Well, first of all, this is a bad way to end your posts:
[Share some merit if u found this useful, thanks! Hard for noobs to level up these days:)]
[P.s. Newcomer trying to lvl up here. Merits welcomed if you found this post helpful.
] I myself have a firm general policy of never awarding merit to a post which asks for it. That’s in poor taste, at best. It doesn’t matter whether whether the post has substance, or is just begging.
Based on this, I doubt you be begging or fishing for merit:
P.S. Any senior member who intended to award the post merit and sees this -> pls don't, it was a partial rant out of angst, and I probably shouldn't be earning merits this way. Will continue writing 'good' posts elsewhere. Comments are always welcomed though, thanks.
However, I still would not award merit to a post which ended by asking for merit.
(
N.b. that none of my own posts has ever done so—and look at how much merit I’ve earned.
No, really. It’s not necessary.)
Now, as for the substance of your posts: I believe you suffer the problem of not being a fair judge of your own posts. Considering here in turn the three examples you provide:
Well, you see, many hardcore Bitcoiners (
the ones with plenty of sMerit to give) will think that post is flat-out wrong—just frivolous hype! The moment I see anything saying “Blockchain 2.0” or whatever, I stop reading. To illustrate by contrast, this is an example of a post to which I myself awarded merit, by a Jr. Member with 42 activity who joined on 27 January 2018:
Muh blockchain! Muh decentralization! Bitcoin is old and broken!
You forget that bitcoin has:
1) The largest brand recognition
2) The largest merchant acceptance
3) The largest public/consumer acceptance
4) The largest regulatory acceptance
5) The world's highest hashrate, making it the most secure network there is (not vulnerable to a 51% attack)
6) Not controlled by a central body, no godlike deities who can dictate development procedures (ie. Vitalik Buterin)
Also, blockchain without currency is useless. And bitcoin is the best and most stable blockchain-based currency as of now.
Each point is right on the money, although this post’s author forgot to mention that unlike Blockchain 10.0 trashcoins, Bitcoin Core has the best
developers. (I will forgive her. She’s new here.)
Unmeritorious as your Blockchain
n.0 is in concept, your “Blockchain 2.0” and “Blockchain 3.0” were smart contracts and “DAPPs”, respectively. Here is an example of a post (by a Legendary) to which I awarded merit earlier today:
Just my 2 Satoshis: I've disliked Ethereum ever since their one Unique Selling Point ("code is law" for smart contracts) got thrown out of the window after The DAO failed so hard they had to abandon their core principles and hardfork to get their money back. It proved that smart contracts are worthless if you don't understand them, which makes them worthless for almost everybody. In the case of The DAO, even the developers didn't understand the code, the only person who understood it was called "the attacker". Ironic!
In my reply to that, I mentioned cutting-edge research into
mathematically provable smart contracts for Bitcoin; I suggest you go read.
N.b. that the foregoing is not about whether I “agree” with your post. I sometimes award merit to posts I disagree with, but which I believe to be cogent and well-informed. Rather, I think the post you uphold as an example is ill-informed and misleading—based on hype, and spreading it. I would not award merit for that.Now, on to the next one:
Again, not something which will even remotely interest Bitcoiners. I’ve never speculated on the altcoin market. (I have owned exactly one altcoin—a privacy coin I bought into for ideological and practical reasons, not for speculative “investment”.) I’ve therefore never needed to hedge. Indeed, I think the best altcoin “hedging” advice is given by the personal text (also signature) of
JayJuanGee: “How much alt coin diversification is necessary? 0%”. That makes me wish I could award merit to personal text.
Mildly interesting. Surely well-intended. I actually saw that when it was posted. But I don’t believe the idea is very well thought out. “Likes” are cheap; the merit system is intended to be
meaningful. The system you propose does not look workable to me, for various practical reasons I don’t think are worthwhile to spend time discussing. And then, there’s this:
I sincerely believe having some form of complementary channel for rank-up will help ease some of the tension between old/new members simply due to the challenge of ranking up and will prove beneficial for btctalk over the longer-term.
I don’t think there is any problem with “tension between old/new members”. I say that as a relatively new, low-ranked member myself. Mostly, I see the “tense” people as whiners. The merit system needs to not give a damn about those; otherwise, the idea of “merit” is
per se meaningless, and the system will fail.
Now, this I deem meritorious:But what makes my temper flare, is how some members are using merits related posts to farm merit. They create an attractive thread name, write a FEW lines about how people shdn't complain abt the merits system, that it's the next best thing to be invented since air-con, and how improving writing/english will naturally lead to merit awards. Dude, even an idiot knows this. And i see some of these posts geting 50 to >100 merits. Either some senior members only want to hear the GOOD stuff (which i highly doubt so), or this is the most blatant merit-farming i've ever seen.
If you made a post saying only that, it would get merit from me! I am sickened by the transparently obsequious flatterers who try to game a system they obviously hate by showering it with fake praise. And uselessly obvious advice is just that. (I myself have partly drafted an advice post on how to earn merit; but as you may imagine, it says something more than “write better English”.)
Also, this is generally the right attitude:
Pls stop. Even if u're trying to find a valid reason to award ur junior account from ur higher-ranking ones, go write a serious educational post, abt ur trading experience, abt some new awesome ico project or even on ur views on crypto outlook for the year. Whatever, as long as it really helps the community.
For myself, I'll keep trying. Newcomers like me, don't give up. Keep writing, we'll pull through together.
I wish I could split your post in half. Awarding merit is, among other things, an endorsement of the basic
validity of the post; it is especially so on the technical forums, but in some degree here, too. I would award merit to half your OP in this thread; but the other half presents altcoin junk I don’t want my name associated with, etc. Too bad.
