Merit "trading" - buying and selling Bitcointalk merit

[Branko]

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!

Honestly, I have no money to buy a merit in bitcointalk. If I have, I don't want to spend for it. Just let someone give me if he/she interest about my post or comments. I still can collect some coin by Reddit, social campaign, or write in my blog. Still many choices to get some coins. So, just write something good for anyone in bitcointalk?! Just forget a merit?!

That sounds like the best option, beside brownnosing admins

[om_iyo]

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!

Honestly, I have no money to buy a merit in bitcointalk. If I have, I don't want to spend for it. Just let someone give me if he/she interest about my post or comments. I still can collect some coin by Reddit, social campaign, or write in my blog. Still many choices to get some coins. So, just write something good for anyone in bitcointalk?! Just forget a merit?!

That sounds like the best option, beside brownnosing admins

It was no option... It seem like a hopeless and need so much. It was between of them...

[ralags]

Introducing some feature like smerit for benefiting the community is helping some top ranks to cash the opportunity, i would like to suggest admin/moderators  to come up with new feature some thing like like/dislike/favorite some post similar to smerit but every one was given few of those at first based on the rank and have some conditions similar to count/timer of posts at entry level, in that case there wont be feeling like you are left out and if you had donated smerit you may be not sure that you will recieve more at the same time.
I like the conception of meriting but not with the way of providing smerits.

[Branko]

Introducing some feature like smerit for benefiting the community is helping some top ranks to cash the opportunity, i would like to suggest admin/moderators  to come up with new feature some thing like like/dislike/favorite some post similar to smerit but every one was given few of those at first based on the rank and have some conditions similar to count/timer of posts at entry level, in that case there wont be feeling like you are left out and if you had donated smerit you may be not sure that you will recieve more at the same time.
I like the conception of meriting but not with the way of providing smerits.

Anorak forum has pretty good statistic...for example, here I share mining bios and get nothing, but on his forum
it records that my bios is downloaded 800 times and (despite people donated nothing) I got some medals for it...
its only for fluff, but could be used as better stat than merit...also have much more stats, like how
many times your links got clicked, how many likes your posts got etc

https://anorak.tech/u/branko/badges

[Arkham Knight]

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!

Maybe you are right but what is the sense of all those quality posts when they are all used to answer that question many times in a thread?  I'm against to spammers but I don't really believe that this changes will make it even better.

[kuah bakso]

You are right, merit is made to filter out all the people who really deserve promotion and ignore the rest, according to them the benefits of buying is the way out but no, buying a service is a difficult thing to do because of the risk of trust. from moderator

[Oilacris]

Introducing some feature like smerit for benefiting the community is helping some top ranks to cash the opportunity, i would like to suggest admin/moderators  to come up with new feature some thing like like/dislike/favorite some post similar to smerit but every one was given few of those at first based on the rank and have some conditions similar to count/timer of posts at entry level, in that case there wont be feeling like you are left out and if you had donated smerit you may be not sure that you will recieve more at the same time.
I like the conception of meriting but not with the way of providing smerits.

Anorak forum has pretty good statistic...for example, here I share mining bios and get nothing, but on his forum
it records that my bios is downloaded 800 times and (despite people donated nothing) I got some medals for it...
its only for fluff, but could be used as better stat than merit...also have much more stats, like how
many times your links got clicked, how many likes your posts got etc

https://anorak.tech/u/branko/badges

You cant compare out this forum into another forum when it comes to their own features and what type of people are on here.Checking out on traffic itself there are lots of people on here but doesnt really  knows about mining which means there would be least interest on it even though there are some who downloaded on that mining bios into users on this forum but doesnt really get any merit then this is somehow anticipated because not all people do have the feeling or giving gratitude once they do already benefited to someone.

[ceferov]

As much as I see merit system is not much useful for now yet.Mostly people which know each one giving merit to each other and its very very hard to get +merit

[cryptodreams]

I completely agree that merit is a good thing~

[podavan]

Hmm ... Not so simple. I believe that, in general, the merit system has a positive impact on the forum. Posts have become more conscious, constructive, that pleases me!
But the growing excitement about the "hunt" for merits already infuriates me! And the abuse from the "old-timers" of the forum takes place. Yesterday I met an account that collected 45 merits for 30 days of the forum. It would be nothing if 40 of them were not from the legendary member, and even the administrator. My opinion is that the idea of the system is good, but the implementation is not thought out and raw!

[Donceng]

Merit was made to determine one's post quality.
If someone buys and sells merit it means that he abuses the system.
I can guess that Merit trading is forbidden and those who try to trade Merit will probably get their thread to be deleted.

Merit also very helpful as it gives users the option to thank other users for their posts.
An ability that wasn't available before.

I'm really trying to give it to my brother and what happened moderator has deleted some of my posts, before I did not understand what happened, when my intentions to help my sister to rank, I pity the activity she has 100 more but in can not go up rank, until now still remain "jr member" because she do not have merit.

[adamgrantx]

is it legal to buy merits?
and if so how?  (email - admagrantx@gmail.com

[konflikkastil]

it is a foolish thinker in my opinion, merit only given to people who deserve it, do not try to trade merit because it will make you get trust from moderator

[bitgolden]

Merit was made to determine one's post quality.
If someone buys and sells merit it means that he abuses the system.
I can guess that Merit trading is forbidden and those who try to trade Merit will probably get their thread to be deleted.

Merit also very helpful as it gives users the option to thank other users for their posts.
An ability that wasn't available before.

I'm really trying to give it to my brother and what happened moderator has deleted some of my posts, before I did not understand what happened, when my intentions to help my sister to rank, I pity the activity she has 100 more but in can not go up rank, until now still remain "jr member" because she do not have merit.

This is really a good thing which has been introduced as it gives you an opportunity of getting an extra reward of your hard work and the efforts which you put in while working there in signature campaign.

This merit is something which cannot be bought and that it is not an appreciable thing as well to go for buying of such kind of thing because this is something which you are doing wrong with yourself. You really need to earn it.

[dunfida]

Merit was made to determine one's post quality.
If someone buys and sells merit it means that he abuses the system.
I can guess that Merit trading is forbidden and those who try to trade Merit will probably get their thread to be deleted.

Merit also very helpful as it gives users the option to thank other users for their posts.
An ability that wasn't available before.

I'm really trying to give it to my brother and what happened moderator has deleted some of my posts, before I did not understand what happened, when my intentions to help my sister to rank, I pity the activity she has 100 more but in can not go up rank, until now still remain "jr member" because she do not have merit.

This is really a good thing which has been introduced as it gives you an opportunity of getting an extra reward of your hard work and the efforts which you put in while working there in signature campaign.

This merit is something which cannot be bought and that it is not an appreciable thing as well to go for buying of such kind of thing because this is something which you are doing wrong with yourself. You really need to earn it.

It cant really be bought but there were people who do start out to sell out their own merits for the sake of money which isnt really surprising for them to do specially for those people who do in need of money or just purely abusing this feature since they do know merits are way too valuable not only just ranking up your account but also it does show on how good you are on contributing good quality post into this forum.

[Ludwig van Cryptoven]

Well, I'm just trying to understand what happens here, but it seems to me that these "merits" are just a kind of cryptocurrecy...
So, unavoidably, someone will try to trade them...

[carlfebz2]

is it legal to buy merits?
and if so how?  (email - admagrantx@gmail.com

Have you read out the previous comments or post on most members here?It being said for how many times that buying out merit is an illegal thing and once caught then you would be penalize on such behavior.
Merits can be earned by just doing a part into this community and might be considered by higher ranks to give out merit which is much fulfilling in my side rather than on thinking on buying out. Red trust would be gained instead of merit.

[anavir]

merit is not a thread...for me it is comparable to a school institution...you study hard...have excellent grades and you will be awarded...it really do good because it will mold you to become a good conversationalist and a good advertiser...but on the other side which is also happening on a school institution,sometimes favoratism is also present, what if you work hard? construct a quality post but nobody cares especially for the jr.member who have a constructive mind but because the person who knew them are only their relatives who are into bitcoin also who are also scared to  give merit to avoid being accused  of having two or more accounts?..anybody wants to have job,anybody wants to have money...not all,i pressume of the campaingners have high education but they do their best to construct a quality post but to some who read it,is still not constractive so they received not a single merit at all(sad)...bitcoin is a big help to unemployment

[Marrionbitcoin]

Hi, everyone!

I just got a negative trust for only seeking for merit and that leads to negative trust? I didn't understand!

How can I remove it?

Thanks!

[reighbut2017]

Merit system is a good concept to appreciate the good and quality post and should NOT be influence of those people who wants to buy merit just to increase their ranks. So everyone should be responsible to ensure persons doing illegal activities (selling and buying merit) will be penalized.