Send merit to friend, is that allowed??

[dr_thuytien]

There is no punishment for you if you send sMerits to your friends. I would like to emphasize that what you send is sMerits (sendable Merits), not Merits. However, you should send them to your friends' qualited-posts, because it is the main reason why merit system been launched, if not please send those sMerits to others in the forum who are deserved.

The merit system was created in order to stop spamming, shitty-posts; and to motivate users to contribute more constructive, higher-qualitied posts over time.

[teddy5145]

There's nothing arrogant about keping your Smerit.

So what will happen if all member prefer to keep their smerit?

No point in keeping Smerit as their only purpose is to be sent to other users, Theymos said that someday he wil put an expiry date on Smerit to get users to send their smerits, but that was still a plan.

"There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."

Misclicked and sent merit to the wrong post. fak

lol, maybe this is where Demerit feature will come in handy, you can take back merits when it's still under 2 Hours time
Although I can see demerit feautre to be abused by troll member

If your friend post a spam and you give them merit, that will be a problem.

Because you can not prove if you are just giving merit to your friend or you are selling merit.

It is quite possible that you will be reported to admin.

I'm pretty sure the merit system are not moderated, same as trust system
Admin won't ban you for leaving questionable merits or selling them, but the community will probably backlash against those who do

[coloseum]

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give merits to posts, do not exchange, and most importantly give to those who need it most.

I like your idea. That's the right mechanism of merit system in the forum. If one user have sMerits, the one should send them to deserved accounts, by which I mean accounts that write constructive, high-qualitied, useful, meaningful posts. Those sort of threads can help others to get out of their mess, or at least give them some valuable clues to solve their problems.

[jondel]

There are several factors that leans towards positive side of merit system such as :

(1) . Being a Full Member, I was allowed to send only four sMerits , so how many "friends" can a person have and that too of ranks "Member" and above ?
(2) . Theymos reserves the right to dismiss sMerits whenever he wants for the sake of post quality and misuse of sMerits so don't think this "friend" stuff is
       going to work .
(3) . On sending someone an sMerit, you actually leave your footprint as "Merited by" which tells how good you are at judging other people's posts . So
       better you be careful next time when sending one !

Good point, always becareful to give smerit to any post because not all post is qualified for smerit.

Yes. I agree with both of you. But, unfortunately, there's no standard for 'qualified' smeritable posts.

[iqlimasyadiqa]

There is no regulation saying that you can't give merit to your friend. However the merit system is made to give credit to users who are contributing to the community, sharing their knowledge and giving useful answers to queries in the forum. With that everyone should give proper credit to user who have been working hard for this forum. Let us all keep working hard and make constructive and quality post.

Yes, contribution to forums is a top priority when we give merit. If we have a friend who can be said we have a family, but he can not provide quality posts of course it is not appropriate to get merit in my opinion. If that happens then everyone will easily get a merit point, they can talk in private messages and the results will not be satisfactory for the forum. Suppose this can last and everyone who contributes can get merit then this will be a great thing, we will be in a forum that really useful for the development of digital currency. There is a new level and become a differentiator with other forums. So giving a merit to a friend regardless of what he is doing is a mistake.

[chocolah29]

Because this merit system is launched, merit will not have some impact to know!
But merit is meant to reward good posts!

But some good posts aren't even notice and not everyone are generous to give merit to others. I bet we have thousands people in the forum and a lot of posts everyday so there's a big chance that our post will not get even notice or read.

I just hope this merit system will be fair and square to everybody and those spammers will soon be gone here.

[binhvo1505]

Good afternoon everybody,
As the topic, is it allowed to send merit to our friend or not?

Before you share your thought, let me go first.
In my opinion, i think this is not good to support the merit system because people can send merit each other to their friend without checking wheater they make quality post or not.
As the goal of this merit, its made to kill spammers but it such thing continue, merit will be killed back by spammers.

I noticed this when my friend get private message, the message contains people ask him to send merit each other.

I know its hard to get merit but we can get it by making quality post.

i know some members will not agree with this but i hope you can share your thought here.

Note : sorry for my bad english. I am not native english

Yes, I think that's a good idea. A quality post will be worth the praise. I'm also trying to improve my english and improve the quality of the article.
But there are some things that need to be improved to be more fair. I think the admins should set up the notification button. All members need to be notified of who has replied to the members' posts. That will make the posts will not go away and will be useful for everyone.
That is my own opinion. I just want to improve our forum and grow it better together.

[8count]

Because this merit system is launched, merit will not have some impact to know!
But merit is meant to reward good posts!

But some good posts aren't even notice and not everyone are generous to give merit to others. I bet we have thousands people in the forum and a lot of posts everyday so there's a big chance that our post will not get even notice or read.

I just hope this merit system will be fair and square to everybody and those spammers will soon be gone here.

That's my concern as well. A lot of good quality post go without being merited and I'm seeing a lot of average to spam post getting merited. So if you don't have multiple accounts, telegram merit group or friends and family on here you will likely only pick up 1 or 2 merits here and there.

I really haven't seen a decrease in spam post/low quality post either. I feel like their is actually more as people look to build multiple accounts up to eventually help build the merit on their main account.

Hopefully over time it will work itself out.

[8Habits]

Because this merit system is launched, merit will not have some impact to know!
But merit is meant to reward good posts!

But some good posts aren't even notice and not everyone are generous to give merit to others. I bet we have thousands people in the forum and a lot of posts everyday so there's a big chance that our post will not get even notice or read.

I just hope this merit system will be fair and square to everybody and those spammers will soon be gone here.

That's my concern as well. A lot of good quality post go without being merited and I'm seeing a lot of average to spam post getting merited. So if you don't have multiple accounts, telegram merit group or friends and family on here you will likely only pick up 1 or 2 merits here and there.

I really haven't seen a decrease in spam post/low quality post either. I feel like their is actually more as people look to build multiple accounts up to eventually help build the merit on their main account.

Hopefully over time it will work itself out.

I agree with you and I am already seeing some posts that are given merit even up to 50 merit points for a simple thread like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2828892.msg29141094#msg29141094 although the merit giver has all the right how he will spend his sMerits, that is way too big of merit points to award for that certain type of post in my opinion.

[sinthan]

Hello everyone in my opinion about sending merit to a friend, i think it's okay as long as your friend have a good quality post. If your friend doesn't have a good quality post please don't give it to them. Give them a challange in one week maybe if they have a good post you will give them merit.. because with giving them a challenge you can see how much their spirit to do your challenge..pardon me my bad english..

[orka39]

So what will happen if all member prefer to keep their smerit?

Nothing.

"There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future."

Misclicked and sent merit to the wrong post. fak

Yes nothing. No member will be promoted to new higher rank.
It will be better to give smerit to contructive post and not just keep it.

[yamortsac]

I don't see anything wrong with that as long as the post of your friend is useful and constructive you can send him/her merits. Every users that can make quality post or share their knowledge about the topic deserves to be merited whether he/she is your friend or not.

[rezwalker]

finally i understand how merit system works
low rank people is hard to get better ranks now
but is a good way to filter low level posts

so i need to have merit to send merit
i understand really valuable members is easy to gain it
and is really hard for me to get it from them
but thats the rules

[iillaa]

define  what the word *friend* mean to you    so we can answer you correctly ( hopefully )  .

if you mean by friend an alt account  i bet you already got your answer  by being a red painted member .

are you trying to create a new alt ( friend ) account with neutral trust then you send him merit to rank him to member ?  so you can join bounties again  




i find it funny how your friends ( alts ) loved your suggestion and merited you  hhhh

[Vannie12]

Good afternoon everybody,
As the topic, is it allowed to send merit to our friend or not?


In my opinion, i think this is not good to support the merit system because people can send merit each other to their friend without checking wheater they make quality post or not.

Well it is not your job to check them but if you wat to report them to the moderators then be my guest.
They have already put this accounts into ignore list and merit abusers that will definitely decrease their benefits here in the forum.

As the goal of this merit, its made to kill spammers but it such thing continue, merit will be killed back by spammers.

I think this is nonsense. Even if they receive merits, and will do trade with their friends, their sMerits will be limited.
if they are done trading noone will give them other merits.

[coinlocket$]

The purpose of merit is to reward people who write quality things, look at the trust of OP, the purpose of Op was probably to abuse the system!

I think people can merit friends only if they don't abuse the quantity and if they really post quality posts.

[tbct_mt2]

The purpose of merit is to reward people who write quality things, look at the trust of OP, the purpose of Op was probably to abuse the system!

I think people can merit friends only if they don't abuse the quantity and if they really post quality posts.

Agree with you!
Creating the topic, then earnt 15 merits (till now) for only the OP, which has low-quality, honestly.
I have actually not read all those threads in the topic, reading the OP and your thread, coinlocket$. Then, I don't find reasons to read more threads inside because the topic is one of shitty ones created to beg for merits.
There are dozens of topics on the same questions, which published before this one. How did this one receive 15 merits? Really ridiculous, right?
For the OP's creator, should read if don't know how to use the forum search function:
[Tips] Guide for forum search
However, I believe that guy known this function, just don't want to use it due to spamming and merit-begging objectives.

[GDragon]

Yeah I am also aware of this scenario, merits circulation within the circle of friends. I also added that friends is a tool to obtain merits easily. There's so many deserving people but not appreciated because of this thing.

[tumis]

Yeah I am also aware of this scenario, merits circulation within the circle of friends. I also added that friends is a tool to obtain merits easily. There's so many deserving people but not appreciated because of this thing.

Sad but true. Whoever has the merit of this has the power. But will such a person use it properly? Unfortunately, this already depends exclusively on man. Unfortunately, money has always divided people into good and bad. One mixes in the head while the other mixes at the right distance. Let us not be deceived by 'mammon'. 

You have to choose which way you want to go...

[roseann072518]

can anyone do it or do it without any harm if a friend gives a merit if you have helped why not? it is better to share a merit if the people is worthy, if he/she is helping you or others.