Why Same MERITED Rankers send Merits to themselves?

[Jawhead999]

Why does a legendary member need merit?

Who a legendary member say that? Can you give the example of legendary member ask about merit?

You should read all user post in a thread before start to post, many member have answer it about this

"Merit are not given from a ranks of a user, but merit are given from a quality post"

You can also look this picture, it's clear @theymos ( one of legendary member ) didn't want to get merit

[nutildah]

You can also look this picture, it's clear @theymos ( one of legendary member ) didn't want to get merit

Oh, I should clarify: that's a joke. I edited the text in my browser to make it say that. The other 2 pictures were also jokes.

[UserU]

Oh, I should clarify: that's a joke. I edited the text in my browser to make it say that. The other 2 pictures were also jokes.

Sending Merits to theymos should be a bannable offense. No surprise why Merit Sources are always "dry" before their quota refresh

[Timelord2067]

No surprise why Merit Sources are always "dry" before their quota refresh

Some merit fonts claim they have to shower some users with dozens or even scores of merits is because they can't find worthy posts (and then will hand out barelly one or two to others in the same instance).  If these merit fonts can't find worthy posts, then my advice to them would be that they don't disproportionately gift merits to the few posts they do merit.

Sending Merits to theymos should be a ban-able offence.

It should also be that if you are a merit font then you are excluded from receiving merits, or, receive no more than one per day per UID while you are in that role.

[iamsheikhadil]

If a very rich person comes and helps you fix your car, it's your duty to pay him irrespective of his net worth. So when giving out merits, merit senders should look at the quality of the post and not how much merit that person already has. When someone's already legendary, it also plays a big psychological role to see their posts with more focus than it would be for newbies but this psychological bias should be kept away when judging a post to see if it deserves merit or not

[pakhitheboss]

Hello...

I have a question which concerned to merit? I came to notice that we have lots of newbies who are trying very hard to get merits here on this BITCOINTALK forum. With lots great topics that contributes and also supports to put this forum in a great shape in future. I believe legendary is the final rank on this forum Right?

Now what is the difference for a legendary to MERIT another legendary who is already a legendary RANKER on this forum, same goes to other SAME Rankers on the forum.

This alone I believe makes few low rank members in the forum ask this questions in their thoughts.

Please your REASONS for this welcomed...

The whole pupose of Merit system is to reward user who have been able to help a member of the community. It was implemented to remove quantity posting  and increase quality posting.

There have been instances where some members have tried to manipulate the Merit system but, they were banned for life from this forum. So, avoid such tactics as it will only hurt you.

It is hard to get those Merits but it becomes easy if you create quality thread and help others.

[Timmzzy]

Why does a legendary member need merit?

Who a legendary member say that? Can you give the example of legendary member ask about merit?

You should read all user post in a thread before start to post, many member have answer it about this

"Merit are not given from a ranks of a user, but merit are given from a quality post"

You can also look this picture, it's clear @theymos ( one of legendary member ) didn't want to get merit

This picture is the most crazy one I saw, theymos was even against the merits but instead they all turned it to some sort of fun. I believe it was due to the anniversary celebration which there was no means to appreciate him rather than sending those Merits which he never wanted.

[nutildah]

You can also look this picture, it's clear @theymos ( one of legendary member ) didn't want to get merit

This picture is the most crazy one I saw, theymos was even against the merits but instead they all turned it to some sort of fun. I believe it was due to the anniversary celebration which there was no means to appreciate him rather than sending those Merits which he never wanted.

No no no... C'mon man, I already said that it was a joke. It didn't happen. The original post by theymos is here. Look at the merits. They are the same. I just edited the text in my browser.

[Bitcoin-Babe]

Why does a legendary member need merit?

Reasons for not getting merits includes:
•Low quality content - Do more research on what you post on the forum, the more information you acquire the more your post quality improves
•Posting in Spam mega threads - avoid threads which contain repetitive answers which are made just to increase post count
•Board preference - some boards receive more merit than others, mostly due to spam which drives smerit holders away and also makes it difficult to find quality post.

Does NOT include;
•Legendary members getting merited

Accounts don't need merits, it's given to quality posts which are merit worthy, regardless of the rank of the user. This should be a non-issue as legendary accounts getting merits does not in any way reduce the merits available for lower ranks, there are sources who have their smerits replenished regularly and users with unused smerits who are willing to spend them; meaning merits are always available for users who contribute constructively to discussions.

Thank you.

So, legendary members do not need merits. It appears that merit was implemented to prevent poor quality accounts ranking up.
IOW to ensure members can only rank up their accounts if other members perceive their posts to provide some kind of value " good post"

So, if you have ranked up to legendary there is no need for merit.

[UserU]

No no no... C'mon man, I already said that it was a joke. It didn't happen. The original post by theymos is here. Look at the merits. They are the same. I just edited the text in my browser.

You gotta enlarge them font and make them red. Or else more would be taking theymos' post seriously

[acroman08]

Hello...

I have a question which concerned to merit? I came to notice that we have lots of newbies who are trying very hard to get merits here on this BITCOINTALK forum. With lots great topics that contributes and also supports to put this forum in a great shape in future. I believe legendary is the final rank on this forum Right?

Now what is the difference for a legendary to MERIT another legendary who is already a legendary RANKER on this forum, same goes to other SAME Rankers on the forum.

This alone I believe makes few low rank members in the forum ask this questions in their thoughts.

Please your REASONS for this welcomed...

and that is why there are threads that exist just to give merit to unmerited quality posts to give other members a chance to receive merit for the quality post they made that had been ignored.

No no no... C'mon man, I already said that it was a joke. It didn't happen. The original post by theymos is here. Look at the merits. They are the same. I just edited the text in my browser.

your jokes and editing skills are just too good for others to understand. you should make it obvious next time  

[Findingnemo]

and that is why there are threads that exist just to give merit to unmerited quality posts to give other members a chance to receive merit for the quality post they made that had been ignored.

But those threads are rarely used by the members because not much merit sources are active there or they have different standards while giving merits to a post. FIrst of all we have to start giving merits than expecting merits sources to do that or else there won't be any circulation of merits.

[suchmoon]

No no no... C'mon man, I already said that it was a joke. It didn't happen. The original post by theymos is here. Look at the merits. They are the same. I just edited the text in my browser.

Why would you expect reading comprehension from merit beggars... you can see it's only RANK on their mind, fuck post content.

[philipma1957]

Hello...

I have a question which concerned to merit? I came to notice that we have lots of newbies who are trying very hard to get merits here on this BITCOINTALK forum. With lots great topics that contributes and also supports to put this forum in a great shape in future. I believe legendary is the final rank on this forum Right?

Now what is the difference for a legendary to MERIT another legendary who is already a legendary RANKER on this forum, same goes to other SAME Rankers on the forum.

This alone I believe makes few low rank members in the forum ask this questions in their thoughts.

Please your REASONS for this welcomed...

Legit question.

I do any rank that has a good post.

Here is a newbie I did today

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5246518.0


I gave him enough to be a junior member as I am hoping that it will promote mining that specific coin and that his program is as good as it seems.

I am mining with a few cards on that coin even though I mostly mine BTC directly with asics I do mine alt coins.

If you look at my signature you see I like alts and BTC.  So I try to promote ASICs resistant alts.

[bonesjonesreturns]

No no no... C'mon man, I already said that it was a joke. It didn't happen. The original post by theymos is here. Look at the merits. They are the same. I just edited the text in my browser.

Why would you expect reading comprehension from merit beggars... you can see it's only RANK on their mind, fuck post content.

Let's not get off topic and speculate with ad hominem attacks

As we know editing posts is a fav of nutildahs.

Let me explain how it works to the thread starter.

Merit works like this

Merit sources give it out to each other and a few select pals on meta. The core merit cycling gang.
They then use it to give them the power to include each other on DT you need 250 earned merits
They use ensure they have enough to meet all the sig campaigns requirements
They use their self elected Dt and self awarded merits to get into chipmixer
They slather merit to their asslicker chipmixer dreamer newbies or their own alts
They merit starve any members that speaks out against the broken status quo they have gamed
They can now milk all the best rev streams
They can scam others with impunity since they control DT
They scare others from speaking out

Merit is undeniably the worst thing to happen to bitcointalk ever

It supports scammers and crushes free speech

This is all undeniable

Just look at

Merit sources, dt1, chipmixer merit top 20 fans and recipients
Then look at some of the proven scammers and dirty scum bags on DT, with bags of merit and sporting highly paid sigs and running other rev streams here.

So that is why they keep slithering each other in merit while.making sure the 250 earned merits is inclusive

Keep watching how they are begging theymos to increase this lately.

It's all totally obvious and independently verifiable.

I hope that answers your questions but if not I will be happy to explain it further.


Merit had nothing to do with post value. It is merely a tool of control and manipulation.
That may not have been the original intention but that is undeniably how it worked out.

[Timelord2067]

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Once a post has been merited, then the post should be locked and can neither be deleted, nore modified.  @theymos might want to consider making that small modification to the merit system.

Ironically, the current admins of BPIP ( @ibminer and @suchmoon ) have chosen to skewer the merit ranking to include only the earned merits in their ranking system, *but* are happy enough to benefit from the merits they were initially gifted from others when the merit system was created.  It over inflates both their rank on BPIP and their egos.

They then use it to give them the power to include each other on DT you need 250 earned merits

Don't forget for every 250 merits you "earn" count as a vote, so 250 merits = 1 vote... 500 merits = 2 votes and so on.  Being able to gift others 50 merits at a time fast tracks their voting ability.

[KaratX]

I believe that anyone can give other merits of they feel like or if a post is good enough for them, it's not about legendary members sending merits to another legendary member, it's all about the contribution on this forum

[DdmrDdmr]

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This is the merit awarding distribution between ranks (*) for 2020 so far:

https://public.tableau.com/shared/9YT4NW63X?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

Unfortunately, numbers will be numbers, and they do not provide context to the reasons behind by themselves ...

(*) As of current ranks. Any ranking-ups will drag all merit assignment alongside to the new rank, either as a sender or a receiver.

[Mrengage]

I believe that anyone can give other merits of they feel like or if a post is good enough for them, it's not about legendary members sending merits to another legendary member, it's all about the contribution on this forum

Well said, but in other terms is there no other means the legendary members can be appreciated other than they send each other Merits. It's of no use since they are legendaries already is better to just thank them in other words. Put if other means to appreciate them will be implemented theymos will look forward to it. My own opinion...

[Pmalek]

Well said, but in other terms is there no other means the legendary members can be appreciated other than they send each other Merits.

The rules shouldn't be different just because someone is Legendary. They take part in the merit system equally just like every other rank. They don't need the merits to rank up, unless a new rank is introduced (unlikely) but they award other members with sMerits, and that is what counts.