105 posts merited (by me) in just under 2 minutes – What’s got over me? (v 56.0)

[Jet Cash]

when it comes to giving merits it never seems to need that much analysis.  A post either reaches the threshold of being worthy of merit or it doesn't (in my mind at least), though I could exactly describe how a post meets that threshold. 

Exactly. Just because you have money in the bank, it doesn't mean you have to spend it. In fact, if you spend the money unwisely, it may just be an indication that you are overpaid.

[LoyceV]

I can only say that DdmrDdmr is probably one of the most active merit sender on this forum and for sure one who is send most merits in 30 minutes.

Challenge accepted I'll wait until my scraper is done, so I can use the maximum number of page loads per minute

I gave it a rethink, and have decided to go on a second sMerit awarding spree from my personal batch. As before, my intention was to re-merit some posts that I had already merited previously (thus no need for me to review the post’s content) in order to get rid of my personal sMerits in a coherent manner.

I've been thinking of a way to "unload" my own stash of sMerit for a while now. In the past weeks, I managed to reduce it from 560 to currently 461. I was thinking of only re-meriting users who don't have enough for Legendary rank yet.

Lately, I've sent extra Merit to a few users who deserve to rank up and were close. I'd also like to continue this by sending larger batches to a small number of users. FWP Merit source dilemmas

[fillippone]

I've been thinking of a way to "unload" my own stash of sMerit for a while now. In the past weeks, I managed to reduce it from 560 to currently 461. I was thinking of only re-meriting users who don't have enough for Legendary rank yet.

Lately, I've sent extra Merit to a few users who deserve to rank up and were close. I'd also like to continue this by sending larger batches to a small number of users. FWP Merit source dilemmas

I know one of those users pushing hard to gain a certain amount of merits before a certain date to achieve a difficult to see merit vs status combination.
 

[wwzsocki]

I wish I have such problems as too many smerits  .

Never happened to me, because I created some time ago a list of posts which I want to merit and is growing a lot faster as incoming merits.

Taking into consideration, that I awarded almost every post with only one merit, this OP strategy would be fully applicable, but I am not so good in hoarding merits, as a majority of members in this thread. Despite, I am in the 100 most merited club.

I think there are so many valuable posts on the forum, that there is just no need to go back, to previous awarded posts and merit them again.

Of course, different members have different reasons behind meriting this same posts a couple of times and are free to do what they wish, but taking into consideration, how many high-quality posts are still not merited, I would rather vouch for a different approach.

There are already special threads, were merit sources and other members are able to find not merited posts and members. Maybe this is a good place for search if one has a couple of merits to give away.

I have seen a great thread from Suchmoon lately, Users that you should merit. In this thread, every member can ask for a detailed list of his not merited or rarely merited members.

This thread is a great place to check if there are problems with too many smerits to give away in a short period of time.

[FFrankie]

when it comes to giving merits it never seems to need that much analysis.  A post either reaches the threshold of being worthy of merit or it doesn't (in my mind at least), though I could exactly describe how a post meets that threshold. 

Exactly. Just because you have money in the bank, it doesn't mean you have to spend it. In fact, if you spend the money unwisely, it may just be an indication that you are overpaid.

That is comparing apples and oranges last time I checked the money in my bank doesnt magically get topped off every month if I spend it.

[DdmrDdmr]

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Just to be clear, what I did here is abide by the principle of not hoarding merits. Being a Merit Source allows me to merit many posts (especially in 1s). What I did here is award a batch from my personal sMerits, rather than leave them there for ages on end. I could also spend another zillion hours looking for posts to merit with them, or simply do what I did which is basically, using my same meriting criteria (which is decent enough and as wise as it gets), revisit some of the posts and merit them again. The net effect is basically as if I’d given them 2 to begin with, which is no overkill.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Exactly. Just because you have money in the bank, it doesn't mean you have to spend it. In fact, if you spend the money unwisely, it may just be an indication that you are overpaid.

I see where you're going with this statement and to be fair you mean well but putting the personality of DdmrDdmr into consideration I doubt this act of his can be tagged unwise spending of merit. Haven't looked through his recent merit record but I have known his meriting habbit to be associated with awarding mostly just 1 merit per quality post (personally I have recieved that 25+ times on different occasions) so if he decides to double that on occasional bases i think it should be welcomed  

When it comes to awarding merit to deserving post is there anything like over meriting

[LTU_btc]

Oh, I was wondering why you merited my post twice just in two days. And here is the answer. Amazing job @DdmrDdmr! Damn, I didn't spent even 200 smerits in 1.5 year and you merited over 250 users in such short period of time. Probably I'm too lazy to spent my smerits more often, but you gave me good motivation!

[bluefirecorp_]

The strategy followed by suchmoon and Vod seems to be the best; Give 4 or more sMerits when you find a good post. So they never let them accumulate too much, and they do not need to plan a new strategy to distribute them. =)

Pretty much.

The more you spend, the more that comes around. Not like there's much tax (entropy).

[STT]

I go the opposite way, I only award say 5 or more if its a coder or someone who works behind the scenes but isnt a big forum poster.   Anyone who is regularly posting should be fine with say 1 or 2 merit as they have a multitude of posts to gain attention and be awarded merit.   Also its just necessity, I dont want to run to absolute zero merits really/
   Merit system is naturally deflationary imo.

[cabalism13]

I go the opposite way, I only award say 5 or more if its a coder...

Oh, Hello! 😂

Probably I'm too lazy to spent my smerits more often, but you gave me good motivation!

And so, we have the good idea to spend our sMerits if there isn't something a new Meritable Posts. This might be ridiculous for my board but still a good way to keep our circulations on the line.

[LoyceV]

  Merit system is naturally deflationary imo.

Merit distribution is actually quite stable if you ignore the first 3 months:

Per week

Code:

Week 1: 38953 Merit
Week 2: 16373 Merit
Week 3: 11836 Merit
Week 4: 11406 Merit
Week 5: 8910 Merit
Week 6: 8434 Merit
Week 7: 7288 Merit
Week 8: 7283 Merit
Week 9: 6324 Merit
Week 10: 7276 Merit
Week 11: 5848 Merit
Week 12: 5082 Merit
Week 13: 4855 Merit
Week 14: 4821 Merit
Week 15: 4919 Merit
Week 16: 4619 Merit
Week 17: 4243 Merit
Week 18: 3825 Merit
Week 19: 4466 Merit
Week 20: 3978 Merit
Week 21: 4156 Merit
Week 22: 5237 Merit
Week 23: 4511 Merit
Week 24: 3733 Merit
Week 25: 4447 Merit
Week 26: 4018 Merit
Week 27: 3682 Merit
Week 28: 3918 Merit
Week 29: 3883 Merit
Week 30: 3811 Merit
Week 31: 3377 Merit
Week 32: 3336 Merit
Week 33: 3536 Merit
Week 34: 7743 Merit
Week 35: 6023 Merit
Week 36: 4318 Merit
Week 37: 4305 Merit
Week 38: 3831 Merit
Week 39: 4916 Merit
Week 40: 3646 Merit
Week 41: 3249 Merit
Week 42: 4728 Merit
Week 43: 4249 Merit
Week 44: 3945 Merit
Week 45: 3783 Merit
Week 46: 3755 Merit
Week 47: 3668 Merit
Week 48: 3472 Merit
Week 49: 3119 Merit
Week 50: 4978 Merit
Week 51: 6666 Merit
Week 52: 5117 Merit
Week 53: 4659 Merit
Week 54: 4657 Merit
Week 55: 4137 Merit
Week 56: 4269 Merit
Week 57: 4618 Merit
Week 58: 4581 Merit
Week 59: 4912 Merit
Week 60: 4402 Merit
Week 61: 4576 Merit
Week 62: 6103 Merit
Week 63: 4432 Merit
Week 64: 5240 Merit
Week 65: 4534 Merit
Week 66: 4555 Merit
Week 67: 4873 Merit
Week 68: 5632 Merit
Week 69: 5030 Merit
Week 70: 4441 Merit
Week 71: 4426 Merit
Week 72: 5198 Merit
Week 73: 4825 Merit
Week 74: 4909 Merit
Week 75: 4245 Merit
Week 76: 4189 Merit
Week 77: 4052 Merit
Week 78: 714 Merit (incomplete week)

Long-term, I expect the number of Merit sources to go up slowly.

[fillippone]

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Long-term, I expect the number of Merit sources to go up slowly.

I would prefer new merit source being granted higher monthly allowance. Recent MS with 15 smerits after being tested for months are a puzzle to me.

[giammangiato]

  Merit system is naturally deflationary imo.

Merit distribution is actually quite stable if you ignore the first 3 months:

And this is a good or bad news? I'm a newbie and i'll try to understand this complex system. For me is really interesting

[JayJuanGee]

  Merit system is naturally deflationary imo.

Merit distribution is actually quite stable if you ignore the first 3 months:

And this is a good or bad news? I'm a newbie and i'll try to understand this complex system. For me is really interesting

Well, Loyce did not attribute any moral value to his observation about the distribution of smerits stabilizing, but I would imagine that kind of evidence would support assertions that merit sources are generally spending their smerits in a consistent amount with the passage of time and on a monthly basis.  

There had been some earlier accusations that merit sources were not sufficiently spending their smerits, so in that way proclaiming that the way that this merit system is flawed in both its design and how it is playing out.

Surely it seems to me that the level of complaining about the smerit system has gone down, unless I have just been visiting the wrong threads or coming to the wrong conclusions regarding the substance of the smerit posts.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Surely it seems to me that the level of complaining about the smerit system has gone down

I would agree with this assessment. However, I don't know whether that means merit distribution is sufficient and there is now enough distributed merit to "trickle down" to all deserving accounts, or whether that means that the people complaining about merit have realized that complaining about it won't change the system and won't earn them any merit so they have just given up.

There is little activity in Loyce's Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source thread, other than users just fishing for merits by reporting their own posts, and the ones that do get posted usually get merited pretty promptly. There are likely still a few good newbies going unmerited, particularly in the altcoin and local boards, but for the most part I think merit is reaching those who deserve it.

[dkbit98]

Version 2.0  - 19/07/2019 ( 278 profiles merited (by me) in 30 minutes)

I have currently merited 513 different profiles. Since my personal sMerit batch is a bit under 300, I’ve had to trim the candidates to something reasonable.

You should run for a record...
how much posts can you merit maximum in 30 minutes  

[Welsh]

I can only say that DdmrDdmr is probably one of the most active merit sender on this forum and for sure one who is send most merits in 30 minutes. Since I get good % of my merits from him, I can only say thanks for good work and wish him good holidays⛵

If he say where he will spend his holidays, maybe someone can buy him a beer or something like that🍹🍨

If we were to go by the merit stats page of the most generous merit senders of all time, and the most recent we would come up with the following:

All time:

Code:

17124: suchmoon
12553: dbshck
8951: chimk
8629: Foxpup
5319: bones261
5294: LoyceV
4814: qwk
4396: Flying Hellfish
4383: TMAN
4275: Vod 

Most recent:

Code:

 
920: chimk
777: suchmoon
542: LoyceV
512: Foxpup
478: DdmrDdmr
470: bones261
398: dbshck
372: Flying Hellfish
312: DarkStar_
304: Halab 

I'm not sure when DdmrDdmr was made a merit source, but it seems that your assessment would be accurate for the most recent merit senders, however in the grand scheme of things the all time merit sent is quite staggering with Suchmoon, and dbshck leading the way by a considerable amount. Overall, I don't think there's too many surprises with the names that pop up.

What is impressive is DdmrDdmr on the merit sources statistic page has only 200 monthly allocation apparently. I'm unsure if that's accurate, and if I'm understand that page correctly, but considering the small amount of monthly allocation, I would say he's doing pretty well to distribute his earned merit which I do admit its a fairly regular income for them. 

[DdmrDdmr]

Version 3.0  - 24/02/2020 ( 244 profiles merited (by me) in 23 minutes)

My personal earned sMerit batch has now piled out to a significant figure, and I just don’t want it there piling up for nothing, so I’ve decided to go once again on a wee merit spree in order to reduce the amount, whilst trying to use a criteria that is reasonable. On this occasion, I have re-merited posts (that I’d previously merited at some point) following this criteria:

-   Merit the last post I’ve previously merited
-   Of all non-banned profiles
-   That have been active this year (logged-in during 2020)
-   That have a total Merit count of under 250 merits (as of last Friday) – so as to focus on mid-to-low ranks

I have currently merited 908 different profiles, so the above criteria seemed fitting to re-merit some of them. Eventually, it was down to 244 posts that I merited, since a couple were either deleted or on ignore.

[Kuffy]

Thanks for meriting my node post. Kuffy seems to be the default sobriquet on the netbook, Jet Cash is on the notebook. It did give me a bit of encouragement, as I think I will return to running at least two nodes, and maybe discussing them here. Hopefully that will help newbies who have to use public WiFi.