[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source

[LoyceV]

it's really hard not to let bad english affect your judgment sometimes.

I don't mind bad English if someone has a technical problem and asks for help. But if it's a more general discussion, it quickly becomes annoying. Especially on Bitcoin Discussion, when I read a topic I now have several users per page on ignore, and when I see them, it reminds me the board isn't worth my time.

Every now and then, I see a certain type of broken english with random capital letters, erratic spacing and inconsistent misspellings, and that just smacks of laziness

That's easy: Ignore!

it's very difficult for me not to think: "What a fecking idiot."

Why even stop yourself from thinking that? There are idiots on the internet. Hurting their feelings is okay.

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[Hamza2424]

Hi Seniors,

I have seen some good posts on my local board page as I found these posts informative for myself and for my fellow members of the community Re Pakistan the unofficial local board as there are just a few active members still activity on the board is average. Shahzadafzal is one of our active senior members there, He supports the community as much as he can still there are some posts that I thought deserve to be merited.

Poster :Ronzybloch

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61057791#msg61057791
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61116863#msg61116863
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61122169#msg61122169

Poster: Morningstarr

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61094918#msg61094918

[malcovi2]

I found this very informative especially for new people who has no idea on how to manage their funds.
user: EarnOnVictor
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416579.msg61094642#msg61094642

[LDL]

This post is a very important post for those who trade Binance Exchange.  Very quickly those who do not know about this news will be able to take a decision by observing very well.

 Reporter: Bounty Bangla Tangail Kin

Re: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5417341.msg61132567#msg61132567

[Peanutswar]

Its been a long time ive visited here to share those members who created a good posting,

1. Iroh - 2 merits needed to rank up for member rank
- Economics
- MNCs and it’s impact on developing countries.

2. Odusko
-  Service Discussion
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3. jamyr
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It is really appreciated if you take to visit here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5359448.0

[Hamza2424]

Hi Dear Members!

I think here i can apply some of my own posts for merits, Last time I did it and got a really good response on my posts, I really appreciate the support on good posts.
In my Local board Re Pakistan, On board there are many new members I am trying to provide the essential basic information as that's not a big deal still whatever I know I use to share there, I have some posts in Local section, and Bitcoin discussion please take a look if I qualify.

Bitcoin Discussion

Can BTC be a revolution for underdeveloped countries'/ as Inflation Solution?

Local Board:
My Local Board posts are merited by Shahzadafzal as he always support educational and informative content on the board

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61126293#msg61126293
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61137996#msg61137996
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61155547#msg61155547

Local Board Posts by other members

MFahad: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61141811#msg61141811
Rehan Zakir: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61151177#msg61151177

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Having come across this thread, I decided to report these five posts here. I hope to get a review from the OP or any member. Thank you all.

Has Bitcoin transaction double charged you?
Category: Bitcoin transaction is better than bank transaction
Section: Bitcoin discussion

The Binance exchange is not specific about the rebalancing date of its CMC index
Category: Binance release CMC index
Section: ECONOMICS > Service discussion

Bitcoin and Prophecy
Category: Bitcoin doesn't work by prophecy
Section: Bitcoin discussion

Re: Cryptocurrency and Gambling
Category: cryptocurrency is not gambling
Section: Bitcoin discussion

Re: Will Bitcoin Tank Following The Charles Schwab Indicator? Do BTC Investors Need
Category: Bitcoin investors.
Section: Bitcoin discussion

[Solosanz]

-snip-

Lol, technical answer and technical improvement category? it's just a random shitcoin and the @OP who create the thread is just copy pasting word by word from this twitter account https://twitter.com/Blueofweb3/status/1584478239610716160

I think you didn't even read what the thread and just reporting that's user because the thread is long, next time read the whole thread first and at least you should know the reason why it's deserved to get merit.

Another thing, why you're not giving your merit to this user?

[LoyceV]

Very helpful new user

Deleted. I'm not going to allow you to use this topic to pump and dump shitcoins.

Lol, technical answer and technical improvement category? it's just a random shitcoin

Exactly. So please remove the quote

copy pasting word by word

If so, please Report to moderator for a ban.

I think you didn't even read what the thread and just reporting that's user because the thread is long

My instant assumption is someone has a bag of shitcoins to hype, especially if it's is first post in a very long time. Not in my topic.

[PowerGlove]

You know that self-satisfied feeling when you're sure that you've made a good post and are about to be merited for it? Well, sometimes that feeling is lying to you...

Re: I need a science whiz for some calculations.
Category: Technical Answer
Section: Off-topic

[LoyceV]

You know that self-satisfied feeling when you're sure that you've made a good post and are about to be merited for it? Well, sometimes that feeling is lying to you...

You'll get used to it My expectations about which posts get Merited often don't match reality.
In this case, because it's in Off-topic, it's not really surprising. That board is mostly used by spammers.

That being said: your post is wrong So I've Merited decodx and odolvlobo.

[PowerGlove]

That being said: your post is wrong So I've Merited decodx and odolvlobo.

Hah! Really? If you can spot a mistake then please PM me about it (or maybe post in that thread) and I'll fix it! Thanks, Loyce.

[LoyceV]

PowerGlove asked me to explain this post, so I'm quoting it here from another topic:

your post is wrong So I've Merited decodx and odolvlobo.

Hah! Really? If you can spot a mistake then please PM me about it (or maybe post in that thread) and I'll fix it!

I gave a hint already by saying who I Merited. I'll use this part to explain:

Even if you placed the tarp as far away as the moon (about 1.3 billion feet) the shadow would still be ~10.027 feet (i.e. the shadow would only be bigger by about 1/3 of an inch).

Imagine looking at the sun, and 400,000 km (I don't do "feet") away, right between you and the sun, is a tiny tarp. That doesn't put you in the shadow of the tarp, because the sun (from where you're standing) looks much bigger than the tarp. The light passes the tarp from all sides, so there is no shadow.

This picture explains it:

(source)

If the tarp is low, the "total eclipse" is what we know as a shadow. If the tarp is high, there's only a "partial eclipse", and if it's high enough, you won't even notice that at all (because if blocks only a tiny fraction of the light, and the "partial eclipse" covers a very large surface area on earth.

[PowerGlove]

[...]

Okay, I see the problem. I thought you found something wrong with the trigonometry.

I specifically excluded "soft shadow effects" from my analysis:

My trigonometry is pretty rusty, but here is how I would think about the problem (ignoring the curvature of the earth and soft shadow effects):

Because soft shadow effects are caused by the size of the sun (i.e. there would be no penumbra if the sun were a point) you can take that exclusion to mean: "Treating the sun as a point". What I actually had in mind with that exclusion was: "Treating the sun as a point and ignoring contributions from other light sources" (i.e. bounce lighting), but the simpler version covers the problem you have.

Does that make sense?

It's a shown-work argument to help the OP (in that thread) understand why their intuition was faulty (that the shadow would get appreciably bigger as the tarp was lifted), and I think it did a pretty good job of quantifying something that had only been alluded to by the other posters (i.e. the sun is so far away that the rays are nearly parallel).

Anyway, thanks for getting back to me, and sorry for the weird derail.

[LoyceV]

I'm quoting it here from another topic

Sorry for being off-topic in my own topic. My intention was to post this here, but I failed. Since PowerGlove responded here, I'll reply once more:

you can take that exclusion to mean: "Treating the sun as a point".

That's my point: it's okay to ignore small influences, but this simplification completely changes reality.

It's a shown-work argument to help the OP (in that thread) understand why their intuition was faulty (that the shadow would get appreciably bigger as the tarp was lifted)

OP wanted to reduce heat input. The interesting part is that none of our discussion matters for that: the tarp will absorb a certain amount of sunlight, and that sunlight won't reach earth. It doesn't really matter if it's a sharp shadow or slightly less sunlight on a very large surface, the result is the same: less heat input.

[PowerGlove]

[...]

We've probably got our wires crossed somewhere, because I can't reconcile you agreeing with post #2 (in that thread) with you taking issue with my post (which is just a high-effort restatement of the same idea: that you shouldn't expect the shadow to get bigger).

I think we're taking different views on the question. I like your framing of the problem in terms of heat transfer, but my post was only concerned with (idealized) shadow length. I think it's one of those occasions where you're concerned with what the OP was really asking, whereas I'm concerned with what the OP was actually asking.

My post started with a snip from the OP that amounts to (paraphrasing): "If I lift a 10 ft by 10 ft tarp, 10 ft into the air (at noon) how big would the shadow be?". And the rest of that post is basically justification for my answer: ~10.0000000002 ft (squared).

Viewed through that lens, I think it's sensible to ignore the size of the sun, because it plays no significant role in understanding why the shadow size increases by such a small amount (in fact, it's likely to confuse the issue, with edge softening that makes gauging "size" more difficult).

The fact that light arriving from more than one position "eats" into the shadow cast by light arriving from a chosen position doesn't affect the underlying relationship [1] that predicts how shadow size varies with distance (to see why this is true, you can always decompose any light source that is not itself a point source — all realistic lights, then — into a swarm of new point sources, and the size of the individual shadows cast by each of these new lights will be governed by the same relationship).

[1] Which (to be clear) is more general than the one I special-cased for an overhead sun.

[Peanutswar]

1. MarjorieZimmermanGinger
- Economics
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2. Accardo
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[DTalk]

Why should we avoid custodial wallet in reference to FTX
Description : Warning on why custodial wallet should be avoided
Category : Mixed
Section : Other Language (Bengali)
Author : musafar37

[dansus021]

How bitcoin work under bep20
Category : technical answer

[skarais]

Lately I've had bit of trouble getting a lot of merit because maybe my posting habits. I'm not merit source, but my desire to help local board users earn enough merit to rank up is still what I've been trying to do so far.

I have a few regular posts that I update once a month about my local board stats, so if you think this post deserve some use from you, please review them. But I hope this is not begging, and this is purely because of my desire to contribute to my local users who still need support to rank up.

Please note, all posts may have received a certain amount of merit. But if you think this is really not worth it, then you can ignore me.

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg60534717#msg60534717
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg60729241#msg60729241
3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg60930197#msg60930197
4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg61126783#msg61126783
5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg61255894#msg61255894
6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348298.msg61436267#msg61436267