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September 28, 2018, 08:33:40 AM Last edit: September 30, 2018, 01:28:13 PM by vlad230 Merited by Welsh (10), dbshck (2), DdmrDdmr (2), mocacinno (1), LoyceV (1), Lafu (1), ABCbits (1), The Cryptovator (1), TheBeardedBaby (1), krishnapramod (1), Piggy (1), Silent26 (1), mazdafunsun (1), vphasitha01 (1) |
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I recently read a topic where there was a discussion about the users who have earned enough merit and have therefore earned their rank for a second time. I was curious to see how would the user ranks look like if we were to remove the airdropped merit that was given to existing higher ranked users on Jan 24th by default, if they already had an account that was ranked Member & up. This is a way to encourage new members that are skeptical on the merit system to better see that getting large amounts of merit - some have received 1k merits - is indeed possible. Taking into account merit was designed to be received at the same pace as activity, so having received 1k merits to be "self made" Legendary in 8 months, considering it takes about 3 years to get the activity to be Legendary, is an incredible accomplishment. As you probably know already, these amounts of merit were given by default and were displayed on the user's profile: Member 10 Merit Full Member 100 Merit Sr. Member 250 Merit Hero 500 Merit Legendary 1000 Merit Using Piggy's tool which has the latest merit data (updated an hour ago), let's see how the accounts would look like if we remove this initial merit and only count the earned merit. I am focusing on ranks Full Member & up since these require decent amounts of merit. I'll try to answer these questions in this post: 1. How many "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary users would there be if we only considered the earned merit?265 Full Members 74 Sr. Members 19 Hero Members 4 Legendary Users
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Who are the "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary users if we only considered the earned merit and what rank do they have now?"Self Made" Full Members:UserName Rank sabotag3x Hero Member hugeblack Sr. Member ibminer Legendary fine99 Sr. Member TheBobyHunter Sr. Member mithrim Sr. Member Flying Hellfish Staff paxmao Sr. Member vlad230 Full Member Twinscoin2017 Sr. Member roycilik Sr. Member jillscarbrough Sr. Member killyou72 Copper Member HeRetiK Hero Member ui_zakharchenko Sr. Member Claymore Donator d_eddie Sr. Member ocminer Legendary TERA2 Full Member mprep Global Moderator Alex_Sr Full Member Rosewater Foundation Full Member d5000 Legendary aleksej996 Sr. Member Aerys2 Sr. Member mocacinno Legendary 1Referee Legendary LFC_Bitcoin Copper Member Silent26 Sr. Member Xal0lex Staff buwaytress Hero Member vit05 Sr. Member 1miau Full Member Co1n Sr. Member alexberezov Sr. Member Trofo Sr. Member cAPSLOCK Legendary ace4549 Sr. Member morvillz7z Full Member laszlo Full Member stompix Hero Member Mitchell Staff amishmanish Sr. Member EcuaMobi Legendary Joel_Jantsen Legendary bitserve Sr. Member phantastisch Staff EFS Staff taikuri13 Full Member NLNico Legendary franky1 Legendary Goran_ Sr. Member hirozaki faraday Sr. Member Anon136 Legendary Kreds Copper Member crypmike Full Member Rhego Sr. Member temmuz Sr. Member BitcoinTurk Sr. Member Wind_FURY Hero Member CarlOrff Sr. Member HagssFIN Hero Member Bitcocoin Sr. Member Samarkand Sr. Member scutzi128 Sr. Member tvplus006 Full Member ICOEthics Member Parodium Sr. Member Sylon Legendary pooya87 Legendary willdono Full Member mu_enrico Copper Member aTriz Hero Member Hydrogen Hero Member Coin++ Sr. Member Quickseller Copper Member spartak_t Legendary kirreev070 Full Member ludbega Hero Member manji Full Member semux Full Member Flodner Sr. Member Hakamura Sr. Member finaleshot2016 Sr. Member mindrust Legendary ToTheMoon_XOM9IK Full Member DooMAD Legendary FollowSynergy Sr. Member Leteravian Full Member Ranyar Sr. Member baba0000000000 Sr. Member Bheze Sr. Member First1by Sr. Member levyashin Sr. Member seoincorporation Legendary BitSharke135 Sr. Member Lafu Hero Member NadiaHel Full Member Zapo Copper Member bolshojkush Sr. Member dumbtool45 Sr. Member BitcoinPenny Legendary WaDa Sr. Member Yury1 Sr. Member gamerWOT Sr. Member sidehack Legendary BOMG Sr. Member Chachacoin17 Sr. Member Coin-1 Sr. Member ColorlessK Sr. Member Tomatocage Legendary gunhell16 Sr. Member Evil-Knievel Legendary Gothorum Sr. Member Foxpup Legendary nessie.io Newbie 600watt Legendary JohnUser Hero Member odolvlobo Legendary cellard Legendary rusbitcoinuser Full Member -ck Staff SyGambler Legendary aliyagiz207 Full Member mjglqw Sr. Member EverGreenCoin Legendary MagicSmoker Full Member SFR10 Legendary grue Legendary masstahcoiner Sr. Member tmfp Legendary trantute2 Full Member inbizin Full Member jeremypwr Legendary teramit Legendary vphasitha01 Full Member PolyPanto Sr. Member Spazzer Full Member bones261 Legendary Speculatoross Full Member butka Full Member adonay72 Sr. Member nullCoiner Sr. Member Paractor Full Member Storx Full Member yogg Legendary JaoBadjap Full Member johhnyUA Hero Member toknormal Legendary Ale88 Sr. Member AverageGlabella Full Member BrewMaster Hero Member vitruvio Sr. Member Becassine Full Member fengxia Full Member yla1974 Sr. Member TheUltraElite Hero Member jseverson Hero Member anunymint Brand new shahzadafzal Copper Member explorer Legendary nc50lc Full Member slackovic Full Member Kakmakr Legendary Moloch Hero Member dooglus Legendary ChiBitCTy Sr. Member Heisenberg_Hunter Full Member dbshck Staff kaar Full Member Hal VIP Koal-84 Full Member bobita Sr. Member friends1980 Full Member numanoid Legendary CryptoCutie Full Member sapta Staff Dr.Mann Jr. Member Gleb Gamow Legendary BTCMILLIONAIRE Hero Member devollito Full Member lemonrabid Full Member nickbelski Full Member RGBKey Hero Member Raja_MBZ Hero Member chimk Full Member etherclassic Member cissrawk Sr. Member gallisiardi Member guybrushthreepwood Legendary asche Full Member dimao Sr. Member kenzawak Full Member ChardsElican28 Member RegulusHr Full Member Slow death Hero Member alia Jr. Member emile12 Full Member icalical Full Member jstefanop Legendary LastJedi Full Member oracleongoodbye Sr. Member MarcusMillstrom Full Member digaran Hero Member temarazin Full Member vipganyan Copper Member Nestade Full Member dinofelis Hero Member udonmez Sr. Member amaclin1 Full Member hybridsole Hero Member jackg Copper Member ETFbitcoin Legendary JeremyB Full Member duesoldi Sr. Member pebwindkraft Full Member Hellmouth42 Full Member Ibian Legendary JimboToronto Legendary NotFuzzyWarm Legendary cryptolord2077 Full Member squatter Hero Member Paashaas Legendary crackfoo Legendary ophyrim Sr. Member roslinpl Legendary udivkx Full Member Avatar2030 Full Member DNotes Legendary Dabs Staff Incognito01 Full Member MorpheWQ Legendary dumbdragon Sr. Member kingcarsen Sr. Member sourish Full Member B!gSmoke Sr. Member Ksjywe4ka Full Member payjoe93 Full Member Alone055 Member OmegaStarScream Staff PavelRostov Full Member YulyNov Full Member denis-z12 Full Member nutildah Legendary Dice-Bet Full Member Ekaterinat Full Member F2b Full Member The_ Flash Full Member exus Full Member hatshepsut93 Hero Member mezzomix Legendary owlcatz Legendary BitPanda.com Full Member Bolt Brownie Sr. Member Cryptoshka Full Member Early_Waffle Full Member NeverArgueWithWF Full Member Urbinklin Full Member chandra12 Full Member coffeandtango Newbie doudou1110 Member easyboy Member jooj Sr. Member tyKiwanuka Full Member wnj4 Sr. Member
"Self Made" Sr. Members:UserName Rank iasenko Sr. Member o_e_l_e_o Sr. Member pitipawn Full Member BTCforJoe Hero Member sncc Sr. Member marlboroza Hero Member HCP Hero Member HairyMaclairy Hero Member TheQuin Hero Member bitmover Full Member infofront Legendary jojo69 Legendary zazarb Legendary qwk Donator Hhampuz Hero Member Torque Legendary DannyHamilton Legendary Welsh Staff deeperx Sr. Member explorder Sr. Member LeGaulois Copper Member coinlocket$ Sr. Member GameKyuubi Sr. Member OgNasty Donator JayJuanGee Legendary bill gator Copper Member DarkStar_ Legendary Carlton Banks Legendary Smart man Sr. Member philipma1957 Legendary romanornr Hero Member xhomerx10 Legendary yahoo62278 Legendary abhiseshakana Full Member gawlea Hero Member mole0815 Sr. Member PHI1618 Sr. Member hilariousandco Global Moderator QuestionAuthority Legendary bob123 Hero Member Toxic2040 Sr. Member mfort312 Sr. Member mstfprcn Hero Member pandukelana2712 Sr. Member pugman Legendary Husna QA Full Member mdayonliner Sr. Member poptop Hero Member Matthias9515 Hero Member BitCryptex Sr. Member by rallier Legendary esmanthra Sr. Member shorena Copper Member Xynerise Sr. Member actmyname Copper Member Coolcryptovator Copper Member zentdex Full Member TryNinja Hero Member gentlemand Legendary tonych Hero Member zonefloor Hero Member alex bond Hero Member AlyattesLydia Sr. Member Limx Dev Copper Member Elwar Legendary saulzaents Hero Member ATMcoin Hero Member Ajpa94 Brand new RuSS512 Sr. Member Steamtyme Sr. Member Tukang Becak Hero Member athanz88 Sr. Member identifyuser Hero Member minerjones Copper Member
"Self Made" Hero Members:UserName Rank hilariousetc Legendary Last of the V8s Hero Member nullius Copper Member Lutpin Copper Member Jet Cash Legendary suchmoon Legendary Vod Legendary The Pharmacist Legendary TMAN Hero Member achow101 Staff xtraelv Sr. Member micgoossens Sr. Member Lauda Legendary Piggy Hero Member joniboini Sr. Member theyoungmillionaire Full Member krogothmanhattan Hero Member gmaxwell Staff BobLawblaw Legendary
"Self Made" Legendary Members:UserName Rank theymos Administrator satoshi Founder LoyceV Legendary DdmrDdmr Sr. Member
3. Who are the users that could be "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary that have enough earned merit but do not have enough activity?2,3The "Self Made" Full Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:UserName Rank Total Earned Merit Claymore Donator 218 mprep Global Moderator 212 ICOEthics Member 168 nessie.io Newbie 148 anunymint Brand new 127 Hal VIP 122 Dr.Mann Jr. Member 119 etherclassic Member 116 gallisiardi Member 115 ChardsElican28 Member 113 alia Jr. Member 113 Alone055 Member 102 coffeandtango Newbie 100 doudou1110 Member 100 easyboy Member 100
The "Self Made" Sr. Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:UserName Rank Total Earned Merit pitipawn Full Member 478 bitmover Full Member 412 qwk Donator 384 OgNasty Donator 355 abhiseshakana Full Member 325 hilariousandco Global Moderator 321 Husna QA Full Member 291 zentdex Full Member 262 Ajpa94 Brand new 250
The "Self Made" Hero Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:UserName Rank Total Earned Merit xtraelv Sr. Member 649 micgoossens Sr. Member 616 joniboini Sr. Member 555 theyoungmillionaire Full Member 554
The "Self Made" Legendary Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:UserName Rank Total Earned Merit DdmrDdmr Sr. Member 1000
Notes: 2. Users that have the rank of Founder, Administrator, Staff have been excluded from these stats as they have a special status that can get them merit more easily than the average user. 3. Until we have updated User data that includes the "true" rank of users, I have also removed Copper Members users from these stats. Disclaimer: 1. The user rank data is 5-6 days old so you can expect some discrepancies in the data show here. Nonetheless, I will update everything once the user data is updated.
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Dukjila
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September 28, 2018, 08:47:10 AM |
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Everything should be honest, Merit should reflect the rank, free Merit is just misleading.
A lot of spam accounts.
P.S. I put the Merit author, as I can!
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JetAid
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Jet Cash's better half
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September 28, 2018, 08:49:14 AM |
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Don't forget that some Heroes received an airdrop of more thn 500 merits if they had enough activity for the basic legendary requirement.
Jet Cash was not one of those.
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vlad230 (OP)
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September 28, 2018, 09:26:13 AM |
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Everything should be honest, Merit should reflect the rank, free Merit is just misleading.
A lot of spam accounts.
P.S. I put the Merit author, as I can!
Yes, indeed, there are a lot of account with higher ranks that spam the sh*t out of this forum. Just check Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion. Don't forget that some Heroes received an airdrop of more thn 500 merits if they had enough activity for the basic legendary requirement.
Jet Cash was not one of those.
Only the earned merit is counted anyway. I have listed the airdropped merit to give a bit of background to the whole idea. I know there are Hero members that have received 1000 merits because the promotion to Legendary is based on variable activity range 775-1030.
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chiyenbtre
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September 28, 2018, 01:03:14 PM |
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Just kidding, but it's really interesting to get tons of self-made Newbies due to the latest upgrade of the forum's rank requirements which requires at least one merit to be a Junior Member. Furtheremore, @LoyceV managed a highly informative topic on potential new ranked Junior Members after the start of new rank requirements around one week ago. List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again
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LoyceV
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September 28, 2018, 03:01:34 PM |
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In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity. Satoshi can't be one of those, as he hasn't posted in 8 years.
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The Sceptical Chymist
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Merit: 6947
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Man, I lucked out when I made Legendary. Not only did I have to wait until I had an activity of 1023 (or thereabouts), but I achieved the rank right before the merit system was implemented. It's pure luck that I'm not still a Hero member. Earning 1000 merits takes a hell of a lot of time.
I like these lists here. Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.
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Lafu
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September 28, 2018, 03:14:43 PM |
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I like these lists here. Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.
That's my main goal to reach this! And it takes time to doing that but it can be done ! Never give up !
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gellany32
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September 28, 2018, 03:34:50 PM |
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I was just curios about this one that has 100 merit with newbie account cool newbie 100 merit here rank seems questionable. Just kidding, but it's really interesting to get tons of self-made Newbies due to the latest upgrade of the forum's rank requirements which requires at least one merit to be a Junior Member.
Do you have a tool for this to check on how many jr.members was being demoted to newbie rank? I bet those days were lucky days for some members here that has got default merit since they had complied already the activity that was being required to rank up not until the implementation of the merit system which other members could hardly rank up then. Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them. And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL
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o_e_l_e_o
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September 28, 2018, 03:50:51 PM Last edit: September 28, 2018, 04:19:34 PM by o_e_l_e_o |
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Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them. And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL
I wholeheartedly disagree. I am currently the 25th most merited poster on the forum, having earned 498 merit at time of writing. I am not an IT expert, a programmer, or a genius. I certainly don't think I'm an extraordinary poster. The only reason I'm a good poster is because the bar is set so low by the thousands of spammers dragging down the average. My advice to newbies looking for merit is always the same - read far, far more than you post, and only post at all if you have an original, coherent thought that hasn't been said 100 times before.
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vphasitha01
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September 28, 2018, 04:21:57 PM |
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I recently read a topic where there was a discussion about the users who have earned enough merit and have therefore earned their rank.
Is this the place where that discussion held ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) Can you guess the rank?? It's my own creation and I called it Elite Legendary How about self-made Legendary? I was curious to see how would the user ranks look like if we were to remove the airdropped merit that was given to existing higher ranked users on Jan 24th by default, if they already had an account that was ranked Member & up.
Good job OP. I am also thinking about this idea a while and it's nice to see you make that list. I think this " earned merit" concept also has two sides. By just considering the earned merits only would not determine whether those particular users " self-made" rank. Some of those users would gain more merits than the newly registered users (users registered after Jan 24 th) for their old posts if the merit system would be implemented earlier. So as a fact we can't just compare the users having a lot of earned merits with the early legendaries at least in some cases. Other side of that fact is also true because some of the so-called legendaries would not be able to rank up even full member status if the merit system implemented earlier. In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity. Satoshi can't be one of those, as he hasn't posted in 8 years.
Actually, with all due respect, Satoshi, he shouldn't be on this list. @theymos and @LoyceV are the first two self-made legendaries
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mu_enrico
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September 28, 2018, 04:29:16 PM |
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Never give up !
Wish me luck guys! ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.ibb.co%2Fb8D91p%2F2iy2gz.jpg&t=665&c=c2CG5IJ3YFJTlQ)
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vlad230 (OP)
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September 28, 2018, 08:37:26 PM |
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In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity.
Agreed. Activity is important too, it takes a lot of dedication to post here for a rough 3 years to gain 1k activity. At this time, activity is not available in the Piggy's tool so, could not take it into account. He said he's going to include it so, I'll be creating more elaborate lists when available. [...] I like these lists here. Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.
There are about 5k "self made" members so, I think the newbies that are complaining are just the spammers, not the ones doing good posts. Didn't want to add those metrics since I considered earning 10 merits trivial.
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TheBeardedBaby
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September 28, 2018, 09:39:39 PM |
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So are we "Self Made Hero-to-be-on-time" then? ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) I need 5 more months to reach the activity for Hero, and if all goes with the same tempo as til now, looks like till then I'll be having enough merit for Legendary which in terms of activity will be in 2 years, somewhere in 2020.. o_0
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chiyenbtre
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September 29, 2018, 01:54:53 AM |
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I don't have tools for this, but @LoyceV have made a great topic on this issue. What do you need more? List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again~ Do you have a tool for this to check on how many jr.members was being demoted to newbie rank?
Did you want to get a case study? here you go: Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)Please read it carefully. Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them.
All ones have same rights to compose, then publish their threads, show off their ideas. All deserved merit threads will catch attention of forum users, sometimes got merits from readers, sometimes don't get them, but it's not too bad. At least, highly qualitied threads have higher odds to catch attention of readers. That's enough. And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL
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xtraelv
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September 29, 2018, 02:29:21 AM |
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Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity.
So there are a lot of Legendary that have not yet received 1000 merits (other than their airdropped merits).
It is expected to take at least 2 - 3 years to rank to Legendary so for Legendaries it would be unfair to say that they don't have the self made merit.
If a legendary received around 200- 300 merits by now they would be well on their way to being "self made" by the time the 2-3 years are up.
Also people often have bursts on a forum (Periods where they post a lot) . So they may be taking it easy at the moment.
Some really good content was posted over a number of years but only the "famous historic content" gets merited.
Most merit is given to new content.
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vlad230 (OP)
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September 29, 2018, 05:31:52 AM Last edit: September 29, 2018, 09:53:37 AM by vlad230 |
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So are we "Self Made Hero-to-be-on-time" then? ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) I need 5 more months to reach the activity for Hero, and if all goes with the same tempo as til now, looks like till then I'll be having enough merit for Legendary which in terms of activity will be in 2 years, somewhere in 2020.. o_0 Yeah... hang on buddy ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) You're going to rank-up in no time. Maybe there would be a good idea to automatically rank up to Legendary in case you reach 2k merit and not have the required activity. @theymos, what do you say? Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity.
So there are a lot of Legendary that have not yet received 1000 merits (other than their airdropped merits).
It is expected to take at least 2 - 3 years to rank to Legendary so for Legendaries it would be unfair to say that they don't have the self made merit.
If a legendary received around 200- 300 merits by now they would be well on their way to being "self made" by the time the 2-3 years are up. [...]
Totally agree. These stats are not made to upset any people who are not "self made" yet. But a way to prove to others, who are skeptical on the merit system, that it is actually possible to rank-up and gather large amounts of merit. Getting 1k merits is no easy task and some people have managed to do it, not to mention that there are 19 Heros & 74 Sr. Members that are "self made" and a lot of those people are the current Legendary members. So, they haven't got the Legendary rank for nothing. I have edited the OP, after reading it again I see how the message could be perceived in a different way by some readers. [...] Some really good content was posted over a number of years but only the "famous historic content" gets merited.
Most merit is given to new content.
I would say this is partially true, as I see there are a lot of posts from the past that were merited. For the majority of cases you're right, older posts did not get the visibility, thus were not merited.
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LoyceV
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September 29, 2018, 07:23:35 AM |
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Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity. What worries me though is that the most merited users have only received 4 times that amount (I'm not counting theymos as a user), and that just 100 users have received enough Merit to keep up with Activity. Those 100 users include users who got their merit through abuse. When I look at half this amount (0.5 Merit per Activity), there are 250 users who have reached this. If I scroll down the list further, I still see many names I recognize (and many unknown names too). I think many of those users shouldn't be restricted by Merit, which implies there isn't enough Merit going around. Maybe there would be a good idea to automatically rank up to Legendary in case you reach 2k merit and not have the required activity. @theymos, what do you say? Bad idea, that can be gamed. The current system of requiring both a long time commitment to the forum as well as quality posts is a good combination. Example: nullius! He posted for a few months only, then disappeared. If he would have stayed one month longer, he would have been Legendary in your proposal. But he lacks the long term commitment.
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vlad230 (OP)
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September 29, 2018, 05:49:25 PM |
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What worries me though is that the most merited users have only received 4 times that amount (I'm not counting theymos as a user), and that just 100 users have received enough Merit to keep up with Activity. Those 100 users include users who got their merit through abuse. When I look at half this amount (0.5 Merit per Activity), there are 250 users who have reached this. If I scroll down the list further, I still see many names I recognize (and many unknown names too). I think many of those users shouldn't be restricted by Merit, which implies there isn't enough Merit going around.
Yes, that's right, merit is usually not enough and merit sources tend to pass along low amounts of it. If the amounts would increase I think the re-circulation would work better and would reach more users. Bad idea, that can be gamed. The current system of requiring both a long time commitment to the forum as well as quality posts is a good combination. Example: nullius! He posted for a few months only, then disappeared. If he would have stayed one month longer, he would have been Legendary in your proposal. But he lacks the long term commitment. Ok, I see your point. I was just thinking of a way to reward users by doing so. Maybe a new rank would make more sense then, something like "Self Made Member" maybe?
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LoyceV
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Activity: 3416
Merit: 17295
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September 29, 2018, 06:17:29 PM |
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I was just thinking of a way to reward users by doing so. "Merit" is the reward already. It's an amazing system: I didn't need any from the beginning, and yet, I want to have more of it. Maybe a new rank would make more sense then, something like "Self Made Member" maybe? Ultimately, we should all become self-made members ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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