So, is it hard for us to click after number 0? NO, IT"S VERY EASY.
Now try to do it 8000 times, usually with multiple tabs to send sMerit to many selected posts at once. Add in some mouse acceleration and the fact that I don't want to spend several seconds (times 8000!) on each link, and it's bound to fail once in a while.
Let me show you my empirical evidence:
Fork Since I have to empty my source sMerit, I usually send 4 sMerit at a time. I wanted to Merit
this post and accidentally clicked left instead of right from the "zero" on the "Merit a post"-page. As some claim I'm AI, I clicked "Send" at the same moment I realized my mistake, and my heart skipped a beat.
That default zero has always been risky, but it's the first time it hit me this hard. Maybe I should send 6 sMerit at a time from now on, so this mistake can't happen anymore.
To be fair, my biggest sMerit mistake wasn't caused by the default zero:
Fork I was trying to lower my source sMerit balance, and used
LoyceMobile's sent Merit history to send those posts some more. With a dozen tabs open, I filled "04" in all of them before clicking "Send" (I have this AI-thing where I try to Merit as much posts in a single second as possible, I've reached 4 posts per second several times). However, I wrapped around to the first tab again, and added another 4 to the existing "04",
right before I clicked Send. Long story short: I could see my 44 sMerit transfer to
this post, but it was too late to stop it.
I wanted to leave the chain of events here, in case someone questions this transaction later. It's the biggest Fork Up I've had with sMerit
To easy my own mind: the post itself isn't bad, although it doesn't deserve 45 Merits. It's a Newbie who doesn't look like a spammer. So I hope the sMerits trickle down from there to others.
I've Forked Up
less than 0.5% of all sMerit I've sent. This was a big Fork Up though