Merit "trading" - buying and selling Bitcointalk merit

[reflector]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

This seems best advice for the people who does not like the new merit system implemented by our admin Theymos. I personally everyone increasing the post quality getting any threten by the DT members negative feedback. Even some DT members are also taken back their feedback after this implementation has been done here.

Everyone need to contribute this forum for make everyone's life better but recent days. Alt account and shit grammer become burden to many people. This made people who are not perfect lonely. We may find the dmerit system also further.

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[fabianji]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

This new way merit system created by theymos is really genius.It might get some critics to some people but generally this thing completely stopped account farming or selling accounts because those things are useless with this new merit system.Account wont be easily rank up because of merit requirement but its not the main thing why this is being created but for the sole purpose of post quality,you cant easily level up if you dont contribute anything worthy to this community.

It's totally true ). The account sellers and spammer can't survive in this forum anymore. I think appearance of Merit point will make the number of member in this forum decreases a lot cause I think a lot of shitposter and account farmers will give up and get out of this forum. It'll make this forum become better and better . But there are some guys still trying to cheat merit system, they think they can overcoming all moderator, DT member and admin but they're wrong. LOL. Merit seller and cheater are being hunted very harshly.

Yes quality over quantity for sure. The recent surge in interest in blockchain plus the flutr of ICO's has attracted a lot of people to the forum that are not interested in contributing but are looking for a way to quick cash.
So the addition of the merit system on top of the trust system already in place will make it more and more difficult to farm and trade / sell accounts for spamming, scamming and other non constructive purposes.

[Dancing_Coin]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

there's one more thing to improve the BTT - remove all dead threads

[fabianji]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

there's one more thing to improve the BTT - remove all dead threads

They will die due to inactivity and sink to the bottom of the boards any way.

[tricker01]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

Actually I agree with this merit system, introduce by admin theymos. But I dont think it is right to trade merit. Merit is only given to those people who make a quality post , and not to those people who also give you a merit. You can show your glad and gratitude to other people by other way and not giving merit to his unquality post. You must give itbto the one who deserve it to receive.

[fabianji]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

Actually I agree with this merit system, introduce by admin theymos. But I dont think it is right to trade merit. Merit is only given to those people who make a quality post , and not to those people who also give you a merit. You can show your glad and gratitude to other people by other way and not giving merit to his unquality post. You must give itbto the one who deserve it to receive.

Yes absolutely and it has already improved the quality of the posts.

And yes not only its not right its actually not allowed to trade / sell merit and will lead to negative trust ratings or bans.

[sunkat]

Merit system is necessary to encourage more quality post than quantity. But I think every week or every month, according to rank of member will receive a certain amount of merit. Everyone can give merit to someone who post a quality content.

[katinko]

sMerit is for free and not for sale or trade, but there are some users do trading merit but they already tagged by DT, hope it will be a learning for greedy members who are too lazy and wanting to rank up their account quickly.
sMerit will be given to those member who did great to post more quality and contribute more in the community.

[fabianji]

sMerit is for free and not for sale or trade, but there are some users do trading merit but they already tagged by DT, hope it will be a learning for greedy members who are too lazy and wanting to rank up their account quickly.
sMerit will be given to those member who did great to post more quality and contribute more in the community.

Yes of course that is the whole point. However that has not prevented a market for trading merit from forming and of course we as the community can be vigilant and report any suspicious activity but in the end this system will work much better if every member understands that it is for the good of the whole forum and every member if we spend our time and energy on creating useful posts instead of trying to trade merit or accounts for purposes that do not contribute to the community.

[Ayiranorea]

As suggested by OP,  merit system is make a lot change over the forum, particularly in terms of account maturity merit plays a major role. Another thing is that for every two merits send the user will be getting a single merit that can be used further.

[bitcoinisbest]

sMerit needs be earned and not to be bought. Also this system will boost the will take out the best from each person to post the quality stuff and in turn the forum will be more informative and will answers more question in a relevant way. This is the best way for people to raise their bar and in a certain way every individual will also grow with the forum.

[reda]

As suggested by OP,  merit system is make a lot change over the forum, particularly in terms of account maturity merit plays a major role. Another thing is that for every two merits send the user will be getting a single merit that can be used further.

Merit is not buy and sell. Merit is like in your post. So you will improve your post quality for the great merit. If not, get merit your account rank won't increase. So you will improve your post then you get a merit. People will be like your post, then people will be sending the merit your account, Then account rank also increase. People know the marination before using. If need information who will send your account, check your profile the check the merit link. Then you will get some information.

[bitcoinvamp]

Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.

"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.

Keep contributing!

Yeah merit system is quite an effective system to be introduced in the forum as its definitely gonna increase the quality of posts made by the members of the forum and the quality of the forum in the whole. I loved the basic idea behind this concept but it will be effective till people start to abuse this system by trading merits for money. I think the administrator of the forum will have something in order to control this misuse and stop this from happening.

[Taki]

I suppose soon we will get spam about Merit sale in PM, just like we get an invitation to join an ICO or a bounty campaign sometimes. I am ok with all those merits that I have got, but towards other people, especially those who are on the edge between ranks it is really unfair.

[fabianji]

As suggested by OP,  merit system is make a lot change over the forum, particularly in terms of account maturity merit plays a major role. Another thing is that for every two merits send the user will be getting a single merit that can be used further.

Yes I like this idea of enabling the people you merited to pass on (part of) that merit to posts they deem deserving.

[Lanatsa]

I suppose soon we will get spam about Merit sale in PM, just like we get an invitation to join an ICO or a bounty campaign sometimes. I am ok with all those merits that I have got, but towards other people, especially those who are on the edge between ranks it is really unfair.

We should expect that thing to happen because if they would offer such thing like merit selling on public post then they would definitely get red trust from dt members which would messed up their precious account.This is why another option for them is to make a PM among other users but this thing would definitely depending if a user if sensible enough to avoid at all cost with such offers.

[marlboroza]

You can't do much about it. Whoever wants to sell merit will sell it, it is the same thing as account sales, whoever want to sell or buy it will do it.
Eventually they will run out of merits, just give new system a month or two to start working properly.

[betlord90]

Don't buy it since it can be earned and it could harm someones account if DT members will find out those people who do merit selling/buying. Let just work fair so that we would not get any problem since doing somethings which is illegal act will result bad to the persons who do it.

[fabianji]

You can't do much about it. Whoever wants to sell merit will sell it, it is the same thing as account sales, whoever want to sell or buy it will do it.
Eventually they will run out of merits, just give new system a month or two to start working properly.

That is actually a good point. If you only get one sMerit for every two Merits you receive then the amount of sMerit is constantly declining and eventually nobody will be able to send any more merit?

[maimainguyen05]

Don't buy it since it can be earned and it could harm someones account if DT members will find out those people who do merit selling/buying. Let just work fair so that we would not get any problem since doing somethings which is illegal act will result bad to the persons who do it.

It's not easy to earn merit cause member in this forum often don't really care about your post although it's contructive and helpful or not. It's a reason why people are trying to find out the way to cheat Merit system. LOL. But unfortunately almost cheaters got caught and reg tagged ). If anyone wanna get merit I think the easiest way is fight againts alt account and merit cheater then report them in Reputation section.