Yet incomplete Merit system. Implementation Proposal

[guigui371]

You proposal is interesting, but who is going to monitor, select and enforce it ?
It sounds like a hell of work for moderator (they are already super busy !!) or some kind of special task force.

What about something automated ? A lottery  with "sent smerit" condition of entry ? 

Imagine the following :
User A  earns 50 merit in a 30 rolling days (25 smerit).
If in the same rolling period he has sent >90% of smerit then he is eligible to get some extra smerit the next time he is meriting someone.

So userA earn 50 merits (25 smerits),
Once he has sent 20 of that smerit, he goes into a lottery.
Once in the lottery if he sends smerit he has a lottery ticket. (1 smerit sent = 1 ticket if 5 smerits then tickets)
 winnings could be :  1 smerit (1/10 odds)  / 2smerits (1/20 odds)  / 5smerits (1/50)  and  10 extra smerits with 1/100 odds. 
If he wins some free smerit, They wont allow him to enter the lottery.
You only get smerit lottery tickets based on the smerit you send from the stack you have earned (not airdropped/won at lottery).

This will do 2 things: make smerit being used instead of hoarded.
Increase by a little the amount of smerit in circulation.

This is just a reflection, in my opinion, the system isn't broken, so why changing it ? 

 

[Danydee]

You proposal is interesting, but who is going to monitor, select and enforce it ?
It sounds like a hell of work for moderator (they are already super busy !!) or some kind of special task force.

What about something automated ? A lottery  with "sent smerit" condition of entry ? 

Imagine the following :
User A  earns 50 merit in a 30 rolling days (25 smerit).
If in the same rolling period he has sent >90% of smerit then he is eligible to get some extra smerit the next time he is meriting someone.

So userA earn 50 merits (25 smerits),
Once he has sent 20 of that smerit, he goes into a lottery.
Once in the lottery if he sends smerit he has a lottery ticket. (1 smerit sent = 1 ticket if 5 smerits then tickets)
 winnings could be :  1 smerit (1/10 odds)  / 2smerits (1/20 odds)  / 5smerits (1/50)  and  10 extra smerits with 1/100 odds. 
If he wins some free smerit, They wont allow him to enter the lottery.
You only get smerit lottery tickets based on the smerit you send from the stack you have earned (not airdropped/won at lottery).

This will do 2 things: make smerit being used instead of hoarded.
Increase by a little the amount of smerit in circulation.

This is just a reflection, in my opinion, the system isn't broken, so why changing it ? 

 

Yes, great idea. Could work very well

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Giving it to random people might results in merit abuse.

Oh, I would state that a bit more strongly--if random people got more airdropped sMerits, there would be abuse up the wazoo.  There's already merit abuse going on even without that happening, so you can imagine how bad it would be if OP's suggestion was implemented, which it won't be.

If anything, there should be more merit sources added and that's something I've been an advocate for.  Sources really have to be trustworthy since they're basically giving away something that does have economic value--merits are bought and sold for real money, though I don't know how alive that market really is.  But even if merit isn't sold, it could be given to alt accounts and friends or whatever.

[bitserve]

Your proposal is not only incomplete but it is also NOT an *implementation* proposal.

The Merit system is not "incomplete". If (you) feel that there is a need for more merits in the system that is fixed either by adding more merit sources or by increasing their merit airdrop.

There is a reason why for one Merit received you only get one Smerit to give and that is precisely to decay merit "cycling" between "regular" users. OTOH, merit sources are somewhat more screened and more appropriate to handle any additional airdrop of merits IF there was really a need to introduce more merits into the system... which is very arguable but a reasonable concern.

And everyone is free to apply as a merit source.

of course to users who would be juged to deserve it better

How is that any different than merit sources?

[Danydee]

 Ok, if you are with 500 or maybe 1000 merit sources meriting all the Billion user's posts, no matter


 So ok! Is just I have to be merit source and spend sMerits without restriction, or I rest of a lack of sMerits! Ok


 
 So now I close the Topic
 Thanks to all for contribution


 Connard

[Danydee]

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