*Ended* Post history review offer

[Davidvictorson]

To the community:

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to end my offer to do post history reviews for people on request.  The whole thing started off great, but as of late I get the strong feeling that I've been basically helping a bunch of mediocre posters (and most likely their alt accounts) rank up, which was never my intention.  I've also been refusing more and more requests because posts don't meet my standards for merits, and it's just turned into a big time waster that I don't want to deal with any more.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

I'll leave this thread open for a little bit and then I'm going to lock it.

Dang it. I was putting together myself to make a request but its cool. I trust your judgement and you are right about how you feel. I appreciate the good work you have done in the forum with post history reviews. I know many many who have been beneficiaries of your benevolence when I look at their merit history. Thank you for this particular service to the community.

[Igebotz]

Hello community,

"Take advantage of the time that people give you, without taking advantage of the people giving you time"

...Curtis Tyrone Jones


Don't beat yourself, might not be the end you wanted but "Kindness" is the ROI. You won!!

Thanks for your kindness towards our community - you lifted a lot of "Deserved" profiles over there. Don't stop paying us a visit  

[JollyGood]

From what I remember, you had good will but far too many of those that benefitted from your efforts did not deserve it as they had nefarious intentions. Alt-accounts and account farmers were pouncing on any member that was offering to merit their posts and not only that, any opportunity they had to make a list of their posts trying to rank up in any thread facilitating ranking up or merits.

I am glad you have removed yourself this situation because far too many accounts took advantage of your good will.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

[Synchronice]

To the community:

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to end my offer to do post history reviews for people on request.  The whole thing started off great, but as of late I get the strong feeling that I've been basically helping a bunch of mediocre posters (and most likely their alt accounts) rank up, which was never my intention.  I've also been refusing more and more requests because posts don't meet my standards for merits, and it's just turned into a big time waster that I don't want to deal with any more.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

I'll leave this thread open for a little bit and then I'm going to lock it.

To be honest, I think that it is a good decision, I don't like the idea of sending your posts to someone to get merits, it just looks very fake and unnatural. It's okay to not receive merit on every good post. I think that giving away merits should be a more natural thing, i.e. you visit threads, read posts and then merit the one that you think deserves to be merited.
I think that sending your posts to someone via PM and asking them to check if they are eligible for merits, to me, looks like an attempt to rank up just for the sake of signature campaign. That's why I try to not post in local board, locals are always a little biased, no offence but this is just the way I think.

[joker_josue]

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You did what you thought was right at the time. Your criteria has changed, which is normal. It is important for a person to admit this change and move on.

I believe you will continue to distribute the smerits as you see fit. 

[Casdinyard]

Sad that this has to go but I totally understand where sir Sceptical Chymist is coming from, the fact alone that you're doing this shit for an extended period of time while having to wait to get your rations of merits before you can even do something is already a pretty arduous ordeal, add to this the concept of beign potentially taken advantage of by people you barely know for the sake of provisioning merits and actually promoting constructive content in this forum, and you get a pretty exhausted merit source.

It was fun while it lasted, being some of those who continually received merit assistance and content advice after leaving this forum for a lengthy amount of time, but if it meant having to deal with people who can't even increase the quality of their content on a daily basis, then I guess all of us have no choice but to deal with his decision.

Thank you very much Sir Sceptical for being one of the most helpful merit sources around here, and I would never forget just how much you have helped me grow this account after quitting and returning recently. Hope you find further success IRL as you have found here, also hope you get an extra chicken nugget every time you order.

[Lucius]

To be honest, I think that it is a good decision, I don't like the idea of sending your posts to someone to get merits, it just looks very fake and unnatural. It's okay to not receive merit on every good post. I think that giving away merits should be a more natural thing, i.e. you visit threads, read posts and then merit the one that you think deserves to be merited.
I think that sending your posts to someone via PM and asking them to check if they are eligible for merits, to me, looks like an attempt to rank up just for the sake of signature campaign. That's why I try to not post in local board, locals are always a little biased, no offence but this is just the way I think.

I have already expressed a similar opinion in some of the previous discussions that took place in another topic, but also before when I also expressed my opinion that this way of "distributing" merits is not what it should be. Personally, it never occurred to me to ask that someone "review" my posts, but then again, everyone is free to share their sMerits as they wish, as long as it does not enter the sphere of abuse.


@The Sceptical Chymist, I think I already suggested it to you, but if you want to distribute most or all of your sMerits, simply raise the scale and give 5 or 10 merits for each post you consider valuable (even max 50 merits). That way, you can still be a useful merits source, and if you also reward people who know how to distribute your merits to other quality posts, you've done a great job.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

To the community:

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to end my offer to do post history reviews for people on request.  The whole thing started off great, but as of late I get the strong feeling that I've been basically helping a bunch of mediocre posters (and most likely their alt accounts) rank up, which was never my intention.  I've also been refusing more and more requests because posts don't meet my standards for merits, and it's just turned into a big time waster that I don't want to deal with any more.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

I'll leave this thread open for a little bit and then I'm going to lock it.

Hey The Sceptical Chymist, I completely understand your decision and all I want you to think is that it was not all in vain. You helped me rank up to Hero if I remember correctly and I think as a poster I haven't done badly subsequently. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thank you.

[Majestic-milf]

To the community:

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to end my offer to do post history reviews for people on request.  The whole thing started off great, but as of late I get the strong feeling that I've been basically helping a bunch of mediocre posters (and most likely their alt accounts) rank up, which was never my intention.  I've also been refusing more and more requests because posts don't meet my standards for merits, and it's just turned into a big time waster that I don't want to deal with any more.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

I'll leave this thread open for a little bit and then I'm going to lock it.

I won't lie, this would be missed and I'm talking as a beneficiary of your kind gestures but I do understand your reasons for stopping because just like you said, many alts accounts have taken this as an avenue to grow their accounts and as it is, not much effort is put into making a good post anymore since they know that they can always apply for a post review and the merits will come.
Like I said, you had good intentions when you initially started this but like with every other thing in life, there's the pros and cons to it. Thank you for what you did for most of us in this community as many of us owe it to you for our rank ups and I sincerely hope you don't regret ever doing this..
 

[Sexylizzy2813]

To the community:

After giving this a lot of thought, I've decided to end my offer to do post history reviews for people on request.  The whole thing started off great, but as of late I get the strong feeling that I've been basically helping a bunch of mediocre posters (and most likely their alt accounts) rank up, which was never my intention.  I've also been refusing more and more requests because posts don't meet my standards for merits, and it's just turned into a big time waster that I don't want to deal with any more.

I'm going to take a look at the requests that are still in my PM box, and if any of those members have written decent posts they'll get merits.  Aside from that, I am done.

I'll leave this thread open for a little bit and then I'm going to lock it.

This is something the community has to get used to because you have made your decision and all you said is true after all you choose to take this path as a merit source and now that you want to put a stop it (not receiving PMs) what would then happen to your position, are you still going to be a merit source?🤔
I'm ok with what ever decision you've made, I'd say instead of leaving all these behind why don't you change the way you normally use to do or have a specific time to preview  post or why not take that space of Ratimov since he's no longer making use of that thread or start your thread (with a title you choose)...just saying, and don't feel bad for doing what you did, after all you don't know which is sending a PM if is an alt or not.

Have to say a big thanks S.C...

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

You have your own right to make use of any criterial for the pattern to how you distribute your merit, if you think this has gone so far, then consider it a worthwhile benefit as well, you have achieved a lot in doing that.

I may also want to go by your idea of stopping it because of the numbers of inflows on request for the review, in which a times its could be tiring or frustrating when you even see those that don't qualify applying, maybe you can be it a personal deliberation on whom you see make a quality post, then you go through their profile and if you finds such interesting, you can choose to merit such without them applying.

In a nutshell, my suggestion is that, you may choose to make a personal random selection on forum members whom you must have targeted for making quality post and go through their profiles, if the initial method of profile review base on application does not work anymore, you can take it up yourself to choose on a random selection of quality posters across the boards, it will be a surprised for someone who doesn't expect merits seeing you giving him, just my suggestion anyway.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

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and you get a pretty exhausted merit source.
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Nail===>Head.  Plus at this point--at least as far as doing post history reviews--I'm a dejected one due to the general mediocrity of the posts I'm seeing come my way and the 98% certainty that I've been meriting members with alt accounts making borderline 'good' posts.  I always tried to be generous, but I've also kept in mind why the merit system was such a blessing from on high (Theymos).  No way in hell I want to start helping shitposters or account farmers to rank up with relative ease.

Thank you very much Sir Sceptical for being one of the most helpful merit sources around here, and I would never forget just how much you have helped me grow this account after quitting and returning recently. Hope you find further success IRL as you have found here, also hope you get an extra chicken nugget every time you order.

No problem; you write well and you earned the merits I gave you.  Lol about the chicken nugget.  I'd prefer an extra dipping sauce, but honestly anything free these days I'm grateful for.

are you still going to be a merit source?🤔

Oh yeah.  It's basically just that it's going to be harder to get rid of my monthly allotment of sMerits each month.  Over the years, the closeness of my reading on the forum has diminished due to the quality of the average post.  I've come to expect that most posts here are just crapola written to earn money (which can be seen in the number of duplicate answers whenever someone asks a question; nobody really reads anything anymore, and for the literary-minded I can't say I blame them).  But I'll keep spreading those merits around, believe me.

why not take that space of Ratimov since he's no longer making use of that thread or start your thread (with a title you choose)...just saying, and don't feel bad for doing what you did, after all you don't know which is sending a PM if is an alt or not.

Nah.  I'm going to do it the old-fashioned way, as I did when I first became a merit source in 2019, i.e., reading and evaluating.

Have to say a big thanks S.C...

You're welcome.  Your posts are kind of funny, even if your grammar is atrocious (lol). 

...............................And with that, I am sealing this thread with a kiss and burying it in dust and the sands of time....................................