Merit & new rank requirements

[JayJuanGee]

Your supposed "objective" post misses one of the problematic points about bitcoin.com and related sources of "bitcoin" information, and that is that it has been serving as an attack vector against bitcoin and part of a hostile fork through bcash and other efforts and various misleading attempts to cause regular folks to believe that they are the real bitcoin without disclosing that they are a minority hostile sabotage and attempt at a take over venture.  Take your allegedly objective propaganda bullshit somewhere else.

I just had a quick look at that dumb Bcash forum and the first thing I found is that for the recent Electrum vulnerability they just copied theymos' post from here. 

Surely, you are brave to go there.... and fight off the disinformation, misinformation and perhaps reinformation.. as you noted.


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No BIG deal, I suppose.... since those goofball nutjobs are already used to copying, plagiarizing and stealing with the bitcoin code, too... attempting to cause bcash to evolve into somewhat functionality.

[xLays]

So many threads open in Meta section about merit when we have this official discussion about sMerit.

[Olishka]

I want know if the Smerit would be update per month or per week?
it's really hard to become the SR member,I need 140 merit,but it's hard if you don't send your smerit to others.

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

You gonna get slapped   

[Dedy Mardinata]

my account activity stopped on 28, even though it's past 2 weeks period. can you help me? 

[junoreactor]

Hi,

Quick question here: how to make sure a post deserves a merit, or I'd better say: how to prevent undeserved merits?

Example #1 > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg28885649#msg28885649
Example #2 > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2859334.msg29356289#msg29356289

Thanks.

[hilariousetc]

I want know if the Smerit would be update per month or per week?
it's really hard to become the SR member,I need 140 merit,but it's hard if you don't send your smerit to others.

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

No, it was to stop one/two liner shitposts which it is going to do a good job seeing as now people have to put effort into their posts to move forward. Older members don't need to send merit to themselves as it's pointless, and would rather see quality discussion rewarded instead

[Jet Cash]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

[djangocoin]

No, it was to stop one/two liner shitposts which it is going to do a good job seeing as now people have to put effort into their posts to move forward. Older members don't need to send merit to themselves as it's pointless, and would rather see quality discussion rewarded instead

Cool, most of my posts are > 1, 2 liners. I shall await my flood of Merits /s

[Mr.Spider703]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

the task of the one who gives merit - is to read, understand, evaluate the usefulness of the post and if indeed the post deserves merit to give this merit. but very few people think about giving right, it's even more difficult than writing the right post.

[pawel7777]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

I see tons of low-rank accounts projecting their attitude onto others. They'd automatically assume higher-ranks will trade merits or exchange only with alts or friends - because that's what they would do.

[Godwans]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

I see tons of low-rank accounts projecting their attitude onto others. They'd automatically assume higher-ranks will trade merits or exchange only with alts or friends - because that's what they would do.

No, it's because that is what is already happening. It has been posted all over many different threads with links to proof, it's not an opinion, it;s a fact,

[cynical]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

I see tons of low-rank accounts projecting their attitude onto others. They'd automatically assume higher-ranks will trade merits or exchange only with alts or friends - because that's what they would do.

No, it's because that is what is already happening. It has been posted all over many different threads with links to proof, it's not an opinion, it;s a fact,

Ok there is/might be friendship and alt transfers happening but as posted through the many pages on this thread and the other merit threads
the problem on this forum is the single line posts asking the same questions day after day always by newbie and jr.member accounts,
instead of using the SEARCH facility.
The merit system like the activity system is based on reward for time,
those with higher account membership get a higher starting merit reward . . . because they have put the time in on the forum.

my account activity stopped on 28, even though it's past 2 weeks period. can you help me? 

Wrong department
head on over to the beginners and help section and read this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0

[cryptocommoner]

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I find that post pretty insulting. I've started to put some effort into giving away sMerit. I don't award any to the categories you mention, or to negativity.

I see tons of low-rank accounts projecting their attitude onto others. They'd automatically assume higher-ranks will trade merits or exchange only with alts or friends - because that's what they would do.

No, it's because that is what is already happening. It has been posted all over many different threads with links to proof, it's not an opinion, it;s a fact,

Ok there is/might be friendship and alt transfers happening but as posted through the many pages on this thread and the other merit threads
the problem on this forum is the single line posts asking the same questions day after day always by newbie and jr.member accounts,
instead of using the SEARCH facility.
The merit system like the activity system is based on reward for time,
those with higher account membership get a higher starting merit reward . . . because they have put the time in on the forum.

I think people are butthurt because they were about the be a higher rank and then the merit system was introduced which likely prevented them from moving up despite their activity level.  Now, I myself was a lurker before actually creating an account so I'm fine with it as I haven't even gotten to where I can get above 60 for another week or so. 

Personally, I somewhat agree that there is some unfair sharing of merit on threads.  However, no matter what is implemented, there will always be somebody who is able to exploit it to personally gain from it.

[std1391]

it seems that i wasn't lucky enough in merit system , this week i got 126 activities but still a member !
i think it was just luck , many got ranked before it happens and now they are not suprised like me!
you dont think moderator was enough and merit system is too much?!

[junoreactor]

it seems that i wasn't lucky enough in merit system , this week i got 126 activities but still a member !
i think it was just luck , many got ranked before it happens and now they are not suprised like me!
you dont think moderator was enough and merit system is too much?!

This is your posting history > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236465;sa=showPosts;start=0
Are you sure you understand the concept of Merit?
Just see your last 3 pages of posts mate.

[psychocryptologist]

Thanks for this....

[RealSwissMiner]

I want know if the Smerit would be update per month or per week?
it's really hard to become the SR member,I need 140 merit,but it's hard if you don't send your smerit to others.

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

Exactly this. At first I thought the merit system is good but after a couple of days I can see already a few issues.

1. I saw already on a couple of occasions a fresh account receiving merit for a “normal” post, no super valuable post to the topic really nothing special at all. Is that just a coincidence?

2. The bounty and signature campaigns will keep the root problems. The Dear Sir guys with a high rank keep the rank and are still posting their rubbish all over the place. Campaign managers are often super arrogant providing no details or information whatsoever.

Personally I decided for myself to skip these kind of bounties and campaigns as - on numerous occasions in life - things are not always super fair.

In short: I will keep doing what I did in the past and pay back new joiners for all the valuable input I received at the beginning.

[krishnaverma]

1. I saw already on a couple of occasions a fresh account receiving merit for a “normal” post, no super valuable post to the topic really nothing special at all. Is that just a coincidence?

This may be abuse of the new system. Such people are being caught and given negative trust. This will make their account useless if they made it for signature campaigns.

2. The bounty and signature campaigns will keep the root problems. The Dear Sir guys with a high rank keep the rank and are still posting their rubbish all over the place. Campaign managers are often super arrogant providing no details or information whatsoever.

You can report such posts and the moderators will take care of that. Just because someone is doing a wrong things and still successful, it does not mean all of us should take the same route.

[std1391]

it seems that i wasn't lucky enough in merit system , this week i got 126 activities but still a member !
i think it was just luck , many got ranked before it happens and now they are not suprised like me!
you dont think moderator was enough and merit system is too much?!

This is your posting history > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236465;sa=showPosts;start=0
Are you sure you understand the concept of Merit?
Just see your last 3 pages of posts mate.

what about the other guys who got ranked just before this merit system starts? i just got to 120 activity 1 week before merit system happens , just 1 week!
yes im posting reports and some times in discussions too , i think merit system is a lame copy of steemit website , diffrences are steemit using blockchain but in here evey thing in centralized and just some guys have a lot of merit , they give it to whome they want ,just now a guy just told me he got 50 merit by some of merit whales for a simple post!
i would rather to trust codes than trust humans , i like decentralization concept but this merit system is opposite of this concept , i dont know why they did this when it's not decentralize but bitcoin is populer coz it is decentralize , is this really neccssary when they are moderators ?
how lucky should i have to be to get merit by some of the big merit guys to see one of my posts among the others?
spacially when my time zone is diffrent from europe and usa!

[krishnaverma]

what about the other guys who got ranked just before this merit system starts?

They are benefited by the fact that they joined early. Also, now that the change is implemented, we better move on instead of crying about the past.

i would rather to trust codes than trust humans , i like decentralization concept but this merit system is opposite of this concept , i dont know why they did this when it's not decentralize but bitcoin is populer coz it is decentralize ,

There is a problem with codes, it is easier to game such a system. How can codes check the quality of post ? They can judge content length and uniqueness but that is not what we want. Finally, this forum will not function based on what you and I like.