Application For Merit Source [Philippines Local Board]

[SFR10]

Man, I can hardly believe that it is difficult for you to find ten worthy messages, not only on the local board,
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So I hope you will overcome your laziness and still decide to take this step. 

Finding ten merit-worthy posts isn't an issue for the general boards, but I prefer to become a merit source for our local board and that's where things get tricky ^{[not enough activity in the past few months]}!
^{- I can't recall when was the last time theymos approved an application concerning posts that were in general boards.}

especially since about a year ago I already asked you about this (and offered to apply).

Yes, I do remember that ^{[time flies]}

[Findingnemo]

In Pilipinas local board all we need is an active member who's worthy to became a merit source.  Spending at least 4-8 hours here and contributed already for the local board.

Spending 4-8 hours daily on the forum in order to become merit source? Don't you think that it is an overkill, making this position like a full time job.

Then there will be some suggestions to make the merit sources also as staffs like moderators.

Whenever you guys found the post(s) which deserve merits but didn't get enough then share your sMerits, if you have zero sMerits then you can have a thread like "Report good post here" so merit cycle will be still there until Theymos thinks that they are short of required merits.

[crwth]

Whenever you guys found the post(s) which deserve merits but didn't get enough then share your sMerits, if you have zero sMerits then you can have a thread like "Report good post here" so merit cycle will be still there until Theymos thinks that they are short of required merits.

No need to create a post like this anymore. It already exists.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5359448.0

[Findingnemo]

Whenever you guys found the post(s) which deserve merits but didn't get enough then share your sMerits, if you have zero sMerits then you can have a thread like "Report good post here" so merit cycle will be still there until Theymos thinks that they are short of required merits.

No need to create a post like this anymore. It already exists.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5359448.0

You can't really merit your thread or post so I am talking about the merit deserving post created by others not by themselves so its entirely different if I am not mistaken.

And this can be done in all other boards as well to keep the cycle.

[crwth]

You can't really merit your thread or post so I am talking about the merit deserving post created by others not by themselves so its entirely different if I am not mistaken.

What are you talking about? I'm saying that there's a topic in our local board that has that purpose Merit your own thread? I don't understand what you are trying to say. I thought you said that there should be a thread for posts that deserves it ^{assuming that you are talking about it in local boards} and in the Philippines local board, that's the one the post that collates good posts and I think there are old ones but not sure if it's still active.

[Findingnemo]

You can't really merit your thread or post so I am talking about the merit deserving post created by others not by themselves so its entirely different if I am not mistaken.

What are you talking about? I'm saying that there's a topic in our local board that has that purpose Merit your own thread? I don't understand what you are trying to say. I thought you said that there should be a thread for posts that deserves it ^{assuming that you are talking about it in local boards} and in the Philippines local board, that's the one the post that collates good posts and I think there are old ones but not sure if it's still active.

Yes I went through the thread but based on my observation that thread is created with the purpose of collect your good post which deserves merits because two users posted there collected their own good posts and threads but I am saying that there should be a thread which is supposed to post unmerited posts created by others not by ourselves there is a difference in that right.

For reference a thread like this: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source which is used to report good post created by others so if someone wish to spend their sMerit then it will make their job easier.

[Peanutswar]

You can't really merit your thread or post so I am talking about the merit deserving post created by others not by themselves so its entirely different if I am not mistaken.

What are you talking about? I'm saying that there's a topic in our local board that has that purpose Merit your own thread? I don't understand what you are trying to say. I thought you said that there should be a thread for posts that deserves it ^{assuming that you are talking about it in local boards} and in the Philippines local board, that's the one the post that collates good posts and I think there are old ones but not sure if it's still active.

Yes I went through the thread but based on my observation that thread is created with the purpose of collect your good post which deserves merits because two users posted there collected their own good posts and threads but I am saying that there should be a thread which is supposed to post unmerited posts created by others not by ourselves there is a difference in that right.

For reference a thread like this: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source which is used to report good post created by others so if someone wish to spend their sMerit then it will make their job easier.

I created the thread on our local because i saw theres some members getting active on our board and also i have some sMerits to share with them, so they get encouraged to get active and still there's a merit circulation.  I'm not a merit source but it's useless to hold merit why not give it to the really deserves it and I start with our local Pilipinas board.

Also, other fellow local members created good and quality content for the Pilipinas board.
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368155.0 by Shamm
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370098.0 by skaikru
3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368141.0 by Bttzed03
4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366579.0 by Tanaka-Wun
5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5340570.0 by danherbias07
6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370065.0 by julerz12

Also with the LoyceV content, I already shared some of their good threads that is really deserved merit.

[Jemzx00]

Bumping this thread for an update in regard to crwth's application as a Merit Source on our local board.

Also, there's currently an active discussion about this on our local board as we lack a merit source which resulted in some of our local users posting on global boards such as Bitcoin Discussion or Economics about their topics and initiatives as they won't receive the credit or merit for their quality threads. We also, don't have a merit source on our local board as the only merit source we had is now inactive.

[goaldigger]

Bumping this thread for an update in regard to crwth's application as a Merit Source on our local board.

Also, there's currently an active discussion about this on our local board as we lack a merit source which resulted in some of our local users posting on global boards such as Bitcoin Discussion or Economics about their topics and initiatives as they won't receive the credit or merit for their quality threads. We also, don't have a merit source on our local board as the only merit source we had is now inactive.

It’s about time to get a new Merit source for our local board, and @crwth seems to be the only one who are interested to help and be our new Merit source. I’m sure this application is still active, not sure though if there are changes to become a merit source, but I know @crwth will comply to that, better for him to affirm this application as well.

[cydrix]

It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again. I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.

[Plaguedeath]

It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again. I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.

I think if your intention to post on your local board to increase the activity to seek theymos attention, I think it's not gonna work since I believe it will encourage spam, not high quality post. Well although the merit source is from local board, he doesn't owe anything to merit his local board since it's up to him. Maybe he doesn't see any high quality post in his local board, so he's just send a high quality post in global board.

[Shamm]

Bumping this thread for an update in regard to crwth's application as a Merit Source on our local board.

Also, there's currently an active discussion about this on our local board as we lack a merit source which resulted in some of our local users posting on global boards such as Bitcoin Discussion or Economics about their topics and initiatives as they won't receive the credit or merit for their quality threads. We also, don't have a merit source on our local board as the only merit source we had is now inactive.

Yes you are right that mate and our current merit source Is not active and this is the reason why our local boards has a lesser merit circulation and one thing is that some of our fellow countrymen prefer to post in global section in order to receive more merits because in our local boards it's hard to gain merits cause lack of support by our current merit source and also it's time to look another or a new merit source who look for the quality threads and give some merits.

[Jemzx00]

It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again.

Nope, the monthly stats for local boards' activity will beg to disagree with your statement. You can even check it out for yourself and see the recent month's activity of Pilipinas Boards is currently in 7th place on the most posts made, and 5th place on the most active members. However, we only are only on 3rd least shared merit and 2nd least on merit/post ratio. You can it out here Local board during October 2022

Post activity per local board during October 2022

Number of active members per local board during October 2022

Merit shared per local board during October 2022

Merit/Post ratio per local board for October 2022

I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.

There is only one merit source for Pilipinas Board however he is now inactive starting when an issue rose that involve him and other members of the forums.

[karmamiu]

I fully support the OP's motives. As we can see right now all the local boards are actively engaging with their fellow countrymen, but our is a bit silent. I want to take this opportunity to call all our fellow Filipino members here on this forum to be active in our own boards, and also to bump this thread. Hopefully this will be noticed by our high-ranking members here and I also hope to see changes in the following weeks. Thank you and best regards.

[crwth]

I fully support the OP's motives. As we can see right now all the local boards are actively engaging with their fellow countrymen, but our is a bit silent. I want to take this opportunity to call all our fellow Filipino members here on this forum to be active in our own boards, and also to bump this thread. Hopefully this will be noticed by our high-ranking members here and I also hope to see changes in the following weeks. Thank you and best regards.

Thank you for bumping this. It has been a while. I intend to put myself forward to get approved here since there's no activity left with the merit source in the local board that we have. I hope this can be noticed and approved.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

[Shamm]

I fully support the OP's motives. As we can see right now all the local boards are actively engaging with their fellow countrymen, but our is a bit silent. I want to take this opportunity to call all our fellow Filipino members here on this forum to be active in our own boards, and also to bump this thread. Hopefully this will be noticed by our high-ranking members here and I also hope to see changes in the following weeks. Thank you and best regards.

Thank you for bumping this. It has been a while. I intend to put myself forward to get approved here since there's no activity left with the merit source in the local board that we have. I hope this can be noticed and approved.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

Very good bumb for this thread and we all know that Philippines board have a small amout of merit to be cycle and also  we are already noticed that our local board are not just active like others, maybe some of us choosing to post other board than in our local. And I admit that I am one of those users who choose other boards over us. It because when I make a tutorial threads about how to encrypt and decrypt a message using Igolder with our mobile phone and also I created a thread how to post an image using Imgur. but sadly no response.

[karmamiu]

I fully support the OP's motives. As we can see right now all the local boards are actively engaging with their fellow countrymen, but our is a bit silent. I want to take this opportunity to call all our fellow Filipino members here on this forum to be active in our own boards, and also to bump this thread. Hopefully this will be noticed by our high-ranking members here and I also hope to see changes in the following weeks. Thank you and best regards.

Thank you for bumping this. It has been a while. I intend to put myself forward to get approved here since there's no activity left with the merit source in the local board that we have. I hope this can be noticed and approved.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

Very good bumb for this thread and we all know that Philippines board have a small amout of merit to be cycle and also  we are already noticed that our local board are not just active like others, maybe some of us choosing to post other board than in our local. And I admit that I am one of those users who choose other boards over us. It because when I make a tutorial threads about how to encrypt and decrypt a message using Igolder with our mobile phone and also I created a thread how to post an image using Imgur. but sadly no response.

I also understand the importance of your roles here in the international boards. Due to stricter rules imposed by the campaigns in which only few posts from local boards are credited, most of us chose to post in international to be more productive. While some have their own reasons to do that maybe work or something you personally preferred, in a long run it will be hard for us if we no longer have a merit source in our own local board. As what happened previously that there're only few people on the boards and the latest posts can date back from few weeks to months. To be honest it doesn't matter if we aren't that active on our own board as long as it is maintained coz there is a chance that it'll be removed due to inactivity(just assuming).

[SFR10]

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

As much as I'd like for you to become a merit source, unfortunately, our words mean little to nothing ^{[in other words, you have to show it with your actions (replace all those outdated posts with the ones in the past couple of months and keep doing it until you become a merit source)]}.

[karmamiu]

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

As much as I'd like for you to become a merit source, unfortunately, our words mean little to nothing ^{[in other words, you have to show it with your actions (replace all those outdated posts with the ones in the past couple of months and keep doing it until you become a merit source)]}.

We will do our best to support you so that your application will be pushed forward coz it has been years since you've submitted this application, and for sure you have gained enough credibility to become our merit source. Let's just hope this will approved sooner.

[Timelord2067]

The OP never did explain what happened to the charity donations the three "official" forum fund raisers walked away with.