Ohh!! I never thought that somebody will create a thread on me.
1. Why I created this thread in Off-Topic ?
No Signature Bounty pays the post in Off topic, so I took Off topic as my choice so nobody spam it for signature. (Initially I thought Serious Discussion that nobody get any activity and signature display but then I think I should not create my personal thread there).
2. First 5 basic question for Joining the challenge
I did not propose Merit on joining the challenge but after completing the 5 question challenge that started today.
There is nothing wrong with that. Actually he's helping other members to rank up at the same time he also teaches low rank member to do some research before posting. It is way more better method in decreasing the number of shitposting in our forum.
He's just teaching other low-rank members on how to fish rather than giving them a fish.
Thanks for guessing my real intent correctly. I have explained my
intent here.
they may be fixed prior ... these are my doubts ...
No one was fixed. On the contrary it took more than 24 hours to get 5 people with +100 activity to give correct answer to very basic question. This really shows ignorance of users in this forum.
Maybe this is the new way to trade merit in future???
I awarded 1 merit only before the below comment of LoyceV
One tip: start awarding Merit for good posts (no, not my posts, I don't need it and I for sure don't want to ask for Merit). By doing so, you'll help improve the forum.
And I thought good posters already have enough merits and I should do something that can make below average poster to somewhat improve the quality, more adherent to rule or more aware.
If it is right, then there are some rules for creating such type of thread or there are some limitation in creating this type of thread.
Actually Theymos left this on our imagination without giving a definite guideline but creating of these thread should not be considered wrong.
I agree with this approach. I considered giving merit proportional to activity, but I decided not to because doing so would probably give far more undeserved merit than deserved merit in total. But undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
I also agree with the idea of (free) "reviewer" topics in general, for finding high-quality posts that went unnoticed. Barcode_ created one in the Chinese section, as well.
Only difference, I am thinking it might create future high quality poster.
