Meritocracy

[Zlantann]

Meritocracy for me means using the same benchmark to offer a particular job, reward or incentive. It includes giving a particular incentive based on quality or a persons competence or product rather than other considerations like race, tribe, religion, ideology or colour.

This forum has indeed been a university to me, everyday I learn, unlearn and relearn. The standard of posts and discussion in this forum is very high, hence if you want to make contributions or ask questions, it must be well tailored. You must study to show that you are a relevant contributor. If you fail to study, you would know by the corrections and sometimes harsh words you would receive. I have also become a teacher or preacher of the good new and goodness of bitcoin. Most of the things I have learnt is shared with first my family and friends and others that care to listen.

Originality, innovativeness, creativity and relevance are some of the qualities of posts the attracts merit. But from experience I have observed that there are no clear or statutory principle that guides posts that attract merits. Sometimes you get merits from post you spent less time on, while the perceived quality one would receive nothing. Merit might flows when one comments suits the expectations of a member. Also some posts are merited because of emotions or personal sentiments. For me I am relaxed and enjoying the rhythm of the forum.

[Mpamaegbu]

On Bitcointalk merit is a reward for uniqueness, content, solution, contribution, creativity, quality service rendered and value added posts.

All those attributes you enumerated are good to consider when meriting posts but you've to know that in reality we don't necessarily see life issues as apples and oranges. There are diverse angles to life, and not as black and white or short and tall as opposites. The reality is that those attributes are abstract and can only be determined by the assessment of whoever is utilizing or analysing them. This is why I continue to maintain that meriting a post is subjective. Haven't you had any of your posts merited which didn't have any of the lofty attributes you mentioned, a post which you felt wasn't what you would write? Yet, someone splashed merit on it?