Sorry to bring the red pills to the party and all of that.
Merit is meaningless subjective and dangerous garbage. Get a life. Want a clearer explanation. Ask suchmoon about good poster bad poster. She will clear it up. These are MEANINGLESS terms without strict definition and criteria. Most merit is given to these top 100 feltchers on political grounds.
MOST of this top 100 bag of worthless merits are unable present 5 original thought inspiring posts that stand up to scrutiny. Most is a lot of informational garbage and analysis of MEANINGLESS metrics. Bogus opinions that fall apart under and mild analysis. Political support for the colluders agendas.
Decouple merit from rank after full member and rule it out as a metric to be used at face value for campaign sig entry.
We are crushing the stick of group think and free speech suppression (trust abuse), time to get rid of the carrot next.
Leave it as a bot prevention tool. That is all it was designed for. It is folly and dangerous to apply other meaning to it.
This is the most valuable post on this stupid thread but it will never get a merit and if they could demerit it these dumb ass fools surely would.
If you are in that club and NOT a special character -- theymos, satoshi, GM etc then you are likely special needs. Sorry to break that to you guys.
To our knowledge we have nothing against the OP but just touting merit these days is laughable.
Anyway well done, and it's SATURDAY; we need our salad tossing and have a few merits to chuck? any takers?
We will always oppose any kind of praise of the merit system, it is dangerous and misleading.
All that is written above doesn't apply to me. Never got any merits because of political reasons or created "informational garbage and analysis of MEANINGLESS metrics".
Always try to be honest and create original content. I am a simple forum member and if there is a merit system and I was able to get a lot of them, then I am happy about this and see it, as an achievement, especially if this placed me on the list, with 100 most recognized and trusted members on this forum.
You say, that merit is flawed and another Theymos weapon in the arsenal and I see a lot of improvements in the forum and in myself because of the merit system.
Of course, you have only a couple of merits and to be honest, I have never read a quality post, written by you and I read a lot. Maybe I can't remember now or you are writing, only in the meta and reputation section, which I didn't read, if I don't have to. Anyway, if this is so easy, to get merits and the system is so flawed, why do you have only a couple of them?
You got, to have friends here, especially if you talk about yourself "WE" all the time.
You are against the new trust system and mentioned about it, despite my thread has nothing to do with this subject, but I will tell you something.
There was an ongoing discussion for so long, about the old trust system on the forum and many members, asked multiple times for a change. Maybe even you, where one of them? I don't know.
Because of these requests, Theymos changed the trust system, taking into consideration all suggestions from the most established and trusted forum members. New system just started some time ago and again, there are members, who are not happy and again call it a flawed and bad system. I would say, take a big breath and be calm, let the new system, to work for a while and if indeed there will be a problem, then Theymos will adjust something.
There will be always somebody unhappy, when new things are implemented, especially if they replace an old system, were a lot of members had a lot of power and will lose it.
There are no easy changes, especially when it goes about the trust system, which is a purely experimental feature.
We should do our best, to help and if there are problems, to point them out, but we have, to work together and not against each other all the time.Going back to merit, from what I see it works as intended. There is a lot less spam and members, try to contribute, to the forum, as good as possible.
I know for sure that merit works because two years ago, I was reporting hundreds of spammy posts every week, not intended, only when I was reading the forum.
Of course, I try to avoid bounty and altcoins announcements sections, but still, even there the quality is a lot better and I don't see posts like "great project' and "to the moon" anymore.
Today I report, only a couple of posts per month. Do you see the difference?
And I keep wondering why you always write about yourself "WE"? What do you mean by "WE"? Who are "WE"?