[April fools] New new rank requirements

[BlackPanda]

Finally, sir theymos find a new way of the ranking system.
All are stated are not totally absorbed in my mind on how it works but for sure this is now fairly for the ranking system.
A little adjustment again for us.

Yes there must be time to implement this system, I think it will make things fairer and there will be a new indicator that can determine the quality of an account. This change will make everything present today turn into more weight and quality. Hopefully with this existence then everyone will be more motivated to do things much better.

[styca]

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?

It's quite simple actually.

Every post that you make on a Thursday is run through an algorithm, which may assign you some 'imagination'. Any imagination you gain is then checked against all posts that you made in the preceding 6 days. If there is a high degree of uniqueness - i.e., you are not repeating the same posts, then this gives you some 'virtue' points.
'Politeness' is granted for every post, but then reduced if you have used swear words, bold font or CAPS. Use of exclamation marks is kind of a grey area.
'Fmerit' is short for 'f***ing merit' - you gain or lose points here depending on whether or not you make posts complaining about the merit system.
'Coins' is a complex calculation based on the total coins you hold in all of your crypto wallets, and when you bought them. Yes, even those coins that are supposed to be anonymous.
'Karma' scans your soul and awards points based on your thoughts and behaviour. I'm kind of confused about how they get the scores for this. It might depend on whether or not you have a webcam.

It is a bit unfortunate that this new system came out on April 1st, as some people might mistakenly consider it a joke.

Then what happens to "Imagination"? Theymos' explanation doesn't tally at all. I just saw a profile that hasn't made a single pictorial post with a 3 awarded it. This got to be a kind of joke.

This post quotes my previous post, so I lose some 'imagination'. However I gain 'karma' because I am helping to explain.
Also the line below increases my 'politeness', but also reduces my 'karma' because I am in effect gaming the system.
please thank you please thank you please thank you

So the effect of this post is to increase my 'politeness' at the expense of some 'imagination'. Net change to 'karma' should be close to zero.
_{Also it is still April 1st.}

[aervin11]

This is a lot more confusing than the merit system but this would point out what you are lacking to post and what to post more to improve. Im just wondering how that endless image/GIF would generate. Ranking up is now harder than ever.

[kiver]

all I have to say is , thank you Sir theymos for the new rank implementation I think this system is great it got back the power to the forum it self and not in the hand of the wrong people who abuse the merit for their own selfish reasons I am talking about some people here, not all members  ,still trying to understand the new system  but I like it whatever the outcome is

[Piggy]

I suggest to add a Health & Stamina bar as well, then this new system seems pretty much perfect to me.

[TopTort777]

If you go to your profile, there will be not new stats. Only activity, posts, merit. This proves that new new rank system is a 1 april joke.

[rfouziha]

Very nice to see the April 1st the fool's day post and lot of fun and I really enjoyed while reading it. If it is true then I don't thing people who are monitoring such things are really great and hats off for them. Well my wish and expectation is some thing little more easy and helpful also not much complicated. We came here for tension free additional income in our comfort  time. But it is now getting more complicated. That's what I feel.

[Maksimus ZH]

friends, please explain to me how I can get a higher rank? How to do this with these innovations?

[Trofo]

Great new update, we really needed it. Finally everything is easy to understand even for newbies. But still it is much too easy to rank up, we should have more categories and at least one of them should be about contributing meaningful code update to important project. Of course for now only BTC could be considered as important project with plans to accept ETH contributions in next 5 to 10 years.

This is April's First joke, just to be clear about it, and if you are reading this, congrats you are really pedantic (wanted to write anal, but somebody could get offended due to language barrier)

[matthewio]

Thanks for the new innovations,I believe it will be for the good of the community.I am yet to fully grasp the implication of it all,especially fMerits.Rewarding politeness is a greta idea to,we should all learn to respect other peoples's opinion even when they differ from ours.

[TomCrypto]

Nice April fools! it made me laugh when I have seen it the first time. Good job admins!
The subject 's choice for this joke was perfect due to all the talks about the merite systems in the last months

[bbcolex]

Still kinda confuse, I was expecting some easter egg hunt in the forum and inside those eggs are merits lol.  

[bobq]

The real April's Fool Joke would be to discover tomorrow that this new ranking system is for real. In other words to discover that the real joke is that this is a joke. THAT would be especially brilliant.

[ad_playing]

I just surprise with this new system, hope it comes from deep evaluation and review so far after merit system applied. I appreciate what Theymos did, it shows accommodating lot of voices by creating this new system. I believe the idea is good just need simplification to be understood easily. Such as polite, it is needed in the community. Not just express a feeling but showing polite-less.

[darkangelosme]

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



Between anyone here who shares 1 April as his/her Birth date with me?

You nailed it bro  . I had a big laugh on it  .

[hurry_hore]

I appreciate the idea of Theymos, to improve behaviour is also important such post with polite way for something constructive and high quality. But I do not understand what is fmerit and what is the connection with smerit? Needs introducing and lot of sharing to the community for well understanding.

[Coding Enthusiast]

This sounds more like one of those RPG games which you have a hero who has all these attributes, add 1 to dexterity, 2 to virtue, 5 to strength to get a tank

[The Cryptoclast]

Great new update, we really needed it. Finally everything is easy to understand even for newbies. But still it is much too easy to rank up, we should have more categories and at least one of them should be about contributing meaningful code update to important project. Of course for now only BTC could be considered as important project with plans to accept ETH contributions in next 5 to 10 years.

This is April's First joke, just to be clear about it, and if you are reading this, congrats you are really pedantic (wanted to write anal, but somebody could get offended due to language barrier)

You clearly must be a genius.

[ruthbabe]

Hopefully this easy-to-understand, graphical ranking system will put to rest many users' questions and concerns once and for all.

Lol. I predict thousands of posts on this new system.

So, in order to benefit from those posts, lots would participate in a signature-ad campaign. If that happens, I have a feeling that posts will be strictly screened.

[kiemnhieutien]

Is this just a joke for April 01 sir?