Legendaries need love as well.

[Harlot]

It's really up to you, the way I see it is if you are mostly posting in the Politics and Society section of the forum and you are not getting any kind of credit with the research you have done and opinion I think demanding for a merit source for that section is the best way for that section to have some smerits flowing. IMO since you are a Bitcoin forum after all there is nothing wrong in being involved in other sections where you think merits are actively being given because chances are there might be some topics in there where your expertise can be squeeze in.

[FFrankie]

I am so close to legendary but nobody gives me merit anymore even with good posts I understand what you are saying

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Redirect the love to correcting me when you see my shortcomings. The corrections should come in a constructive manner and not trying to embarrass or attack me. If you come across any of my constructive posts and find them worthy of merits, assuming you intend sending more then 1 just don't. I'm ok with recieving just one knowing fully well there are those who need those merit more than I do.

Right now there's no difference between 1 or 10 merit to me. Receiving just an acknowledgement that my content was helpfully is ok by me. And in a situation you can find other worthy content (most especially in that same thread), in-box me and I'll help you with that.

[-CryptoViking-]

Rewarding 1 merit vs. rewarding 2 or more merits has no difference and both was an act of rewarding something good or great.

Anyway, I am thankful and surprise to think that you find my post undermerited. It is my gratitude to acknowledge the merits you rewarded. My English might be too bad but honestly I am trying. However, I have seen some improvement and that is one of the good thing that happen to me as a person and a user of this forum.

I disagree with you slightly about the amount of merits that get rewarded point. We, lower ranked peeps, are used to giving only 1 merit to posts, as we usually lack merits to give. Giving more merits then 1 to a post has a meaning and use.Some post deserve more merits for various reason which can be for example: Level of knowledge needed to create a certain post, wonderfully constructed post, great poem deserves more merit then a random poem, sheer amount of time a person needed to create a post, if post made you laugh really really hard for me can be worth more merit 

So no need to undervalue your contributions, just contribute and people will reward you or not, based on their judgement, elation, satisfaction, laughter and such

So just keep on keeping on m8 and don't stop writing poems ok? 

[JeromeTash]

I am so close to legendary but nobody gives me merit anymore even with good posts I understand what you are saying

Just dished out my 2 last sMerits to you. 70 more to go 

You seem to be a regular of collectibles Booard. Not sure if there are any merit sources who frequent there but I think you will get 1000 merits soon.
I must admit, I have been a regular poster but chances of getting merits in some boards is so low even if you make good constructive posts. Maybe the amount of Merits in circulation needs to be upped again.

I have also seen some merits sources go inactive over the past months and yet no new ones have been appointed.

[pooya87]

Anecdotally, yes, my experience is also that earned merit drops off once a higher rank is achieved. I was building merit quickly until I hit Hero, at which point it dropped dramatically to roughly 30 per month. I actually think this is a good thing - it suggests that merit-bestowers are focusing their attentions on worthy lower ranked users, those whose contributions have never been noticed or acknowledged.

i think this is partly because everyone used to have so much smerits to give away at the beginning and they did give a lot away too so the circulation was high, consequently people got merits a lot easier. then it slowly dropped as they spent their merits and by that time the post quality had gone up so there were more posts to reward while the "supply" was lower.
i certainly feel this way, for example every day i give 2-3 merits and run out while i find at least 6-7 comments that i could also reward but i've already run out. i even started a give-1-merit-only plan but it didn't help much.

[Jet Cash]

I've got getting on for 400 sMerits to award, and it is quite difficult to award them. I don't feel I should award them to boost posters who support my medical opinions, and much the same applies to political comments, although not many people seem to consider that Brexit and the EU tracks back to the Knights Templar. I find it hard to find discussions about Bitcoin at a macro-economic level, and my knowledge of Bitcoin at the mechanical level still leaves a lot to be desired, although I do enjoy reading the help posts, and try to reward some of the knowledgeable posts. This seems to be an area that doesn't receive enough merit. I suppose I'm mildly interested in merit stats, especially where they seem to be going onto boards that I don't feel are the most beneficial for the forum. I need to spend more time learning about stable coins as well.

One of the most important (in my opinion) possibilities for Bitcoin and BitcoinTalk is the improvement in cooperation and association between different classes, cultures and countries, and I would like to do something to increase this. The Fit to Talk English project was one of my attempts to achieve this. It is unfortunate that it started to be hit by spammers, and it ended up tasking up too much time. The domain is blocked by the WiFi at my current location, and I seem to be using the cafe here most days. I might try to find a way round this. Let me know if you think it is worth the effort.

[casperBGD]

I might try to find a way round this. Let me know if you think it is worth the effort.

first time heard about the project, and it seems to be interesting one, but i do not get the point how you would help posters with their English?

English is not my first language, i actually did not ever learn it throughout my life, but have enough knowledge to do even Business in English, both writing and speaking, and also reading books/articles in English, so it is not that hard, if you want. There is English everywhere around us, you just turn on the TV, and watch any program without subtitle, and it will stick to your mind.
I had learned German and Russian at school, and Hungarian in the course, but could not use it even close to English in everyday life, and do think that it is just because English is everywhere around us, and it is widely used in Travel and Business.

back to subject, do not think that people will learn to speak English, or even write, in a forum IMHO, they need speaking incentive, and there is a bunch of applications that provide that, would mention duolingo, which is free and easy to use, and could help anyone to learn basics of a language, and faster than school or course

long story short, seems like an interesting idea, but i do not see it as successful one, especially if you need much time for administration, it is not worth the effort

[Jet Cash]

The idea was for non-English speakers to create and English language topic for the benefit of this forum. Lets take a topic such as the use of Bitcoin to buy groceries in Venezuela. The poster may be a Spanish speaker with minimal English skills, but his local experience could be interesting and useful for Bitcoin Talk members. He would post on the Fit to Talk English forum in Spanish, or his best efforts in English, and a group of us would edit it and optimise it for him. When he was happy with the final post, he would copy it onto a board here, and he would include a reference to the training thread, and this will avoid an accusation of plagiarism. If it was a worthy topic then he would be awarded merits. The ensuing discussion in the Bitcoin Talk forum could be interesting to all of us, and it would help the forum to expand its international interest.

[casperBGD]

did not saw it that way, but still does not make a change

there are local topics here, and interesting topics are usually translated from English to local language, it is not happening that much vice-versa, but prominent members from local forums could do that as well, instead of having another forum, where these responses will be polished and made "better"

for me, it is enough to be understandable, does not have to be "English by the book"

nevertheless, maybe i got wrong, so to clarify, i do support your efforts, but do not see some good at the end for the forum

[jademaxsuy]

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Why not create a thread for a small start? We can help you in this matter by doing some grammar corrections to be qouted in a reply to those who wanted a critique or corrections in their English Language.

We can do so much here in the forum by helping one another - a bayanihan(Filipino language term) concept helping one another to achieve a certain goal. We can learn other lanuage as well by helping us translated pur posts in our local boards to another local board crossing board borders. It could be also a great help especially in inquiries to other local boards of their news and current events.

There are other problems as well to solve like the irresponsible bounty hunter. As long as the bounty campaign is ongoing it will resort to some bounty hunters to be irresponsible. Helping the forum towards the ideal forum would be challenging with this kind of problem. This can't be ignore since we did saw @theymos had acted upon this by implementing the rank and merit system. Pretty sure that this shitposting problem is really that big.

However, there are bounty hunters that are responsible enough to follow the rules and regulations especially the high ranks. Low ranks may going to disregard any rules and regulations especially to users that has no chance or little chance in obtaining merits. That is what it should suppose to be that the objectice of the rank and merit system should not defeat its purpose. And these to motivate users to make quality post. I do not know what kind of motivational needed for them to be responsible here in the forum.

Thanks to other users that are helping especially reporting bad posts, the shitposting and copy and paste posts.