Merit System Evaluation - Can You Earn a 1000 Merit in a Year?

[Nnuego]

A good post deserves a merit but it do seems that those that has the number finds it hard to give out. On a reg,accounts are been created,newly or existing account all aiming to be merited someday. For me getting a merit requires enough patience while your post a quality post

[Kakmakr]

I find that the most sMerit is granted to people with new refreshing content on this forum. Most people just take old topics that was discussed to death and they put a new spin on it and then they expect to get sMerit for it. You also get people posting "copy&paste" responses to common threads and simply changing some words to make it look like it is their own opinion.

Go look at new threads that got the most sMerit and you will find that most of them are contributing new ideas and new discussions to the forum.

My advise would be for people to do proper research on previous threads that has been posted on this forum and to post something new and constructive to get loads of sMerit. People like myself that has been on this forum for years, can easily spot new constructive discussions and I like to award sMerit for those kinds of posts.  

Example : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2848987.0

[Baronets]

Members seem to wrap so much round the merits system. Surely the whole purpose of merits is to encourage good and helpful posting. I don't believe that factors such as the merit awarding policy of the poster should enter into the discussion. We should also try to help those with bad posting habits, or weak English, to improve their posting skills. Bitcoin Talk is an information exchange site ( amongst other things ), we need to keep it as a fast flow site with easy reading, if it is to maintain its popularity and influence.

[HouseStark]

The number three you talked about is also the main reason why other people who post constructively don't make it up there. Why? Because they weren't so lucky like you to gain some merits in their first month or two (either they weren't recognized or don't have friends to help them with that).

But should one be lucky to get some merits, they start spending and then they make friends and then the circulation enters a continuum. The merit system is good and works fine but it creates an "unconscious/unnoticed/unrecognized" circus which escapes many of us.

Other than that, your other points sounds good to me. Thanks for sharing though!

[DdmrDdmr]

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Not sure how far the “friends” factor goes really. If we take it literally, friendship is not a reason to merit someone, and in fact can and has in the past lead to unpleasant situations.

The core driver is (and should be) content, although we are all subjective beings, and as such, will favour one sort of content over others (or understand it better). With time, certain profiles will be repeatedly merited by one, not necessarily due to a specific shine on them, but rather because they tend to create posts that are more appealing to them than others. That’s why the more people meriting the better, so as to get a broader range of diverse criteria rolling.

There are also a couple of threads, both on Beginners and Help and Reputation where allegedly good posts that go by unnoticed can be reported, in order to postulate to being merited by the thread owners or other viewers.

Sometimes accounts crop up and stand out from the beginning, which leads to them being merited easily without a wink. I’ve seen a few of those recently. Ux is one of such accounts: The account was created three days ago, and already received 10 merits for 9 posts (he’s done something weird though, and seems to have deleted the content of some of his merited OPs for some reason).

[Bttzed03]

The number three you talked about is also the main reason why other people who post constructively don't make it up there. Why? Because they weren't so lucky like you to gain some merits in their first month or two (either they weren't recognized or don't have friends to help them with that).

OP mentioned that some posts may be overlooked for some reason. You may submit those constructive post you are referring to in some of the merit giveaway threads.
Merit for Crypto (and other) Knowledge (no guide threads)
Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source

[mikeywith]

they start spending and then they make friends and then the circulation enters a continuum.

While everyone has the exact same chances of making "friends" I have to disagree to it being directly related to gaining merit,  what you are referring to is politics, some members have many friends and supporters here, that might get you elected to be on DT but sure thing does not grant you a good portion of merit, I do not want to point out exact members, but many highly respected and well trusted members here who do have a lot of friends/fans have a very limited earned merit.

The opposite is also true, many people have a lot of merit  and barely any friends/supporters , while I don't completely discard the possibility of someone helping their friend by sending them merit for shitposts, but let's be realistic, even if you are best friends with people who sent most merit , how many will you actually get before you get caught  ? 10? 100?


Post quality is very important, if my dad start using the forum and I decide to "help him" with merit, he has to post something worthy of merit, I can't send him merit for posts like "great project, when Lambo" ?