Confusing & weird reputation system.

[Lammie]

It's clear.

[Foxpup]

I've never seen a forum where you have to sacrifice your own reputation, to give someone else rep.

What are you talking about? You don't lose merit when you merit someone else.

Why was this merit system implemented?

To help stem the tide of shitposts that has been taking over the forum lately. You can still shitpost if you like, but don't expect to rank up that way.

It isn't a good indication of quality users AT ALL.

Seems pretty good to me. Can you give an example of a quality user who has not received as much merit they deserve?

It really makes the forum un-attractive to new users, because it's so hard to progress on here.

What's so hard about making decent posts?

[Iwillgotothemoon]

I've never seen a forum where you have to sacrifice your own reputation, to give someone else rep. Why was this merit system implemented? It isn't a good indication of quality users AT ALL. It really makes the forum un-attractive to new users, because it's so hard to progress on here.

This is nothing confusing & weird.

1. merit is not equal to reputation, it is only used to encourage high quality posts, which is similar to a compliment to others.
People with more merits don't mean that has a good reputation，there are always some merit abusers.

2. The merit that you can use to send to someone else is called sMerit. When you send sMerit out, it won't reduce the merit you own.

3. You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points can be sent by you to other people.
You can check your Merit and sMerit here：https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit

For example：
Now your merit is 0, when you receive 1 merit, your merit will be 1, and sMerit will be 0.5, but your merit system can't display this 0.5 sMerit, and it can't be sent, because the minimum sMerit that can be sent is 1.
If you check your Merit system, it should be like this：

You have received a total of 1 merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 0 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people.

When you receive 1 merit again, your merit will be 2, and sMerit will be 1, then you can send this 1 sMerit to others, and your own 2 merit will not be reduced, but after you send sMerit, your sMerit will be 0.
If you check your Merit system, it should be like this：

You have received a total of 2 merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 1 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people.

[GreenProfit]

I've never seen a forum where you have to sacrifice your own reputation, to give someone else rep. Why was this merit system implemented? It isn't a good indication of quality users AT ALL. It really makes the forum un-attractive to new users, because it's so hard to progress on here.

This is nothing confusing & weird.

1. merit is not equal to reputation, it is only used to encourage high quality posts, which is similar to a compliment to others.
People with more merits don't mean that has a good reputation，there are always some merit abusers.

2. The merit that you can use to send to someone else is called sMerit. When you send sMerit out, it won't reduce the merit you own.

3. You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points can be sent by you to other people.
You can check your Merit and sMerit here：https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit

For example：
Now your merit is 0, when you receive 1 merit, your merit will be 1, and sMerit will be 0.5, but your merit system can't display this 0.5 sMerit, and it can't be sent, because the minimum sMerit that can be sent is 1.
If you check your Merit system, it should be like this：

You have received a total of 1 merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 0 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people.

When you receive 1 merit again, your merit will be 2, and sMerit will be 1, then you can send this 1 sMerit to others, and your own 2 merit will not be reduced, but after you send sMerit, your sMerit will be 0.
If you check your Merit system, it should be like this：

You have received a total of 2 merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 1 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people.

Nice explanation I was also thinking that we lose merit when we give merit to somebody but now I really like this merit system and Lammie is wrong,this forum have really good system  against spammers.