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The one thing I am afraid of, is accidentally sending 10 times what I intend to do: that "0" in the Merit field is often tricky. I've seen "10" or "20" instead of "1" or "2" many times now, but never clicked "Send" without correcting it. Some day, it's bound to happen.
Do let us know the name of the lucky recipient
when that error is eventually made but like you said if you are merit source you will be fine as you will probably never see your merits run down to zero.
Or maybe you sent all your sMerits and emptied your balance...
Thankfully I usually have more than 50 sMerits and thus it would be impossible to unload them all at once, because that sounds like something I'd do.
But no, I haven't sent merits to the wrong member before, though I
have given more merits than I intended to because of that glitch where if you reload the page after sending them, it duplicates the merit transaction. I don't know if that bug got fixed or what, but it happened to me in the early days of the merit system, and I've been more careful since then.
In previous posts that bug was mentioned and yes it is fixed so no chances of anything over 50 being sent to anybody in error now. Keeping 51 or more sMerits at any given time seems like a good idea for those that have them even after sending them out.
I never happened and never will, unless I press more numbers 1 or 11.
For jokes and special dishes filled with wine, such as art content a few months ago, accidentally but in a blown balloon everything becomes bloated.
It is the alcohol that just might make you do it. Not a good idea, sMerits and alcoholic beverages do not mix
Before the system was fixed (i.e meriters won't be able to merit same post with exact smerit amount within 60 seconds interval), I encountered the double spending issue on numerous occasions as a result of slow connect in my region (Africa) due to my browser just reloading itself but haven't experience same outcome due to the restriction. I also observe if you mistakenly input a figure after the 0 when you want to send smerit, it doesn't affect the amount you intend sending. Noticed that since I have made such mistake before.
Either last month or so, few seconds before I received my monthly allocations I initiated a transaction that unknowingly was more than the earned smerit I had in my account. I was hopefully for the error message to cancel the transaction but suddenly saw the transaction went successfully. Immediately I thought it was a gitch in the system and was about reporting before I recalled it was my MS refilling date.
Congratulations on being a MS and thank you for the explanation.
I suppose any place or in any case where there could connection issues those sorts of double-hit incidents would have occured but as you said the issue has been fixed with a second protection buffer to put a stop to it.
I think many users have made merit-related errors. I awarded one user with a merit and forgot to refresh the thread I was viewing after sending the merit. I continued reading the thread and awarded the same user again. That is the only mistake I made when it comes to awarding merits.
I knew I missing something and not factoring it in.
The fact the merit send function opens in a new page means that after 60 seconds and without a refresh of the page that has the post intended for merit - a double-hit can happen. Well, in that scenario I suppose countless double-hits in error can happen until the sender runs out of merits but so far no other posts have mentioned that.
Come to think of it, I
think I have done the same thing on one occasion and sent somebody merits twice for the same post because of either a browser refresh/cancel page pop-up or I did not refresh the page the merit was intended for