Someone please merit these posts

[seoincorporation]

- will skip proposal made by members registered after this post was made (so don't even bother)

Maybe I misinterpreted what his intention is with that statement.

I didn't see your registration date. Maybe you can ask. But, as said, I don't see any harm but the possibility of making the Meta even messier.

[audaciousbeing]

They don't like it when you beg, even perhaps when you are begging on behalf of others.

But I like your post and it's a great idea. People should collect merit worth posts and add them to this thread because someone should call them out. So what if you don't have merit points to give. That system doesn't work (as your post clearly demonstrates). Perhaps they need some sort of nomination process so older accounts can have some help. These are just people who didn't used to have to be involved at all in rankings and are now now for some reason expected to be rank granters of sorts and judges of post quality. Sucks for them. Who says that (1) want that role or (2) are good at it?

I like your post. I would give you merit for it, but I barley have any. But again, be aware...they are pretty touchy about merit and don't like people making suggestions like yours - from what I've seen.

And as a side, the best way to get merit seems to be to praise the merit system, not criticize it.

While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values. For example, one of the posts you quoted there relates to mining while another relates to technical part of the blockchain ecosystem. These topics as interesting as they might sound to someone else, it does not appeal to me to give a single merit and that is why sometimes when I make post which in my own eye is of good quality, solve problems, add value and merits should be flowing, it does not happen while those ones I am not too keen about gets merited. I feel the merit system has come to stay and people should be encouraged to give merit but skeptical to do this because its limited and can be exhausted in no time.

[DireWolfM14]

While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values. For example, one of the posts you quoted there relates to mining while another relates to technical part of the blockchain ecosystem. These topics as interesting as they might sound to someone else, it does not appeal to me to give a single merit and that is why sometimes when I make post which in my own eye is of good quality, solve problems, add value and merits should be flowing, it does not happen while those ones I am not too keen about gets merited. I feel the merit system has come to stay and people should be encouraged to give merit but skeptical to do this because its limited and can be exhausted in no time.

Understandable, the value of these posts is obviously subjective.  That's why I felt justified in starting this topic, to point out where I see value.  Most of you who've responded to this topic have been here a while, and may have become jaded to what us neophytes find valuable. 

Every body has their reasons for coming here.  I came here to learn about mining, but in the process I learned how much more there is that I need and want to learn about crypto.  Not only have I come to realize how little I know about crypto, but also how much more there is to learn about this forum.

I've been using forums (mostly firearms related) for nearly two decades now.  I've seen 'em come and go.  But I don't think I've seen a forum with the volume this one has, it's so big!  In that light, I think the merit system is a good idea.  It helps to keep things pertinent by rewarding those who contribute value.

Again, I hope nobody thinks I'm criticizing the merit system, far from it.

[vphasitha01]

just want to ask! how can i receive merits?

I think you know the way to get merits . I just looked at your post history and it's almost cloged with full of bounty shits, even I couldn't get how you get two merits for just asking "can you help me with airdrop?" (Filipino language)

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

I don't know why mods can't take actions regarding this kind of merit abuse scenarios in ANN threads. I think we should take preventive measures in order to enhance the true value of merit system.

Link for proof>>>https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4399078.msg41097719#msg41097719


"The world will not be distroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything"- Albert Einstein

[Forward_Thinking]

They don't like it when you beg, even perhaps when you are begging on behalf of others.

But I like your post and it's a great idea. People should collect merit worth posts and add them to this thread because someone should call them out. So what if you don't have merit points to give. That system doesn't work (as your post clearly demonstrates). Perhaps they need some sort of nomination process so older accounts can have some help. These are just people who didn't used to have to be involved at all in rankings and are now now for some reason expected to be rank granters of sorts and judges of post quality. Sucks for them. Who says that (1) want that role or (2) are good at it?

I like your post. I would give you merit for it, but I barley have any. But again, be aware...they are pretty touchy about merit and don't like people making suggestions like yours - from what I've seen.

And as a side, the best way to get merit seems to be to praise the merit system, not criticize it.

While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values. For example, one of the posts you quoted there relates to mining while another relates to technical part of the blockchain ecosystem. These topics as interesting as they might sound to someone else, it does not appeal to me to give a single merit and that is why sometimes when I make post which in my own eye is of good quality, solve problems, add value and merits should be flowing, it does not happen while those ones I am not too keen about gets merited. I feel the merit system has come to stay and people should be encouraged to give merit but skeptical to do this because its limited and can be exhausted in no time.

Well you quoted me, but mistook me for the OP. Though I'm going to reply to your reply to me where you said "While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values."

That right there is the problem with the merit system. It was built under a false assumption (probably several). That essentially, all new people must be screened by all senior people and that all senior people would know who deserve merit and therefore are the best way to screen all new people. Actually, as it turns out, research shows that untrained judges are really bad at being fair. Humans are humans.

As one of the other respondents said, people have now become obsessed with merit. Just one more unintended consequence of the design flaws.

[shilpyh]

Begging post for you or onbehalf of anyone is not allow. If any post deserve merit and someone willingly give than the post can achieve merit. There is no alternative option.