Merited Banned Account

[skarais]

Yes it's extremely hard task for merit sources who are handing out huge merits in each Tx to different users on the forum to check for them if they are banned or not because first they have to check for quality post made by members,then also make their own post and also have IRL jobs to perform so it's time consuming task for them being merit sources to check before meriting any post.But if they have BPIP extensions installed then they would have the status of the users before hand which could help a lot.

I don't think it's too difficult when they want to post merit on posts they meet while discussing in a thread, for example the latest posts. Then something I believe is that many merit source will not send merits to currently banned users especially on their past posts, but they may have sent them before the user was banned. Lots of examples of that.

Personally, I wouldn't knowingly merit a banned member, and not because they might have made a decent post.

I'm sure you'll never get a review request from them again because they've been blocked, so maybe they'll be ignored especially since their posts have been sunk by dozens of pages (if any in megathread).

[LoyceV]

it is unreasonable to expect merit sources to check the status of every user they want to merit using third party tools.

Even worse: third-party data on banned users is incomplete.

Now imagine being on top of Top senders to permabanned users, last 180 days

[virasog]

its just like we are throwing merit away to banned account where it can never be sent to anyone.

From your perspective, Merit may look scarce. But from the forum's perspective, it can be created as much as needed.

Merits are not limited as bitcoins   
Thanks to Theymos.

I just found out that some user still got merited after he was banned.

This is nothing new as it happened previously too. I was seeing an account galambo who was banned due to this reason. However the next day he was given 10 merits on the WO thread on this post.

[Pmalek]

Now imagine being on top of Top senders to permabanned users, last 180 days

Crap. I have 10 merits to my name according to that list. But I am not the worst one.
Btw, does that mean 10 users who received merits and got banned, or 10 merits sent to unknown number of users who then got banned? I think it's the latter.

[DdmrDdmr]

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I believe it’s more in line with the latter. I checked some of my 6 merits as per the Top senders to permabanned users, last 180 days, and they were sent before the account was banned.

Actually, I’m pretty certain it’s really adding merits sent over the last 180 days to profiles that, at some point (before or after) became permanently banned. I’ve checked this with a bunch of profiles on the list and it adds-up in all cases.

These are your cases:

amount   msg                  user_from   user_to   converted_date
1   5397275.msg60127589   112493   1187984   2022-05-14 07:07:05.000
1   5384260.msg59926584   112493   1187984   2022-04-25 09:12:24.000
2   5389339.msg59498159   112493   1187984   2022-03-14 10:01:24.000
2   5391467.msg59860107   112493   1187984   2022-04-14 16:39:46.000
1   5397442.msg59788925   112493   3462520   2022-04-12 09:27:10.000
1   5378224.msg59443565   112493   3453691   2022-03-11 07:35:42.000
1   178336.msg59450827    112493   3453691   2022-03-11 07:35:32.000
1   5391044.msg59616268   112493   3359339   2022-03-24 09:55:42.000

[saxydev]

I am perhaps new but why is there such a fuss about a couple when it doesn't change at all the status on the forum nor his life?

[eddie13]

Plenty of abandoned and banned accounts still get their posts merited..

It shows how sad it is that those users aren't here anymore..

[PowerGlove]

Now imagine being on top of Top senders to permabanned users, last 180 days

Thanks for sharing, Loyce! I wasn't aware that stats like that were part of the forum.

Sorry for the slight off-topic, but in case anybody else finds them interesting, there are more merit stats here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats