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

[The Sceptical Chymist]

The Lost Ideology of Cryptography. Can we regain it again?

The OP of that thread is cross-posting that post across forums, and I'm not sure if that's allowed or not.  He might be the original author of this post in reddit (they have the same usernames on both here and reddit), but shouldn't there be some sort of indication that the info was posted somewhere else?

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Well the write up is theirs (RiseX project) and it's original so since both username are the same i don't think there's an issue their. Read the write up & you'll understand it's more of an advert for their project and normally when projects promote themselves they don't Indicate that same promotional advert was posted somewhere else but that isn't why I reported post. I was more interested in the replies and didn't have smerit to merit them that's why I reported.

Edit: Saw you merited stompix, thanks.

[The Cryptovator]

Saw you merited stompix, thanks.

It's fine. Although avikz wrote good post but his rank is above legendary. I don't think we should report legendary rank here especially if only good post. Below legendary rank need to upgrade rank. Try to find more lower rank especially Jr. Member to full members. They need merit to rank up, and obviously they should write good post at least. Like recently I have sent few merit to you, it's not just for good post also want to help your rank up since you were very near of full member.

By the way congratulations on (new) Full Member rank.....

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This thread really need some promotion

Re: Random numbers in a blockchain
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Most of the info in that thread whizzed right over my coconut, but it's not hard to tell which posts were very thoughtful.  I merited a couple of members there of lower ranks.  I'm all out of source sMerits and don't have that many earned ones, so I had to be very choosy who I gave them to. 

Thanks for that link, and I wish there was more reporting in this thread.

[The Cryptovator]

Can someone help her with 3 merit ? She need 6 merit to become full member. She has exposed many scam ICO and helped community, one of her post is : BITELECTRONEUM - SCAM - Fake Team and take look on her profile there are more same like. Hope someone from merit source will consider this.

[Cashi]

I've found a good one (in my opinion)

Trust Feedback Policies
Description : Guidelines to avoid negative feedback from DT
Category : guide
Section : Beginners & Help (was moved from Meta to Beginners & Help)

It’s a good guide for newcomers to make them aware of untrustworthy behaviour. Unfortunately, I’m out of sMerit but I think OP deserves some Merit for his collection of general things which are important to know for Newbies.

[The Cryptovator]

Perhaps he deserve few merit since this is helpful for newbie even this kind of post isn't new. Unfortunately I am out of smerit now, so I can't send. Please take a look on his post.

Link : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104083.0

[HCP]

Thanks for that link, and I wish there was more reporting in this thread.

I couldn't agree more... I never seem to be able to get below 100 sMerit

I just don't seem to find posts that I consider meritable in my normal forum travels. I admit that I have a relatively limited range of boards that I generally frequent... so any help that people can give pointing me in the direction of meritable posts would be greatly appreciated!

[JayJuanGee]

Thanks for that link, and I wish there was more reporting in this thread.

I couldn't agree more... I never seem to be able to get below 100 sMerit

I just don't seem to find posts that I consider meritable in my normal forum travels. I admit that I have a relatively limited range of boards that I generally frequent... so any help that people can give pointing me in the direction of meritable posts would be greatly appreciated!

Personally, I found that one way to find decent posts to merit is to look at some of the merit receivers that you have already given out, and then see what those members are meriting and what threads they are participating in.  Frequently, you can go to threads that they merited and/or participated in and then find additional posts to merit through that kind of a quasi-random scanning of threads/posts.  Surely, I don't always have time to engage in such thread/post scanning, and of course, without being too much of a merit prude (hahahahaha) having some diligence with merit sending should be attempted.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Thanks for that link, and I wish there was more reporting in this thread.

I know I was one of the active users (if not the most active user) few months back reporting posts I felt deserve merit then I got about 20smerit to merit others (although now am out) I stopped reporting because when I see worthy posts I merit them but can't report since the rules says.

Rules
Post a link to a good post without Merit.

I saw that post Coolcryptovator reported from B&H because I'm active there but again the rule above was the reason I didn't report it. Maybe the rule has to be change so we can report posts even after we merit them or report post's without enough merits. Although from his report I now know it's ok to report already merited posts but other users won't from the rule. So I suggest it should be updated.

[LoyceV]

Maybe the rule has to be change so we can report posts even after we merit them or report post's without enough merits.

I'll leave the rule as is: people often claim many good posts remain unmerited, and that's the main reason to create this topic.
However, I won't be very strict on it, so if a post deserves a lot more than it has, feel free to post a link here.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Ever since I indicated interest of returning to my old way of reporting post I feel deserve merits I haven't seen any so i thought about giving my post a try. Here it goes,

[Infographic]: Guide on possible reasons to leave a -ve/+ve trust feedbacks.
Description : Giving newbie an unofficial guidelines on leaving trust feedbacks.
Category : {guide, opinion.}
Section : Beginners & Help

Post is welcome to constructive criticism

[S_Therapist]

~snip~

I think you are not allowed to post your own threads/posts if you consider the purpose of the thread. I will report a post here when I will be out of sMerits and that's the main point of this thread.

[suchmoon]

I think you are not allowed to post your own threads/posts

I'm okay with users showing a link to a good post of their own.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I'm okay with users showing a link to a good post of their own.

Exactly I saw that comment by loyceV that's why I report my thread for the first time previously I report other users thread/replies and sometimes their replies on my thread. Also that's why i ended with this statement "Post is welcome to constructive criticism" so I can take corrections.

[ABCbits]

I'll just leave some of my list here (as i have 0 sMerit)

Edit : thanks suchmoon & i just realize today my source merit is refilled

Re: is it possible to store the blockchain in two different hard drives?
Description : clarification on brtfs file system development
Category : technical answer
Section : Bitcoin Technical Support

Re: how to create a shortcut to electrum btc wallet
Description : Guide make application shortcut on Ubuntu
Category : guide, answer
Section : Bitcoin Technical Support

Re: Fastest way of generating addresses for millions of private keys
Description : Guide to help OP obtain correct recovery seed more efficient
Category : guide, technical answer
Section : Development & Technical Discussion

Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22]
Description : Simple/ELI5 explanation about split key generation
Category : technical answer
Section : Development & Technical Discussion

concurrent validation engine for bitcoin-core
Description : proposal/idea to improve bitcoin core verification speed even though there are some flaws mentioned on reply
Category : proposal, opinion
Section : Development & Technical Discussion

Re: How to protect my PC?
Description : short advice to protect coins and some common sense
Category : answer, opinion
Section : Bitcoin Discussion

[LoyceV]

a lot of effort was put into this post but it received no merit

This is why:

After about 1500 posts rambling on for many months about how unfair merit is, many users have put him on ignore. I don't want to read more of the same.

I hope you can help

Please remove the code-tags.

[H8bussesNbicycles]

Please remove the code-tags.

Should projects that knowingly employ proven untrustworthy individuals be viewed
Description : philosophy
Category : justice
Section : reputation

This is why:

After about 1500 posts in the past month rambling about how unfair merit is, many users have put him on ignore. I don't want to read more of the same.

how can merit sources have users on ignore ?
that is not fair
you are not supposed to merit posts only that you agree with but good posts that took a lot of effort


cryptohunter has many good posts with much effort invested but gets no merit because you have him on ignore ?
not good..

[LoyceV]

how can merit sources have users on ignore ?

Contrary to popular belief, I'm only human. I'm not obligated to read everything anyone posts, and if it bores me, I stop reading.

Also: this isn't the place to discuss this, please do that here.

[JayJuanGee]

how can merit sources have users on ignore ?
that is not fair
you are not supposed to merit posts only that you agree with but good posts that took a lot of effort

Without getting into any specific case of whether a specific member or a specific member's posts justify merit. 

I think that it is worth mentioning that merit sources, just like regular members, retain a large amount of discretion regarding which posts they merit or not, and how they use the forum including which threads they visit, which posts they read and whether they choose to ignore some users. 

Merit sources can employ their discretion to merit or not merit posts for nearly any reason that they want or no reason at all, as long as it is not some kind of selling or quid pro quo kind of reason.   Of course, there could be other kinds of merit abuse that a merit source could engage in, and determining merit abuse, would be up to theymos to determine on a case by case basis, also completely discretionary for theymos to determine whether a merit source is abusive in his/her meriting conduct or if a merit source should continue as a merit source... theymos does not need a reason to remove a merit source from such status.

There is NO standard that "taking a lot of effort" compels any merit source to merit posts, especially if the merit source in his/her discretion could find a variety of subjective or objective reasons NOT to merit such post.. and like I said, merit sources don't need a reason.  I doubt that there is any need for me to attempt to list all the many reasons that a merit source might choose NOT to merit posts, but surely, as already mentioned, "taking a lot of effort" in and of itself would not compel any meriting action from a merit source.    It is almost humorous to consider the idea (and possible examples) that merely "taking a lot of effort" should compel the meriting of posts.