Is self-meriting possible?

[dansus021]

To be honest i also curious too but never try it before although if we can merit ourself there is point that we will run out of merit right 2 merit = 1 sMerit.

Although the best things to earn merit just made a good post and report it to other member like fillippone [Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed -  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5412657.0

or DdmrDdmr he like bot earned 500+ merit in the last 120Days according the bpip  crazy hahaha

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[YUriy1991]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

In my opinion, Doing merit yourself is seen as an attempt to boost one's ego and can also have a negative impact on one's reputation and trust in one's. My view is that instead of focusing on self-benefit, let's strive to make quality, informative, interesting and valuable posts for the community.

By contributing meaningfully, we can gain acceptance and be valued in the community, which is a better way, a more valuable way. and sustainable way to build a reputation. So, Let's embrace the values of a merit-based system and work to build a supportive and collaborative community that rewards individuals based on contributions and achievements.

[DONZAKA]

If that was possible it would have been a big dent on the forum as most people wouldn't merit their ranks... The ranks are the obvious representation of people hard work over time.

[Kelward]

I think that it is better that someone else merits you because you can not be a judge over your own case.  If we are left to merit our selves, then most people will score themselves excellent, even when their performance is average. But we improve when others evaluate us without being  bias.

Personally I like being criticized when I'm not getting it right. It helps me to work harder to improve myself. And of course I feel great if I do something right and I'm 8 being appreciated.

[Lida93]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it.

Advising anyone to use have a alt account with the main purpose of using it for self meriting ones own account is a very wrong thing to do knowing full well it's against the forum's rules of the merit system. Any member caught up in the act with evidence, the consequence is always an ugly one.

People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

In every community their would always be those with deviant behavior as part of a whole.  For such persons they should be reminded that nothing hides under the sun for ever.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

I strongly believe that there are  measures already in place  for such and if you should do some thorough check you will see some few cases.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I think that it is better that someone else merits you because you can not be a judge over your own case.  If we are left to merit our selves, then most people will score themselves excellent, even when their performance is average. But we improve when others evaluate us without being  bias.

This is why the forum has made it impossible to merit yourself and of the community find out that you have abused that privilege by using your alts to merit yourself to numerous occasions then you set yourself up for some serious condemnation. Although theymos has said accounts shouldn't be ruined for mere issues like posting styles or meriting record still we have users that'll give you the negative feedback without hesitation for abusing the merit system. You can blame them though because merits are meant to be award by external bodies for your quality contributions to the forum and since merits earned are one of the criteria to be included in a campaigns, it's wrong to default.

We have enough merits flowing on the forum that if your posts are worth to be highlighted, they can't go unmerited but in a circumstance that they do go unnoticed due to meriters not visiting that particular boards or threads, you can apply for your posts to be reviewed on the merit giveaway threads available and those who find them worth meriting will do the needful. You don't have any excuse to try and merit yourself when the forum has provided every opportunity to make getting of merits not hard for those contributing quality to the forum.

[Dunamisx]

Is it possible to merit yourself?

No you can't, and it is also not advisable to merit your alts in case you have, all these will act as an abuse on the merit system if some particular users concentrates on meriting themselves, then the entire system will appear being corrupt and it may not serve the major purpose for the introduction of the merit system, additionally, the merit system is not moderated does mean we should abuse it for our own selfish interest, we know what's right from what is wrong right from our guilty conscience when trying to do any.

[aysg76]

Even if it was possible what's the fun behind it? The merit system was implemented because if someone likes your post he/she can send you and to restrict spammers from ranking up but if it was allowed then they would keep doing so this isn't allowed.

I don't think that you understood me correctly. I didn't say that meriting your own post from the same account if frowned upon (simply because its impissible to do that), but instead that he shouldn't merit his post from his alt account, which is frowned upon and will end up badly for him.

This is absolutely right and there are some members doing such thing just to rank up their alts also but it's clear that if post has something useful other members will also merit it so it's better not to indulge in these practices because you will eventually end up banning your account.

[Cantsay]

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

While it is possible to merit with an alt account, doing so is not recommended.
If you look through the Reputation board, you'll notice that there are threads open against those who were caught in the act of self-meriting their own posts using their alt account.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

Suspicious account activity is constantly being investigated, and those found breaking rules that are frowned upon by forum members are constantly being exposed and punished, either with a negative tag or being banned.

[Obari]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

I created a similar  topic last week and mine was borne out if serious curiosity  and no self meriting  isn't allowed in the forum and I think some few lines of coding could easing take this option  down and kill some tiny curiosity  in users mind.
It take amot of effort to grow an account and tye forum seems it doesn't have much  rules but at the long run users have created some rules and the moment you break anyone, there are possibilities  of ruining  your account  with a red tag which im sure jts one thing that wouldn't want anyone wanting to easily  try the self meriting option and I was shocked that on my previous  thread, I found a handful of persons who already tried out that feature but got some error note.

Below is the link to my previous topic about this and I think you should think of locking the thread if you already got the answers you needed.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5450913.msg62181188#msg62181188

[lovesmayfamilis]

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

While it is possible to merit with an alt account, doing so is not recommended.
If you look through the Reputation board, you'll notice that there are threads open against those who were caught in the act of self-meriting their own posts using their alt account.

I agree, however, there are many people who do not see this as a problem. Recall the famous liar naim027 and how he exchanged merits with his alternative account Dic3L0v3r.
Since the user cannot deserve himself, and it is not possible to do so, of course, opening a second account can easily solve this problem. Moreover, it will always be a moot point whether to leave him tags or not. I think this statement from the admin says very well that the exchange of merit is not a big problem.

If a DT member tags you for something stupid involving merit (ie. probably anything less than selling merit), then they're not going to be a DT member for much longer.

[Assface16678]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

I think you can but it's a long process since you'll be using two accounts. But if you have only one account of course you can't merit yourself. If everyone are self meriting, how this forum will grow? no one will help other newbie since you can reply to other post with no sense or what we called shitpost and instantly gain merit. If there is a chance that some devs on this forum make this possible, I will not agree because that's unfair

[Woodie]

This is not facebook were people like their  own posts!

Of what  use is the merit system if you can give these to yourselves, imagine being a merit source and all you do is merit your own posts, then this system would lose its credibility. Besides the merit system was introduced as a system to fight the growing spam at the time and it did and also deterred spammers from ranking up to avoid future sig spans.