Why people get merited without op being merit?

[acroman08]

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members have made compelling points/reasons about why comments tend to get merited rather than the original post clear things up. but if you are also thinking about why threads created by newbies or jr members tend to not get merited the answers might differ from person to person.

[Yogee]

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Merit is about post quality, not about post position.
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There is a one exception for post position that I can think of.
A quality post in the middle of a mega thread wouldn't get a single merit as for obvious reasons that nobody will scroll through each pages just to find a single.
It is like a diamond covered in manure and nobody would want to dig through that just to find it.

A post in a mega thread isn't an exception. Visit topics like the WO for example and you would still see posts thousands of pages deep still merited. It's the mega spam thread that's the problem but why would you even post there when you already know it's infested with spams to begin with?

[isaac_clarke22]

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I guess I never specified what type of mega thread it is. My apologies on that, but what I was pointing is those irrelevant threads that does not need anymore replies nor need continuation of discussion and should be locked by now. Nobody would go through that much pagesjust to merit a single post in the middle of spams.
WO is continuously an active thread and it never gets irrelevant.

[Renampun]

I have noticed some things in this forum which I don't really know why it is so. I believe that creating quality posts and posting comments that has potentials of giving solutions and impacting knowledge to an op is of great importance here.

 I do see people being merited from other people's post even when the post has no merit. Some persons are so smart that, they we just attack the post Immediately without no good reasons rather than trying to correct the op and later get merited. Sometimes I know some posts are as useless as the op and it is not bad if a person get merit from it for good comment.

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?
It happens here always and I think knowing the reasons would not bad.

I often get merit when making comments on posts but the OP of that topic doesn't get merit...

the reason is simple, that is not always the OP of a topic that makes good quality writing so it doesn't always get merit. btw, I don't think that this is something worth discussing more deeply

[Kiley33]

If the question you reply helped others, then you will have merit, or the post you posted is helpful to others, you will also gain merit, but don’t be too anxious about merit, don’t post for merit or merit、Reply, the important thing is to help everyone,

[YOSHIE]

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?

The taste of the meat is delicious and tasty, not lies in the raw meat, what makes the food delicious and feels after cooking, lies in the spices in the food that are absorbed by the meat.

Comments with a few words or written comments contain a broad meaning and make people who read think 10 times that what is conveyed is right on target and 100% makes sense.
Rather than a long post that takes up two pages, but if you read and digest it you get gibberish, even if it's the original poster.

For that reason most of the members here give (Merit) for comments like I described above, rather than the original post but if you read it's just garbage, it's not wrong, members who see comments are 100% accurate and are bombarded (Merit).

[Taskford]

OP don't hope that whenever you create a topic automatically many people will give you a merit since this kind of things will always depends on what is the content of your post, if people will find it helpful and relevant thread then user may put some merit to give gratitude on your post. But if you didn't get any merit maybe its a good basis for you to create more valuable contents. Also don't get surprise that who comment on your thread get merited since they provably give a on point opinion regarding to the topic you discuss here.

[CryptoYar]

Why are comments being merited rather than the original post even when the post is of quality?
It happens here always and I think knowing the reasons would not bad.

There are 2 reasons for this: if the original poster asked for help or wants a solution to any issue, then the best comment gets merit.

Second. Often people write long and useless posts in which there is nothing new. Even in such a situation, the original poster does not get merits, while some members get merit in the comments by writing only a few lines.

[Wakate]

Thanks for all the comments I really appreciate.

[BITCOIN4X]

You will get merit on both type of your post, both in the form of thread and comment, but the main requirement that both must have is quality. I created several thread and also made useful comment based on other users' judged and for that I was merit. It's true that merit is not given to the position of your post, but how the quality of your post is judged by other users.

Some users may be interested in distributing merit on quality thread, but that doesn't mean that you don't stand a chance of getting quality post merit. I forgot the name of the user who has got more than 1000 merit but very rarely create thread and most of the merit he get is given by other users on his quality post.