Merit system has lead to more quality posts?

[Bitcoinnation]

I have suggested all along that signatures should only be available to members and above.

It should actually be Members who earned 10 Merits and above... Not airdropped Merits. most of those with Airdropped merits still don't have any good content their posts.

[cryptohunter]

I have suggested all along that signatures should only be available to members and above.

This would essentially achieve the same thing as increasing the merit requirement for a signature to 10, but yes, I would agree. Being able to earn money from displaying a signature should be an earned privilege and not available to any spammer who can beg, buy, trade or plagiarize their way to a single merit.

I would also support a change to increasing the requirement to 1 (or ideally 10) earned merit, regardless of rank. There are still plenty of spammers who only have a signature due to their airdropped merit.

LOL

please I took a few mins here to realise this crazy notion under the current systems in place is ludicrous

so to recap on what people here are suggesting

ability to participate in paid2post and the rates be dictated by a bunch of people who control both systems merit(rank) and (red trust) that control those aspects and want to participate in paid2post as well

hahah that's going to work out well as i can see from the idiots posting this stuff here

part of the gang of net negative dip shits that think only they should be able to join "exclusive high paid" sig campaigns and " no way in hell they are removing them" to set a good example

this spiral of central control based upon subject nonsense is compounding our issues but most here just don't have the capacity to see it or have motivation not too.

LOL bunch of scum bag net negative wasters.

o_e_l_e_o  yes I am refering to you you.

[mk4]

Given that LoyceV's data have shown that the 1 merit restriction is working, I don't see why we wouldn't increase that limit to 10, at least on a trial basis.

I have suggested all along that signatures should only be available to members and above.

This. Making the signature requirement to the "member" rank would definitely significantly improve the quality of the posts here on bitcointalk, but at the same time I'm quite sure that the traffic will significantly drop. It's up to Theymos to look for the perfect line between quality and quantity.

It should actually be Members who earned 10 Merits and above... Not airdropped Merits. most of those with Airdropped merits still don't have any good content their posts.

While true, I don't think this is significant in the long run.

[tranthidung]

For the OP, I don't think so.
Visiting the following page, then we all can easily see that spamming endemic has still continued widely in the forum.
So many shitty posts published recently.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol

[DdmrDdmr]

I’m not sure about the increase in quality, since I came to the forum around the time the Merit System kicked in, and therefore lack the prior Merit System vision to compare to. Likely the sheer sway in the number of posts (massive rise during December 2017/January 2018, and steady decline of number of posts since then) has a large impact on perception, probably larger than the Merit Requirement itself.

Perception leads me to think that the "mean" (statistical, but yes, pun intended) forum member goes for quick one-liners to comply with campaign quotas, and that is the vast majority. Overtime, one tends to develop a selective sense of which posts to read and where, be it by personal preferences, or criteria to try to avoid spam. After all, it is much more enjoyable to read a thread where a conversation (heated or not) has a natural flow, than an abrupt set of nonsensical spinned-up comments. So quality perception evolves at an individual level aligned to one’s personal process of filtering out the noise.

The Merit System has certainly pushed some people to post better content, and has an enourmos toll on ranking-up speed, but there is no measure of quality is now a trademark of how many people and to what degree. Again perception is the measuring tool we have, and mine is skewed by how I decide to focus on some threads/areas in detriment of others. On the whole though, I’d place my bet that the quality increment is not really that noticeable forum wide, but rather quality that is not that widespread.