{LIST}of the Merit Sources asking for more smerit. New Round.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Are there any changes in merit circulation in the last couple of months? I didn't see any new sources and few left/inactive.

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[Lorence.xD]

Can anyone give sMerit besides theymos? i really want to give my sMerit to some of them because I don't have any use with it and I am not one to judge for a quality in a post.

[El duderino_]

El Bumperino, this thread needs, deserves some hearing...

[Rikafip]

Are there any changes in merit circulation in the last couple of months? I didn't see any new sources and few left/inactive.

Looking at last couple of months, there is change, but for the worse unfortunately. For example, since introduction of merit system, there were only four months during which merit shared across the forum was below 16,000 mark, and out of those four months, three were this year ( March, April and May).  Another example to show generally negative trend; from October 2020 up until May 2021, amount of merit shared was constantly reducing, with each consecutive month having less amount of merit shared than the previous one. May barely stopped that trend, with 251 more merits hared than during April.

So yeah, it might the time for theymos to revaluate current merit situation and hopefully either increase merit to current merit sources, or appoint news ones. Or maybe even both.

[Daniel91]

Are there any changes in merit circulation in the last couple of months? I didn't see any new sources and few left/inactive.

Looking at last couple of months, there is change, but for the worse unfortunately. For example, since introduction of merit system, there were only four months during which merit shared across the forum was below 16,000 mark, and out of those four months, three were this year ( March, April and May).  Another example to show generally negative trend; from October 2020 up until May 2021, amount of merit shared was constantly reducing, with each consecutive month having less amount of merit shared than the previous one. May barely stopped that trend, with 251 more merits hared than during April.

So yeah, it might the time for theymos to revaluate current merit situation and hopefully either increase merit to current merit sources, or appoint news ones. Or maybe even both.

I would be really happy and grateful that theymos increase the number of merits available because I often have to make a selection of quality posts and choose which post to give merit for, given the limited number of merits I have available.
It would be even better to increase the number of merit sources on this forum, so that more quality posts can be rewarded with merits.
I hope theymos will accept our suggestions and respond to our requests soon.
Until then, I will still have to be frugal with my merits 

[JayJuanGee]

Are there any changes in merit circulation in the last couple of months? I didn't see any new sources and few left/inactive.

Looking at last couple of months, there is change, but for the worse unfortunately. For example, since introduction of merit system, there were only four months during which merit shared across the forum was below 16,000 mark, and out of those four months, three were this year ( March, April and May).  Another example to show generally negative trend; from October 2020 up until May 2021, amount of merit shared was constantly reducing, with each consecutive month having less amount of merit shared than the previous one. May barely stopped that trend, with 251 more merits hared than during April.

So yeah, it might the time for theymos to revaluate current merit situation and hopefully either increase merit to current merit sources, or appoint news ones. Or maybe even both.

I would be really happy and grateful that theymos increase the number of merits available because I often have to make a selection of quality posts and choose which post to give merit for, given the limited number of merits I have available.
It would be even better to increase the number of merit sources on this forum, so that more quality posts can be rewarded with merits.
I hope theymos will accept our suggestions and respond to our requests soon.
Until then, I will still have to be frugal with my merits 

I will admit that this whole matter is getting a bit confusing to me, and surely I am not in no kind of place to have enough information except there seems to be a kind of lessening of the number of merit sources who are actively attempting to send out smerits on a regular basis.  I am not sure if there might be some additional eligible merit sources or if from time to time, theymos might substitute a new merit source by removing an inactive one.

The number has been shown to be 97 for quite a period of time.

We can also attempt to analyze if there might be some changes by looking at the top merit senders in the past 30 days or we could also look at Coin-1's thread that attempts to create and maintain a more extensive list of both merit sources but also to see how many merits are getting dished out by certain members over time that he tends to update monthly.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I last posted in this thread on May 30th and have since used up all of my source sMerits and all of my earned ones as well.  I'm fresh out, and I'd like to give worldofcoins a proper post history review as well as have enough sMerits on hand to distribute to anyone else who deserves them.

Theymos, if you're reading this could you please perhaps increase my sMerit allocation or speed up my replenishment rate?  I would greatly appreciate it.  I've got members taking me up on my long-standing offer of PM'ing me to request a post history review, and I usually find posts worth meriting when they do that--and that's used up a lot of my sMerit reserve.  All of it, in fact.

Thanks in advance, I hope.

[fillippone]

Theymos, if you're reading this

I am really surprised by this period of merit sources allocation “inactivity” by Theymos.
Reading between the lines of the PM he sent to MS in occasion of the last “reshuffle” I had the impression of a periodic revision of merit allowances.
Apparently I was wrong, or at least this period is going to be longer than expected. Well, I know that if Theymos is satisfied with this, he well pondered every bit of information (that of course I don’t have…)

[Jet Cash]

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I gave you 50, that's the max for a 30 day period.

[redWAY]

Are there any changes in merit circulation in the last couple of months? I didn't see any new sources and few left/inactive.

Looking at last couple of months, there is change, but for the worse unfortunately. For example, since introduction of merit system, there were only four months during which merit shared across the forum was below 16,000 mark, and out of those four months, three were this year ( March, April and May).  Another example to show generally negative trend; from October 2020 up until May 2021, amount of merit shared was constantly reducing, with each consecutive month having less amount of merit shared than the previous one. May barely stopped that trend, with 251 more merits hared than during April.

So yeah, it might the time for theymos to revaluate current merit situation and hopefully either increase merit to current merit sources, or appoint news ones. Or maybe even both.

I don't understand why people are stingy. sharing makes you happy. I can understand if you don't find everything useful, but sometimes we are just deliberately ignored due to personal prejudices. sometimes it's the language you speak, sometimes even the username...

[Rikafip]

I don't understand why people are stingy. sharing makes you happy. I can understand if you don't find everything useful, but sometimes we are just deliberately ignored due to personal prejudices. sometimes it's the language you speak, sometimes even the username...

The main problem here is not merit sources being stingy (I believe that majority of them use their monthly allocation) but not having as enough merit to share as they would like. When you add on that the fact that some merit sources took break from the forum (which is again perfectly normal thing to do from time to time), you get current situation which is having less and less merit shared each consecutive month.

Another thing that doesn't help is having less active members (therefore less quality posts) compared to let's say last year and that means more work for merit sources to find adequate posts to merit.

I am really surprised by this period of merit sources allocation “inactivity” by Theymos.
Reading between the lines of the PM he sent to MS in occasion of the last “reshuffle” I had the impression of a periodic revision of merit allowances.
Apparently I was wrong, or at least this period is going to be longer than expected. Well, I know that if Theymos is satisfied with this, he well pondered every bit of information (that of course I don’t have…)

As expected, June was the new all time low, with only 13289 merits shared during that period, which is pretty big drop (~15%) compared to May with 15802 merits shared. So yeah, hopefully there will be some merit adjustment soon.

[UserU]

I don't understand why people are stingy. sharing makes you happy. I can understand if you don't find everything useful, but sometimes we are just deliberately ignored due to personal prejudices. sometimes it's the language you speak, sometimes even the username...

I'd say more conservative than stingy.

Merits are hard to come by for average members. Let's assume if someone has 50 Merits and has worked his/ way to reach that count, he/ she would have 25 sMerits. So you don't really expect that person to simply send them off to others. Just like monetary allowances.

And like what Rikaflip mentioned, some Merit sources might be on some break/ vacation/ hiatus so there are lesser Merits going around.

Not to mention that Merit isn't just as simple as an upvote because it helps members to rank up, and it's not a pretty sight seeing them wasted on those that have a not-so-good posting history or simply breaking the rules.

[DdmrDdmr]

Wishes have been granted. Merit Source allowance has been increased (a fair share in some cases, and the total toll is up to:

There are 111 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 34139 sMerit per 30 days

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources

I’m going to have to change my awarding habits personally …

Merit Sources has gone from 97 (@JayJuanGee logged it not long ago on this thread) to 111. Not sure what the exact total sMerit amount they had before was.

How can you tell how many merit sources have dropped out?

You can't know exactly, because there is no official list of Merit sources. But we know There are 97 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 21171 sMerit per 30 days.
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Seems like a lively massive sMerit increase ... up 61,25%

[The Sceptical Chymist]

As expected, June was the new all time low, with only 13289 merits shared during that period, which is pretty big drop (~15%) compared to May with 15802 merits shared. So yeah, hopefully there will be some merit adjustment soon.

That sucks, but guess what?  Theymos just airdropped me 1000 sMerits!  I thanked him via PM, but I'd like to also thank him publicly as well.  I appreciate it, and I'm going to do my best to perhaps make July a better month for merit distribution.  One person can only do so much, but now I've got sMerits aplenty and plan on spreading them around.

**My offer to the community (or at least to members below Legendary rank) still stands: Send me a PM if you want me to review your post history, and if I see any posts worth meriting, I'll happily merit them.  I don't mind, and you don't have to approach me meekly, as a few members have done.  Just ask me via PM for a post review and I'll do it.**

Those sMerits from Theymos really made my day!

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Wishes have been granted. Merit Source allowance has been increased (a fair share in some cases, and the total toll is up to:

Whoops, didn't read your post before making mine.  I'm happy I'm not the only one who got more sMerits, and I hope merit sources give them out generously (without lowering their standards of course).

[LeGaulois]

I didn't ask for it but I was offered a slot as a Merit source. Thanks, @Theymos

I agree to participate in the forum's life a little more. Why not?
I don't plan to change my habits in the way I distribute. Perhaps I will add more Merits, or reward more users.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I didn't ask for it but I was offered a slot as a Merit source. Thanks, @Theymos

Good for you, bro!  I didn't ask to be a merit source either, but Theymos tapped me to be one in 2019 and didn't give me a choice in the matter (lol).  Prior to that, I'd posted a few times that I wasn't sure I'd ever want to be one and never applied, but as it turned out I very much enjoy helping out members--especially lower-ranked ones--by giving them the merits they need to climb the ranks. 

Hell, I had it easy.  All I had to do was rank up by posting and increasing my activity every two weeks.  But we all know how hard it's been to rank up since Jan. 2018, and I feel good that I can do my part in distributing merits to members who make decent posts.

Good luck, LeGaulois.  Do your best to be a good merit source.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Wow, what a lot of sMerits I have to cycle!

I take this increase as theymos' tacit approval of the... *ahem* activities of the merit cycling club.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Damn, massive source merit increase. I have a feeling it’ll be like a domino effect, we’ll see a lot more posts merited 2+

Even the lower ranked accounts will be getting more merit awarded.

fillippone is going to be erect right now (just joking brother )

[fillippone]

Theymos, if you're reading this

I am really surprised by this period of merit sources allocation “inactivity” by Theymos.
Reading between the lines of the PM he sent to MS in occasion of the last “reshuffle” I had the impression of a periodic revision of merit allowances.
Apparently I was wrong, or at least this period is going to be longer than expected. Well, I know that if Theymos is satisfied with this, he well pondered every bit of information (that of course I don’t have…)

Timing is everything.
Just a few days after this message, I had a 100% increase on my merit source allocation.

Theymos has gone brrrrr!
Dear Lord, this is going to be a huge effort to spend all this bag.
But I will do my best.


Just wondering who the new MS are.

Wow, what a lot of sMerits I have to cycle!

I take this increase as theymos' tacit approval of the... *ahem* activities of the merit cycling club.

Don't look at me, now I have all those merits to cycle and not even a merit cycling club to cycle my merits!

[Welsh]

Damn, massive source merit increase. I have a feeling it’ll be like a domino effect, we’ll see a lot more posts merited 2+

Even the lower ranked accounts will be getting more merit awarded.

fillippone is going to be erect right now (just joking brother )

Yeah, I believe this was always the plan, and hopefully now we will see more diversity, since people won't have to worry too much about their merit source allocation, at least not as much. Plus, some very good posts were only getting small amount of merits, which I believed should have got more, but due to trying to spread out the merit allocation, it was having a counter productive effect. I believe only the most active merit sources will be able to spend this increased amount per month, judging by their previous allocations, therefore we should see an increased amount given per post instead.