Coin-1 (OP)
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September 21, 2018, 03:58:05 AM Last edit: February 07, 2024, 04:11:25 PM by Coin-1 Merited by bitmover (9), LoyceV (8), DdmrDdmr (8), Vod (5), Welsh (5), mindrust (5), dbshck (5), suchmoon (4), vapourminer (2), Daniel91 (2), nutildah (2), o_e_l_e_o (2), paxmao (2), bones261 (2), OgNasty (1), d5000 (1), JayJuanGee (1), BitMaxz (1), TimeTeller (1), coinlocket$ (1), dkbit98 (1), lemipawa (1), dragonvslinux (1), NotATether (1), krishnapramod (1), Alex_Sr (1), Piggy (1), hakka (1), sncc (1) |
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On September 17, 2018, the new enhanced restrictions and requirements for newbies have been introduced on the Bitcointalk forum. In particular, nowadays Newbie must have sufficient activity and earn at least one merit for ranking up to Jr. Member. A lot of meritless users were demoted to Newbies, and now they want to receive one merit for restoring their rank. It is predictable that the merit traders and account farmers immediately became active, and they started distributing per one merit for clearly garbage messages or reports. However, everybody knows that each merit should be given only for a useful post. Therefore I decided to create TOP-200 of the members who support decent newbies which make useful posts and contribute to the forum development. Of course, the list likely contains merit traders and account farmers, but I suppose that most of these members give merits to newbies well-deservedly. The table below shows the user name, his current rank and the quantity of newbies who were supported by this member since the new rules have been introduced on the forum. I will write the known merit sources in bold. The currently reg tagged members will be marked in italic, permanently banned users will be strikelined.
Members who support newbies (Sep 17, 2018 - Feb 2, 2024) Total supported: 23491 newbies (by 5266 members) [1] - the rank that is based on the merit amount regardless of current activity
The chart below illustrates how many newbies have been supported since September 17, 2018.
I remind, please do not beg merits from other members, otherwise you can be red tagged. This post is relevant for February 2, 2024, and has been updated on February 7, 2024.I will publish monthly statistics.
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You get merit points when someone likes your post enough to give you some. And for every 2 merit points you receive, you can send 1 merit point to someone else!
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Coin-1 (OP)
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September 21, 2018, 03:58:34 AM |
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Reserved.
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tweetbit
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September 21, 2018, 04:15:15 AM |
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More or less than 500 newbie in total! Interestingly good to know.
Less signature/bounty spammers stock in a newbie account and won't rank up to Jr.
Who's your daddy now? *merit system is godly*
Nice one @Coin-1. Thanks for sharing this one.
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HODL
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Piggy
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September 21, 2018, 04:23:23 AM |
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Good job, you marked already the known or safe givers as well i see, so it will make it easier to run some check on these. Edit: there are also other "safe people" you can mark in that list
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DdmrDdmr
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain
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September 21, 2018, 05:04:05 AM Last edit: September 23, 2018, 08:46:35 AM by DdmrDdmr |
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Well that was quick! Have you manage to retrieve already all the user profiles for all TXs right up to this morning in order to do this ?
Edit: The 1.637 is the same I'm getting, so you've certainly nailed it.
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rhomelmabini
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September 21, 2018, 05:37:30 AM |
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Thanks for the statistic. It shows that we always have active members to help deserved newbie rank up.
Yes but those members will ignore on the likes of you. Ripple pump recent days due to the news that PNC Financial Services Group Inc will use Ripple’s blockchain solution xCurrent to speed up overseas transactions held by U.S. commercial clients. PNC is one of top ten largest U.S. banks so the partnership between Ripple and PNC make this pump of XRP.
This post of yours may consider plagiarism since I've read the post at cointlegraph and clearly you just copy it out there with 113 characters including spaces and not giving credits where you've found it. Hope anyone found out if it's really plagiarized content or not and do correct me. will use Ripple’s blockchain solution xCurrent to speed up overseas transactions held by U.S. commercial clients. I guess this sentence he just plagiarized and you can find it in this post https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-financial-giant-pnc-to-use-ripple-technology-for-international-payments
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o_e_l_e_o
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September 21, 2018, 06:18:25 AM |
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Many of your list, including all 6 of the top 10 who aren't merit sources, appear on my list of likely abusers here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5031341. Please report any other suspicious users on that thread.
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Piggy
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September 21, 2018, 06:27:07 AM |
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interesting to see the top 4 merit givers are already red trusted and merited about 200 newbie, i haven't check yet the merited post, so i can be wrong, but i guess this is not going to end up well
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Veleor
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Rêlêå§ê ¥ðµr MïñÐ
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September 21, 2018, 07:33:13 AM |
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... the currently reg tagged members will be marked in italic. Italic is not good visible. Can you mark them in red? | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 1) | dumbtool45 | Senior Member | 59 newbies | 2) | nick777 | Hero Member | 48 newbies | 3) | zanzibar | Hero Member | 45 newbies | 4) | foserfox | Legendary | 44 newbies |
dumbtool45 is a plagiarist as foserfox.
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Jet Cash
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Activity: 2716
Merit: 2457
https://JetCash.com
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It isn't just about giving merit. In fact merit is possibly the least important consideration in supporting new members. I'm a bit surprised that I am not on the list, especially as I spend my own money to try to help new members to become good members of the forum. Also, I believe that I have given merit to more than 5 brand new members in the past.
I assume your list is based on awards to the spambies who dropped rank to newbie because they had been unable to earn any merit during the period before the latest rule change. I'd be grateful if you could change the title to reflect this fact, as the current title is a slap in the face to members who try to encourage genuine new members.
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TheBeardedBaby
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₿uy / $ell
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Normally I give a lot of merit to newbies, but these days after the change, the forum is like a street full of beggars. Everyone is trying to get merit in one way or another, begging, cursing the merit system, loving the merit system, just posting memes in hope to get some, etc. It's just crazy time now. I'll wait some time unlit things are a bit more settle down and the beggars are a bit discouraged then I'll start giving as before. I guess there are more people doing the same.
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OgNasty
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Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
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September 21, 2018, 07:54:44 AM |
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I assume your list is based on awards to the spambies who dropped rank to newbie because they had been unable to earn any merit during the period before the latest rule change. I'd be grateful if you could change the title to reflect this fact, as the current title is a slap in the face to members who try to encourage genuine new members.
You don't need to assume. The time period is listed. Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018)
I took it as a list of the people who are actively following the below recommendation. If a newbie posts something that could be even called good, then give them 1 merit.
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eddie13
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BTC or BUST
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September 21, 2018, 08:02:26 AM Last edit: September 21, 2018, 08:13:22 AM by eddie13 |
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I made the list if only just barely but I have gone through a lot of post histories to have only gotten 5.. I have been looking for them in particular but I'm really surprised that 5 makes the list at all..
I'll keep looking for them and try to stay on this list but I only have the smerit I get so it's not exactly a fair fight to the top.. Also, I'm not sure why their are only 53 on the top 200 list..
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Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks
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criz2fer
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September 21, 2018, 08:02:37 AM |
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A good catch. How about the source of file where you got your data? You just defeated DdmrDdmr in this statistics race This would be a an eye turning for other DT members to watch this to give them an early Christmas gift. They even overtake Ognasty in giving merits to new members.
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Jet Cash
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Merit: 2457
https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 08:04:36 AM |
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I would suggest that we include a membership time in the newbie rank criteria. If you have been here for more than a month, and made more than 30 posts without merit, then you are no longer a newbie. It is because of this that I am opposed to a merit requirement for junior members. I think it would be better to remove it, and to disallow signatures for both newbies and juniors.
Failing that, please can we have a new category of "spambie". this would mean that real new members are not tarred with the spammers brush.
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TMAN
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September 21, 2018, 08:05:51 AM |
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I think it would be better to remove it, and to disallow signatures for both newbies and juniors.
I think that is the best way to handle it, also a little shocked I am not on the list
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 08:12:33 AM |
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I think it would be better to remove it, and to disallow signatures for both newbies and juniors.
I think that is the best way to handle it, also a little shocked I am not on the list We need an " I don't merit spambies" badge. Well this thread has achieved one thing - I've added that message to my personal text.
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Veleor
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September 21, 2018, 08:12:58 AM |
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I took it as a list of the people who are actively following the below recommendation. If a newbie posts something that could be even called good, then give them 1 merit.
Especially for such messages? http://archive.li/HGtOG#selection-4929.0-4929.12
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Veleor
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Rêlêå§ê ¥ðµr MïñÐ
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September 21, 2018, 10:53:47 AM |
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paxmao
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Merit: 1587
Do not die for Putin
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September 21, 2018, 11:02:09 AM |
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This user is now a merit source I believe.
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Piggy
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September 21, 2018, 11:13:34 AM |
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This user is now a merit source I believe. I think he was stating not so long ago (a week or two) he was not, or at least he never applied to be one as far as i know. However nobody could complain if he was added to the recent 36 new merit sources silently.
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 12:04:26 PM |
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He posted that he is now a source.
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Ondre
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September 21, 2018, 12:09:26 PM |
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Thank you for this post of yours. Since the demotion that happened earlier this week I was really contemplating if there are people giving merits in the first place before giving strong comments on the demoted newbies. This post gives peace to my heart that indeed there are people who are doing also their part in this forum. This encourages me. To be honest, I stopped for few days to also see where I am lacking and where I can improve. I can see hope as I also move forward to what is better for the purpose of fhis forum.
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MagicSmoker
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September 21, 2018, 12:22:03 PM Last edit: September 21, 2018, 02:02:53 PM by MagicSmoker |
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I just ranked up 2 3 more newbies in the altcoins/mining subforum bringing my total up to 7 8. It's fairly easy to find newbies making decent posts in the more technical subfora, vs., say, here in meta (or those cesspools of spam, the discussion subfora for either bitcoin or altcoins), and I haven't found nearly as much posting in spam megathreads or bounty reports by those newbies who show an interest in mining.
Conversely, most of the merit abuse seems to be occurring in the altcoins/announcements subforum; especially common is ANN thread starters meriting apparently random shitposts in their own threads. Consequently, I'm thinking of starting a thread to collect examples of such abuse to make it convenient for DT members to go paint the abusers red.
P.S. - please don't PM me to asking for a review of your posts, and definitely don't ask if you can buy a merit.
EDIT - I forgot to say I think that getting marked with a "spambies" rank if you make x number of posts without getting a single merit is an excellent idea!
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Jet Cash
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Merit: 2457
https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 12:26:58 PM |
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I think it's getting close to the time Bitcoin Talk allows a bifurcation. Let the underworld go down one fork, and the Bitcoin/Crypto discussions happen on the other.
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mazdafunsun
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September 21, 2018, 02:43:01 PM |
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interesting to see the top 4 merit givers are already red trusted and merited about 200 newbie, i haven't check yet the merited post, so i can be wrong, but i guess this is not going to end up well
Gave them a quick look and it seems like a huge farm atleast for some of them. I do not think that these posts could be considered as good even if we strecth it: Allo the intervals between awards is suspucious. The past red trust, the change of merit awarding behaviour shortly after new restrictions and the timing of merit awarding with 20 sec intervals is enough factors for me to think that it is farming after all. The real question will the mods have time to investigate these kind of cases , will this behaviour reveal big farms or let them be,
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Cashback 15%
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September 21, 2018, 02:51:17 PM |
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This user is now a merit source I believe.
I am indeed. I'm also out of sMerits and I'm waiting with bated breath till the day I get topped up. I'm far down on this list, but I definitely support newbies IF they make good posts. I've been hunting outside of Meta lately, looking for good ones by lower-ranked members (not just Newbies) and they are hard to find--and then there's the issue of having to check for plagiarism before giving someone merit. I got burned once on this and almost got burned a couple of times, and it's annoying to say the least. Getting new members here posting in the English section who can actually write well is so rare. And it's rare when someone actually writes something that's interesting. There are so many generic posts being written that I can't bring myself to merit them even if they make sense. The newbies I actually sent merit to didn't write outstanding posts necessarily, but they were very good relative to the other ones in the threads they were posted in. Note: I don't think any of the newbies I merited were for posts in Meta in the last 3 days. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure.
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 04:57:00 PM |
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Welcome to the club. I've almost given up hunting for posts that are worthy of merit. I decided that it was better to encourage good members to start good discussions, and use those as a base for meritable posts. I still believe that this is a good approach, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit, especially as many of the potential awardees can't be bothered to join. I'm also a bit pissed off that the guys awarding merits to the spambies are being lauded as supporters of newbies. Actually the reverse is true, and they make it harder for good new members to find a place here. I think it is time for the bifurcation of Bitcoin Talk, and the spambies can continue in the underworld, and allow the regrowth of the real Bitcoin Talk to begin.
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btc-facebook
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September 21, 2018, 05:03:31 PM |
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How to being categorized as member that support newbie ? I can see dumbtool45 already received the red, it means the list still valid ?
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 05:07:58 PM |
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How to being categorized as member that support newbie ?
Do you mean a newbie or a spambie? To help newbies you need to offer training and advice, and that is more work than just giving merits to spambies to get on a list.
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riyarana1123
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September 21, 2018, 05:21:22 PM |
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So, nice of you people that you are helping those newbies who lost their position of jr. member after some changes.Thanks
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 21, 2018, 05:36:43 PM |
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So, nice of you people that you are helping those newbies who lost their position of jr. member after some changes.Thanks
Please don't call them newbies - they aren't new at all.
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Offgrid campers allow you to enjoy life and preserve your health and wealth. Save old Cars - my project to save old cars from scrapage schemes, and to reduce the sale of new cars. My new Bitcoin transfer address is - bc1q9gtz8e40en6glgxwk4eujuau2fk5wxrprs6fys
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suchmoon
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https://bpip.org
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September 21, 2018, 05:51:35 PM Merited by LoyceV (1), dbshck (1) |
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The past red trust, the change of merit awarding behaviour shortly after new restrictions and the timing of merit awarding with 20 sec intervals is enough factors for me to think that it is farming after all.
Please let's not use timing as a criterion for abuse. I often open a bunch of +Merit in tabs and then just submit them all and I'm sure I'm not alone doing that.
I'd also caution (and this is not specifically directed at you mazda) against getting too carried away with some of these abuse allegations. I've always maintained that merely sending and receiving merits is not a proof of wrongdoing. Of course if there is any other malfeasance involved (provable alts, quid pro quo, etc) then it's different. But some of these recent allegations seem to be based entirely on someone sending 1 merit to multiple users. Let them have it. If they're shitposters they'll get banned and will eventually run out of merits. Let's hit them where it hurts and report those spam posts.
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Azna Azhar
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So, nice of you people that you are helping those newbies who lost their position of jr. member after some changes.Thanks
Please don't call them newbies - they aren't new at all. Yes, we are not new, at first I did not care about merit. After a change of rules, merit became the center of attention for our second session newbie. I'm not too sure about members who can give merit for free or just because of the quality of the posts.
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OgNasty
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Please let's not use timing as a criterion for abuse. I often open a bunch of +Merit in tabs and then just submit them all and I'm sure I'm not alone doing that.
Agreed. I too am guilty of batching merit pages.
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The Cryptovator
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Veleor
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karagun125
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This user is now a merit source I believe.
I am indeed. I'm also out of sMerits and I'm waiting with bated breath till the day I get topped up. I'm far down on this list, but I definitely support newbies IF they make good posts. I've been hunting outside of Meta lately, looking for good ones by lower-ranked members (not just Newbies) and they are hard to find--and then there's the issue of having to check for plagiarism before giving someone merit. I got burned once on this and almost got burned a couple of times, and it's annoying to say the least. Getting new members here posting in the English section who can actually write well is so rare. And it's rare when someone actually writes something that's interesting. There are so many generic posts being written that I can't bring myself to merit them even if they make sense. The newbies I actually sent merit to didn't write outstanding posts necessarily, but they were very good relative to the other ones in the threads they were posted in. Note: I don't think any of the newbies I merited were for posts in Meta in the last 3 days. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that this account awards merit to newbies for thier good work. He is not giving without any beneficial post of the newbie.
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YOSHIE
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Therefore I decided to create TOP-200 of the members who support decent newbies which make useful posts and contribute to the forum development. Of course, the list likely contains merit traders and account farmers, but I suppose that most of these members give merits to newbies I saw a lot of controversy about the Merit that was given and got by the Newbie, I do not blame this new system, it is even better with this new system, especially for more Beginners (professionals) in implementing posts on the Bitcoin Talk Forum. With so many good comparisons to know that it's not good to get a Merit I remembered one thing that stated about giving or giving alms: "Hasn't Allah made various ways for me to give charity? Every sentence of tasbih is alms, every sentence of takbir is alms, every sentence of tahmid is alms, every sentence of tahlil is alms, amar ma'ruf nahi munkar is alms, even on one's genitals there are alms from servants. "Jesus Then he sent the crowds to sit on the grass. And after he took the five loaves and two fish, Jesus looked up to heaven and blessed, then broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples, then the disciples. His disciples gave it to the people ". "That there is nothing eternal and eternal in this world, the hereafter is eternal and eternal, do good while we are in this world." The bottom line: [Verily Sadaqah will extinguish the heat of the grave for the owner of Sadaqah] ...
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Coin-1 (OP)
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September 22, 2018, 05:01:05 AM |
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Well that was quick! Have you manage to retrieve already all the user profiles for all TXs right up to this morning in order to do this ?
Yes, I prepared the analysis in advance. I created this thread as soon as the new dump of merit transactions has been published.
Also, I'm not sure why their are only 53 on the top 200 list..
Now there are 200 members in the list.
Good job, you marked already the known or safe givers as well i see, so it will make it easier to run some check on these. I wrote the merit sources known to me in bold, now I just marked the red tagged members in italic.
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DrDoctor1234
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Cool info! Interesting how 150-200 have all pretty much provided two merit to newbies, which shows there isn't that many people sharing the love for newbies out there (or there are alot of trash newbie accounts and no one wants to give them merit!)
I generally lurk more than post, but these 'rule changes' that, from what I can tell, are meant to prevent spamming, seem to be getting everyone super annoyed. Like your level/rank makes any difference to posting or reading this forum?!
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Jet Cash
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https://JetCash.com
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September 22, 2018, 08:46:34 AM Merited by Foxpup (2), LoyceV (1) |
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Cool info! Interesting how 150-200 have all pretty much provided two merit to newbies, which shows there isn't that many people sharing the love for newbies out there (or there are alot of trash newbie accounts and no one wants to give them merit!)
There is a lot of love for quality new members. It's the spambies that are the ones that the rules are intended to control. I suspect a lot of the 150-200 are spambies promoted by their alts and sponsors. I think the good news is that the new rules highlight these members and their puppet masters. If there are too many, then the next stage will have to be sig removal for juniors.
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YOSHIE
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September 22, 2018, 09:29:11 AM Last edit: September 22, 2018, 03:11:55 PM by YOSHIE Merited by LoyceV (1), amishmanish (1) |
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On September 17, 2018, the new enhanced restrictions and requirements for newbies have been introduced on the BitcoinTalk forum. In particular, nowadays Newbie must have sufficient activity and earn at least one merit for ranking up to Jr. Member. A lot of meritless users were demoted to Newbies, and now they want to receive one merit for restoring their rank. Maybe it can be arranged like this a little so that it looks good and knows the Red Trust and TrustIt is predictable that the merit traders and account farmers immediately became active, and they started distributing per one merit for clearly garbage messages or reports. However, everybody knows that each merit should be given only for a useful post. Therefore I decided to create TOP-200 of the members who support decent newbies which make useful posts and contribute to the forum development. Of course, the list likely contains merit traders and account farmers, but I suppose that most of these members give merits to newbies well-deservedly. The table below shows the user name, his current rank and the quantity of newbies who were supported by this member since the new rules have been introduced on the forum. I will write the known merit sources in bold, the currently reg tagged members will be marked in italic.
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018)
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018)
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018) Total supported: 1637 newbies [1] - the rank that is based on the amount of merits regardless of the current activity
I remind, please do not beg merits from other members, otherwise you can be red tagged. This post will be updated weekly.I will publish monthly statistics. Maybe it can be arranged like this a little so that it looks good and knows the Red Trust and Trust.
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... "Hasn't Allah made various ways for me to give charity? ...even on one's genitals there are alms from servants. " ... Hmm... Allah wants servants to give alms to their master's genitals? Sign me up! ... Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018) | [User name / Red trust] | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 1) | dumbtool45 | Senior Member | 59 newbies | 2) | nick777 | Hero Member | 48 newbies |
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018) | [User name / Trust] | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 1) | OgNasty | Legendary | 40 newbies | 2) | unamis76 | Legendary | 29 newbies |
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/21/2018) | [User name / trust] | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 10) | bones261 | Legendary | 18 newbies | 13) | radnom | Senior Member | 13 newbies |
... Maybe it can be arranged like this a little so that it looks good and knows the Red Trust and Trust. Please note the changes I made to your quoting to make your post more readable and less of a wall of text; you did not need to quote the entire list made by Coin-1 to illustrate the use of colored text to denote untrusted/trusted/neutral feedback. Also, don't use colored text for your reply as it almost always makes it less easy to read and greatly annoys some members (Jet Cash, in particular, is not fond of changing text color or size in a garish attempt to stand out - and many agree with him, including me).
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YOSHIE
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Please note the changes I made to your quoting to make your post more readable and less of a wall of text; you did not need to quote the entire list made by Coin-1 to illustrate the use of colored text to denote untrusted/trusted/neutral feedback. Also, don't use colored text for your reply as it almost always makes it less easy to read and greatly annoys some members (Jet Cash, in particular, is not fond of changing text color or size in a garish attempt to stand out - and many agree with him, including me).
Thanks for the advice? Isn't this interesting to be seen as the original? Except for color blind people who don't like color, From 100, maybe in only 1 is color blind. Thank you again for the advice of a good posting procedure. I like beauty?
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LoyceV
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September 22, 2018, 11:43:09 AM |
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I thought I would have "supported" more Newbies than just 3, but indeed, after checking my merit history, this is correct. It is much easier to Merit higher ranks than finding the rare good Newbie posts. The past red trust, the change of merit awarding behaviour shortly after new restrictions and the timing of merit awarding with 20 sec intervals is enough factors for me to think that it is farming after all.
Please let's not use timing as a criterion for abuse. I often open a bunch of +Merit in tabs and then just submit them all and I'm sure I'm not alone doing that. Even better: I try to do it as fast as possible Example: 3 seconds in a row at 3 posts merited per second: September 15, 2018, 04:59:32 PM: 1 to laszlo for Pizza for bitcoins? September 15, 2018, 04:59:32 PM: 1 to Coding Enthusiast for Re: Coin Control in Electrum September 15, 2018, 04:59:32 PM: 1 to shorena for How to sign a message?! September 15, 2018, 04:59:31 PM: 1 to Vod for Re: Merit - one week later September 15, 2018, 04:59:31 PM: 1 to Atalol for Storing Bitcoin - Please corect me if I'm wrong September 15, 2018, 04:59:31 PM: 1 to cryptocrusher for My take on Merit September 15, 2018, 04:59:30 PM: 1 to DannyHamilton for Re: Network fee estimation September 15, 2018, 04:59:30 PM: 1 to Thirdspace for Re: How to sell Bitcoin on your Cell Phone from a Paper Wallet September 15, 2018, 04:59:30 PM: 1 to ChiBitCTy for How to sell Bitcoin on your Cell Phone from a Cold Storage Paper Wallet
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Alone055
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September 22, 2018, 07:17:51 PM |
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So, 1637 promotions in less than a week, huh? Aren't we, as a community, becoming too generous, too soon? I mean, the changes are still too new, but the promotions are going in a very high speed. The people, that have never even thought about the concept (Merit system) itself, are being promoted right after the demotions only because they have started to "show" they care about it all, while they don't from the inside (at least most of them don't). And I'm not only talking about the ones who are farmers and are promoting their own accounts, but some other accounts are also getting into the crowd by such actions, which is not good for the community.
Maybe we should wait for some time before starting to do all this. Even if we see a new user posting something decent, we should take our time in taking the responsibility of promoting them to the next tier where they might start abusing the system again.
P.S: I don't intend to hurt anyone's feelings by saying any of this. My statements are general, and are not against any single user. Anyone reading this should not take any of it personally, please.
Arguments are welcome.
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coinlocket$
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September 22, 2018, 08:05:46 PM |
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Thankyou for the list, I can see many abusers here, it will a long work to report them all, also if you can update those data next week with next datas! It will be very fast way to find them out!
I've already found 2 abusers with this list, I will post the accusation later.
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mazdafunsun
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September 22, 2018, 09:23:43 PM |
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Please let's not use timing as a criterion for abuse. I often open a bunch of +Merit in tabs and then just submit them all and I'm sure I'm not alone doing that.
Agreed, the timing alone is not a solid criteria for abusers. There is a lot of love for quality new members. It's the spambies that are the ones that the rules are intended to control. I suspect a lot of the 150-200 are spambies promoted by their alts and sponsors. I think the good news is that the new rules highlight these members and their puppet masters. If there are too many, then the next stage will have to be sig removal for juniors.
It seems that puppet masters are rushing to regain control of their puppet army after new rules and this most likely will be their downfall in anycase
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krishnaverma
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September 22, 2018, 09:41:26 PM |
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Nice to read something positive in meta section here. Otherwise , it is usually filled with posts against merit system (these days against the recent change regarding jr member) .
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MagicSmoker
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September 23, 2018, 11:29:10 AM |
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So, 1637 promotions in less than a week, huh? Aren't we, as a community, becoming too generous, too soon? ...
For sure some are being too generous and/or naive. I purposefully went back to threads I have been following a long time and singled out some of the contributors there, rather than award most of my sMerits to newbies that showed up in meta to "praise" the new changes by "thermos." Furthermore, I wrote a thread within a few hours of theymos' instituting the new merit requirements for jr. members that warned people to check the post history of any newbies before awarding them a merit to make sure they weren't (re-)enabling their ability to shitpost for sig campaigns, which is basically what you are saying here (so I naturally agree with you). That particular cat is out of the bag at this point, though... Now I suppose we will just have to wait a month or two or six to see if the new merit requirement is actually effective at reducing spam megathreads.
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Piggy
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September 23, 2018, 11:36:12 AM |
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So, 1637 promotions in less than a week, huh? Aren't we, as a community, becoming too generous, too soon? ...
For sure some are being too generous and/or naive. Looks like some of these merited newbie got their merits from red trusted people, so as a result of some "private arrangement".
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xtraelv
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September 23, 2018, 11:51:51 AM |
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Some of the ranks are not quite correct for some of the members. For instance - I ain't no Hero.
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bungutko
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September 23, 2018, 11:57:31 AM |
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I think that was a good decision for some high ranking member to show compassion to those who really deserve to acquire even for 1 merit. Though, the rules are rules and we need to follow it as this has it's purpose that could change and improve the forum to be more free from spammers. I believe that by continuing the effort in contributing good informative post could harvest a merit reward unexpectedly. Just keep in doing what you believe in, for there will be time for you to be rewarded with your hardwork.
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eddie13
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September 23, 2018, 03:47:16 PM |
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Some of the ranks are not quite correct for some of the members. For instance - I ain't no Hero. Because.. - the rank that is based on the amount of merits regardless of the current activity
And you have hero merits..
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DdmrDdmr
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September 23, 2018, 03:57:27 PM |
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I think that was a good decision for some high ranking member to show compassion to those who really deserve to acquire even for 1 merit. <…>
Compassion should not be part of the equation. Merit is not awarded on a compassion basis, but rather on the post’s content and, increasingly so (and even more now days), the poster’s posting history track. The main problem may reside in finding those to merit, and not being put-off in the process by those other posts that make your eyes sour. That is probably the main challenge of the non-merited with decent posts on their back: being spotted among all the large amount of non-contributive posts.
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PlusOne88
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September 23, 2018, 04:50:10 PM |
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There is a lot of love for quality new members. It's the spambies that are the ones that the rules are intended to control. I suspect a lot of the 150-200 are spambies promoted by their alts and sponsors. I think the good news is that the new rules highlight these members and their puppet masters. If there are too many, then the next stage will have to be sig removal for juniors.
The site needs quality posts because it is really needed for a better advertising of products and or projects. And so many are just spamming and giving off merits to their alts just to rank it up. I think this system could probably go up in time where juniors will really be stripped off of their signature. And certainly this will help clean the system of newbies and juniors who are not really making good post. I think it will be good to see higher ranking forum member's posts in the site so that they can act as a good example.
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Iranud
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September 23, 2018, 05:48:19 PM |
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There is a lot of love for quality new members. It's the spambies that are the ones that the rules are intended to control. I suspect a lot of the 150-200 are spambies promoted by their alts and sponsors. I think the good news is that the new rules highlight these members and their puppet masters. If there are too many, then the next stage will have to be sig removal for juniors.
The site needs quality posts because it is really needed for a better advertising of products and or projects. And so many are just spamming and giving off merits to their alts just to rank it up. I think this system could probably go up in time where juniors will really be stripped off of their signature. And certainly this will help clean the system of newbies and juniors who are not really making good post. I think it will be good to see higher ranking forum member's posts in the site so that they can act as a good example. Nay. To keep making the forum stricter is a good idea. The system of the forum already handled that. It takes a lot to become a member. The ad already appropriated rewards to users depending on their ranks. That’s enough. If you want more rewards you do more.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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September 30, 2018, 10:07:23 AM |
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My post on the first page has been updated. There are new members in the list. As I can see, 717 newbies received merit this week. Total supported 2354 newbies. Thanks!
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The Sceptical Chymist
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September 30, 2018, 05:38:18 PM |
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Nay. To keep making the forum stricter is a good idea.
Yep. The next logical step to take would be to only allow Sr. Members and above to participate in signature campaigns, and there have already been some campaigns by reputable managers who've started doing this already. Jr. Members would still be allowed to spam social media for their bounties, but that wouldn't add to the spam on bitcointalk--or at least it'd be contained in the altcoin bounty section where it belongs. We'll see how this all works out. Theymos is slow to make changes, and he's being prudent by being that way.
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LoyceV
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September 30, 2018, 06:12:01 PM |
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The next logical step to take would be to only allow Sr. Members and above to participate in signature campaigns I've seen a few members with lower ranks that I'd instantly accept into a campaign. What you're suggesting would also restrict the (few) good users, and I don't think theymos will do that. I think it's safe to say almost all low ranking users who earned 35 Merit make much better posts than Sr. Members and up who barely earned any Merit. And that's why I require earned * Merit on top of rank if I get to run a signature campaign. We'll see how this all works out. Theymos is slow to make changes, and he's being prudent by being that way. At least there's a 1 Merit (or Copper Member) minimum now to join a signature campaign. It's a start *I check if it's earned or traded.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 08, 2018, 09:02:48 PM |
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Weekly update. Another 483 newbies received at least 1 merit this week. The currently red tagged member MalReynolds sent 95 merits to Newbies.
And that's why I require earned* Merit on top of rank if I get to run a signature campaign.
*I check if it's earned or traded.
I agree with you. There are so many high ranked members who didn't earn any merit. In my opinion, this is abnormal if a user has not made a useful post worthy of giving merits for 9 months.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 17, 2018, 03:31:12 AM Last edit: October 17, 2018, 03:54:51 AM by Coin-1 |
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TOP-200 on the first page has been updated. 331 meritless users received at least 1 merit this week. The total number of supported newbies has reached 3168. It seems that the quantity of newbies receiving merits is decreasing each week.
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LFC_Bitcoin
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October 17, 2018, 02:27:10 PM |
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I don’t think I’ve sent a single Merit to a Newbie, that’s quite sad. Maybe I need to stop being prejudiced against them & start looking a little deeper into Newbie’s posts & find some worthy of Meriting. I had two skims through the lost of 200 & couldn’t see my name any way.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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October 17, 2018, 02:39:14 PM |
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TOP-200 on the first page has been updated. I'm glad you're updating it, because I like this thread. What I'd like even better is if I was higher on the list, but it's been so damn difficult to find newbies worth meriting--or even a lot of members of ranks below Sr. Member. Maybe I need to stop being prejudiced against them & start looking a little deeper into Newbie’s posts & find some worthy of Meriting.
Sounds like a good idea. The problem is that most of the time when you look at the average Newbie's post history, it's full of garbage posts with nothing even close to being merit-worthy. I try my best not to be prejudiced against low-ranked members, but it's hard because I've come to expect most of them to be typical bounty spammers, which is true in most cases. But I have no problem whatsoever giving merits to Newbies, Jr. Members, or anyone else as long as the post is well-written and interesting. On the other hand, when I see a post made by a newbie in Meta that has anything to do with merits or suggestions about improving the forum, I instantly assume they're just trying to earn merit. That particular prejudice is justified, IMO.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 22, 2018, 10:50:25 AM |
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This is a monthly statistics for September 2018 below.
Members who support newbies (9/17/2018 - 9/30/2018) Total supported in September 2018: 2516 newbies (by 1210 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 22, 2018, 11:03:05 AM Last edit: October 22, 2018, 11:57:35 AM by Coin-1 |
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My post on the first page has been updated again. I also published monthly statistics for September 2018. The new 317 newbies have become Jr. Members this week. In my opinion, FinFx looks suspicious.
TOP-200 on the first page has been updated. I'm glad you're updating it, because I like this thread. What I'd like even better is if I was higher on the list, but it's been so damn difficult to find newbies worth meriting--or even a lot of members of ranks below Sr. Member. I'm glad to know that my thread is useful.
I see in my full TOP that LFC_Bitcoin supported 1 newbie. He is not shown in this TOP-200.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 30, 2018, 10:51:43 PM |
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Weekly update. Another 306 newbies received at least one merit this week. Total supported 3791 newbies by 1739 members. Now OgNasty is rated first in this TOP-200.
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OgNasty
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October 31, 2018, 06:57:04 PM |
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Now OgNasty is rated first in this TOP-200. Many hours of reading newbie posts trying to find legitimate posters. It’s a (mostly) thankless job, but I’m glad to help new users feel appreciated and improve their bitcointalk experience.
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Many hours of reading newbie posts trying to find legitimate posters. It’s a (mostly) thankless job, but I’m glad to help new users feel appreciated and improve their bitcointalk experience.
I am also glad that a trusted member like you here in the community still finds time to hunt merit worthy post hidden by big piles of dump. I know that you have other things to do in the forum but I am surprised that you are in the top 20 merit senders of all time, it shows that you are also contributing in the forum in other ways and it is really helping a lot of newbies who have received merits from you, as from what I see it is one of their motivators on their attempts on creating good quality post
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Now OgNasty is rated first in this TOP-200. Many hours of reading newbie posts trying to find legitimate posters. It’s a (mostly) thankless job, but I’m glad to help new users feel appreciated and improve their bitcointalk experience. Actually, that's very true. Hard to find really quality posts from newbies. Need to spend time reading different sections just to find one. I for one, didn't ask to be a merit source but I'm also grateful to be a part of it. One way to give back to the forum is to have this "thankless" job. We learn a lot about crypto, in all of its facets, as well as improving the forum.
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There is the huge problem of copy-pasting on the forum therefore many users spend their time by checking newbies messages to not give merit to lazy spammers. For example, there is a copied message below that accidentally received merit from OgNasty. Humankind thrives on conflict. Without it we would stagnate and die. Take for example our history. It can be argued that every significant achievement arose out of conflict in some form. Early man had to fight for his survival. In response to this he developed tools to aid him. In modern times our most significant achievements - space travel and nuclear weapons for example - have come from superpower competition. As much as we all claim hate the death and destruction of war, we need it. That is one of the primary factors in evolution; survival of the fittest. Without conflict to drive us, without a need to compete, the human species would stop.
Humankind thrives on conflict. Without it we would stagnate and die. Take for example our history. It can be argued that every significant achievement arose out of conflict in some form. Early man had to fight for his survival. In response to this he developed tools to aid him. In modern times our most significant achievements - space travel and nuclear weapons for example - have come from superpower competition. As much as we all claim hate the death and destruction of war, we need it. That is one of the primary factors in evolution; survival of the fittest. Without conflict to drive us, without a need to compete, the human species would stop.
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there is and always will be a huge issue of copy and paste and the fine line of quoting . but i also know that unless there is a superhuman knowledge if by chance there is a copy and paste copy of an article it could very simply be unknown to the merit source and could receive merit on one or the other of the copies. i dont feel you can point a finger at anyone for offering in good faith some merit if the post does in-fact deserve it. now copy and paste is hard to find ,but people as yourself that find these rule infractions do help point out some of the issues and you could simply report this to the board moderators and they will take care of it. but to point out to a merit source and not inform him directly either by pm or other means is not justified! unless the person giving merit has read every single thread and each post and has foto-graphic memory this will happen . so to help this forum when there is a copy and paste... please inform the moderator of that thread. There is the huge problem of copy-pasting on the forum therefore many users spend their time by checking newbies messages to not give merit to lazy spammers. For example, there is a copied message below that accidentally received merit from OgNasty. Humankind thrives on conflict. Without it we would stagnate and die. Take for example our history. It can be argued that every significant achievement arose out of conflict in some form. Early man had to fight for his survival. In response to this he developed tools to aid him. In modern times our most significant achievements - space travel and nuclear weapons for example - have come from superpower competition. As much as we all claim hate the death and destruction of war, we need it. That is one of the primary factors in evolution; survival of the fittest. Without conflict to drive us, without a need to compete, the human species would stop.
Humankind thrives on conflict. Without it we would stagnate and die. Take for example our history. It can be argued that every significant achievement arose out of conflict in some form. Early man had to fight for his survival. In response to this he developed tools to aid him. In modern times our most significant achievements - space travel and nuclear weapons for example - have come from superpower competition. As much as we all claim hate the death and destruction of war, we need it. That is one of the primary factors in evolution; survival of the fittest. Without conflict to drive us, without a need to compete, the human species would stop.
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unless the person giving merit has read every single thread and each post and has foto-graphic memory this will happen .
To find a copy-paste, you don't need to have superhuman abilities, just use search engine adequately. but to point out to a merit source and not inform him directly either by pm or other means is not justified!
I prefer to talk about the problem openly to reduce the possibility that other people will be doing the same mistakes.
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unless the person giving merit has read every single thread and each post and has foto-graphic memory this will happen .
To find a copy-paste, you don't need to have superhuman abilities, just use search engine adequately. If someone is copy-pasting responses, then moderators should discover this and ban them. Rather than criticize those doing a largely thankless job, report the post to those being paid to handle the issue so it can be removed and the user banned. We are all needed to keep this forum clean.
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November 01, 2018, 02:14:56 AM |
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unless the person giving merit has read every single thread and each post and has foto-graphic memory this will happen .
To find a copy-paste, you don't need to have superhuman abilities, just use search engine adequately. If someone is copy-pasting responses, then moderators should discover this and ban them. Rather than criticize those doing a largely thankless job, report the post to those being paid to handle the issue so it can be removed and the user banned. We are all needed to keep this forum clean. I agree. I am trying to do the searches when I suspect a post. However, many of the more crafty ones are spinning the texts, so a google search doesn't always get a hit. It's been a learning curve.
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Kopyleft
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November 01, 2018, 04:46:45 AM |
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Many hours of reading newbie posts trying to find legitimate posters. It’s a (mostly) thankless job, but I’m glad to help new users feel appreciated and improve their bitcointalk experience.
It's mostly appreciated by majority of newbies, just that some if us don't have smerits to hive back and would not like to spam your inbox or the thread with thank notes. I agree. I am trying to do the searches when I suspect a post. However, many of the more crafty ones are spinning the texts, so a google search doesn't always get a hit. It's been a learning curve.
The fear of certain ban when caught should dissuade anyone from copying or even spinning, and with the increase in banned accounts if like to think majority of defaulters gets caught. That's progress.
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November 01, 2018, 05:21:18 AM |
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I agree. I am trying to do the searches when I suspect a post. However, many of the more crafty ones are spinning the texts, so a google search doesn't always get a hit. It's been a learning curve.
The fear of certain ban when caught should dissuade anyone from copying or even spinning, and with the increase in banned accounts if like to think majority of defaulters gets caught. That's progress. I hope so. However, it appears that we may be just playing a game of whack-a-mole. One account gets banned and the account farmer/bounty hunter just turns around and creates more. Also, I suspect that the more sophisticated farmers and hunters will just create better spinning bots.
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Veleor
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November 01, 2018, 07:00:21 AM |
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Rather than criticize those doing a largely thankless job, report the post to those being paid to handle the issue so it can be removed and the user banned.
Why are you torturing yourself? I saw that there are users who very want to become merit source and they would gladly agree for this job. But I don't understand those who doing what they doesn't like.
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November 01, 2018, 07:09:16 AM |
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I really want to help newbie cordially. Especially those are demoted. I don't want to make disappointed demoted good poster. But it's little bit difficult and hard to find good post. I am really not looking for high quality post, good post is enough for newbie (1 merit ). Also there is limits of my smerit, so I spend them a good post of newbie (mostly). I appriciate them who have helped newbie.
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OgNasty
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November 01, 2018, 07:47:36 AM |
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Why are you torturing yourself? I saw that there are users who very want to become merit source and they would gladly agree for this job. But I don't understand those who doing what they doesn't like.
I enjoy contributing. It isn’t torture. Defending my efforts is an annoyance, but I’m happy to oblige when I am able.
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Why are you torturing yourself? I saw that there are users who very want to become merit source and they would gladly agree for this job. But I don't understand those who doing what they doesn't like.
I enjoy contributing. It isn’t torture. Defending my efforts is an annoyance, but I’m happy to oblige when I am able. Not everyone has this instinct of helping others (without any return) and they don't feel like burden on themselves. Actually the happiness of helping people can only be felt by the person who help others and it is the inner happiness which cannot be felt by others and most importantly cannot be judged by the materialistic world.
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I seem to have put off newbies joining the Fit to Talk project by blocking registrations. I had to do this, as I had a number of applictions from spammers every day, and it is quite time consuming having to check that they weren't members of Bitcoin Talk, and then sending them an email. I don't want to discourage genuine new members, and we have already helped several members to improve their BT ranking already. I would like to continue to do this. The political thread starter project is still running, and I believe that those who have taken part have received over 10 merits each for their threads, and they have helped the politics board at the same time.
If any new member wishes to join, then please send a private message to this account, and I'll make a manual registration.
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I am sad that I could not make it to the list this time. Next time, I will work harder by adding some guides for newbies so that I also get a place in this esteemed list.
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This is a monthly statistics for October 2018 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2018) Total supported in October 2018: 1492 newbies (by 788 members)
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Recurrent update. Another 498 newbies were supported over past time. Also I published monthly statistics for October.
There is the huge problem of copy-pasting on the forum therefore many users spend their time by checking newbies messages to not give merit to lazy spammers. For example, there is a copied message below that accidentally received merit from OgNasty.
As far as I can see at the BPIP service made by Vod, this newbie is not yet banned for plagiarism. Anyway, I'm sure that OgNasty does an excellent job with finding good posts of newbies and contributes to the forum. On the other hand, you mentioned users who copy messages of other people. This is a common problem indeed and in my opinion, all users who were caught on plagiarism should be banned.
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My post on the first page has been updated again. 211 newbies received at least one merit this week. In total, 1994 members supported 4500 newbies since September 17, 2018.
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I must confess that OgNasty has been a decent guy Not because he top the group but because he cares a lot for the Newbies. his focus to assist Newbies in this community to develop them is awesome. he is a true legend in this community. i might wonder if he is responsible for comment and post reviews.
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November 24, 2018, 08:55:40 PM |
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There is more to helping new members than just giving them merit.
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This is a monthly statistics for October 2018 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2018) | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 1) | MalReynolds | Legendary | 94 newbies |
<snip> the rest [/table] Total supported in October 2018: 1492 newbies (by 788 members) A shining example of the efficacy of the merit system: a for sale, negatively trusted, farming account enabling a motley array of shitposters to carry signatures by awarding them the Golden first merit. #SaturdayNightSarc
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suchmoon
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A shining example of the efficacy of the merit system: a for sale, negatively trusted, farming account enabling a motley array of shitposters to carry signatures by awarding them the Golden first merit.
#SaturdayNightSarc
Don't worry, we're killing the golden merit geese quite efficiently too. Once these assholes run out of airdrop merits (any minute now) they will not be able to do this anymore.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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Recurrent update. Another 273 meritless users became Jr. Members. Total 4773 newbies have been supported for now.
A shining example of the efficacy of the merit system: a for sale, negatively trusted, farming account enabling a motley array of shitposters to carry signatures by awarding them the Golden first merit.
#SaturdayNightSarc
Don't worry, we're killing the golden merit geese quite efficiently too. Once these assholes run out of airdrop merits (any minute now) they will not be able to do this anymore. Some of account farmers are so insolent. In my opinion, it is obvious that their accounts are connected. For example: And so on. These account farmers just receive 10 merits from probably sold red tagged profiles, then they distribute by 1 merit to their 5 alternative "newbies" for the garbage posts or the copy-pasted news within a short time.
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TheBeardedBaby
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December 02, 2018, 07:58:58 PM |
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Just a small correction, I'm not a Hero yet.
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cabalism13
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December 02, 2018, 08:09:17 PM |
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Just a small correction, I'm not a Hero yet. He's just an advance thinker
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The Sceptical Chymist
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I'm doing a horrible job of meriting newbies, though the number I've given merit to at least isn't zero.
I've been meaning to visit Bitcoin Discussion to search for noobs to merit, but I never can seem to muster sufficient motivation to do so. I do visit Economics and, of course, Meta, Reputation, and Scam Accusations but posts made by Newbie/Jr. Members haven't really been deserving of merits. I'm not someone like OGNasty who will apparently merit any member who shows evidence of the ability to string letters into things that may or may not resemble sentences, i.e., anyone with the ability to type or use speech-to-text. I think if I and other merit sources were to lower our standards that much, the merit system would be irrelevant.
I'd actually like to see a list praising the merit sources who've merited the fewest number of Newbie/Jr. Member accounts but who don't necessarily merit only Hero/Legendary accounts. Such a list would be that of the most discriminating merit sources--and I mean to use the word discriminating in the positive sense, i.e., picky, or meaning that they only choose the best posts to be merited. When you're among the top merit-givers to Newbies, I'm not so sure that's a good thing unless you're really searching out and finding the ones deserving of those merits. God knows I haven't been able to find many.
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I'd actually like to see a list praising the merit sources who've merited the fewest number of Newbie/Jr. Member accounts but who don't necessarily merit only Hero/Legendary accounts. Such a list would be that of the most discriminating merit sources--and I mean to use the word discriminating in the positive sense, i.e., picky, or meaning that they only choose the best posts to be merited. When you're among the top merit-givers to Newbies, I'm not so sure that's a good thing unless you're really searching out and finding the ones deserving of those merits. God knows I haven't been able to find many.
Just looking at the newbie sub forum shows that its just full of garbage and not a worthy post in sight. I also disagree with anyone who thinks going out of your way to merit newbies is a good thing. The merit system in my opinion should be reserved for the very best posts or at least ones which have been well thought out. Not a way to promote members but to show appreciation for someones effort.
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LoyceV
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December 03, 2018, 07:07:22 AM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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The merit system in my opinion should be reserved for the very best posts or at least ones which have been well thought out. I disagree: if we only allow the very best posters to rank up, this forum will be very quiet in the future. I welcome any Newbie who's not a spammer.
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AverageGlabella
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The merit system in my opinion should be reserved for the very best posts or at least ones which have been well thought out. I disagree: if we only allow the very best posters to rank up, this forum will be very quiet in the future. I welcome any Newbie who's not a spammer. Ok maybe not the very best posts but any posts that deserve some recognition. The merit system should not be seen as a way to reward users by ranking them up but rewarding them for their posting habits. I think I received some merit the other day which was initially 1 but I need one more to rank up so the user gave me a another one. This could of been a mistake and maybe they wanted to give me 2 first of all. But its probably because they wanted to be the user to merit me so I could rank up. I appreciate merits obviously but I think this shouldn't really happen.
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Recurrent update. Another 273 meritless users became Jr. Members. Total 4773 newbies have been supported for now.
A shining example of the efficacy of the merit system: a for sale, negatively trusted, farming account enabling a motley array of shitposters to carry signatures by awarding them the Golden first merit.
#SaturdayNightSarc
Don't worry, we're killing the golden merit geese quite efficiently too. Once these assholes run out of airdrop merits (any minute now) they will not be able to do this anymore. Some of account farmers are so insolent. In my opinion, it is obvious that their accounts are connected. For example: And so on. These account farmers just receive 10 merits from probably sold red tagged profiles, then they distribute by 1 merit to their 5 alternative "newbies" for the garbage posts or the copy-pasted news within a short time. It is definitely a account sellers. It's another farm they're growing for sale: petr.karnov32yurij_borisov84mixail.esenin.77arkadij.suslovpavel.ostriczkijmixail_karpov82artur.pisarev.83roma.krapov81Name: Posts: Activity: Merit: Position: Date Registered: petr.karnov32 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:15:48 PM yurij_borisov84 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:25:01 PM mixail.esenin.77 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:33:54 PM arkadij.suslov 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 11:37:57 AM pavel.ostriczkij 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:12:14 PM mixail_karpov82 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:22:38 PM artur.pisarev.83 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:58:46 PM roma.krapov81 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 07, 2018, 08:02:00 AM
The date of registration, activity - all identical!
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Coin-1 (OP)
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This is a monthly statistics for November 2018 below.
Members who support newbies (November 2018) Total supported in November 2018: 793 newbies (by 461 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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December 16, 2018, 11:38:07 PM Last edit: December 17, 2018, 02:38:59 AM by Coin-1 |
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My post on the first page has been updated. More than 5000 newbies have received at least 1 merit since September 17, 2018. I also published monthly statistics for November 2018.
Just a small correction, I'm not a Hero yet. I know that you are still a Sr. Member. You just do not have enough activity. [1] - the rank that is based on the amount of merits regardless of the current activity
It is definitely a account sellers. It's another farm they're growing for sale: petr.karnov32yurij_borisov84mixail.esenin.77arkadij.suslovpavel.ostriczkijmixail_karpov82artur.pisarev.83roma.krapov81Name: Posts: Activity: Merit: Position: Date Registered: petr.karnov32 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:15:48 PM yurij_borisov84 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:25:01 PM mixail.esenin.77 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 01:33:54 PM arkadij.suslov 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 11:37:57 AM pavel.ostriczkij 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:12:14 PM mixail_karpov82 32 32 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:22:38 PM artur.pisarev.83 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 06, 2018, 12:58:46 PM roma.krapov81 33 33 1 Jr. Member October 07, 2018, 08:02:00 AM
The date of registration, activity - all identical! It seems that the account farmers no longer hide themselves.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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January 09, 2019, 09:12:14 PM Last edit: February 05, 2019, 10:21:45 PM by Coin-1 |
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This is a monthly statistics for December 2018 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2018) Total supported in December 2018: 517 newbies (by 331 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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January 09, 2019, 09:28:45 PM |
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Weekly update.
As I see, the total number of supported newbies is not growing as fast as it was before.
I also published monthly statistics for December 2018. Another 517 newbies received merits from 331 members.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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February 05, 2019, 10:34:30 PM |
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This is a monthly statistics for January 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2019) Total supported in January 2019: 608 newbies (by 369 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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February 05, 2019, 10:54:08 PM |
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The table on the first page has been updated again. Monthly statistics on January 2019 was also published. Another 608 newbies became Junior Members in January 2019. Interestingly, this value is about 15% more than the number of the newbies who received 1 merit in December 2019. Thanks for the support decent newcomers.
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o_e_l_e_o
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February 06, 2019, 12:02:14 AM |
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I'm flattered that you have ranked me up to Legendary, but I'm still about a year away.
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OgNasty
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Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
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February 06, 2019, 12:35:11 AM |
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This is a monthly statistics for January 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2019) | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 1) | LoyceV | Legendary | 30 newbies | 2) | OgNasty | Legendary | 17 newbies |
Uh oh... Someone else trying to go after my help the newbies crown? I'm watching you LoyceV. Nice work!
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mikeywith
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Top 20? i'l take it , those 4 merits were hard to give, i do want to give more merit to newbies but the sad part i released that only a handful of them are worthy of merit, mainly based on where they usually post. thanks for maintaining the list.
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CryptopreneurBrainboss
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February 06, 2019, 08:48:53 AM |
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That's poor from me, I thought I would have helped about 30+ newbie to rank up by now. I received over 100+merit that's around 50+smerits just in January 2019. I have been very active in Beginners and help board trying to find newbie with quality post and post history but so far it has been discouraging. I'll start exploring new boards to find those newbie with quality post aiming to hit a target of 50+ helped newbie by December 2019. For the newbie that must have missed check this thread out "UPDATED [01/02/2019]: List of Active Merit Giveaways threads."
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Coin-1 (OP)
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This is a monthly statistics for February 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2019) Total supported in February 2019: 439 newbies (by 272 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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March 02, 2019, 04:43:49 AM |
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Recurrent update. 272 members sent at least 1 merit to 439 newbies. I also published monthly statistics for February 2019.
I created the chart that shows how many newbies have been supported since September 17, 2019. I used the list of banned users. Thanks to LoyceV for updating it. As I see, 882 supported newbies are already banned. I added this image to my post on the first page.
Uh oh... Someone else trying to go after my help the newbies crown? I'm watching you LoyceV. Nice work! LoyceV is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month.
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LoyceV
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
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March 02, 2019, 07:42:01 AM Last edit: March 06, 2019, 12:11:09 PM by LoyceV |
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As I see, 882 supported newbies are already banned. Those are huge numbers! Now I'm curious who merited most banned Newbies, I'll dig up some data later.See How many banned users have you merited?
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tranthidung
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March 02, 2019, 07:51:06 AM Last edit: March 02, 2019, 08:11:31 AM by tranthidung |
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As I see, 882 supported newbies are already banned. Those are huge numbers! Now I'm curious who merited most banned Newbies, I'll dig up some data later. Let me guess. Account farmers sent sMerits to Newbies to promote them to Junior Members to join bounties. Due to they are account farmers, they violated forum rules, such as plagiarism, then got banned later.
Of course, we need to look at data-evidence-based statistics. For analysis, before digging deeply, I think you should take a quick analysis on their promoted days. If most of newbies promoted in September last year, there is no reason to dig deeper. I believe most of them promoted and got bans in September last year
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vapourminer
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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March 02, 2019, 03:17:36 PM |
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As I see, 882 supported newbies are already banned. Those are huge numbers! Now I'm curious who merited most banned Newbies, I'll dig up some data later. yeah me too. i sometimes wonder if im getting hoodwinked when i merit a noob, hard to tell even when looking at the post history as its usually so short. i do think there was a post or thread with that stat in here somewhere. i only remember because i was on the list pretty high up, top 10 or something.
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tranthidung
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even when looking at the post history as its usually so short.
There are two possible hypotheses: (1) They are farm accounts. Got promoted from minor merit abusements to move upwards to Junior Member rank. Then, later they got banned due to plagiarism. (2) They are real accounts (not farm ones): But, they simply tried making pseudo- / fake- quality threads to earn at least one merit. Then, later they got banned due to plagiarism.
I don't see reason to sell Junior Member accounts. The most probable scenario is bans due to plagiarism.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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This is a monthly statistics for March 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (March 2019) Total supported in March 2019: 483 newbies (by 276 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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April 10, 2019, 03:02:50 AM |
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The table and chart on the first page have been updated. I also published monthly statistics for March 2019. In total, 2844 members supported 6916 newbies, 917 of whom have already been banned.
Of course, we need to look at data-evidence-based statistics. For analysis, before digging deeply, I think you should take a quick analysis on their promoted days. If most of newbies promoted in September last year, there is no reason to dig deeper. I believe most of them promoted and got bans in September last yearAs I can see on the chart, about 500 newbies who received at least one merit from September 17, 2018 until October 1, 2018, have been ultimately banned. Another 250 newbies who were supported in October 2018 have also been banned. Currently, the number of banned newbies does not increase significantly.
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tranthidung
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As I can see on the chart, about 500 newbies who received at least one merit from September 17, 2018 until October 1, 2018, have been ultimately banned. Another 250 newbies who were supported in October 2018 have also been banned. Currently, the number of banned newbies does not increase significantly.
Interesting, it implies that massive merit abusements in September last year mostly ended with perma bans. After that wave of abusements, the figure of banned accounts fell dramatically. There are some reasons, maybe people understood that they won't get anything good by abusing the system, eventually they might all with perma bans. Or maybe, their main accounts dried out of airdropped merits, so they are not able to abuse and help their newbies move up to Junior members one more wave.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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This is a monthly statistics for April 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (April 2019) Total supported in April 2019: 439 newbies (by 296 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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May 11, 2019, 02:50:32 AM |
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TOP-200 and chart on the first page have been updated again. I also published monthly statistics for April 2019. In the previous month 296 members supported another 439 newbies.
There are some reasons, maybe people understood that they won't get anything good by abusing the system, eventually they might all with perma bans. Or maybe, their main accounts dried out of airdropped merits, so they are not able to abuse and help their newbies move up to Junior members one more wave.
You are probably right. Some high-ranked members who received airdropped sMerits on January 24, 2018, sent these merits to newbies after September 17, 2018. It seems that airdropped sMerits really dry out.
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This is a monthly statistics for May 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (May 2019) Total supported in May 2019: 430 newbies (by 238 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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I have updated the table and chart on the front page. Since September 17, 2018, 3128 members supported 7876 newbies. 1263 of them are already banned. I also published monthly statistics for May 2019. Again LoyceV is the leader of the month in this TOP-200.
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This is a monthly statistics for June 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (June 2019) Total supported in June 2019: 410 newbies (by 232 members)
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TOP-200 and chart have been updated.
This month another 410 newbies received at least one merit and became Juniors. It looks like this value is fairly stable.
I also published monthly statistics for June 2019. In my opinion, the user jyap looks suspicious.
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This is a monthly statistics for July 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (July 2019) Total supported in July 2019: 428 newbies (by 231 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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August 21, 2019, 08:29:11 PM |
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I updated the table and chart on the first page. Since the day the enhanced requirements for newbies were introduced on the forum, 3349 members sent at least 1 merit to 8761 newcomers. I also published monthly statistics for July 2019. OgNasty is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month.
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This is a monthly statistics for August 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (August 2019) Total supported in August 2019: 411 newbies (by 237 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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September 16, 2019, 04:36:37 PM |
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Monthly update. As I see in this TOP-200, there are two trustworthy members who have found meritworthy posts and supported about 250 newbies since September 17, 2018. Good work, @OgNasty and @LoyceV! I also published monthly statistics for August 2019. In my opinion, luckykitty looks suspicious.
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LoyceV
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As I see in this TOP-200, there are two trustworthy members who have found meritworthy posts and supported about 250 newbies since September 17, 2018. Good work, @OgNasty and @LoyceV! My requirements for Newbies are really low: if I think it's a real user and not a spammer, I'll Merit him/her. I strongly believe that's what Bitcointalk (and Bitcoin) needs to grow long-term.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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It's almost depressing that I'm number 12 here and have only helped out 5 newbies. I actually made it a point to try harder to merit some newbies since the last time this data was posted, but as usual I have a very hard time finding posts good enough to merit. I did feel pretty confident with the merits I handed out to the noobs this time around--their posts were pretty good if I remember correctly. Props to the members who made it high on the list--it's still important to help out newcomers (but only if they're deserving). My requirements for Newbies are really low: if I think it's a real user and not a spammer, I'll Merit him/her. I strongly believe that's what Bitcointalk (and Bitcoin) needs to grow long-term.
I agree with the second part of what you wrote, but I can't bring myself to lower my standards that much when it comes to low-ranked members. While not all of them are spammers, I do think that the vast majority of their posts are of very low quality and are made primarily for bounties or signature campaigns, which has been the case for years now.
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My requirements for Newbies are really low: if I think it's a real user and not a spammer, I'll Merit him/her. I strongly believe that's what Bitcointalk (and Bitcoin) needs to grow long-term.
I agree with you. Months ago, in 2018, my very first merits came from @actmyname when I joined his contest and won. 14 merits won in that contest motivated to me and I have never stopped improving myself, and slowly crawled to the top (Hero member now, and soon will be a Legendary, next few months). While not all of them are spammers, I do think that the vast majority of their posts are of very low quality and are made primarily for bounties or signature campaigns, which has been the case for years now.
Yeah, it is very rarely to see good posts from newbies. I saw some users sent merits to Newbies who opened threads to ask for help, with serious questions, not to get posts. It is hard to say it is right or wrong way to use merits, but I think that approach is flexible and not too bad. Posts are acceptable quality (just for newbies) even they are questions.
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My requirements for Newbies are really low: if I think it's a real user and not a spammer, I'll Merit him/her. I strongly believe that's what Bitcointalk (and Bitcoin) needs to grow long-term.
I agree with the second part of what you wrote, but I can't bring myself to lower my standards that much when it comes to low-ranked members. While not all of them are spammers, I do think that the vast majority of their posts are of very low quality and are made primarily for bounties or signature campaigns, which has been the case for years now. I don't consider Newbies who spam bounties or signature campaigns "real users", they're very likely just one of many alt-accounts, and even if they are unique people, I don't think they're here for the right reasons. As an example: I've merited this Newbie's third post: I have a dilemma! I remember buying Bitcoin at its infancy 2009/2010 however remember deleting the wallet and all related programs as the PC was running so slow and was crashing!! got a new PC then and left the old (now none bootable) one untouched till recently when I downloaded some Deleted file recovery software to try to find the wallet or any sign of it!!
I am very primitive when it comes to computers do not know coding, Python or any other PC language just a simple Windows operator!
Any bitcoin/blockchain specific identifying file, cookies, programs, scripts.... names to plug in to the recovery software search that would hint to existence of bitcoin/ wallet or blockchain on the old hard drives? any Windows software that I can download/ buy to find/ recover them? What do you recommend to see if it's worth going to the next step of professional recovery?? But not this Newbie's first post: The first example is someone who I don't expect to start spamming this forum, for the second example I have no hopes left The first one is much harder to find though.
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Upgrade00
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I agree with the second part of what you wrote, but I can't bring myself to lower my standards that much when it comes to low-ranked members. While not all of them are spammers, I do think that the vast majority of their posts are of very low quality and are made primarily for bounties or signature campaigns, which has been the case for years now.
Only a handful of bounties accept newbies for signature campaigns and a much lesser number than that are worthwhile. Imo, a user should at least get to member rank before engaging in signature campaigns. It should not take a committed poster too long to get the requirements. I also generally lower my meriting standards when considering posts made by newbies. Could I suggest that in addition to the list of member sho most support newbies, we could make a list of newbies who received the most merits in a month, or just the top receiver. This would help users looking for newbies to merits and would hasten the ranking up of deserving users.
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September 18, 2019, 09:21:11 AM Last edit: September 18, 2019, 06:14:10 PM by LoyceV |
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Could I suggest that in addition to the list of member sho most support newbies, we could make a list of newbies who received the most merits in a month, or just the top receiver. This would help users looking for newbies to merits and would hasten the ranking up of deserving users. I like it, I'll make it when I have some time. Update: done! See The future of Bitcointalk: Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days
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LFC_Bitcoin
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September 18, 2019, 05:23:42 PM |
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Shit, I didn’t Merit a single noob in August? That is not good enough, I’m going to have to make a bigger effort on this.
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Lucasgabd
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September 29, 2019, 08:59:23 PM |
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As I see in this TOP-200, there are two trustworthy members who have found meritworthy posts and supported about 250 newbies since September 17, 2018. Good work, @OgNasty and @LoyceV! My requirements for Newbies are really low: if I think it's a real user and not a spammer, I'll Merit him/her. I strongly believe that's what Bitcointalk (and Bitcoin) needs to grow long-term. I also feel the same, of course it's not always possible to get it right all of the times but we can try to incetivize good behavior and contributions to the forum as a whole.
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These are the monthly statistics for September 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (September 2019) Total supported in September 2019: 331 newbies (by 193 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for October 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2019) Total supported in October 2019: 388 newbies (by 208 members)
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I updated the table and chart on the first page on this thread. Since September 17, 2018, 3595 members have given at least one merit to 9781 newbies. I also published monthly statistics for September and October 2019, because I did not update this thread in the previous month. LoyceV is the leader of September 2019, Mitchell is the leader of October 2019.
While not all of them are spammers, I do think that the vast majority of their posts are of very low quality and are made primarily for bounties or signature campaigns, which has been the case for years now.
Yeah, it is very rarely to see good posts from newbies. I saw some users sent merits to Newbies who opened threads to ask for help, with serious questions, not to get posts. It is hard to say it is right or wrong way to use merits, but I think that approach is flexible and not too bad. Posts are acceptable quality (just for newbies) even they are questions. In my opinion, such approach is correct. Some of the newbies who want to ask a non-generic question begin discussions which evolve and become interesting to read, so these newbies deserve merits.
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Mitchell
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November 11, 2019, 11:17:41 PM |
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The only reason I'm so high up is because of the 10th anniversary art contest.
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These are the monthly statistics for November 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (November 2019) Total supported in November 2019: 521 newbies (by 223 members)
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Monthly update. Another 521 newbies received at least one merit and probably became Jr. Members. Uh oh... Someone else trying to go after my help the newbies crown? I'm watching you LoyceV. Nice work! My analyzer is also watching all members. LoyceV has now taken 1st place in the main table. I published monthly statistics for November 2019. I am not surprised that theymos who recently distributed a lot of merits is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month.
Yes, there were many creative newbies who took part in the 10th anniversary art contest. Thank you for encouraging newcomers to publish their nice pictures and animations related to Bitcointalk in that thread.
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2019 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2019) Total supported in December 2019: 335 newbies (by 193 members)
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The main table and chart have been updated again.
10723 newbies have received at least 1 merit since September 17, 2019. Unfortunately, 1683 of these users have already been banned, so only 9040 newcomers who were supported by other members can post on the forum.
I also published monthly statistics for December 2019. This list contains the service account "Bitcoin Forum" and 192 members who recently sent merits to newbies.
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January 22, 2020, 11:44:00 AM |
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Not sure what to make from the fact that 15,70% of merited Newbie accounts are already banned. Likely, many of those banned got their 1 merit "somehow", and went on with spamming low quality stuff, ended-up being banned. Those that have reached a higher quota of earned merits likely have a much lower ratio of applied bans. … Might as well see if it’s true … It turns out that 20,10% of merited accounts in the conditions accounted for on this thread are banned after earned a single merit. Having earned 2 merits, the figure drops to 14,66%, and with 3 earned merits it stands at 7,26%. Quite a difference there. Then there’s a decline in values until we reach the 10 earned merits, which takes us back to 14,03% banned (wonder why it happens on this precise figure or earned merits … (irony)), and then starts declining again. Numbers from 20 earned merits downwards are not significant, since the base is too small. e.Merits notBanned Banned Total %Banned 0 1 1 0,00% 1 4846 1219 6065 20,10% 2 1269 218 1487 14,66% 3 524 41 565 7,26% 4 340 32 372 8,60% 5 280 24 304 7,89% 6 162 12 174 6,90% 7 120 8 128 6,25% 8 90 7 97 7,22% 9 57 3 60 5,00% 10 386 63 449 14,03% 11 108 9 117 7,69% 12 87 10 97 10,31% 13 75 3 78 3,85% 14 40 4 44 9,09% 15 56 4 60 6,67% 16 34 3 37 8,11% 17 30 30 0,00% 18 31 2 33 6,06% 19 24 24 0,00% 20 37 3 40 7,50% 21 15 2 17 11,76% 22 25 3 28 10,71% 23 15 15 0,00% 24 17 17 0,00% 25 17 17 0,00% 26 12 12 0,00% 27 14 14 0,00% 28 10 10 0,00% 29 5 1 6 16,67% 30 11 1 12 8,33% 31 7 7 0,00% 32 10 10 0,00% 33 5 5 0,00% 34 9 9 0,00% 35 7 7 0,00% 36 13 13 0,00% 37 8 8 0,00% 38 2 2 0,00% 39 9 9 0,00% 40 8 8 0,00% 41 3 3 0,00% 42 10 10 0,00% 43 5 1 6 16,67% 44 2 2 0,00% 45 4 4 0,00% 46 5 5 0,00% 47 4 4 0,00% 48 4 4 0,00% 49 6 1 7 14,29% 50 11 2 13 15,38% 51 4 4 0,00% 52 2 1 3 33,33% 53 3 3 0,00% 54 3 3 0,00% 55 2 2 0,00% 56 2 2 0,00% 57 2 2 0,00% 58 1 1 0,00% 59 1 1 100,00% 60 2 2 0,00% 61 2 2 0,00% 62 5 1 6 16,67% 63 3 3 0,00% 64 3 3 0,00% 66 1 1 0,00% 68 2 2 0,00% 69 2 2 0,00% 70 1 1 2 50,00% 71 2 2 0,00% 72 1 1 0,00% 74 2 2 0,00% 75 1 1 0,00% 76 1 1 0,00% 77 2 2 0,00% 78 3 3 0,00% 79 1 1 0,00% 80 1 1 0,00% 81 3 3 0,00% 82 3 3 0,00% 84 1 1 0,00% 85 1 1 0,00% 86 1 1 0,00% 88 2 2 0,00% 89 1 1 0,00% 90 1 1 0,00% 94 2 2 0,00% 95 1 1 0,00% 98 1 1 0,00% 100 4 4 0,00% 101 1 1 100,00% 102 3 3 0,00% 103 1 1 0,00% 105 1 1 0,00% 107 1 1 0,00% 108 1 1 0,00% 109 2 2 0,00% 110 1 1 0,00% 111 2 2 0,00% 113 1 1 0,00% 114 2 2 0,00% 116 1 1 0,00% 117 1 1 0,00% 119 1 1 0,00% 120 1 1 0,00% 124 2 2 0,00% 131 1 1 0,00% 132 1 1 0,00% 136 3 3 0,00% 138 2 2 0,00% 139 1 1 0,00% 141 1 1 0,00% 143 3 3 0,00% 144 1 1 0,00% 145 2 2 0,00% 147 1 1 0,00% 151 1 1 0,00% 153 2 2 0,00% 155 1 1 0,00% 157 1 1 0,00% 159 1 1 0,00% 160 2 2 0,00% 163 1 1 0,00% 167 2 2 0,00% 168 1 1 0,00% 170 1 1 100,00% 174 2 2 0,00% 180 1 1 0,00% 181 1 1 0,00% 187 1 1 0,00% 190 1 1 0,00% 193 1 1 0,00% 201 1 1 0,00% 203 1 1 0,00% 205 1 1 0,00% 208 2 2 0,00% 213 1 1 100,00% 215 1 1 0,00% 221 1 1 0,00% 222 1 1 0,00% 231 1 1 0,00% 255 1 1 0,00% 261 1 1 0,00% 263 1 1 0,00% 270 1 1 0,00% 272 1 1 0,00% 284 1 1 0,00% 288 1 1 0,00% 293 1 1 0,00% 302 2 2 0,00% 323 1 1 0,00% 333 1 1 0,00% 344 1 1 0,00% 348 1 1 0,00% 388 1 1 0,00% 392 1 1 0,00% 393 1 1 0,00% 404 1 1 0,00% 415 1 1 0,00% 441 1 1 0,00% 445 1 1 0,00% 471 1 1 0,00% 529 2 2 0,00% 531 1 1 0,00% 614 1 1 0,00% 624 1 1 0,00% 720 1 1 0,00% 722 1 1 0,00% 1451 1 1 0,00%
Note: the guy with the 1451 earned merits (as of last Friday) is VB1001.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for January 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2020) Total supported in January 2020: 365 newbies (by 197 members)
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I have updated the list and chart displayed on the first page of this thread. I also published monthly statistics for January 2020. mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month. As I can see on the chart, about 350 newbies receive at least 1 merit every month.
It turns out that 20,10% of merited accounts in the conditions accounted for on this thread are banned after earned a single merit. Having earned 2 merits, the figure drops to 14,66%, and with 3 earned merits it stands at 7,26%. Quite a difference there.
Then there’s a decline in values until we reach the 10 earned merits, which takes us back to 14,03% banned (wonder why it happens on this precise figure or earned merits … (irony)), and then starts declining again. Numbers from 20 earned merits downwards are not significant, since the base is too small.
I understand your irony. As far as I remember, in 2018 many account farmers sent exactly 10 merits for garbage posts to their meritless alts in order to rank them up to Members, so probably such newbies were banned for some reason at the end. Your statistics on banned newbies are interesting.
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February 19, 2020, 07:56:50 AM |
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mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month. thanks for your statistics overall 3rd place and now after a few top 5 placements finally 1st place... was a successful start into the year 2020... feels good
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These are the monthly statistics for February 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2020) Total supported in February 2020: 338 newbies (by 184 members)
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Monthly update. Since September 17, 2018, 3884 members have given at least 1 merit to 11374 newbies. I also published monthly statistics for February 2020.
mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month. thanks for your statistics overall 3rd place and now after a few top 5 placements finally 1st place... was a successful start into the year 2020... feels good You again took first place in the previous month. Great support!
In the local sections every month it is harder and harder to find newcomers, most of the new participants do not sit anywhere except the local section Off-topic. I hope it's temporary. I totally agree with you. On the local board most newbies post utter garbage in the sections you mentioned. I think that there is no need to give merits to newcomers who do not put efforts in their posts.
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These are the monthly statistics for February 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2020) wow, I only merited 2 newbies last month? thanks for the report, I will definitely try to be on the lookout for more meritable noobs this month. problem is, most (like 99%) of the ones I come across are just spammers and I am reluctant to encourage them.
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mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month. thanks for your statistics overall 3rd place and now after a few top 5 placements finally 1st place... was a successful start into the year 2020... feels good You again took first place in the previous month. Great support! yeah, and place 1 again. Now I have to try hard to make another month like this... 3 in a row would be very nice. the rank ( Legendary / Hero) next to my name is not (yet) correct but this is an unimportant detail in this statistic
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wow, I only merited 2 newbies last month? thanks for the report, I will definitely try to be on the lookout for more meritable noobs this month. problem is, most (like 99%) of the ones I come across are just spammers and I am reluctant to encourage them.
I only Merited 1 I’m still waiting to replenish, I owe you 1 from earlier.
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That's a very kind list and I'm happy to be on it but what I have to inform you that I'm still a Hero even tho I really want to rank up, the gods of ranking are not that pleased with me so I lost the Legendary lottery for the 7th time.
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March 24, 2020, 12:51:37 PM |
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It seems I don't give merits yet for newbies this year. Nice to see this thread, this reminds me to give more attention to newbies. I will try to reward them ( newbies who deserve) once I have sMerit in the future. I hope to see my name on the list when you post the next update.
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Merits provide a sense of acknowledgment from the giver and one receive fell happy that his/her post has been acknowledged and are useful, But Im afraid that some people are not ready to acknowledge anything from anyone But IF merit will expire in future anyone will acknowledged much efforts done by these newbies for post useful staff,
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nutildah
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Monthly update.
Can we get another update? I really have been going out of my way to merit newbies in the past month and a half.
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These are the monthly statistics for March 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (March 2020) Total supported in March 2020: 348 newbies (by 175 members)
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May 11, 2020, 09:44:33 PM |
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These are the monthly statistics for April 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (April 2020) Total supported in April 2020: 374 newbies (by 182 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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The list and chart on the front page of this topic has been updated. As of last Friday, a total of 12036 newbies were supported by 3995 members. I noticed that in recent months not many new juniors have been banned.
Monthly update.
Can we get another update? I really have been going out of my way to merit newbies in the past month and a half. I did not update this thread in the previous month, so I now published statistics for March 2020 and April 2020. As I can see, you are good in supporting newbies and have taken 6th place in this TOP-200. Nice result!
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A lot of love and respect to all the Legendary, full member, Sr. mamber, Hero member and Member. We always expect to support us in this way.
Thank you for Supporting newbies.
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A lot of love and respect to all the Legendary, full member, Sr. mamber, Hero member and Member. We always expect to support us in this way.
Fools way of begging for merit, just newbies not for brand new.
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May 12, 2020, 08:32:28 AM |
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A lot of love and respect to all the Legendary, full member, Sr. mamber, Hero member and Member. We always expect to support us in this way.
Fools way of begging for merit, just newbies not for brand new. I too can one day become a jr. member or a member with your support. Without support no one can ever rise to the top. Thank you sir for your advice.
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May 13, 2020, 05:09:01 AM |
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Definitely I love the works the top legendaries are doing to help the newbies who gave good quality contents to the forum and as well helping the Bitcointalk community to grow. I will advice other newbies into the system that they should not at any chance beg for Merits keep this in mind.
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June 15, 2020, 09:25:01 PM |
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These are the monthly statistics for May 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (May 2020) Total supported in May 2020: 349 newbies (by 177 members)
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June 15, 2020, 09:46:47 PM |
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Monthly update. In May 2020, another 349 newbies received at least one merit and were likely promoted to Jr. Members. There are currently three leaders in this TOP-200 who strongly support newbies: LoyceV, OgNasty and mole0815. Thanks for the great work!
I will advice other newbies into the system that they should not at any chance beg for Merits keep this in mind.
Yes, it is not allowed to beg merits from other members. Newbies should make a quality post in order to earn first merit.
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June 24, 2020, 04:09:57 PM |
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This is quite alarming that definitely we are having more and more good quality content on bitcointalk as a whole. Which it's Also given newbies that motives to keep bringing up good content to educate and add to the growth of the forum.
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June 24, 2020, 04:14:24 PM |
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Monthly update. In May 2020, another 349 newbies received at least one merit and were likely promoted to Jr. Members. There are currently three leaders in this TOP-200 who strongly support newbies: LoyceV, OgNasty and mole0815. Thanks for the great work!
I will advice other newbies into the system that they should not at any chance beg for Merits keep this in mind.
Yes, it is not allowed to beg merits from other members. Newbies should make a quality post in order to earn first merit. Here is my prayers, God will continue to give them that strength as they keep helping those newbies who are given good knowledge and understanding through their quality on the forum. Am glad to be a fan to this large community where we meet different sets of people.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for June 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (June 2020) Total supported in June 2020: 340 newbies (by 182 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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July 14, 2020, 06:59:16 PM |
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I have updated the list and chart illustrated on the front page of this thread. Statistics for June 2020 have also been published. As usual, another 340 newbies earned at least 1 merit. mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month.
Here is my prayers, God will continue to give them that strength as they keep helping those newbies who are given good knowledge and understanding through their quality on the forum. Am glad to be a fan to this large community where we meet different sets of people.
Perhaps prayers will help some newbies to receive their first merit, but I think that making one high-quality post is enough.
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July 14, 2020, 10:45:05 PM |
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The list may not be accurate I guess for there are millions of users here and hundred's of thousand newbies created. The list if to inlcude a user that has been supporting a newbie would be relatively high. I do not know how you come up with the list OP but I know that you have a tool on doing it. Maybe it is a vast list for you to make it here so this is why you will be having a hard time to do the list.
Anyway, this is a good job and I guess that some users or the mods and staff will going to need this as future reference for the forum's improvement.
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July 15, 2020, 02:37:40 PM |
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Statistics for June 2020 have also been published. As usual, another 340 newbies earned at least 1 merit. mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in the previous month. Thanks for the update. I have reached the top 3 place several times but the top (even if only just) does not happen that often
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nutildah
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Nice, I moved up the ranks to #6... Not sure I can top 10 per month. There's of course a flood of newbies out there but how many actually deserve to rank up? Quite honestly, not as many as people would think. But really, what's 1 merit in the grand scheme of things? Not much to most yet a whole lot to some. In any case, thanks for keeping us updated Coin-1.
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dragonvslinux
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July 21, 2020, 09:22:00 PM |
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Nice, I moved up the ranks to #6... Not sure I can top 10 per month. There's of course a flood of newbies out there but how many actually deserve to rank up? Quite honestly, not as many as people would think. But really, what's 1 merit in the grand scheme of things? Not much to most yet a whole lot to some. In any case, thanks for keeping us updated Coin-1.
I managed to move up over a hundred places to #18 so I'll take it Not many deserve to rank up unfortunately, those deserving of merit are hard to come by. I find myself having to make the effort to find them personally. I also agree 1 merit means nothing, therefore personally I keep the entry level for a 1 merit earning newbie pretty low. Also I like having little Jr's running around these forums. They could be the future you never know.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Perhaps prayers will help some newbies to receive their first merit, but I think that making one high-quality post is enough. They certainly can't hurt, but the time spent praying could be better used to compose posts of high quality--but hey, to each his own, right? And holy crap! Did I not merit a single Newbie last month? I could have sworn I did, but I trust your data OP. I'm pretty sure I just gave 1 merit to a noob within the last 48 hours, so hopefully my name will at least be on next month's list, even if it isn't high up there. I'm trying to spread out the merits far and wide, but I'm having a hell of a time finding merit-worthy posts by newer members--and I'm not into charity when it comes to handing out merits. As much as I've thought about lowering my standards when it comes to posts made by lower-ranked members, I just can't bring myself to do it.
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But I'm having a hell of a time finding merit-worthy posts by newer members--and I'm not into charity when it comes to handing out merits. As much as I've thought about lowering my standards when it comes to posts made by lower-ranked members, I just can't bring myself to do it.
I think Ive included here some of post made by newbies. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.msg54805341#msg54805341
but only few Ive found maybe you can consider their post as quality one. The list most comprises of high rank but I will try to find a worthy one made by newbies or at least low rank users next time. Hope it helps.
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vapourminer
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July 22, 2020, 12:04:56 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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im probably a bit more forgiving when it comes to meriting noobs.
i would rather err on the side of generosity than being overly critical of it being a near perfect post. if some who dont deserve it get it, well thats on me.
so, if its anywhere near interesting to me it gets one.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for July 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (July 2020) Total supported in July 2020: 302 newbies (by 143 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for August 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (August 2020) Total supported in August 2020: 289 newbies (by 146 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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I have updated the main table and chart on the front page. Since I have not updated this thread for two months, I published statistics for July and August at the same time. Ratimov is the leader of this TOP-200 in July 2020. OgNasty gained first place in August 2020.
The list may not be accurate I guess for there are millions of users here and hundred's of thousand newbies created. The list if to inlcude a user that has been supporting a newbie would be relatively high. I do not know how you come up with the list OP but I know that you have a tool on doing it. Maybe it is a vast list for you to make it here so this is why you will be having a hard time to do the list.
Of course, I maintain those lists using a special tool that automatically analyzes all merit transactions. I am interested in such statistics because some newbies may become decent contributors in the future.
Nice, I moved up the ranks to #6... Not sure I can top 10 per month. There's of course a flood of newbies out there but how many actually deserve to rank up? Quite honestly, not as many as people would think. But really, what's 1 merit in the grand scheme of things? Not much to most yet a whole lot to some. In any case, thanks for keeping us updated Coin-1.
As I can see, you took third place on this TOP-200 in July 2020. Great! In my opinion, 1 merit is not much for beginners, but perhaps it is their first step towards a constructive discussion on the forum.
And holy crap! Did I not merit a single Newbie last month? I could have sworn I did, but I trust your data OP. I'm pretty sure I just gave 1 merit to a noob within the last 48 hours, so hopefully my name will at least be on next month's list, even if it isn't high up there. Yes, you gave merits to one "noob" in July and two "noobs" in August, so your name is on the lists published today. Cheers! I'm trying to spread out the merits far and wide, but I'm having a hell of a time finding merit-worthy posts by newer members--and I'm not into charity when it comes to handing out merits. As much as I've thought about lowering my standards when it comes to posts made by lower-ranked members, I just can't bring myself to do it.
I agree with you. There is no need to lower standards. Newbies should put in some effort if they want to earn their first merit.
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These are the monthly statistics for September 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (September 2020) Total supported in September 2020: 272 newbies (by 122 members)
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Monthly update. Since September 17, 2018, donator OgNasty has supported 429 newbies and again took a lead in the main list of this TOP-200. I also posted statistics for September 2020. The monthly number of newbies who received merits is gradually decreasing. 122 members sent at least 1 merit to 272 distinct newcomers. As far as I see, 5 low-ranked senders have already been banned.
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Thanks for putting these together each month -- you do a great job with this. Keep up the good work.
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@Ognasty had done a great job in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275043.0 and has supported few newbies already. Those newbie whi had receiving meris will be having a good start here in the forum and will eventually rank up to jr. member after the attaining the required activities in the forum. Just only 30 activities required for jr. member in rank and 1 merit then they can start wearing signature of their own or if thy want to join in signature bounty. However wearing signature bounty for jr. members will likely could not get a good rewards.
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These are the monthly statistics for October 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2020) Total supported in October 2020: 374 newbies (by 138 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for November 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (November 2020) Total supported in November 2020: 352 newbies (by 164 members)
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Thank you for the current statistics. After 2 months (and actually even longer) I could only reach second place, it was finally enough for 1st place. Pleases me
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The list and chart on the front page are current as of December 18, 2020. Since this thread hasn't been updated for two months, I simultaneously published statistics for October and November 2020. OgNasty is the leader of this TOP-200 in October 2020. mole0815 took the first position in November 2020. Well done!
@Ognasty had done a great job in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275043.0 and has supported few newbies already. Those newbie whi had receiving meris will be having a good start here in the forum and will eventually rank up to jr. member after the attaining the required activities in the forum. As I see, most newbies have enough activity points before they receive their first merit. OgNasty really supports newbies. In October 2020, he awarded 92 (!) newcomers. In his thread I noticed that OgNasty refrains from sending merits to users who are probably someone's alts.
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JayJuanGee
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The list and chart on the front page are current as of December 18, 2020. Since this thread hasn't been updated for two months, I simultaneously published statistics for October and November 2020. OgNasty is the leader of this TOP-200 in October 2020. mole0815 took the first position in November 2020. Well done!
@Ognasty had done a great job in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275043.0 and has supported few newbies already. Those newbie whi had receiving meris will be having a good start here in the forum and will eventually rank up to jr. member after the attaining the required activities in the forum. As I see, most newbies have enough activity points before they receive their first merit. OgNasty really supports newbies. In October 2020, he awarded 92 (!) newcomers. In his thread I noticed that OgNasty refrains from sending merits to users who are probably someone's alts. Thanks for updating this thread Coin-1. I only just came across this thread, so I had not really given a whole lot of thought to the idea in regards to where I might stand in regards to this practice. Surely, I am not opposed to meriting newbies, yet it seems to me that I have not been going out of my way to do it... Upon coming across a poster who has not received any merits, sometimes it might be difficult to determine whether such poster is posting genuine information or not, and if I feel that there is some kind of insight or the post makes me think in some kind of way, then I believe that I will error on the side of meriting such posts (posters). On the other hand, sometimes I might come across posts from newbies that are on the edge of providing some meaningful information and I might consider that I want to see more than just one post, so I might create a kind of mental checklist that I am going to merit the very next decent post from such newbie.. but then I might not come across any additional posts from such newbie, so I do not end up sending that member any merit based on the first quasi-decent post that I saw or any subsequent posts because of the fact that the member had disappeared off my radar.. or we are not moving in the same circles. I put this thread on my "watch" list, and perhaps, just watching this thread might cause me to pay a little more attention to whether I might be in the practice of meriting newbies enough.. and I might be able to "up my game" in such respect... no guarantees, but at least I will agree to follow this thread and any ideas that are being discussed here on out in regards to such topic.
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January 11, 2021, 02:41:02 PM |
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The list and chart on the front page are current as of December 18, 2020. Since this thread hasn't been updated for two months, I simultaneously published statistics for October and November 2020. OgNasty is the leader of this TOP-200 in October 2020. mole0815 took the first position in November 2020. Well done!
@Ognasty had done a great job in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275043.0 and has supported few newbies already. Those newbie whi had receiving meris will be having a good start here in the forum and will eventually rank up to jr. member after the attaining the required activities in the forum. As I see, most newbies have enough activity points before they receive their first merit. OgNasty really supports newbies. In October 2020, he awarded 92 (!) newcomers. In his thread I noticed that OgNasty refrains from sending merits to users who are probably someone's alts. Thanks for the kind words. I've always tried to lead by example here, and given my recent troubles with trolls it feels great to see my efforts acknowledged. I hope that I can inspire others to create threads that will teach newbies and reward them for learning. It seems like greed and hunger for perceived power on this forum have made many users here turn to harassing the old timers with false accusations and trust abuse, so it's great to be on the opposite side of that coin rewarding newbies and spreading knowledge.
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I've always tried to lead by example here, and given my recent troubles with trolls it feels great to see my efforts acknowledged.
I'm glad you took my advice to add the date in the signed message, but you should encourage them to use the yymmdd format. The ambiguous format that you give an example of could be used to scam by a clever person (obviously not suggesting you).
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https://nastyscam.com - landing page up https://vod.fan - advanced image hosting - coming soon! OGNasty has early onset dementia; keep this in mind when discussing his past actions.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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<snip>On the other hand, sometimes I might come across posts from newbies that are on the edge of providing some meaningful information and I might consider that I want to see more than just one post, so I might create a kind of mental checklist that I am going to merit the very next decent post from such newbie.. but then I might not come across any additional posts from such newbie, so I do not end up sending that member any merit based on the first quasi-decent post that I saw or any subsequent posts because of the fact that the member had disappeared off my radar.. or we are not moving in the same circles. <snip>
Lol, I think you're overthinking the process--but at least you're thinking about it. And I sometimes have trouble giving merits to Jr. Members and especially Newbies or Brand New members, because (and I hate to say this) chances are if they wrote a valuable, coherent post there's a good chance it's plagiarized. Sometimes I'm too lazy to verify that so I just don't give any merits. I don't know if you're a merit source or not, but if you're not then I could understand being so selective about what posts you merit. But if you're a merit source it's much less of a concern, because those sMerits get replenished pretty quickly. I should probably un-ignore Bitcoin Discussion and have a look-see and perhaps find some lower-ranked members writing some hidden gems. You never know.
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<snip>On the other hand, sometimes I might come across posts from newbies that are on the edge of providing some meaningful information and I might consider that I want to see more than just one post, so I might create a kind of mental checklist that I am going to merit the very next decent post from such newbie.. but then I might not come across any additional posts from such newbie, so I do not end up sending that member any merit based on the first quasi-decent post that I saw or any subsequent posts because of the fact that the member had disappeared off my radar.. or we are not moving in the same circles. <snip>
Lol, I think you're overthinking the process--but at least you're thinking about it. I doubt that I am overthinking the matter, but you can conclude what you like. I was merely explaining what I do, and sure, how I think about it to the extent that I do think about it.. when sending smerits there can be a decent amount of subjectivism within the decision-making but sure, if a member happens to be a merit source, that member might attempt to make greater efforts to employ even greater objectivity than such member would otherwise employ. Members are going to vary both in terms of how they give out merits, whether they think about it and whether they attempt to explain their process. And I sometimes have trouble giving merits to Jr. Members and especially Newbies or Brand New members, because (and I hate to say this) chances are if they wrote a valuable, coherent post there's a good chance it's plagiarized. Sometimes I'm too lazy to verify that so I just don't give any merits.
Well looks like you might be doing something very similar to me in terms of thinking about the matter and even hesitating, even though you may well be weighing different factors in terms of why you might hesitate when you come across what you perceive to be a borderline post from a newbie member. By the way, I might even consider some level of relief when I come across a member who has already b been merited by other members, so in that sense, I might be more willing to send smerits to a member who has already received smerits from other members.. especially from members that I tend to have some trust in their judgement. I don't know if you're a merit source or not, but if you're not then I could understand being so selective about what posts you merit. But if you're a merit source it's much less of a concern, because those sMerits get replenished pretty quickly.
That's true.. the more merits that a member has coming in, the easier it might be to send them without as much consideration. There is a thread that theorizes about which members are merit sources. The bolded members are the ones suspected to be merit sources. Here's the link for anyone who might not know about such thread.I should probably un-ignore Bitcoin Discussion and have a look-see and perhaps find some lower-ranked members writing some hidden gems. You never know.
Sure.. exploring about might not hurt from time to time. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem just keeping up with the threads that I follow.. so sometimes I just don't feel that there is enough hours in the day to explore... but hey I am not against exploring when feasible.
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1) Self-Custody is a right. There is no such thing as "non-custodial" or "un-hosted." 2) ESG, KYC & AML are attack-vectors on Bitcoin to be avoided or minimized. 3) How much alt (shit)coin diversification is necessary? if you are into Bitcoin, then 0%......if you cannot control your gambling, then perhaps limit your alt(shit)coin exposure to less than 10% of your bitcoin size...Put BTC here: bc1q49wt0ddnj07wzzp6z7affw9ven7fztyhevqu9k
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It's a good thing when we can help anyone with merit to move up the ranking especially on their quality post especially beginners. There are quite a number of users who really care about beginners and low rank member and I believe they have done well. It's like telling them that newbies are always welcomed by forum members and treat them well. ~Snip I should probably un-ignore Bitcoin Discussion and have a look-see and perhaps find some lower-ranked members writing some hidden gems. You never know.
You have been doing well all the time. I have no doubt that the quality of the post is what you are looking for from them. Of course there are some beginners who make mistakes at the beginning just because they want to appear to have quality posts, but are caught in plagiarism. That's very ironic. They must be completely ignored by merit.
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2020 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2020) Total supported in December 2020: 356 newbies (by 183 members)
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February 16, 2021, 08:01:26 AM Merited by fillippone (2) |
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These are the monthly statistics for January 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2021) Total supported in January 2021: 441 newbies (by 177 members)
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February 16, 2021, 08:16:12 AM |
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I have updated the table and chart on the main page of this thread. Since September 17, 2018, 15188 newbies have received at least one merit. 2115 of them have already been banned, so there are 13073 active profiles. I have also published monthly statistics for December 2020 and January 2021. mole0815 took first position on both lists.
Thanks for the kind words. I've always tried to lead by example here, and given my recent troubles with trolls it feels great to see my efforts acknowledged. I hope that I can inspire others to create threads that will teach newbies and reward them for learning. It seems like greed and hunger for perceived power on this forum have made many users here turn to harassing the old timers with false accusations and trust abuse, so it's great to be on the opposite side of that coin rewarding newbies and spreading knowledge.
I think you've already made a noticeable impact on the community by teaching newbies how to sign Bitcoin messages. Of course, people should have some skills in cryptography and know more about the blockchain technology invented by Satoshi Nakamoto. I like your style of meriting newcomers.
I put this thread on my "watch" list, and perhaps, just watching this thread might cause me to pay a little more attention to whether I might be in the practice of meriting newbies enough.. and I might be able to "up my game" in such respect... no guarantees, but at least I will agree to follow this thread and any ideas that are being discussed here on out in regards to such topic.
Glad you're watching my thread. If I understand your point correctly, newbies should consistently and regularly make decent posts and engage in meaningful discussions to receive the first merit as a cumulative reward for high-quality messages. Yes, I agree with you. This looks like a second way to become a Junior.
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2020 below. I think this is pretty strong evidence that more source merit should be allocated. PN7 is not a merit source, but is the user who is the user who has given the 17th most merit to newbies, while there are 97 merit sources. I think more merit should be flowing through the ecosystem, which should allow more newbies and low ranking users to rank up.
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These are the monthly statistics for February 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2021) Total supported in February 2021: 378 newbies (by 170 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for March 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (March 2021) Total supported in March 2021: 348 newbies (by 153 members)
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The master list and chart are current as of last Friday, April 16, 2021. Since I haven't updated this thread for a while, I have published stats for two months at a time. LoyceV is the leader of this TOP-200 in February 2021, mole0815 took the first position in March 2021. As far as I can see, the number of newcomers who received the merit within one month has returned to 350.
I think more merit should be flowing through the ecosystem, which should allow more newbies and low ranking users to rank up.
I think the number of newbies supported does not directly correlate with the overall monthly allocation of sMerits. It goes without saying that if a newbie posts garbage on the forum, he/she will never earn a single merit because merit sources only send sMerits for messages worth at least reading.
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Wow I never knew someone keeps track of this too... bravo!! Well I always try to give credit to newbies and I know how encouraging it can be because once I was in their place too.
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I could have sworn I merited at least one newbie last month, but I didn't even make the list this time. Dang. I do my absolute best to be generous to members at Newbie rank simply so that they can rank up to Jr. Member and overcome those Newbie restrictions on posting and PMing, but I guess I just sucked in March.
Pretty sure I just merited a Newbie today, so I ought to make the list for April once it comes out. Once again, thanks for keeping this updated, OP.
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These are the monthly statistics for April 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (April 2021) Total supported in April 2021: 332 newbies (by 136 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for May 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (May 2021) Total supported in May 2021: 362 newbies (by 139 members)
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I have updated the main list and chart on the front page of this topic. I also published monthly statistics for April and May 2021. mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in both months.
Wow I never knew someone keeps track of this too... bravo!! Well I always try to give credit to newbies and I know how encouraging it can be because once I was in their place too. I keep tracking all the users who support newbies for almost three years starting September 21, 2018. Perhaps the first merit received is the most valuable to newcomers. Indeed, it may encourage a new Jr. Member to earn 9 more merits to become a Member, and so on.
Pretty sure I just merited a Newbie today, so I ought to make the list for April once it comes out. Once again, thanks for keeping this updated, OP.
Yes, I see you on these lists. You supported 5 newbies in April and 2 newbies in May. Thanks!
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I also published monthly statistics for April and May 2021. mole0815 is the leader of this TOP-200 in both months. Thanks for your stats. Then I was actually only just once beaten by LoyceV... otherwise I already spend the whole year 2021 at place 1 I will do my best that it goes on like this.
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Dang, I could have sworn I merited more than two newbies! I guess I say that every month, but this time I would have probably put money on it if I'd wagered anyone.
For the month of June, I'm pretty sure I've already merited at least three newbies, so it'll be interesting to see what the stats show next time they're posted. As always, thank you to OP for keeping this list updated. It's one of the ones I pay most attention to, because Newbies and Jr. Members are the ones I try to help the most. It isn't always easy, given how much garbage those ranks tend to collectively write, but sometimes I do find some gems that deserve merits.
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The sweetness of forum is to make a post and you receive award of merit without asking or exchanging merit from person to another person, so therefore for this list above my post of helping hands that always remember that newbies have to grow, i think the list is accurate and believe that so many of them are merit source, even without been told ogNasty, DdmrDdmr and cryptopreneurbrainboss, this people always help newbies with Merit.
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These are the monthly statistics for June 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (June 2021) Total supported in June 2021: 240 newbies (by 113 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for July 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (July 2021) Total supported in July 2021: 517 newbies (by 115 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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Another two months have passed, so I again actualized the master list on the main page of this thread. I looked at the graph and noticed that not many newcomers were supported in June 2021, but in July 2021, after adding 14 new merit sources, a lot of newbies received their first merits and the chart line went up. Thus, since September 17, 2018, 15181 non-banned newcomers have received at least one merit. I also published monthly statistics for two months at the same time. Ratimov became the leader of this TOP-200. In July 2021, he even supported over 200 (!) newbies. Amazing result!
For the month of June, I'm pretty sure I've already merited at least three newbies, so it'll be interesting to see what the stats show next time they're posted. The stats show that in June 2021, you merited not 3, but 7 newcomers. As always, thank you to OP for keeping this list updated. It's one of the ones I pay most attention to, because Newbies and Jr. Members are the ones I try to help the most. It isn't always easy, given how much garbage those ranks tend to collectively write, but sometimes I do find some gems that deserve merits.
Yeah, finding these gems among tons of rubbish can even be considered work. Thanks a lot for the newbie support!
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Russian locale loves to help newbies. I'm shocked. You are really crazy You're really crazy! Where does so much energy come from?
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Ratimov became the leader of this TOP-200. In July 2021, he even supported over 200 (!) newbies. Amazing result! Damn, that's a lot of merits being given to Newbies. Somehow I think my standards for meriting newcomers are higher than for other ranks (and I guess that's backed up by my merit-giving history). Or maybe I'm just not seeing the good posts being made by them in sections I have ignored. But hey, I made it to #20 this month, which is an improvement. Once again I could have sworn I merited more Newbies than that, but I trust your data, Coin-1. I'm going to try to get better, though I think this month will probably be a lousy one as far as this particular metric is concerned, as I'm not off to a good start.
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Somehow I think my standards for meriting newcomers are higher than for other ranks Might I suggest changing this? My reasoning for Meriting Newbies is quite simple: the Merit system was introduced to stop spammers. If a Newbie isn't a spammer, he shouldn't be restricted by the Merit system. That means my "standards" for Newbies are lower than for others. Both Bitcoin and Bitcointalk can't grow without new users! I wasted a lot of time. About 1 hour a day. It's not "wasted" if it's put to good use Meriting 200+ Newbies is just impressive!
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Somehow I think my standards for meriting newcomers are higher than for other ranks Might I suggest changing this? You absolutely may, and I respect your opinion--but I'm not sure if I'm willing to lower my standards or not. I will think about it, though. The problem (that I've ranted about ad nauseam) is that most Newbies just don't make good posts or, as I said, I'm reading threads in sections where newcomers are just posting crap. I certainly do want to help lower-ranked members, but I've had the opinion for a long time that most new members are here just to make money, so they're not putting in a lot of effort when they write--and it shows. Anyway, I'll sleep on it and appreciate the input.
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Might I suggest changing this? My reasoning for Meriting Newbies is quite simple: the Merit system was introduced to stop spammers. If a Newbie isn't a spammer, he shouldn't be restricted by the Merit system. That means my "standards" for Newbies are lower than for others. Both Bitcoin and Bitcointalk can't grow without new users!
Besides, holding newbies who are new not only the forum, but quite possibly Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general to the standards of others users is a little unrealistic. Plus, I believe progression is a big motivator, hence why we track progress in most industries. If they are receiving merit, they'll get the bug, and want to earn more, which will likely encourage better quality posts. The problem (that I've ranted about ad nauseam) is that most Newbies just don't make good posts or, as I said, I'm reading threads in sections where newcomers are just posting crap. I certainly do want to help lower-ranked members, but I've had the opinion for a long time that most new members are here just to make money, so they're not putting in a lot of effort when they write--and it shows. Anyway, I'll sleep on it and appreciate the input.
It's partly the reason we have a lot of merit sources, so that the distribution of merit is varied. It's good to some extent to have different standards, and different merit habits. Though, I'm not actually bothered if I believe a user is posting simply because they want to rank up, and eventually earn. We all want to make money to a certain extent, it is whether or not that post is detrimental to the forum, obviously if it is its likely to fall into the scope of moderation, but if not then merit takes care of that grey area. However, if they are contributing good content, I don't care what their motivation is in posting. Good content to me is good content.
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The problem (that I've ranted about ad nauseam) is that most Newbies just don't make good posts or, as I said, I'm reading threads in sections where newcomers are just posting crap. Obviously don't Merit those I often Merit users who don't post again after their first post. They come here to solve a problem, and after they're done, they don't need the forum anymore. Those aren't the best users for the future of the forum, but they are genuine (Bitcoin) users. I certainly do want to help lower-ranked members, but I've had the opinion for a long time that most new members are here just to make money, so they're not putting in a lot of effort when they write--and it shows. Usually I can guess their motives from their posts. And as long as I'm not too high on the Top senders to permabanned users list, I'm not worried.
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I often Merit users who don't post again after their first post. They come here to solve a problem, and after they're done, they don't need the forum anymore. Those aren't the best users for the future of the forum, but they are genuine (Bitcoin) users.
Yeah, this seems pretty common. They probably don't even understand the merit system, but I still think meriting these types of posts might actually encourage new users to stick around. At least, I'm hoping so. Though, I think most of my newbie merits are the types which come ask a question, and then leave indefinitely. I wish somehow I was able to filter the patrol page, to avoid certain sections temporarily so I could look for newbie posts which aren't bounty reports etc. That would likely increase my merit distribution to newbie accounts significantly.
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I wish somehow I was able to filter the patrol page, to avoid certain sections temporarily so I could look for newbie posts which aren't bounty reports etc. You can. See my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112334.msg49854683#msg49854683For example, this link - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1,74,77,86,6,37,98,100,138,97,231,261,14,40,41,42,76,137,81,4,12;patrol - will show you all recent newbie posts from the boards in the "Bitcoin" section only. You can also use this link to see newbie posts from all boards, but with bounty posts excluded: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;nobounty
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Welsh
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You can. See my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112334.msg49854683#msg49854683For example, this link - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1,74,77,86,6,37,98,100,138,97,231,261,14,40,41,42,76,137,81,4,12;patrol - will show you all recent newbie posts from the boards in the "Bitcoin" section only. You can also use this link to see newbie posts from all boards, but with bounty posts excluded: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;nobountyAh perfect. I thought I remembered vaguely doing it before, but I assumed I just ignored a few sections, but didn't bother testing it recently. That'll be perfect for moderation as well as meriting new users. Making sure I make a note this time. I mean, I've literally just used the link, and it has already brought attention a few users spamming. Cheers for the reminder, that'll increase my efficiency ten fold.
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BlackHatCoiner
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I sometimes call myself a legend, but I haven't become one officially. Let alone a legendary...
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shahzadafzal
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I sometimes call myself a legend, but I haven't become one officially. Let alone a legendary... That is how on Bitcoitalk the credit is given where it's due.
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Just for my understanding, the last 200th User in the list gave 10 Merits to 10 different Newbies or they can give a total of 10 merits to newbies (even 1 or 2 newbies ) ? If i give 11 merits to the quality posts made by Newbie, i will be in that Top 200 list ?
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Just for my understanding, the last 200th User in the list gave 10 Merits to 10 different Newbies or they can give a total of 10 merits to newbies (even 1 or 2 newbies ) ? The number of different newbies is indicated, not the number of merit sent to the newbies. In order to get into the table, you need at least send at least 1 merit to 10-11 different users who do not have a merit. So if i give a merit to a newbie who have already one merit, giving him merit won't be counted to be eligible to be in the part of this list ? He or she should have 0 merits
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Hyperechos
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The forum really gives novices a lot of tolerance. I am a new member of the forum, but I see that many forum members are helping newbies. A lot of knowledge introductions and posts to help newbies. As someone who is new to Bitcoin, it is really lucky to have such a knowledge library.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 11, 2021, 02:17:44 AM Merited by Symmetrick (2) |
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These are the monthly statistics for August 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (August 2021) Total supported in August 2021: 462 newbies (by 112 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for September 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (September 2021) Total supported in September 2021: 336 newbies (by 117 members)
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October 11, 2021, 02:40:32 AM Merited by Symmetrick (1) |
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I have updated the table and chart on the front page of this thread. Since the day the enhanced restrictions and requirements for newbies were introduced on the forum, 4,731 members have supported 18,083 newcomers. I also published statistics for October and September 2021. Ratimov is the leader of this TOP-200 in both months. It looks like he will soon gain first place on the main list.
Both Bitcoin and Bitcointalk can't grow without new users!
These are golden words. I daresay Bitcointalk is the best place to discuss Bitcoin. Smart and intelligent newcomers should always be welcomed into the community.
I sometimes call myself a legend, but I haven't become one officially. Let alone a legendary... This is a feature of Coin-1's statistics; I have also been in Legendary status for a long time. He, apparently, forms statuses not in fact, but according to the number of merits earned. Ratimov is right. Since user activity is a volatile characteristic that may even diminish due to the deletion of posts, I added the following note when creating this thread in September 2018: [1] - the rank that is based on the merit amount regardless of current activity
So if i give a merit to a newbie who have already one merit, giving him merit won't be counted to be eligible to be in the part of this list ? He or she should have 0 merits Yes. You must be the user who will send the newbie his first merit, this will be your help for the newbie. The newbie you want to help must have 0 merit. Ratimov is right again. This algorithm takes in consideration only the first merit received by the newbie. It ignores other merits.
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Igebotz
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The Naija & BSFL Sherrif 📛
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October 11, 2021, 06:43:21 AM Merited by Symmetrick (1) |
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Strange not to see my name on the September list; I made the list for the first time in August and was overjoyed to have assisted two newbies on their way to the top. I know my bag was pretty empty last month, but I believe the main reason is that I rarely see quality newbies on the boards I regularly post (Meta, Reputation, Scam accusations, Gambling discussion, and local); perhaps I'll visit the B & H board more frequently now. @Ratimov, it's nice to see you at the top of the rankings in August and September, with your fellow Russian merits source making their way in as well, expanding your source merits from the Russian board to the rest of the forum. Rati, you're doing a fantastic job. I hope those newbies whom I have helped over the past 2 months will be better than the previous ones, where many were banned for plagiarism and they were part of a large farm.
You simply did what you were meant to do and what was right; what they become after that is their problem, not yours. Don't allow what they become discourage you from doing what you love.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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January 16, 2022, 12:45:39 AM Merited by Symmetrick (2) |
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These are the monthly statistics for October 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2021) Total supported in October 2021: 365 newbies (by 114 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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January 16, 2022, 12:57:23 AM Merited by Symmetrick (2) |
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These are the monthly statistics for November 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (November 2021) Total supported in November 2021: 292 newbies (by 112 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2021) Total supported in December 2021: 269 newbies (by 124 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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This TOP-200 has been updated as of January 14, 2022. In total, since September 17, 2018, 4812 members have sent at least one merit to 19068 newbies. 2424 ( 8%) of them are banned. I was a little late with the release of two monthly statistics in December 2021, so now I have published three tables all together at the same time. As I can see, the number of supported newbies has decreased from 365 to 269. Ratimov took first place in October 2021, mole0815 is the leader in November and December 2021.
Ratimov is the leader of this TOP-200 in both months. It looks like he will soon gain first place on the main list. There is the smallest gap between first and second place. This gap quickly disappeared within a month, and as I predicted earlier, you are now at the very top of the main list. Congratulations!
I hope those newbies whom I have helped over the past 2 months will be better than the previous ones, where many were banned for plagiarism and they were part of a large farm.
You simply did what you were meant to do and what was right; what they become after that is their problem, not yours. Don't allow what they become discourage you from doing what you love. I agree with you. Ratimov is not to blame for the actions of newbies who were later banned for plagiarism. He found their quality posts and tried to encourage them to keep contributing to the forum with good intentions, but these newcomers started doing the wrong things. It serves them right.
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Shamm
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This TOP-200 has been updated as of January 14, 2022. In total, since September 17, 2018, 4812 members have sent at least one merit to 19068 newbies. 2424 ( 8%) of them are banned. I was a little late with the release of two monthly statistics in December 2021, so now I have published three tables all together at the same time. As I can see, the number of supported newbies has decreased from 365 to 269. Ratimov took first place in October 2021, mole0815 is the leader in November and December 2021.
Ratimov is the leader of this TOP-200 in both months. It looks like he will soon gain first place on the main list. There is the smallest gap between first and second place. This gap quickly disappeared within a month, and as I predicted earlier, you are now at the very top of the main list. Congratulations!
I hope those newbies whom I have helped over the past 2 months will be better than the previous ones, where many were banned for plagiarism and they were part of a large farm.
You simply did what you were meant to do and what was right; what they become after that is their problem, not yours. Don't allow what they become to discourage you from doing what you love. I agree with you. Ratimov is not to blame for the actions of newbies who were later banned for plagiarism. He found their quality posts and tried to encourage them to keep contributing to the forum with good intentions, but these newcomers started doing the wrong things. It serves them right. Thanks for the update even if it is late I appreciate the effort you've done. When I saw a message on my telegram I've been mentioned by you and when I opened it, what I saw is that the users who helped some newbies and I am thankful that being an 8 months old here in the forum I help some newbies to rank up and start contributing here in our community. But sad to say many newbies have been helped getting banned because of forbidden techniques which are plagiarized other works.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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My newbie-helping numbers for the last two months are telling: I've gotten a lot more skeptical of new accounts, I think. Either that or I just didn't come across any Newbies who hadn't made it to Jr. Member yet. Oh well, this is one of the statistics threads that I'm not gauging my merit source performance by--but thanks for keeping it updated, OP. I'll try to be easier on the newcomers, though I probably won't see my name in the top 25 for a while. Ratimov is not to blame for the actions of newbies who were later banned for plagiarism. He found their quality posts and tried to encourage them to keep contributing to the forum with good intentions, but these newcomers started doing the wrong things. It serves them right.
He certainly isn't to blame, though I think he should be a bit more picky about who he sends his merits to (and that's just my opinion and isn't intended to bash Ratimov). With so many of these new members getting banned, there's little doubt that at least some of them are repeat offenders trying to start fresh with new accounts. That's one of the reasons why I'm very cautious about meriting noobs.
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Hello Leo! You can still win.
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Thanks for the update. I never knew such a thread exists. I actually expected to see Ratimov as number one and then followed by Ognasty. But the list has Ratimov at second with the difference of 1 newbie help which is still understandable, because he explained why above. But Ognasty is somewhat far from my expectation. Has he stopped that his newbie sign a message and earn merit thread?
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2021 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2021) | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 20) | naim027 | Sr. Member | 3 newbies |
Heck Yeah. Nice work! I am here same as like shamm. I was mentioned by you here. And I found myself in 20th position with the support of 3 newbies. I don't remember who was those newbies but I guess they deserved that merit. So, I don't feel proud of sending merits 😁. I just realized that you wrote Sr. Member on side of my name which is not. I am still a Full member due to lacking activities. That would be awesome to be a Sr. member, to be honest. I guess your tool cannot detect Rank yet or it detects rank based on merit count. So, I guess you would find some way to upgrade it more in the future. Good luck 😍
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for January 2022 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2022) Total supported in January 2022: 272 newbies (by 123 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for February 2022 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2022) Total supported in February 2022: 257 newbies (by 114 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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March 16, 2022, 06:54:16 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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Recurrent update. Another 529 newcomers received at least one merit, that is, since the introduction of the merit system, a total of 19540 newbies have been supported on the forum. I have also published statistics for January and February 2022. mole0815 is number one in January, xandry is the leader of this TOP-200 in February.
Because of this, I have curtailed my active program to help newbies. An unpleasant aftertaste still remains.
I've noticed that you've become more selective about not sending merits to the alts of " bad actors" and other suspicious individuals. In any case, you've already done a great job of helping real newcomers to the forum gain knowledge about Bitcoin.
I guess your tool cannot detect Rank yet or it detects rank based on merit count. So, I guess you would find some way to upgrade it more in the future.
Maybe one day I will upgrade my analyzing tool. Anyway, most users have enough activity points and lack merit to rank up to a higher level, so I'm not likely to implement the feature you mentioned anytime soon.
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Unfortunately I'm not very active on the beginners and help boards so I can't contribute much to support newbie getting their first merit. I've had at least 1 newbie getting "1 merit", but that doesn't seem like a great record. Helping newbie get their first merit seems to be done more often by merit sources where I see them in the top 10 having numbers between 6-17 newbie. Even though I only have 1 record, but that doesn't matter because I think sharing merit in quality posts is still the general goal of the merit system. Anyone deserves a merit regardless of rank, so I'll post it in a decent post.
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KingsDen
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Hello Leo! You can still win.
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The Pharmacist at 108 and helped 1 newbie. This is amazing and unlike the personality mentioned. I suspect that you are less active in the B/H board. Are things changing so fast? In my newbie days, it wasn't like that as I once nick named you "Helper of newbies "
Ognasty at 106 and helped 1 newbie is another surprise because I am aware he has two active threads helping newbies if they can sign a message or encrypt.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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These are the monthly statistics for March 2022 below.
Members who support newbies (March 2022) Total supported in March 2022: 257 newbies (by 106 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for April 2022 below.
Members who support newbies (April 2022) Total supported in April 2022: 237 newbies (by 105 members)
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Members who support newbies (May 2022) Total supported in May 2022: 205 newbies (by 90 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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June 18, 2022, 06:58:18 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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The main list and chart on the front page of this thread have been updated as of June 17, 2022. Since September 17, 2018, total of 4923 members have sent at least 1 merit to 20267 newbies. I have also published statistics for the last three months. klarki is the leader of this TOP-200 in March and April 2022. ETFbitcoin took the first place in May 2022.
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I think that users who have stopped actively supporting newbies should not be blamed. No one is required to selectively read all newcomer posts. Perhaps the members you mentioned have merely changed their merit distribution policy.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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I think that users who have stopped actively supporting newbies should not be blamed. No one is required to selectively read all newcomer posts. Perhaps the members you mentioned have merely changed their merit distribution policy.
I wouldn't blame anybody for not meriting newbies, especially since so many of them stick to the bounty section and posts by many of them who make posts in other sections just plain suck. Sounds harsh, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's observed that phenomenon. That said, I could swear I merited more than one newbie last month, and I know I've said that in previous months, but I definitely try to help out members with no merits when I see decent posts made by them. Ah well, thanks for the data dump and I'll try to improve my ranking for next month.
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October 08, 2022, 01:12:20 PM Merited by fillippone (3) |
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Members who support newbies (June 2022) Total supported in June 2022: 187 newbies (by 99 members)
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Members who support newbies (July 2022) Total supported in July 2022: 172 newbies (by 81 members)
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October 08, 2022, 01:36:06 PM Merited by fillippone (3) |
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Members who support newbies (August 2022) Total supported in August 2022: 201 newbies (by 92 members)
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October 08, 2022, 01:47:16 PM Merited by fillippone (3) |
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Members who support newbies (September 2022) Total supported in September 2022: 159 newbies (by 83 members)
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Coin-1 (OP)
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October 08, 2022, 01:58:22 PM |
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I have updated the main list and chart on the first page of this thread. As I see it, the current angle of the line illustrated in the diagram is gradually becoming more and more horizontal. I have published statistics for the last four months at the same time. ETFbitcoin leads this TOP-200 in June and August 2022. mole0815 is at the top position in July 2022. xandry is number one in September 2022.
I wouldn't blame anybody for not meriting newbies, especially since so many of them stick to the bounty section and posts by many of them who make posts in other sections just plain suck. Sounds harsh, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's observed that phenomenon.
You're right. I also noticed this phenomenon. In short, if newbies do not put effort into their posts, they do not deserve any merit. Perhaps the newcomers were more interested in earning merit years earlier.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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October 08, 2022, 03:16:52 PM |
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Perhaps the newcomers were more interested in earning merit years earlier.
Yeah, you might be right about that. I've noticed that there are way fewer threads dealing with merits, especially ones started by newbies and/or lower-ranked members who think they've been overlooked by merit-givers, and it's been that way for at least a year, maybe two. More signature space does mean more potential earnings still, right? I don't know if that's true for bounties, but I'm pretty sure it's still the case for bitcoin-paying signature campaigns, so it's sort of puzzling to me why we've seen this trend (not that I'm complaining). And hey, I "supported" 3 newbies this time around! That's better than I usually do in the ranking, though it's still not how I'd like it to be. Anyway, thanks for the update, Coin-1.
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Members who support newbies (September 2022) | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 58) | fillippone | Legendary | 1 newbie | Total supported in September 2022: 159 newbies (by 83 members) Thank you for the update. Well, I must say I am quite disappointed by this result. I hoped to climb the ladder a little bit given the effort I am putting in helping low ranking users with my thread: [Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed I must thy harder then!
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Don't be discouraged @Fillippone; you and @The Pharmacist both do a lot to assist low-ranking members like myself in rising in the ranks. The criteria you laid forth are excellent since they will encourage low-ranking individuals to concentrate more on submitting high-quality articles and answers. Concerning this score board I think the reason you are not up on the board is because this board only shows the merit sent out to newbies. And looking at this your thread, there are few newbies that actually applied there for the review. If at all this score board isn't just for newbies but for all members then both of you will be right at the top
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October 11, 2022, 02:23:02 AM Merited by vapourminer (2) |
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Total supported in July 2022: 172 newbies (by 81 members) Total supported in September 2022: 159 newbies (by 83 members) I hope I can get better at this in the future, but I don't think that's likely. I would like to merit more newbies than I currently do, but I'm always a bit worried about accidentally rewarding plagiarism and I'm often too lazy to make sure that a post is legit. I would hate to have helped someone rank up if they just end up spamming the forum with shitposts later. I've seen merit being dumped on someone's very first post and that seems like a risky thing to do; I'm grateful that some of my early posts were merited, but I could just as easily have been a shitposter that was trying my luck with a new account and some text that I copied from somewhere else, you know? This is not a serious suggestion, because I know how unlikely it is to ever be implemented, but I would prefer it if new accounts weren't subject to the normal merit/activity scale for the first 30 activity points, or something; so your "activity" was calculated as it currently is, but with an offset of -30 and you couldn't receive merit until after it crosses into the positive. That way, merit senders would always have a decent sample size before deciding to help someone rank up.
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aysg76
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October 11, 2022, 12:59:22 PM Merited by fillippone (3) |
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At first I was completely shocked to see that you are not among top 3 members on the list as you have already handed out 4269 merits in the past 120 days which is amazing and out of the box but then I realised this list is for helping newbies only.But as you see it's really hard to give out merits to newbies as there are few only who make constructive posts and as @Ratimov already told you that you need to look for them or you can have one separate thread for helping newbie only and can give you suggestions on this one. But you already doing well distributing merits on the forum so just relax and you will help more members in coming days I know that fact.
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October 11, 2022, 04:04:10 PM |
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Members who support newbies (September 2022) | User name | Current rank [1] | Quantity of newbies who received merit | 58) | fillippone | Legendary | 1 newbie | Total supported in September 2022: 159 newbies (by 83 members) Thank you for the update. Well, I must say I am quite disappointed by this result. I hoped to climb the ladder a little bit given the effort I am putting in helping low ranking users with my thread: [Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed I must thy harder then! My Brothers from another Countries. I give you all respect. Thanks for helping others in the forum. When I first joined the forum it was Ratimov that was helping newbies and other ranks but later he stopped from the thread he created for that purpose, though he is still helping from other boards. That is why when I saw his name on list I was not surprised. Later this year, The Pharmacist also join him with a massive approach to help lower rank members every month then fillippone follow up the good work. One thing I like fillippone is that, he always challenge himself to take the first position or among top 5 in the forum. I believed he was a FIRST CLASS student in his University days. I believed you guys. Let us see the next table. Best wish to all charitable merit sources
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saxydev
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October 11, 2022, 04:54:45 PM |
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So 20k users received at least 1 merit in 4 years.. That's an average of less than 1.5 new members per day that have been rewarded. That's low, that's very low; there is just the problem with the merit busters, merit should be given away, way, way more than it is now.
The users joining number has to be way higher! Interested to see how many users registered in the last 4 years and have at least 1 post. If the ratio is more than 3 to 1 on new members posting vs new members posts merited, there is a fundamental problem which may need to be solved. Maybe, perhaps with the merit received when a certain number of activity is reached.
Just saying..
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BlackHatCoiner
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October 11, 2022, 05:06:32 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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So 20k users received at least 1 merit in 4 years.. That's an average of less than 1.5 new members per day that have been rewarded. Taken the fact that most users here are either shitposters or failed AIs, this number is such a decent one. The users joining number has to be way higher! And the users who have actually something interested to share should be quite greater as well. But they aren't.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Don't be discouraged @Fillippone; you and @The Pharmacist both do a lot to assist low-ranking members like myself in rising in the ranks.
I only gave you 3 merits in total, and though your statement is kind of a general one I have to wonder--also in general--how many alt accounts I'm helping to rank up with my post history reviews. I'm not against that per se, but it's something that's crossed my mind. Quite a few of the members who've asked me for help have had very similar writing styles and the vast majority of them post mainly in the Gambling section. I'm glad I raised my standards for merits recently, else I'd probably be helping the exact opposite types of members I'd intended to when I first made my standing offer. Nothing against you, Zaguru12. Maybe if you had 4 digits after "Zaguru" I might cock an eyebrow, but for now I'll keep my radar on low sensitivity settings.
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Not necessarily, we speak about the new members that join and stay arround. And for some reason the stats are terrible, if you put an average of how many users advance to the first rank, which is jr member, 20k users in 4 years is almost nothing. See cracked.io stats for example. @BlackHatCoiner But new member should be more welcomed when they are starting their activity here, when they receive appreciation, they stay. As I see it, as a new member, same users posting everywhere, the new members posting in several threads about discussions (don't have the posts appreciated at all), but one line posts from old members receive the "merit", it's more like, I will suck your c*ck and I expect you to do the same. Plus all the drama about what is sent and to whom is sent, I saw threads about 5 merits sent and the user was marked as an abuser. Let's not forget about all the spam with the gambling signatures, you see them everywhere, they are reading only the OP and 2-3 messages ignoring the entire thread..and they still get paid.
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ABCbits
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October 12, 2022, 12:26:01 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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Not necessarily, we speak about the new members that join and stay arround. And for some reason the stats are terrible, if you put an average of how many users advance to the first rank, which is jr member, 20k users in 4 years is almost nothing. I get your point, although i'm not sure the stats is that terrible. After all, 78%/2.7 million account either have no post or banned (according to BPIP[1]). See cracked.io stats for example.
I found their statistic[2], but didn't find anything about "new members that join and stay around". [1] https://bpip.org/[2] https://cracked.io/statistics.php
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BlackHatCoiner
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But new member should be more welcomed when they are starting their activity here, when they receive appreciation, they stay. In threads of my interest (Economics, Dev & Tech, Bitcoin Discussion) I encourage newbies who choose to start a new topic, and either have an important question to make, or an idea on behalf of them, or just an interesting project they're working on. But, I agree that I should try more. As I see it, as a new member, same users posting everywhere, the new members posting in several threads about discussions (don't have the posts appreciated at all) These same users are posting everywhere, because apparently, they're encouraged to do so. It's clear that some are a treasure for the community, and that's why they get most of the merits. As for newbies, I strongly disagree that their posts aren't appreciated. Point me at newbies who did share something helpful, interesting, funny, or just entertaining, and didn't get recognized. Plus all the drama about what is sent and to whom is sent, I saw threads about 5 merits sent and the user was marked as an abuser. You're talking about the fundamentally flawed capsule thing? I didn't do any drama. It had just drawn my attention that NotATether, who's a respectable member in technical stuff, found this clear fraud somewhat useful.
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fillippone
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October 13, 2022, 10:07:53 AM |
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Don't be discouraged @Fillippone; you and @The Pharmacist both do a lot to assist low-ranking members like myself in rising in the ranks.
I only gave you 3 merits in total, and though your statement is kind of a general one I have to wonder--also in general--how many alt accounts I'm helping to rank up with my post history reviews. I'm not against that per se, but it's something that's crossed my mind. Quite a few of the members who've asked me for help have had very similar writing styles and the vast majority of them post mainly in the Gambling section. I'm glad I raised my standards for merits recently, else I'd probably be helping the exact opposite types of members I'd intended to when I first made my standing offer. Nothing against you, Zaguru12. Maybe if you had 4 digits after "Zaguru" I might cock an eyebrow, but for now I'll keep my radar on low sensitivity settings. I think nobody can blame you if you merit a post of a n alt-account of a poster who will alter leverage their new rank to do something negative for the community. Raising the standard is a difficult balance between helping newbie post, who might haven't got to a good standard (yet) and avoiding disgraceful future situations. This is the art of being a good merit source, and it is not questionable by others.
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I think nobody can blame you if you merit a post of a n alt-account of a poster who will alter leverage their new rank to do something negative for the community. Raising the standard is a difficult balance between helping newbie post, who might haven't got to a good standard (yet) and avoiding disgraceful future situations.
This is the art of being a good merit source, and it is not questionable by others.
Exactly when you as a merit source are handing out merits to different accounts you can't check for alt account and only sees if the post quality is good or not and if you find it useful or sharing some relevant contents then you give merits to them. Speaking about @The Pharmacist then you help lot of members to rank up and have said to PM you for monthly post review so there would generally be lot of members taking this opportunity and asking you to do the same so the only thing you can do is to look at post history so don't blame yourself on this fact and what they will gain with those merits if they get caught? Nothing but your merits were gone to the quality post only so keep up your work . If we seek about @fillippone then you are helping out many members with your thread and handed out over 4k merits and going beyond your usual merit TX and sending 1,2 or more to different posts to various members so it's not at all possible to check beforehand if they are alt account or not and only focus on post quality of the members only so this is approach we can follow if we are distributing merits at big pace.
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If we seek about @fillippone then you are helping out many members with your thread and handed out over 4k merits and going beyond your usual merit TX and sending 1,2 or more to different posts to various members so it's not at all possible to check beforehand if they are alt account or not and only focus on post quality of the members only so this is approach we can follow if we are distributing merits at big pace.
The only possibility is to evolve to a fully fledged AI, like other users have already done. But I am an old-fashioned flesh and bone Merit Source.
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Don't be discouraged @Fillippone; you and @The Pharmacist both do a lot to assist low-ranking members like myself in rising in the ranks.
I only gave you 3 merits in total, and though your statement is kind of a general one I have to wonder--also in general--how many alt accounts I'm helping to rank up with my post history reviews. I'm not against that per se, but it's something that's crossed my mind. Quite a few of the members who've asked me for help have had very similar writing styles and the vast majority of them post mainly in the Gambling section. I'm glad I raised my standards for merits recently, else I'd probably be helping the exact opposite types of members I'd intended to when I first made my standing offer. Nothing against you, Zaguru12. Maybe if you had 4 digits after "Zaguru" I might cock an eyebrow, but for now I'll keep my radar on low sensitivity settings. Actually the 3 merits had came generous from you because I haven't PM yet for a post review. I have been skeptical about it because I feel I don't have the standard of a quality poster yet but I am surely working on it. I don't want to ruin my chances just yet since it might get me been in your ignore list, but I will certainly PM even though I scared to do it now For the number (12) I hope I haven't gotten on the wrong side of you because of it. Believe me when I say I just have special connection with it and I just love to attach it to my name.
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Raising the standard is a difficult balance between helping newbie post, who might haven't got to a good standard (yet) and avoiding disgraceful future situations.
This is the art of being a good merit source, and it is not questionable by others.
Raising the standard is all well, and good, but we don't want it to be so difficult that no one ever ranks up. That's why having merit sources with different views is essential in my opinion. You don't want to standardise the way users give merit, of course having a sort of standard so it doesn't dip low is good, but I think we've already pretty much established that, and the merit system has done a fantastic job at what it was implemented to do. Ultimately, it's theymos who decides on the standard, since they'll remove merit sources if they aren't in line with their vision. However, I don't think there's been too many recent merit sources removed? Plus, some removals may have not been for quality issues.
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Ultimately, it's theymos who decides on the standard, since they'll remove merit sources if they aren't in line with their vision. However, I don't think there's been too many recent merit sources removed? Plus, some removals may have not been for quality issues.
I think the Merit sources situation is pretty static: I just checked and I can't see difference in the last few month. Apart from that, I fully agree with you: the important thing is making your Merit Source trickle down in the forum.
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The only possibility is to evolve to a fully fledged AI, like other users have already done. But I am an old-fashioned flesh and bone Merit Source.
That would be option but the traditional way is also better approach and you have opened up a thread or say been appointed as Merit source to help low rank members grow but overall it should be based on the quality of their post and we have to check that aspect before meriting the user and on your level it's hard as if we are reviewing lot of posts on a daily basis.This way you could analyse the post and see if you personally find it useful and merit worthy or not. This approach I believe is better with your traditional way only and not depending on AI completely to hand out the merits and check for these aspects. Raising the standard is all well, and good, but we don't want it to be so difficult that no one ever ranks up. That's why having merit sources with different views is essential in my opinion. You don't want to standardise the way users give merit, of course having a sort of standard so it doesn't dip low is good, but I think we've already pretty much established that, and the merit system has done a fantastic job at what it was implemented to do.
Exactly the merit sources have different approach of giving out merits and they have their own style like some give out more while some stick to 1-2 at most so we see they all have their own meriting standards and this was necessary to appoint different members so it's well distributed on the forum.They can set some rules like giving out merits according to post content and not setting high or say strict policy that it's hard for members to rank up.But we see different sources helping members based on their post. I think the Merit sources situation is pretty static: I just checked and I can't see difference in the last few month. I also think that the situation is same from many time and think there were some request to appoint new sources or remove some inactive one's who have not handed out any merits or very less merits in their board not helping members to rank up but still there are 110 at the current only.Yes if @theymos find out not suitable he can make changes to it anytime.
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Exactly the merit sources have different approach of giving out merits and they have their own style like some give out more while some stick to 1-2 at most so we see they all have their own meriting standards and this was necessary to appoint different members so it's well distributed on the forum.They can set some rules like giving out merits according to post content and not setting high or say strict policy that it's hard for members to rank up.But we see different sources helping members based on their post.
Not just the amount they send either, it's their process of thought when rewarding merit. Some users only merit the upmost of quality, while others actually look to reward newbies looking to contribute. There's usually a bit of a difference between a user that's been here years, and those that have recently signed up. So, sometimes those new users don't get rewarded nearly as much, since the community has come to expect a certain standard when posting. Which in the most part is brilliant, but it does mean it's a lot more difficult to rank up. I personally like rewarding users that ask some decent questions, and give the impression they're actually trying to learn rather than just fishing for merit.
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...... So, sometimes those new users don't get rewarded nearly as much, since the community has come to expect a certain standard when posting.
Which in the most part is brilliant, but it does mean it's a lot more difficult to rank up. I personally like rewarding users that ask some decent questions, and give the impression they're actually trying to learn rather than just fishing for merit.
Probably any of us can be moody sometimes too, and we might not even conform with our own standards, if we happen to believe that we have some kinds of consistent practices (standards) in the way that we send out smerits over time. Sometimes I look at a post, and I think to myself.. This post is so damned stupid and incoherent, but the person seems to be genuinely posting from his/her own experiences and seems to be a real person.. So at that point, I might start to consider that I am using a "this is a real person" standard who is trying.. .. and whether s/he is trying to learn from others, learn from oneself or just trying to communicate an idea (but not very well), gives me some sense that there is hope that his person might be capable of getting better at posting.. and that might be enough to get me to send an smerit - again depending on my mood.. because if I read a bunch of similar posts, then I might lose my patience, and therefore the posts that I read earlier in my session got lucky to receive some smerits and the ones who I read later, I had no more patience, so there is a kind of luck that might sometimes be involved. So what is my presumption? that the person is a person who seems to be trying.. and there is some kind of substance to what they are communicating, even if I don't completely understand it in its present state of arrangement (did they use google translate, or did they actually type out those quasi-incoherent words that have a few gems of some ideas contained therein?).. and for me it is not necessarily about "trying to learn" from other members in the forum, but the fact that when people post from their personal experiences, they sometimes will end up learning more about themselves and even learn how to present themselves better, and even if their motives for posting had happened to have been totally selfish in their attempt to ONLY help themselves, they may also may sometimes end up providing benefits to other members who might be able to relate to their having had gone through the process of fleshing out their ideas.. as incoherent as parts of them might have been. I go back and read some of my posts, too.. and sometimes, I will say to myself, what is that person trying to say? And, it's my own post. Some people will tell me (suggest to me).. "maybe you should go back and edit your presentation a bit, so that members can understand what you are saying?" And sometimes, my response will be "who cares if they understand or not? I feel better for having had written the post, whether anyone else understands it or not." Don't get me wrong. I am not trying to promote mediocrity, shit posting or ongoing patterns of laziness in terms of posting drivel, but sometimes "ain't nobody got time for editing their own posts," and sometimes the post still might be deserving of a merit and sometimes some of the later posts from the same member will become better because, s/he had gone through an earlier process to sort out some of his/her ideas in an earlier "draft" post. Also, there are some members who hold themselves to really high standards, and we cannot really blame them for their ongoing consistently clear and grammatically correct posts.... .. so for sure, sometimes posts will receive merits merely because the ideas are presented very well, even when the ideas might not be very good.
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Sometimes I look at a post, and I think to myself.
Absolutely, we have different standards each day, and when it comes to something like the merit system it doesn't matter all that much, in fact it can actually be a good thing. There's no set standards, and therefore you want a little more variation. Don't think there's also natural variation in what gets posted every month. Some months we'll have good post, after good post, but other months it'll be what I'd call a dry month. So, naturally you'll be wanting to expend your merit source allocation since you're encouraged to do so, therefore those dry months will likely see lower quality posts being rewards when compared to the higher quality months. Also, hell yeah some times I look at my posts, and think I've made a right mess of things there. Grammar, general presentation or just being concise enough (which is something I've always struggled with) so I definitely don't expect anyone to be absolutely perfect with their posts. At the end of the day, it's a discussion forum, not a language efficiency test.
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Members who support newbies (October 2022) Total supported in October 2022: 184 newbies (by 91 members)
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Members who support newbies (November 2022) Total supported in November 2022: 164 newbies (by 86 members)
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Members who support newbies (December 2022) Total supported in December 2022: 210 newbies (by 98 members)
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Members who support newbies (January 2023) Total supported in January 2023: 210 newbies (by 98 members)
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The main table and chart on the front page of this thread have been updated as of February 3, 2023. Since September 17, 2018, 5079 members sent at least 1 merit to 21671 newcomers. I have also published the four monthly statistics. xandry is the leader of this TOP-200 in October 2022. mole0815 took first place in November 2022. GazetaBitcoin is number one in December 2022 and January 2023. It should also be noted that mole0815 is now at the top of the main list, Ratimov is rated second, LoyceV is in third position. Thanks for the newbie support!
Sometimes I look at a post, and I think to myself.. This post is so damned stupid and incoherent, but the person seems to be genuinely posting from his/her own experiences and seems to be a real person.. So at that point, I might start to consider that I am using a "this is a real person" standard who is trying.. .. and whether s/he is trying to learn from others, learn from oneself or just trying to communicate an idea (but not very well), gives me some sense that there is hope that his person might be capable of getting better at posting.. and that might be enough to get me to send an smerit - again depending on my mood.. because if I read a bunch of similar posts, then I might lose my patience, and therefore the posts that I read earlier in my session got lucky to receive some smerits and the ones who I read later, I had no more patience, so there is a kind of luck that might sometimes be involved.
From what I understand, sometimes you appreciate even the little effort that a newcomer who really wants to learn about Bitcoin puts in his/her post. It looks like you have an interesting, unusual and unstandardizable style of meriting lucky newbies. It's nice.
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February 09, 2023, 12:13:20 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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From what I understand, sometimes you appreciate even the little effort that a newcomer who really wants to learn about Bitcoin puts in his/her post. It looks like you have an interesting, unusual and unstandardizable style of meriting lucky newbies. It's nice. Being a merit source is a difficult task, but being a merit source with a special inclination toward newbies is a very peculiar niche. You get the full array of personalities there, and it's not always easy to pick honest posters from the other categories. I tip my hat to those who occupy the first positions in these charts because of the gargantuan task they've committed.
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Being a merit source is a difficult task, but being a merit source with a special inclination toward newbies is a very peculiar niche. You get the full array of personalities there, and it's not always easy to pick honest posters from the other categories.
I tip my hat to those who occupy the first positions in these charts because of the gargantuan task they've committed.
Exactly spending your merits to help newbies is difficult task if compared to handing out merits to the high rank members as we know about them or their posts are good and inclined with our thoughts so we give them merits.But for newbies we had to find out who are making good and constructive posts or say useful discussions made by them which are merit worthy so really appreciate the top -10 in this category.But if we see there are some newbies who are making good posts and when we come across them we can see their post history to see if there are any other as well good posts to merits.But with your other thread you are helping them in good manner.
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JayJuanGee
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Being a merit source is a difficult task, but being a merit source with a special inclination toward newbies is a very peculiar niche. You get the full array of personalities there, and it's not always easy to pick honest posters from the other categories.
I tip my hat to those who occupy the first positions in these charts because of the gargantuan task they've committed.
Exactly spending your merits to help newbies is difficult task if compared to handing out merits to the high rank members as we know about them or their posts are good and inclined with our thoughts so we give them merits.But for newbies we had to find out who are making good and constructive posts or say useful discussions made by them which are merit worthy so really appreciate the top -10 in this category.But if we see there are some newbies who are making good posts and when we come across them we can see their post history to see if there are any other as well good posts to merits.But with your other thread you are helping them in good manner. There can be a bit of a gamble with newbies, and even some of the members who have not been in the forum very long and have not developed a long post history (who might not technically be considered newbies), so sometimes they might not have a long post history to reference, but sometimes some of their earlier posts might not be very good.. however, merits sometimes might encourage them to improve their post quality and to participate in more interactive and meaningful ways. Of course, some members are not genuine, so surely some of us will make mistakes when we are sending merits to some of the newbies, so there might be a bit of a gambling component in considering the extent to which some members are going to be trying to improve the quality of their participation in the forum... , and on a personal level, I don't consider myself to consciously be going out of my way to send merits to newbies, but surely, there is some incidental increases in my sending merits to newbies when I go through the whole content of a new thread.. and then just try to identify some of the posts that i consider to have had been good in that thread, so maybe in some sense, I am consciously going out of my way to send merits to newbies merely by deciding to spend some time to go through the contents of a whole thread... at least, if the thread is not too long.. sometimes if the thread is "starting to feel long," then I have to abandon my attempt to go through the whole thread because it is causing me too much stress to read the contents of the posts (like if I lose interest in the subject matter of the thread.. so nothing really meant to be personal in terms of my stopping reading and stopping sending merits within such new thread that I had been going through).
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1) Self-Custody is a right. There is no such thing as "non-custodial" or "un-hosted." 2) ESG, KYC & AML are attack-vectors on Bitcoin to be avoided or minimized. 3) How much alt (shit)coin diversification is necessary? if you are into Bitcoin, then 0%......if you cannot control your gambling, then perhaps limit your alt(shit)coin exposure to less than 10% of your bitcoin size...Put BTC here: bc1q49wt0ddnj07wzzp6z7affw9ven7fztyhevqu9k
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mole0815
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~snip It should also be noted that mole0815 is now at the top of the main list. ~snip
Finally! It was a hard fight and long way but now it is done. No seriously - I am happy to facilitate the start of new users here and in addition to the merits also with advice and support! Thanks for the ongoing updates Coin-1
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I thought I'm the only one tricked by newbies, such a relief to see it's a universal issue.🤣 as always enjoying to read JJG's posts.😉
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Mpamaegbu
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I thought I'm the only one tricked by newbies, such a relief to see it's a universal issue.🤣 as always enjoying to read JJG's posts.😉
I'm always happy if I could find worthy newbies to merit their posts. So, once in a while I make the list here and I'm elated when that happens. I've a mechanism for screening out the unscrupulous ones. By that I meant those ones I consider to be alts who are merely fishing for merit without putting in the work.
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Coin-1 (OP)
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June 10, 2023, 10:54:21 PM Merited by fillippone (5) |
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These are the monthly statistics for February 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (February 2023) Total supported in February 2023: 190 newbies (by 76 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for March 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (March 2023) Total supported in March 2023: 194 newbies (by 102 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for April 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (April 2023) Total supported in April 2023: 144 newbies (by 83 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for May 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (May 2023) Total supported in May 2023: 152 newbies (by 76 members)
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June 10, 2023, 11:42:59 PM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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I've updated the list and chart on the first page of this thread to reflect the new data as of June 9, 2023. So far, since September 17, 2018, 5146 members have sent at least 1 merit to 22367 newbies. I have also published statistics for the last four months. GazetaBitcoin is the leader of this TOP-200 in February 2023. NotATether is number one in March 2023. o_e_l_e_o took the top position in April 2023. JayJuanGee is rated first in May 2023. Thanks for support!
Of course, some members are not genuine, so surely some of us will make mistakes when we are sending merits to some of the newbies, so there might be a bit of a gambling component in considering the extent to which some members are going to be trying to improve the quality of their participation in the forum... I assume you are talking about alternate accounts. Yes, it's quite difficult to distinguish between a newcomer eager to learn about Bitcoin and a "newbie" who is actually an experienced member but still has a short posting history.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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OP, thanks once again for updating this list (and I'm glad I caught it in my feed before it got buried).
Wow....I used to actually have a rank each month, but I've dropped off completely since I started pretty much exclusively handing out merits to people who request post history reviews. I'm not sure if that's a case of me not reading as much, or being lazy or what but it isn't good. My goal with the offer I made to the community was to help members rank up, but I rarely get members at Newbie rank PMing me.
Is it too late to make a new years resolution? Yes, and I'd probably break it immediately if I were so foolish enough to make one.
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OP, thanks once again for updating this list (and I'm glad I caught it in my feed before it got buried).
Wow....I used to actually have a rank each month, but I've dropped off completely since I started pretty much exclusively handing out merits to people who request post history reviews. I'm not sure if that's a case of me not reading as much, or being lazy or what but it isn't good. My goal with the offer I made to the community was to help members rank up, but I rarely get members at Newbie rank PMing me.
Is it too late to make a new years resolution? Yes, and I'd probably break it immediately if I were so foolish enough to make one.
I stopped the last few months myself. I got tired of finding out a lot were just looking for merits and fake accounts trying to hustle signature money.
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JayJuanGee
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Of course, some members are not genuine, so surely some of us will make mistakes when we are sending merits to some of the newbies, so there might be a bit of a gambling component in considering the extent to which some members are going to be trying to improve the quality of their participation in the forum... I assume you are talking about alternate accounts. Yes, it's quite difficult to distinguish between a newcomer eager to learn about Bitcoin and a "newbie" who is actually an experienced member but still has a short posting history. I was not referring to any particular kind of account - except just not being able to be sure if the member is being genuine or not based on the short posting history... and sure, your suggestion that some members might be more clearly genuine, but some of us (including yours truly) have been tricked by bot posts, too.. (or plagerism), they seem to be good posts (well written) but then the post (or moreso the member) ends up having issues in regards to a lack of genuineness... and maybe even a lack of a brain that thinks for itself beyond stealing the work of others or posting the language that was mostly (if not completely) drafted by a bot.. OP, thanks once again for updating this list (and I'm glad I caught it in my feed before it got buried).
Wow....I used to actually have a rank each month, but I've dropped off completely since I started pretty much exclusively handing out merits to people who request post history reviews. I'm not sure if that's a case of me not reading as much, or being lazy or what but it isn't good. My goal with the offer I made to the community was to help members rank up, but I rarely get members at Newbie rank PMing me.
Is it too late to make a new years resolution? Yes, and I'd probably break it immediately if I were so foolish enough to make one.
I stopped the last few months myself. I got tired of finding out a lot were just looking for merits and fake accounts trying to hustle signature money. Yes.. another good point.. Sometimes it can be frustrating if some of us get the sense that we have been duped.. and we might ONLY have so much time that we can try to figure out if the member is seeming to be up to no good.. in terms of actually not even intended (or perhaps not even capable) of making a meaningful and substantive forum contribution.
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1) Self-Custody is a right. There is no such thing as "non-custodial" or "un-hosted." 2) ESG, KYC & AML are attack-vectors on Bitcoin to be avoided or minimized. 3) How much alt (shit)coin diversification is necessary? if you are into Bitcoin, then 0%......if you cannot control your gambling, then perhaps limit your alt(shit)coin exposure to less than 10% of your bitcoin size...Put BTC here: bc1q49wt0ddnj07wzzp6z7affw9ven7fztyhevqu9k
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Of course, some members are not genuine, so surely some of us will make mistakes when we are sending merits to some of the newbies, so there might be a bit of a gambling component in considering the extent to which some members are going to be trying to improve the quality of their participation in the forum... I assume you are talking about alternate accounts. Yes, it's quite difficult to distinguish between a newcomer eager to learn about Bitcoin and a "newbie" who is actually an experienced member but still has a short posting history. I was not referring to any particular kind of account - except just not being able to be sure if the member is being genuine or not based on the short posting history... and sure, your suggestion that some members might be more clearly genuine, but some of us (including yours truly) have been tricked by bot posts, too.. (or plagerism), they seem to be good posts (well written) but then the post (or moreso the member) ends up having issues in regards to a lack of genuineness... and maybe even a lack of a brain that thinks for itself beyond stealing the work of others or posting the language that was mostly (if not completely) drafted by a bot.. OP, thanks once again for updating this list (and I'm glad I caught it in my feed before it got buried).
Wow....I used to actually have a rank each month, but I've dropped off completely since I started pretty much exclusively handing out merits to people who request post history reviews. I'm not sure if that's a case of me not reading as much, or being lazy or what but it isn't good. My goal with the offer I made to the community was to help members rank up, but I rarely get members at Newbie rank PMing me.
Is it too late to make a new years resolution? Yes, and I'd probably break it immediately if I were so foolish enough to make one.
I stopped the last few months myself. I got tired of finding out a lot were just looking for merits and fake accounts trying to hustle signature money. Yes.. another good point.. Sometimes it can be frustrating if some of us get the sense that we have been duped.. and we might ONLY have so much time that we can try to figure out if the member is seeming to be up to no good.. in terms of actually not even intended (or perhaps not even capable) of making a meaningful and substantive forum contribution. There is no perfect rule, no perfect system and no perfect justice, just do your own and leave the rest. I'm always glad when I see the updates from @Coin-1 mentioning my name as helping some newbies with between 1-3 merits within months if am correct. It would have been more but I don't give attention to them only because I'm not a merit source. But many of them deserve it, especially in a forum where disparities and biases linger. If you think too much of an account being an alt, I can assure you that you will do more evil than good, many genuine and original posters must have been discouraged because of this and left. While you make the forum thrive for alts simply because they with the alts must have understood the forum better, and whether you give them or not, they get it elsewhere. Is that justice? Take me as an example, I am no alt, but I would have left the forum in the first 5 months if not for @The Sceptical Chymist, his support encouraged me. @JayJuanGee is another good and random reviewer who I wouldn't have known if not for the merits he sends to me. How many people do this? My discouragement at that time is about the lack of appreciation of what I contribute, it goes a long way. Mind you, Injustice is everywhere in the forum, and if you look at some local boards, you would be amazed about what is happening there. Some underserving accounts could get as much as over 300 merits in a single month, all local. This is simply because they can speak their language, many might have alts there and continue to build it for money, is that justice? I implore anyone God has given the grace and privilege to hold a position of power to help regardless of discouragement by anyone, JUST BE YOU. It's not so difficult to read posts insightfully and psychologically to know who deserves merit and some suspected alts. That's at least for me.
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There is no perfect rule, no perfect system and no perfect justice, just do your own and leave the rest. I'm always glad when I see the updates from @Coin-1 mentioning my name as helping some newbies with between 1-3 merits within months if am correct. It would have been more but I don't give attention to them only because I'm not a merit source. But many of them deserve it, especially in a forum where disparities and biases linger. If you think too much of an account being an alt, I can assure you that you will do more evil than good, many genuine and original posters must have been discouraged because of this and left. While you make the forum thrive for alts simply because they with the alts must have understood the forum better, and whether you give them or not, they get it elsewhere. Is that justice? Take me as an example, I am no alt, but I would have left the forum in the first 5 months if not for @The Sceptical Chymist, his support encouraged me. @JayJuanGee is another good and random reviewer who I wouldn't have known if not for the merits he sends to me. How many people do this? My discouragement at that time is about the lack of appreciation of what I contribute, it goes a long way. Mind you, Injustice is everywhere in the forum, and if you look at some local boards, you would be amazed about what is happening there. Some underserving accounts could get as much as over 300 merits in a single month, all local. This is simply because they can speak their language, many might have alts there and continue to build it for money, is that justice? I implore anyone God has given the grace and privilege to hold a position of power to help regardless of discouragement by anyone, JUST BE YOU. It's not so difficult to read posts insightfully and psychologically to know who deserves merit and some suspected alts. That's at least for me. You make quite a few good points, and probably I agree with your overall conclusion regarding various difficult balances that may well not even lead to any kind of system that is even close to perfect, because even if theymos might make some kind of change in regards to the number of merit sources and merits, but then some of the merits might end up getting spent in ways that really had not been what was intended buy the change(s).... and so frequently, I mention that theymos might want to do some juggling of the merit source members, and he does do that from time to time (but pretty infrequently), and maybe part of the reason that he does not juggle too frequently is that it may well take quite a long time to figure out the various kinds of fall outs that might occur each time the juggling might have had been in a kind of BIG way... Merit czars had been suggested too.. and sure that sounds good in theory.. but likely would have quite a few negative aspects too.. even though i would imagine that theymos does have some names of members that he would calculate to be less likely towards corruption as compared to others.. but everyone likely has some flaws in regards to sometimes even having time to carry out such duties... or even the right kinds of skills and access to administrative tools.. which there might be some difficulties in terms of giving some of that kind of access to administrative tools too.
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1) Self-Custody is a right. There is no such thing as "non-custodial" or "un-hosted." 2) ESG, KYC & AML are attack-vectors on Bitcoin to be avoided or minimized. 3) How much alt (shit)coin diversification is necessary? if you are into Bitcoin, then 0%......if you cannot control your gambling, then perhaps limit your alt(shit)coin exposure to less than 10% of your bitcoin size...Put BTC here: bc1q49wt0ddnj07wzzp6z7affw9ven7fztyhevqu9k
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If you think too much of an account being an alt, I can assure you that you will do more evil than good, many genuine and original posters must have been discouraged because of this and left. While you make the forum thrive for alts simply because they with the alts must have understood the forum better, and whether you give them or not, they get it elsewhere. Is that justice?
Take me as an example, I am no alt, but I would have left the forum in the first 5 months if not for @The Sceptical Chymist, his support encouraged me. @JayJuanGee is another good and random reviewer who I wouldn't have known if not for the merits he sends to me. How many people do this? My discouragement at that time is about the lack of appreciation of what I contribute, it goes a long way.
Mind you, Injustice is everywhere in the forum, and if you look at some local boards, you would be amazed about what is happening there. Some underserving accounts could get as much as over 300 merits in a single month, all local. This is simply because they can speak their language, many might have alts there and continue to build it for money, is that justice?
I don't understand why would someone leave this forum if that person was unable to rank up unless the person's intention from the very beginning was to post in Ivory Tower board. By the way, I agree with you, a lot of undeserving accounts get a lot of merits because of their local boards but as I understand, these people are usually from poor countries like Nigeria, Africa, India, Pakistan and they help each-other in local boards. I understand this, they try to help each-other to rank-up and earn some money via signature campaigns. Merit czars had been suggested too.. and sure that sounds good in theory.. but likely would have quite a few negative aspects too.. even though i would imagine that theymos does have some names of members that he would calculate to be less likely towards corruption as compared to others.. but everyone likely has some flaws in regards to sometimes even having time to carry out such duties... or even the right kinds of skills and access to administrative tools.. which there might be some difficulties in terms of giving some of that kind of access to administrative tools too.
Merit Kings? i.e. merit sources? I think that current merit system is good enough for this forum. It has it's pros and cons, like, the abuse from local boards but a lot more problems can appear if only limited number of people will be able to give away merits. We can also implement something like merit moderation or merit approval by other members, i.e. the case where one gives away merit and it needs confirmation of 6/10 to be finally given. But that's a lot of headache and waste of time for many people. I think we should live this system the way it is right now.
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I stopped the last few months myself. I got tired of finding out a lot were just looking for merits and fake accounts trying to hustle signature money.
The majority of users who caused my appearance in these tables in some rare months unfortunately left the forum not even trying to get higher ranks. Well, it is disappointing a bit, but I think that it is a right way of spending smerits anyway. If I see a good newbie with interesting ideas, desire to study something new or even good questions it is good to share a merit with him. And what will happen next matters not so much. Of course we can hope that it will help someone we will be proud to found such gem among the first ones. But even if it will be just one such a gem for all forum life may be it is enough not to be disappointed with that others didn't become what we expected? Of course many of our efforts will be wasted, but I try to stay optimistic anyway!
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Merit czars had been suggested too.. and sure that sounds good in theory.. but likely would have quite a few negative aspects too.. even though i would imagine that theymos does have some names of members that he would calculate to be less likely towards corruption as compared to others.. but everyone likely has some flaws in regards to sometimes even having time to carry out such duties... or even the right kinds of skills and access to administrative tools.. which there might be some difficulties in terms of giving some of that kind of access to administrative tools too.
Merit Kings? i.e. merit sources? I think that current merit system is good enough for this forum. It has it's pros and cons, like, the abuse from local boards but a lot more problems can appear if only limited number of people will be able to give away merits. We can also implement something like merit moderation or merit approval by other members, i.e. the case where one gives away merit and it needs confirmation of 6/10 to be finally given. But that's a lot of headache and waste of time for many people. I think we should live this system the way it is right now. When reading your response, I see that I did not really explain what I meant by "merit czars"... and maybe it is because I used the plural rather than the singular.. which probably was caused by my thinking about multiple proposals about merit czars rather than there being more than one merit czar at a time..... so sorry about that confusion.. and you seem to have gotten distracted by the word czar too.. since you substituted "king" in there... which sure is the same idea.. but I can see that you are thinking about it differently than what I thought that I was trying to say about some merit czar ideas that had been proposed in the past. The way I recall the essence of the merit czar proposals is that it would be someone to oversee the merit system and the various merit source members so then maybe somehow managing how many merit source members and their merit source allocation - and in that regard having someone overseeing that area would presumably allow for more merit sources rather than fewer.. or whatever the merit czar might put into place and start to oversee based on how much power and/or discretion that theymos might give to such a hypothetical person (or if it ended up being a team or a rotating czar... who the fuck knows? kind of in the theoretical stage, anyhow?).. It just that I had mentioned the merit czar thing as something that some folks had proposed could be a possible solution to have someone who is more active in making changes than what theymos currently has not been making changes to the merit sources (the merit source members and/or their merit source amounts) too frequently... so some kind of a merit czar system would be more active in regards to making changes and perhaps more aggressive too? I don't know.. if you ever read anything about bureaucrats in terms of Parkinson's law, if a bureaucrats is created, then such bureaucrats will create more and more work for him/herself to justify his/her existence including justifying the need for more and more assistants, too...and then the longer that the system exists the assistants will need assistants, too. Some kind of merit czar system is not totally off the rocker.. but it might not end up solving anything.. except surely theymos might sometimes not want to have to do certain things and the incorporation of some kind of a merit czar system could be a way to delegate some duties and to still allow him to oversee the matter regarding how those changes (or that merit czar person) is working and if it might be getting better or wore in some ways without theymos having to do some of the grunt work related to the merit system (at least in theory).. I stopped the last few months myself. I got tired of finding out a lot were just looking for merits and fake accounts trying to hustle signature money.
The majority of users who caused my appearance in these tables in some rare months unfortunately left the forum not even trying to get higher ranks. Well, it is disappointing a bit, but I think that it is a right way of spending smerits anyway. If I see a good newbie with interesting ideas, desire to study something new or even good questions it is good to share a merit with him. And what will happen next matters not so much. Of course we can hope that it will help someone we will be proud to found such gem among the first ones. But even if it will be just one such a gem for all forum life may be it is enough not to be disappointed with that others didn't become what we expected? Of course many of our efforts will be wasted, but I try to stay optimistic anyway! You don't sound very optimistic jokers10.. Of course, if anyone is a merit source member, then that member has more smerits to spend so can afford to be more generous and even to accidentally sending smerits to undeserving folks... and yeah how much due diligence is needed in order for any of us to figure out whether to spend the smerit on a potential undeserving member might have something to do with how many smerits a member has to send/spend...and may need to be more judicious in spending if they do not have very many smerits available in their smerit bank. Some of the very good members start to stand out right away and several members seem to start to notice them, and it might not even matter that much if they received any merits in their first 100 posts.. or their first 2-3 months on the forum.. at some point, some members are going to likely notice that they are providing a lot of value in their various posts.. and by the time they get up to 50-100 posts.. the patterns of the quality of their posts can likely be seen and even cause some contagion in regards to sending that member smerits from a variety of members even if they might not have received any smerits in their first 50-100 posts. On the other hand, shitty posters sometimes will grow in the quality of their posts too... but sometimes some of the shitty posters never really improve in their posting style or substance...and they might even get worse with the passage of time and seeing a pattern in their post history. For example, we can look back and identify some forum members who ended up being scammy and maybe even lower quality members than we had initially perceived them to be who had received a lot of merits, and yeah whether or not those scammy members are enabled by the first few undeserving smerits that they received seems to be a difficult question to resolve by studying various cases in which members might be ranking up undeservedly. I will agree that ranking up does start by receiving one smerit leading to 10 smerits, leading to 50 smerits, leading to 100, but still? It's going to take quite a few members getting duped into sending smerits before the undeserving member ranking up really seems to be a systematic problem and are we going to go back and look at blaming joker10 for giving the first smerit or two? I have my doubts. I know that sometimes I have given several smerits to a member, and then I realize that they are either a scammer or they are really a very disingenuine poster, so yes, sometimes mistakes are made, and maybe some of us might have already sent several smerits to that scammy and/or low quality poster, and I repeat myself: "are we going to go back and look at blaming joker10 for giving the first smerit or two? I have my doubts."
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This is a great idea. Never realized how active this forum was. I registered on it years ago but never documented the info I used... rip.
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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June 12, 2023, 04:53:15 PM Last edit: June 12, 2023, 05:05:36 PM by vapourminer Merited by JayJuanGee (1), Coin-1 (1) |
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For example, we can look back and identify some forum members who ended up being scammy and maybe even lower quality members than we had initially perceived them to be who had received a lot of merits, and yeah whether or not those scammy members are enabled by the first few undeserving smerits that they received seems to be a difficult question to resolve by studying various cases in which members might be ranking up undeservedly.
I will agree that ranking up does start by receiving one smerit leading to 10 smerits, leading to 50 smerits, leading to 100, but still? It's going to take quite a few members getting duped into sending smerits before the undeserving member ranking up really seems to be a systematic problem and are we going to go back and look at blaming joker10 for giving the first smerit or two? I have my doubts.
I know that sometimes I have given several smerits to a member, and then I realize that they are either a scammer or they are really a very disingenuine poster, so yes, sometimes mistakes are made, and maybe some of us might have already sent several smerits to that scammy and/or low quality poster, and I repeat myself: "are we going to go back and look at blaming joker10 for giving the first smerit or two? I have my doubts."
good grief. work work work. if being a merit source becomes a job or has some other weird ulterior attached to each merit sent to a noob im out. i send merit pretty much blindly.. and what i consider merit worthy honestly depends on my mood about as much as anything else. checking post history? occasionally. but its not a priority. as mentioned upthread, sooner or later peeps we may of erroneously merited will screw up and be taken care of.
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This is a great idea. Never realized how active this forum was. I registered on it years ago but never documented the info I used... rip.
Ohhh yes completely normal you open your account today an reach this thread for completely casualty. Be less obvious man.
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These are the monthly statistics for June 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (June 2023) Total supported in June 2023: 127 newbies (by 76 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for July 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (July 2023) Total supported in July 2023: 141 newbies (by 84 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for August 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (August 2023) Total supported in August 2023: 129 newbies (by 75 members)
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Members who support newbies (September 2023) Total supported in September 2023: 161 newbies (by 82 members)
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Recursive update. Monthly statistics for June, July, August and September 2023 have been published. The leaders of this TOP-200 are NotATether, CryptopreneurBrainboss, NotATether (again) and ETFbitcoin respectively.
I would like to note that the number of non-banned newbies will no longer be displayed on the graph presented on the first page of this thread. Only the total number of newcomers will be shown because I have modified my tool analyzing all merit transfer transactions. Therefore, I will leave here such a chart with two parameters for historical purposes.
good grief. work work work. if being a merit source becomes a job or has some other weird ulterior attached to each merit sent to a noob im out.
i send merit pretty much blindly.. and what i consider merit worthy honestly depends on my mood about as much as anything else. checking post history? occasionally. but its not a priority. as mentioned upthread, sooner or later peeps we may of erroneously merited will screw up and be taken care of.
I noticed that some merit sources say that they rely on their mood when sending merit. I like such style of rewarding decent newbies for making quality posts and creating interesting topics. Perhaps one day the merit source will be in a good mood and blindly give merit to a newcomer who makes obvious effort.
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Recursive update. Monthly statistics for June, July, August and September 2023 have been published. The leaders of this TOP-200 are NotATether, CryptopreneurBrainboss, NotATether (again) and ETFbitcoin respectively.
I would like to note that the number of non-banned newbies will no longer be displayed on the graph presented on the first page of this thread. Only the total number of newcomers will be shown because I have modified my tool analyzing all merit transfer transactions. Therefore, I will leave here such a chart with two parameters for historical purposes.
good grief. work work work. if being a merit source becomes a job or has some other weird ulterior attached to each merit sent to a noob im out.
i send merit pretty much blindly.. and what i consider merit worthy honestly depends on my mood about as much as anything else. checking post history? occasionally. but its not a priority. as mentioned upthread, sooner or later peeps we may of erroneously merited will screw up and be taken care of.
I noticed that some merit sources say that they rely on their mood when sending merit. I like such style of rewarding decent newbies for making quality posts and creating interesting topics. Perhaps one day the merit source will be in a good mood and blindly give merit to a newcomer who makes obvious effort. Just under 12% of the newbies who received a merit were banned for whatever reason. It kind of makes me not want to help newbies a lot, but then you never know who is ban evading, who will be a great contributor to this forum, or who is whos alt. It's frustrating when you see someone making decent posts and give a few merits, then they turn out to be ban evader or scammer trying to start out new.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Just under 12% of the newbies who received a merit were banned for whatever reason. It kind of makes me not want to help newbies a lot, but then you never know who is ban evading, who will be a great contributor to this forum, or who is whos alt.
Wow, that's a lot. I agree with your sentiment, and if anyone is reading this and wondering perhaps why there's a bias against newcomers when it comes to handing out merits or even just referring to them as a primary source of various forum problems, here's some good evidence. I know I got accused recently of hating newbies, which isn't true, but I try to look carefully at their posts to see if I get a whiff of plagiarism before considering merit-giving. For October I believe I've merited more members at the Newbie rank than I have in a long time--but we'll see if that's true and I'm curious as to whether any of them are going to get banned. I noticed that some merit sources say that they rely on their mood when sending merit. I like such style of rewarding decent newbies for making quality posts and creating interesting topics. Perhaps one day the merit source will be in a good mood and blindly give merit to a newcomer who makes obvious effort. I posted in that thread, but I swear I must have done it in a bout of insomnia much like the one I'm in right now, because I can't recall exactly what I said about feelings and merits , and I'm too lazy to check, hope nobody sees this.I didn't give merits to Newbies blindly this month, and I don't plan to. That's how shitposters take root you know. The first merit gets them started, and even though they can easily get it from a friend or buy it, it shouldn't come from a merit source if the post isn't merit-worthy.
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These are the monthly statistics for October 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (October 2023) Total supported in October 2023: 147 newbies (by 86 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for November 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (November 2023) Total supported in November 2023: 134 newbies (by 76 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for December 2023 below.
Members who support newbies (December 2023) Total supported in December 2023: 121 newbies (by 66 members)
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These are the monthly statistics for January 2024 below.
Members who support newbies (January 2024) Total supported in January 2024: 188 newbies (by 100 members)
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Thanks for this list OP. I am very happy to be included in this, because my purpose, since I joined is to be helpful.
Just a correction though, my rank is still Sr. Member and not Hero Member. It doesn't make a difference, but I just mention it in case you find a flaw in your scraping mechanism.
I don't want to spoil your thread with discussion messages, so feel free not to answer me. Cheers!
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The main list on the first page of this thread has been updated as of February 2, 2024. Since September 17, 2018, the current leader of this TOP-200 has supported 854 newbies. I have also published statistics for the last four months. Symmetrick (as known as Ratimov) is rated first in October 2023. ABCbits (as known as ETFbitcoin) is number one in November 2023 and January 2024. nutildah took first place in December 2023. As I can see from these reports, the total number of members sending merits to newbies dropped to an all-time low of 66 in December 2023, but that number rebounded to 100 in January 2024.
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