fillippone Merit Source Application

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

@fillippone if the post is little OT, feel free to report my post or just PM me I would be happy to remove it.

Here is the MS application for Indian board : Heisenberg's Merit Source Application for the Indian Board

Every local board poster should be very well aware of how Indian board was last year and how they are now. We don't need a moderator, but atleast we need a dedicated MS to encourage people to post really good quality posts very often. The board was absolute bull-shit till last year, myself and a group of volunteers took interest and cleaned the board and drove the spammers and shitposters off the sub-forum totally this year. We have revealed translation spammers, posted negative feedback, drove them off from sub-forum, myself and other patrollers from Indain board reported 1000s of posts and trashed shitposters, recreated the worn out pinned topics with updated content, created a telegram group, spoke with many old quality posters who left the forum due to the spam prevailing in Indian board and finally gonna celebrate the 10th anniversary in our local board

What all these for? Why should we spend countless hours in reactivating a dead spam board from ashes? All is to have a decent discussion and to have a native connectivity among the fellow Indian members. If that cannot be supported with just a simple appointment of a Merit Source, then why should we fight with the spammers all day in the Indian board? I even limited myself from posting in Technical board and have completely started to take all these initiatives along with other fellow members.

Atleast if appointment of a moderator seems to be a difficult task, appointment of a MS would be the least helpful thing which one can do for our board.

P.S I would like to thank all the global moderators who are handling the reports of mine very often within a day. If that was not, the board would have been far from being saved.

[JayJuanGee]

@fillippone if the post is little OT, feel free to report my post or just PM me I would be happy to remove it.

Here is the MS application for Indian board : Heisenberg's Merit Source Application for the Indian Board

Every local board poster should be very well aware of how Indian board was last year and how they are now. We don't need a moderator, but atleast we need a dedicated MS to encourage people to post really good quality posts very often. The board was absolute bull-shit till last year, myself and a group of volunteers took interest and cleaned the board and drove the spammers and shitposters off the sub-forum totally this year. We have revealed translation spammers, posted negative feedback, drove them off from sub-forum, myself and other patrollers from Indain board reported 1000s of posts and trashed shitposters, recreated the worn out pinned topics with updated content, created a telegram group, spoke with many old quality posters who left the forum due to the spam prevailing in Indian board and finally gonna celebrate the 10th anniversary in our local board

What all these for? Why should we spend countless hours in reactivating a dead spam board from ashes? All is to have a decent discussion and to have a native connectivity among the fellow Indian members. If that cannot be supported with just a simple appointment of a Merit Source, then why should we fight with the spammers all day in the Indian board? I even limited myself from posting in Technical board and have completely started to take all these initiatives along with other fellow members.

Atleast if appointment of a moderator seems to be a difficult task, appointment of a MS would be the least helpful thing which one can do for our board.

P.S I would like to thank all the global moderators who are handling the reports of mine very often within a day. If that was not, the board would have been far from being saved.

Thanks for those links HH.  I will try to look through them (at least browse through some of them) in the coming weeks, and maybe fillippone will feel different, but I doubt that your merit source application and or the various methods that you are attempting to employ to get MS approved are vastly different from fillippone's even though I happen to be a bit more familiar with fillippone's post history - and of course, any prolific and good content-laden poster will be hard to keep up with, which seems to be something that both you and fillippone have in common.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

theymos! Not fair man! Make him merit source 😷
I mean seriously fillippone's history speaks for him. Let the guy to be one of the merit source. I have this feeling that he will do a perfect job.

Thanks in advance

[hd49728]

fillippone is a very real asset of the forum and of his local board, Italian, I guess so despite the fact that I don't know Italian. I watched some useful topics on bitcoin forecast, especially before the massive explosion of bitcoin in June this year. It means fillippone spent decent time to collect those analyses as well as clearly and neutrally presented his opinion.

I also see his in the list of very top merit receivers and senders.

From all above reasons, I support the application.

I still think my support does not make lots of sense because admin has his very complicated rules to accept or reject merit source applications and there is other reasons that affect his decision too. The need of merit sources at each period affects MS applications, definitely.

[babo]

fillippone is a very real asset of the forum and of his local board, Italian, ~snip~

Yes, Fillippone is very intelligent and smart one guy. I know him by real person.
For me he can do a good job like merit's source, because is really present in the forum and know economic aspect of bitcoin.
He traslates many articles from english to italian for the local board, and his work is precious.

[pindol]

Good job Filippone, good job, you have my support.

Pindol

[vapourminer]

theymos! Not fair man! Make him merit source 😷
I mean seriously fillippone's history speaks for him. Let the guy to be one of the merit source. I have this feeling that he will do a perfect job.

agreed. look at most any post of his. they are most always well reasoned and well explained , with lots of references for his sources of data. in short even an idiot like me can understand his explanations.. and while no one or no thing is perfect, he is more than willing to learn from his (and others) mistakes and readily admits it so that others can learn from any mistakes also. and this is why forums exist, member helping others to learn before they commits a mistake.

with his (hopeful soon) becoming a merit source, he will be able to guide those good posters with merits.

i believe he will use those merits exactly what they were created for... help members and and draw attention to the useful threads.

so again, fillippone has my complete support.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

^
I always get out of sMerit.
Anyway, theymos a bump for my brother.
Way to the top!!!

[Daniel91]

^
I always get out of sMerit.
Anyway, theymos a bump for my brother.
Way to the top!!!

For me is the same situation 😁
I'm only merit source in Croatian section of the forum and often spend my sMerits to quickly 😁
I really feel that local sections on this forum needs more merit sources and support this application as well.

[fillippone]

agreed. look at most any post of his. they are most always well reasoned and well explained , with lots of references for his sources of data. in short even an idiot like me can understand his explanations.. and while no one or no thing is perfect, he is more than willing to learn from his (and others) mistakes and readily admits it so that others can learn from any mistakes also. and this is why forums exist, member helping others to learn before they commits a mistake.

Thank you vapourminer for the kind words.
Actually thank you all who supported me in the thread via commenting or merits: I did really appreciate.

I am answering this particular message because I think vapourminer exactly got the attitude I put in the forum, and I tried to explain in my infamous merit thread.

I am here to learn, and I see merit system as a way to spread the knowledge, signalling and encouraging threads where you can actually learn something.

I am far from perfect, I have a list of embarrassing posts here on the forum (I should compile a list one day...), I made errors, weird statements, I might have changed my mind on a few topics, but I think these steps are the path of someone growing on the knowledge.

Being a Merit Source I hope to be more able to drive my experience on the forum following these principles: helping users that are spreading their knolwdge to help others understand what bitcoin is.

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman

[Cryptotourist]

@theymos

I'm having trouble meriting posts I'd like to merit.
This whole merit thing, has made me miserable in my approach to merit a post, thinking that I'll find a more worthy one to give my limited s-merits.
If fillippone becomes a merit source, I'm certain that he'll be a great help to the community.
Grant him a merit source ffs.

Whilst you are at it, please pass on r0achie's ~ 150 useless sm's to my account.
Thank you in advance.

[infofront]

I'll vouch for fillippone. He's one of the highest quality posters on the forum.

[El duderino_]

I'll vouch for fillippone. He's one of the highest quality posters on the forum.

We will vouch together

I do know he's a good all around poster and a very kind one at the same time, gives merit in multiple threads as he gains merit in multiple threads.

Rewards good constructive post as merit establish members for many different reasons, never saw him merit people where we could think its would me a merit abuser etc

Also he's like active on very daily base, as I'm too and I think this is a + point as well for being a source


Only see positives and no negatives in this one.

[Daniel91]

I'll vouch for fillippone. He's one of the highest quality posters on the forum.

Obviously, this is not the only criterion and that admins have other requirements as well as support from community, the criterion for the merits shared so far, general reputation of users etc.
In the end, however, it's the decision of the admin and not the entire community and the admins have the discretion to decide.
I know that I had to wait several months to become merit source, after my application so only what I can say to fillippone is to be patient and not give up.
Personally, I think this user really deserve to become merit source and I really hope to see him as new merit source soon.

[big_daddy]

I'm supporting this application too.

fillippone is one of the most active Italian local board users, and is very active in the eng section too (I'm a multilingual user, following ITA & CRO local boards as well)
His selfless approach on spreading the knowledge in his topics (and other) is simply gorgeous

His contribution can only be greater if he will become a merit sourcer

Good luck @fillippone

[Neo_Coin]

Bravo Fillippone. He's one of the highest quality posters on the italian section too.

[Gyrsur]

'Is BTCitcoin worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He is a soldier for BTCitcoin. Honor him.'

[erre]

Of course I will support this application too. This is not an hat-thing, but my genuine appreciation for a good hearted, smart constructive user.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

fillippone will become a Merit Source, I think. It just depends when theymos sees this as he’s likely really busy.

**Bump** any way !

[fillippone]

Today has been an hard day.
I have been offline for the most part of the day, quite unusual for me, taking care of some persons I do care about, leaving bitcoin in the background (even if I managed to stash some sats).  
Returning online after a few hours I got a message from Theymos: I am now a MS.
Thank you all for the support in this thread and all what you have given to me in these months on the forum.

This is not a finish line, but a new start in the forum: I am now willing more than ever to contribute and commit more to the community and give back what I had since I have been part of this incredible community!