The Merit System is a huge success and now it's time for demerits.

[greggypiggy]

I dont know but i think demerit system is not a good idea.
This is my reasons :

-- Demerit system might put a huge wall between members instead of having a good conversation with others.

-- Letting other members to give demerit to others is not a good idea. There might be people who might give demerit to other member that they dont like.

-- People tends to retaliates when somebody mocks them. So its possible for two members to give demerits with each other until they both loss all their merits.

-- Demerits will add to the difficulty to rank up.

For me this forum is created so that the members here will help each other to grow. Do you agree with me?

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[shushanika]

Keep the merrit system as it is: a tool to honor poster who try write helpful posts.
The ability to demerrit accounts would be desastrous in my opinion. No one would ever try to argue with anyone again, simply due to the fact, the other poster could be pissed and demerries you.

Gaining merrits is hard enough for us "newbies", don't bring in a system which is capable of destroying the forum as a place where someone can express his/her opinion without having to fear of punishment.

Actually merit system is for quality posts. Once a member achieves the desired merit points for ranking up, he can start posting garbage again to reach activity. Also, there are some, opening new threads on same topics, they should be dealt with something like demerits.

[shushanika]

I dont know but i think demerit system is not a good idea.
This is my reasons :

-- Demerit system might put a huge wall between members instead of having a good conversation with others.

-- Letting other members to give demerit to others is not a good idea. There might be people who might give demerit to other member that they dont like.

-- People tends to retaliates when somebody mocks them. So its possible for two members to give demerits with each other until they both loss all their merits.

-- Demerits will add to the difficulty to rank up.

For me this forum is created so that the members here will help each other to grow. Do you agree with me?

If there was demerit system, I am sure that this post deserved some. You are posting the same content that you used in your thread here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2975179.0

[The Sceptical Chymist]

For me this forum is created so that the members here will help each other to grow. Do you agree with me?

That's a lovely sentiment, but as I wrote in the other thread you started, you're a shitposter and nothing you write here is helping the forum at all.  All your replies state what's obvious, and the only reason you're a member of bitcointalk is to get paid for posting.  Look at your posts.  All uniform length, and what you write has already been written by 1000 shitposters before you.

I do agree a demerit system would be useful, and I agree that once legendary status is achieved there's no longer any incentive to keep posting good stuff--if you're a shitposter to begin with.

[SlickTight]

Demerits the need of the hour:

Pre and Post this system in place shit posts existed, people post a different title type something else in thread, one words, completely off topic and so on. It's annoying that these threads always are resurfacing, as we the elite members feel the need to tell them it's a shit post, and like the heard mentality many repeat it.

I feel with demerits in place, all one will need to do is leave a demerit on the post and that's it, like the heard mentality I referred above people will skip the topic. These useless topics shall die a quick death, and people will realise that posting shit on this forum is dangerous.

I am not in favor of demerits because:

1) It will result in more clashes between the members.

2) There might be situations like a member giving demerit to another member just to make sure he is not able to participate in a bounty or so.

3) When a member gets demerit from another member, he may return the favor.

4) Finally, it is already hard for members to rank up. Especially for higher rank members, demerits will make it almost impossible.

I am also not in favor in demerits because we that have a Member rank is so really hard to rank up because you need a 100 merits, and now you want a demerit? so what if i get a demerit? So my rank will go down and get a Jr. Member rank again? that is so sick man, I don't agree with that demerit!

[lucario21]

I'll suggest maybe only those moderator had an authority to give demerits because some members will abuse it for their own personal agenda and it will cause of tension on both parties. The essence of forum was to share ideas and informations, to built a community were we interact online with friendly approached. But I know that our population are growing continuously and those moderators were also busy on their personal life so they might able to monitor us 24/7, however we can simply help them by reporting those unnecessary post.

[inanora]

I'll suggest maybe only those moderator had an authority to give demerits because some members will abuse it for their own personal agenda and it will cause of tension on both parties. The essence of forum was to share ideas and informations, to built a community were we interact online with friendly approached.

Problem is spammers are not at all concerned about the essence of the forum. They want to spam,cheat to rank up and and use the forum for monetary gains. They should be punished for sure. 

[metenjean]

Demerit system is good at first but i dont think it will successful in the long run, just like the post before me said that it will cause conflicts among member. All of us here already seen the improve of the post since the merit system upgrade however as you said that topic quality wasn't improving that much. My suggestion is to hire more moderators for the forum to subforum which has the most topic made each day, rather than demerit. By then its moderator jobs and responsibility to delete any useless topic, with the topic gone then the posts we've made will also count less and we need to work more to improve the post for ranked up 

[jamegen]

Please don't implement the demerit. It is already hard to get merit. What if someone hates you and just wants you to be destroyed? They just give demerits for unjustifiable reasons because of some personal grudges. 

[LoyceV]

I've posted it before in another thread, but I'll post it again here anyway: It might be good to slowly demerit the "free" merits everyone received, so that in a few years all accounts only have earned Merit left.
I don't worry about Newbies who receive Merit, even if they send it from their own alts, the total amount won't matter in the long term. Once they run out, they'll never get new Merit without improving their post quality.

Agreed to what "krishnaverma" posted (regarding #1,2 and 3) but I also support the implementation of a demerit system (as long as it's given to moderators and staff [only]).

If only Mods can demerit someone, isn't just banning them a better option?

[abulia]

Demerit is the dumbest idea ever. People are fanatical about their coin/token of choice. Here are some examples:

Say DeepOnion supports criminals = demerit
Say Tron is vapourware = demerit
Say the demerit system sucks = demerit

I've been flamed on discord for pointing out it is nearly impossible to pay someone a salary in bitcoin in the US - and was trying to discuss legal ways to pay people's salary in bitcoin. If they could have demerited me I would be at -25 merit right now for discussing a real issue.