: 161 (including this post)
Address: 34Hkz3LMrmjwSkxJwYHWUby4okJgCb6JGD
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Some might use it as a business resource as someone allocate his merit points as exchange of some money.
Do the forum have to make more regulation about merit points,
Negative trust is being given by higher rank members for suspicious accounts misusing the new system. We may see other stronger actions being taken in future. See whatever change you do, there are always some people who try to game the system. Overall this is expected to give good results in long run. |
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You are example of person that received 13 merits, but all were given in topics that belong to merit topics.
So what is the issue with it if I am making quality posts here. You asked a query here and if I am providing my opinion about this, what is wrong with it. Regarding me making posts here only, I had made posts in other sections as well. But if someone has noticed posts in this section only, how is this my fault ? You are right that people are not getting that many merits in other section and I hope this gets better with time. |
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I ask this one because the possibility that all the merit sources would not have same response for someone's post. Let say i posted with quality and half of the merit sources send me a merit while the others did not. Do you think it is fair?
Consider yourself very lucky if half of those merit sources are sending you merit for quality posts. You will reach the higher ranks in very less time with this provided you keep making quality posts. I am fine with even one noticing my quality posts. Also a small suggestion use a capital "I" in your sentences instead of "i" irrespective of wherever it occurs. |
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2. Merit can be given by anyone once or two a week (rank dependent, newbie 0, member 1, full members 2, hero 3, legendary 5 etc). Junior moderator have sometimes to check if these merits are given properly, especially for lower rank members.
If this is allowed, people will start creating accounts in bulk and use their free merits to rank up those accounts. This will defeat the purpose of introducing the system. Regarding the people being happy and sad with the decisions, it is better if you keep your emotions independent of the rules of a forum you are registered with. |
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Why not? Merit system you know... quality
Creating a new thread for expressing something that is already said here multiple times is quality. May be you need to rethink about what is a quality post. |
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They are not scarce.. 10k new sMerits will come out every month. Once given then 5000 sMerits will be passed down, then 2500 and so on... don't you see?
What I meant to say here was that with time all the default Smerits that members got will get exhausted. This means that the number of available Smerits will reduce considerably. After few months, it will stabilize again. |
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With time people will realize how scarce these merits are going to be. All most of the members forget one thing that a good post is bound to get merits from multiple users here. Thus even those 1 merit per person can add up to 10 or 20 for a good quality post.
I am not surprised if such a rule is enforced in future especially for the general members (except merit sources). For quality threads also one should not give more than 5 merits. However, this is my personal opinion and a lot of members will say that they are free to do whatever they want with their merits.
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OP, you forgot to add another good point there:
Easiest way to get merits in bulk: Write and essay on Benefits of merit system or make an Infographic.
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First there are way to many people selling BCT account at market place and Mod can't catch up with everything so I suggest using the report button every 10 report made could allow you to earn some merit?
I know your intentions are to improve this forum but you also need to thin about whether the propose change is practical or not. The system you suggested can be gamed in a number of ways: 1) A user can create 10 accounts , make 10 spam posts each from that account. The he will report all these from main account and earn Smerit. That is an easy way to get Smerit and spammers will completely ruin the new system. 2) One this feature is introduced, there will be a race among users. Many of them will start digging through posts made years back and reporting them. It is nice if those are removed but that will be a lot of work for the moderators. |
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If someone was tricking a system and the system owner fixed some loopholes, it will disappoint that person for sure. I think that we may see reduced activity on this forum in coming months but quality of posts is expected to be better.
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I am quite exhausted from all this Merit drama. People coming back again and again with same thing. The ultimate reason behind it is signature campaign. Here, I'm asking the question to our loyal community what is there option in case signature campaigns story comes to an end and it goes forever from the Bitcointalk.org
A lot of people will leave. You may see decrease in total number of registrations per day. But why will the admin let something like that happen. Also, since this is the most popular crypto forum, I only see increase in number of those campaigns. |
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What should I learn from this?
Sure, there are many members with a higher rank that try to help and try to be fair but as long as those other things happen, people will feel bad. I certainly do.
There can be some exceptions. His post was made just few minutes after the change was announced and the people giving those merits might not have got used to the system. Also, you did a great job and for such a work, you will keep getting merits. Last time I checked, you have 7 in total for that instead of 6. |
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Just little more time and this forum gonna change to merittalk.org!!
Checked on GoDaddy and it is still available: Yes! Your domain is available. Buy it before someone else does. merittalk.org ₹ 1,339.00* ₹ 299.00 On a serious note, people will get used to the system with time and stop making so many threads about merit system. |
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On top of this the merit score doesn't really discourage the old timers from posting shitposts either for campaign purposes. The lower ranks still have to read those..
In a recently launched campaign, all rank members are being given higher payout if they have some earned merits. With time, we can see the earned merits being given more importance in these campaigns for old timers as well. |
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Hi, I am a recent member of the forum so donīt expect very intelligent questions. I just read about the merit system but, as I understand it, if I make a question in the forum and someone gives a good answer I canīt do anything to reward him or her. I would have to wait for another member that has merit to give away and notice that I have been helped.
You can make good posts and earn some merits for yourself. Then you can give those merits to deserving posts. Get noticed by merit sources by making quality sources, they are watching you. Also check this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0 , it mentions threads where others are offering merits for quality posts. |
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