As I see some people hates merit, some of them enjoys but usually people don't look further to see more positive sides.
Long story short.. There are positive sides!
With merit system now it became very very difficult to rank up.
TrueTo get a single merit you need real efforts, you need to give time to your posts and posts should be helpful to the readers.
Simple comments like "very good post", "Interesting topic"; comment like these don't not add any value.
After all it's a discussion board not comment section like facebook.
Now this question have the shitposters reduced?
May be answer is no, but it's true we don't see many shitposts from Senior Members.
Newbie is new he/she will take time to learn and figure out what is going on.
Same or similar voting/meriting/scoring mechanism is placed on all major forums
Reddit have
Karma -> Our merit system is much more easier than this KARMA
stackoverflow have
reputation score and badges -> You must have expertise and technical knowledge
Microsoft MSDN have
points and MVPs -> You must have 100% technical knowledge, your points will be reduced if your answer is un-marked
We should not forget the purpose of this forum.
"BitcoinTalk is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other.
The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin mining, in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin"Bounties, ICO or ANN were not the major reason behind this forum, a technical discussion was. These days whenever you click "
Show unread posts since last visit." What you see is 90% posts in Bounties/ANN/ICO section.
I never get any benefit from this option "
Show unread posts since last visit.". I have to go each board to find the interesting topics.
May be in future Admins can add voting a option to the post's replies so the most voted and relevant replies always stay up.
And merit is an appreciation to your efforts you feel proud of it if you get one.
[yes, I did this post that may be it will get a merit. But what ever I said is what i feel]