Curious Question about Meriting

[uchegod-21]

It really depends on how much sMerits you have, I usually merit when I learn something from the post but I don't have enough meri9to share whenever I wanted but users who are merit source or have huge chunk of sMerits to spend may have different policies but its okay to give as much as you can unless you're abusing it, and don't forget on few cases merits reversed by theymos if I remember it correctly.

When I was somehow new, I used to have sMerits and I used to merit any post that I learn something. But as time goes I understood that I was learning many things I do not have sMerits to reward everything that I learnt. So, I started to remove my mind from giving merits.
If there are merit sources who are distributing merits, atleast it should reach every good poster once in a while.

The merit system is fine, it helps to motivate people to maintain healthy conversations and also prevent reduce spamming.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

When I first joined this forum back in 2011, tipping with Bitcoin was fairly common.  I've both sent and received many tips for Bitcoin posts.  Before everyone had signature campaigns littering their signatures, users used to place their Bitcoin address.  It wasn't as stingy as only tipping people who helped educate you either.  I've sent and received bitcoins for funny jokes, or just thanks for being a grounded person.  Over the years we saw less and less tipping, and now it is basically nonexistent.  I think the rising transaction costs with the block wars pretty much brought an end to tipping.  Back near the end of 2011, you could tip someone a BTC with no transaction fee and it was a $2 cost.  By the end of 2017, you'd have paid a $75 transaction fee just to tip a satoshi.  Hence why Bitcoin went from being billed as a p2p currency to a store of value.  Now nobody sends each other anything, but number go up.

Let's create an ICO and make all these merits tokens. Let's have an open marketplace to exchange your merit for bitcoin. 🤣

Back in the days Bitcoin did not have the value it has now. It was fun to send and receive bitcoin. Now it is serious money and no one wants to give it for free. Gavin Andresen had a captcha solving site and you could earn as much as 5 btc from the faucet LOL
It was easy to get bitcoin back then.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I stumbled on a thread and understood that in the early days of this forum, it is easy to be gifted bitcoin from a random user. These days such gesture has stopped. Could it be that they didn't know the worth of bitcoin then, now everyone is very careful with their bitcoin?

This is precisely what happened to me once, although one can hardly call gratitude in bitcoins ignorance of their value. As a newbie, one user asked me for a small favor that didn't even take me half an hour, and I was shocked and embarrassed that the usual expected thank you was expressed in the amount of a few bucks to my bitcoin wallet.
If you look at this transaction today, the tip, if you can call it that, already looks quite generous.

[Findingnemo]

It really depends on how much sMerits you have, I usually merit when I learn something from the post but I don't have enough meri9to share whenever I wanted but users who are merit source or have huge chunk of sMerits to spend may have different policies but its okay to give as much as you can unless you're abusing it, and don't forget on few cases merits reversed by theymos if I remember it correctly.

When I was somehow new, I used to have sMerits and I used to merit any post that I learn something. But as time goes I understood that I was learning many things I do not have sMerits to reward everything that I learnt. So, I started to remove my mind from giving merits.
If there are merit sources who are distributing merits, atleast it should reach every good poster once in a while.

The merit system is fine, it helps to motivate people to maintain healthy conversations and also prevent reduce spamming.

Merit sources are also doing their job as good as they can because its not actually a job its just an volunteer task with no financial rewards for them but they are doing it for the betterment of the forum which helped to reduce the spam a lot when we compare with late 2017 if I am not wrong. There are also threads where we can share the post which deserves merit but we don't have but usually I don't share because I am not sure it is deserving in the eyes of community but a lot of them were deserving for me but when I don't have sM to spend I just leave it and I merit when I have.

[Muhammad Shoaib]

The points which are mentionedi don't think so mostly people follow they merit them who Return make some favor. ButThats obvious as well, still there are too many members who make Quality posts but they didn't get as much Support as required.