[April fools] New new rank requirements

[theymos]

Sir, please explain to me what is Virtue?

The seven virtues are chastity, temperence, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Any true Bitcoiner will fully exemplify all seven virtues, of course.

[piter_wip12592]

I do not understand much about this new arrangement. Who can tell me if I want to become a member, I have to achieve something on .merit, politeness, fmerit, imagination, virtue, coins, karma. How do you get new rankings?

[jseverson]

Goddamn it, I knew I should have been calling people sir more often. I'm so sorry sirs.

I also hope my use of the word "goddamnit" doesn't affect my already low virtue score.

Sir, please explain to me what is Virtue?

The seven virtues are chastity, temperence, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Any true Bitcoiner will fully exemplify all seven virtues, of course.

Wait, chastity? Does this mean everyone who's had premarital sex is automatically disqualified from ranking up??? This is so unfair!!!

But yeah well played sir theymos lol. Happy April Fools everyone!

[Harribel03]

Is it coincidence that the new regulations of the forum is made on April 1st? Nope.
Mr. Theymos made this new set of requirements not to fool the members of the forum but in order to solve the problem in bitcointalk.
But I would like to say that after a week there are lots of issues and protests that will be made in this thread again. Like what happened on the merit system. Well, it does not matter at all since Sir Theymos knows what is better in the forum!
It might be a difficult to go with the flow because I am alsi a newbie but I am here to learn and I am hoping that someday, I will reach the higher ranks.

Expect the unexpected! A lot of complains will flow in the forum and a lot of criticism, suggestions and praise will be made. For sure, this will become more difficult to us new members.
Merit is almost hard plus all of this stuff. Anyways, just be positive!
May I ask Sir Theymos, is it necessary to cope up those needed requirements to rank up? What is the attainable numbers of that stuff in order to rank up?

[ACVinegar]

LOL, when you see Pharmacist having a politeness score of 1195, you know that this new system is April Fool's joke! 

It actually is a real stat (counting instances of "thanks" etc. in posts). But he has a lot of posts.

You sound cute, trying to protect your April Fool's day. But the real fun is reading the posts of people complaining about newly added rank up complexities!
Fun Fact: This is the first time Theymos replied me. Guess my meme was good enough!

Whether it is true or not? I see that it will gonna be a hot topic today.

[Kakmakr]

Prepare for a barrage of rage quit posters going in over drive over this new AF merit system.  

I see this as a good sign of what can be done to improve the system in the future, if there might be a reason for that. The merit system already created a buzz with all the newbies.  

Good one, it got some good laughs from me today.  

[ZinLee]

Dear Sir,
I do not think this is a joke, but if this is true, then I think it is one great thing
there are some indicators do not clearly understood, there is a provision that the promotion? If so, how much should be achieved for metrics to promotions? Or just achieve some merit.
Please explain me more! Tks so much!

[Sigmas55]

OMG, just opened the forum to find all those parameters under my name :S

[Silent26]

Sir, please explain to me what is Virtue?

Like what Sir theymos said,

Virtue
This is an upright, God-fearing community which will suffer no witchcraft or other heresy. This stat measures your moral virtue. Warning: those with low virtue may be visited by the holy inquisition.

If this definition of Virtue did not satisfied you. In my own words, virtue is your morally good behavior. The numbers after it determines your good morality here in the forum. The more virtue points you have, the more good person you are (according to your behavior in this Forum).

Edit.

You sound cute, trying to protect your April Fool's day. But the real fun is reading the posts of people complaining about newly added rank up complexities!

Take it as a good sign that theymos knows that and even is able to make fun of it (and thus his own decision) in this way.

Though me hitting legendary at the last possible moment was a good fool as well (finally made it, regardless).

Like what Mr. theymos said

That's Sir theymos.

My apologies Sir. I thought calling "Mr" will only result as one definition, and it is "Respecting", by the way it still is. But I realised that the position of "Sir" is more higher than "Mr". And Sir theymos's position is higher than a Full Member like me. Actually it doesn't matter, as long as you respect a person from the bottom of your heart, calling him/her using any name will be just fine.

By the way I corrected it Sir Luptin   thanks for reminding me.

[Lutpin]

You sound cute, trying to protect your April Fool's day. But the real fun is reading the posts of people complaining about newly added rank up complexities!

Take it as a good sign that theymos knows that and even is able to make fun of it (and thus his own decision) in this way.

Though me hitting legendary at the last possible moment was a good fool as well (finally made it, regardless).

Like what Mr. theymos said

That's Sir theymos.

fMerit
An obvious extension on top of Merit, sMerit, and source merit. It is calculated using this simple formula:

Code:

min((1103515245*(uid+activity)+12345) % (1<<10),(1103515245*posts+12345) % (1<<10), (1103515245*merit+12345) % (1<<10))

Very simple indeed. What's special about 1103515245 though?

It's a modified version of a PRNG, dont ask me though why the number is used in the original ones.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Virtue
This is an upright, God-fearing community which will suffer no witchcraft or other heresy. This stat measures your moral virtue. Warning: those with low virtue may be visited by the holy inquisition.

I am a known and proven campaigner against witchcraft, and curer of curses and other spells. How can it be that my virtue is only 9? By my quick calculations, it should be at least over 9000. Please remedy with much haste.

[Quickseller]

Lol, I had been looking forward to this years April fools prank!

Some of these stats would probably actually be useful to keep (if they are not too resource intensive). For example, the Coins stat might help detect shills in the ICO/altcoin section if it measured how many unique ANN threads a user has posed in.

I think the karma rating might be useful, depending on how exactly it is calculated (upon serious implementation).

Happy April fools!

[magpie_lover]

fMerit
An obvious extension on top of Merit, sMerit, and source merit. It is calculated using this simple formula:

Code:

min((1103515245*(uid+activity)+12345) % (1<<10),(1103515245*posts+12345) % (1<<10), (1103515245*merit+12345) % (1<<10))

Very simple indeed. What's special about 1103515245 though?

[1C6fV5DtakfKANLJ8GUV7hCaA]

God please sir why do you have to make things so complicated like this. Please please please this is very frustrating from someone's position.

[StarKay]

Sir,  I am pleased to see an improvement on the ranking system on this forum but I'll appreciate more explanation on some of the new features especially 'Coins'.
Thank you

[Hexah]

I see that this one doesn't show when you click your profile https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile or someone else profile. Probably better if implemented. I like the Politeness and Imagination thing, and to put it bluntly questions might get flooded over again.

[gawer33]

dear all,
this is just for testing purpose sir if my politeness will increase with this post sir

thanks and kind regards
gawer33

edit: does not work sir, does someone need it to put "+ kindness" to increase I will be glad if someone will this. thanks in advance

[Mpamaegbu]

This is really good. Thank you once again, Theymos. Posters who can't make a post without involving the curse and F words now have some restrictions. Politeness takes care of that. By the way, is there going to be a bot to search out the "Sir" words which expectedly will become ubiquitous now?

Observation
On "Imagination", I think Theymos will have to device means posters can easily upload pictures directly without going through another app like imgur. That's cumbersome. Many a poster like me always have that as a barrier.

On "Coins", how did you arrive at that because I can't remember buying any here.

And then, you have successfully opened another floodgate of threads that will follow after the merit system. It's a new business of making posts count.

Question, does it mean ranking up now doesn't solely depend on the merit system?

[eastgrand]

The only thing is that this changes people's behavior, but it won't really be what's in their heart. Now users are going to be like, "Thank you my dear sir." To win kindness points.   Maybe it will really make them better.

[Dovie]

Wait is this an april fool's joke or not  .

Too confused  

 I think it is an April fool's joke by theymos  his always full of surprises in months of April last year they give us logo of token.