[v2][Self Moderated] In Merits, Count Down To Your Next Rank...

[reagansimms]

Good initiative to open a new thread, because old threads are very messy because many participants who are doing the countdown to the next ranking do not obey the rules, self-moderated topics are much easier for you to control and if someone does not follow the rules you can take action to delete them. I am also one of those who frequent your first thread and try to help those who are getting closer to the next rankings.

Thank you very much @Fivestar4everMVP. You will be remembered as one of the many users who initiated people to move up the rankings. It will be much more fun and may come back to help some people who are getting closer to the next rank.

@Fivestar4everMVP has made a wise decision after reading all the suggestions in version 1.
The enthusiasm of forum users is very high for this thread, version 1 has helped many forum users rank up successfully. True, when hearing the name @Fivestar4everMVP it will come to mind of forum users as one of the users who initiated other users to reach new ranks faster after applying here. The fields provided have invited many people to reap the fruits here, hopefully in V2 there will be more generous people ready to help users who are almost reaching a new rank.

My Countdown to Senior Member
Number of Merit(s) left: 8

@Mustang Shelby, you're the first to experience the new ratings in this Thread. A beautiful start for you and also the continuation of this Thread after being moderated by Op.
Congratulations.

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[skarais]

@Fivestar4everMVP, I welcome your final decision to accept suggestions.
Hopefully this new thread is more organized and less spam and rule breakers, I hope you keep an eye on it. Everything will get better, it will definitely go according to plan.

Sorry about some fuss on the last page in your old thread but that's to encourage you to get a new thread like this one. Let's do our best, nice day bro.

My Countdown to _____ Member
Number of Merit(s) left:  2

Thanks Guys

Have enough activity first before you post a countdown. That seems to me a great step before expecting someone to help with your milestones.

[_BlackStar]

The fields provided have invited many people to reap the fruits here, hopefully in V2 there will be more generous people ready to help users who are almost reaching a new rank.

Of course, but it also invites multiple merit farms between one user and another.
You may notice what I'm saying, though it's hard to tell. Look at how eager newbies are to leave their applications here while they are bounty hunters who tend not to care about the merit system and the quality of the posts. It happened on V1, but the same thing may can be done by other users on V2.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

My Countdown to _____ Member
Number of Merit(s) left:  2

Thanks Guys

Hi jenny56, I am deleting your count down post due to failure to adhere to rule Number 5, which stated clearly that One must earn enough activity for their next rank before making a count down post here.
I sincerely hope you understand and do not take this to heart, you currently have 49 activity, and this means you are just 11 shot from the 60 that is required for Member rank, please be more active and also be patience for your activity to reach the required level,

And I also advice you use this opportunity to contribute even more positively to the forum, you might earn your 2 merit even before your activity level reaches 60, just incase you didn't, please feel free to make another count down post as soon as you reached the required activity level..

Bless up.

[Patrol69]

My Countdown to _____ Full Member
Number of Merit(s) left: 25 21 15 12 8

@OP Appreciate you as always for allowing us the countdown.  I have enough activity to be a full member but I am not able to achieve my full qualification due to lack of talent.  So I strongly request all those who visit this thread to review my profile.

Thank you All Member,To support me.

Congratulations you have already achieved the rank of full member of the forum. Hope you are very happy with your achievement. And everyone in the forum helped you a lot to achieve full member rank. Thanks to the sincerity of everyone on the forum you have achieved success very quickly. Best wishes to you. Now you can edit your post and make the final announcement.

Hello.  I appreciate your effort to keep the new thread more organized.  Thank you for your hard work and helpful behavior.  Since I got the required activity for Senior Member, I would like to request the last remaining merits here if you have permission.

My Countdown to Senior Member
Number of Merit(s) left: 8

Many congratulations to you. An important forum rank is "Senior Member" which you have already achieved. You have worked hard to attain the rank of senior member of the forum and because of your hard work you have achieved success today. Because if you work hard, success will come one day.  Hope you will regularly active in the forum and share various informative posts in the forum. Best wishes to you and hope you achieve greater things in the future.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Hmm, the topic is new, and the nonsense that I see in this topic is still old. Nothing changed. Probably, if re-open this topic 10 more times, nothing will change. Read the rules for this thread:

Benefits:-
If you post the number of merit(s) left for you to move to the next rank here, Merit sources, Any one and Everyone watching this topic with lots of sMerit to share might decide to take a look at your post history, to find posts that are Merit worthy to Merit so as to help you ascend.

Okay, great, look at the applications of users in this topic and see this:



The absurdity of this situation is further enhanced by the fact that Fivestar4everMVP itself, which created these rules, does not follow them itself, distributing merit not for posts, but for applications.

OK, you got me there, but then, first take a look at the post history of the dude, and see if he is worthy of the merit or not.

Yes, I merit applications, but I don't just merit applications, I first of all check the post history of the applicant, if I find his or her posts worthy, I decide to either merit the post or the user's application here, one thing I make sure of is not to merit application from bounty hunters who dont post anything else on this forum other than proof of Authentication.

Hmm, the topic is new, and the nonsense that I see in this topic is still old. Nothing changed. Probably, if re-open this topic 10 more times, nothing will change.

We are all entitled to our different opinions, the sure thing is that nothing created by human is perfect, there will always be flaws here and there, but that isn't be a good enough reason to stop creating new things, is it?
 

[John Abraham]

New rules for countdown which should strictly followed...

Junior member merit (+1-9) CD to Member

But One shouldn't countdown before Activity reached.

I feel that this one is quite easy to achieve, since they only need 9 to rank up and could already start posting right after gaining 1 Merit. Perhaps start from 5 instead?

I feel like same as you. Gaining one merit is not hard, which is only 10% for the next rank. Users will post applications right after getting one merit from a random post. Imagine you have to earn 10 dollars to get 90 more dollars. I know you will be freaking out to earn just ten dollars. I feel like this is the same as my example. Maybe OP can rearrange the rules if he wants.

[reagansimms]

The fields provided have invited many people to reap the fruits here, hopefully in V2 there will be more generous people ready to help users who are almost reaching a new rank.

Of course, but it also invites multiple merit farms between one user and another.
You may notice what I'm saying, though it's hard to tell. Look at how eager newbies are to leave their applications here while they are bounty hunters who tend not to care about the merit system and the quality of the posts. It happened on V1, but the same thing may can be done by other users on V2.

There's no denying that, we've seen that in the V1. Merit Farming will still occur even without this thread, similar cases may occur here between one account and another. I totally understand what you're saying, it's hard to detect real farms if they don't do Merit farms directly.
The new rules set by Op and Self moderators can prevent spam from happening here, applications from newbies who don't care about the quality of posts can be immediately eradicated by Op if deemed inappropriate. There's a chance the same thing could happen in V2 but there are very few of them.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

OK, you got me there, but then, first take a look at the post history of the dude, and see if he is worthy of the merit or not.

Yes, I merit applications, but I don't just merit applications, I first of all check the post history of the applicant, if I find his or her posts worthy, I decide to either merit the post or the user's application here, one thing I make sure of is not to merit application from bounty hunters who dont post anything else on this forum other than proof of Authentication.

And what prevents when viewing posts to send merit to these very posts? After all, this is the point of the merit system, to evaluate posts that are as useful and constructive as possible. But if you look at the history of the last thread and this one, then we get the feeling that everyone here who gets a rank, they all have the most useful posts written on this forum - these are applications in this thread.

I like the very concept of this topic, I always support such initiatives, they are aimed at helping and developing other users, this motivates them to remain active on this forum. But the very implementation of this concept, this help... it is strange. Absolutely crazy distributions of merit for some apply that serve a different purpose. I doubt that anyone here really sits and evaluates the posts of other users. It works like this: oh, someone applied and lacks a merit. Perhaps I will send him, as much as I do not mind. Done. And here scold those who apply, as if they do not read the rules. I wonder if those who send merit read these rules? The question is open.

I completely get the part you are coming from and I understand, agree and apologise for making a rule and not seeing it as important to completely abide to it..
On my part, I've taken correction and from now on, I will merit posts from applicants as I review them, and no longer applications on this thread..

And I am also urging as many reading this comment to please follow suit..
And speaking on merit farming, I personally believe that there is no community where there are no bad eggs, and this bad eggs will always find way of perpetrating their evil plans, but it is my believe that the rules here, coupled with the fact that this is a self moderated thread, will help in reducing merit farming to it's barest minimum, if not eradicate it completely on this thread.

[SOKO-DEKE]

My Countdown to sr. Member
Number of Merit(s) left: 14

[aylabadia05]

And what prevents when viewing posts to send merit to these very posts? After all, this is the point of the merit system, to evaluate posts that are as useful and constructive as possible. But if you look at the history of the last thread and this one, then we get the feeling that everyone here who gets a rank, they all have the most useful posts written on this forum - these are applications in this thread.

I like the very concept of this topic, I always support such initiatives, they are aimed at helping and developing other users, this motivates them to remain active on this forum. But the very implementation of this concept, this help... it is strange. Absolutely crazy distributions of merit for some apply that serve a different purpose. I doubt that anyone here really sits and evaluates the posts of other users. It works like this: oh, someone applied and lacks a merit. Perhaps I will send him, as much as I do not mind. Done. And here scold those who apply, as if they do not read the rules. I wonder if those who send merit read these rules? The question is open.

This was the initial concern before this [v2] thread was created by the OP. Given that the concept is very good in helping to run the merit system, but if you look at many members who help lower-ranked users, it seems like they are ignoring what you are saying.

Not defending myself, I once gave input or advice to one of the users here who submitted a countdown app to the next rank where I asked that he not only focus on making posts on the local board even though it was useful. From there it can be judged that any user who wants to ask for merit help to rank up can simply leave the countdown app and then let others judge his posts. This includes the suggestion of @_BlackStar.

The OP is right that anyone who reads your views should be able to follow them.

In our local, there is a thread moderated by @skarais that is quite helpful for users to rank up and so far it is working quite well as expected.
[HELP]Bantuan untuk menaikkan Rank (Newbie s.d Hero) V.2 [UPDATE]

[reagansimms]

My Countdown to sr. Member
Number of Merit(s) left: 14

It's done, you have just achieved Senior Member Rank after getting additional merit from one of the most generous Merit Sources in the forum. I have seen your merit summary, there is no doubt for me to say you are one of the most generous users on the forum. Since joining the forum, you have sent 108 merit 63 times to 37 profiles.
Hopefully after this you can maintain your generosity by stopping here more often to help other users who are almost reaching a new rank.

[sokani]

My Countdown to _____Full Member Rank
Number of Merit(s) left: 2

[Cantsay]

My Countdown to _____Full Member Rank
Number of Merit(s) left: 2

I have dropped some merits for you and I believe you now have enough more to get you to your next rank.
And I want to congratulation you for your newly achieved rank (full member) and I also hope you help others in the future as you continue your journey, congratulations once again.

[sokani]

I have dropped some merits for you and I believe you now have enough more to get you to your next rank.
And I want to congratulation you for your newly achieved rank (full member) and I also hope you help others in the future as you continue your journey, congratulations once again.

Thank you so much boss 🙏 and I really do appreciate it. I would also like to thank the OP for this thread and everyone that are contributing in the smooth running of this thread and assisting potential ranking members to their next ranks.

[Awaklara]

Thank you so much boss 🙏 and I really do appreciate it. I would also like to thank the OP for this thread and everyone that are contributing in the smooth running of this thread and assisting potential ranking members to their next ranks.

So you can also do it like you are assisted to get your ranking. Not everything that helps you is a Merit source, they have limitations to be distributed. So, you can also distribute your merit and support this system, as well as for other members who need help for rank up
Congratulations, you have completed your Count Down for Full Member

[Cantsay]

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Read the rule and come back when you fully understand what it says.
For now you don't have enough activity for your next rank and according to the rule you need to first get enough activities before you can post a countdown post.

[KingsDen]

And what prevents when viewing posts to send merit to these very posts? After all, this is the point of the merit system, to evaluate posts that are as useful and constructive as possible. But if you look at the history of the last thread and this one, then we get the feeling that everyone here who gets a rank, they all have the most useful posts written on this forum - these are applications in this thread.

I completely get the part you are coming from and I understand, agree and apologise for making a rule and not seeing it as important to completely abide to it..
On my part, I've taken correction and from now on, I will merit posts from applicants as I review them, and no longer applications on this thread..

Happy to see this admittance and willingness to do the better.
This is important to maintain the essence of the merit system. It is not all that applies here is worthy to be merited. If you check their post history and there is no merit worthy posts, you have the right to skip the user.

My Countdown to _____ Member
Number of Merit(s) left:  2

Thanks Guys

Hi jenny56, I am deleting your count down post due to failure to adhere to rule Number 5, which stated clearly that One must earn enough activity for their next rank before making a count down post here.
I sincerely hope you understand and do not take this to heart, you currently have 49 activity, and this means you are just 11 shot from the 60 that is required for Member rank, please be more active and also be patience for your activity to reach the required level,

Do you actually need to be explaining to every user why there posts were deleted? I think you should be a touch of Jolly Jollygood here. Remove it and they will discover through their pm.

Finally, welldone  for making this thread self moderated.

[Patrol69]

My Countdown to Full Member Rank
Number of Merit(s) left: 14

You have already collected the required amount of merit to achieve the rank of Full Member, but you are not yet eligible to become a Full Member of the forum due to your low activity. A few activities will make you a full member of the forum. Wishing you advance congratulations very soon you will have full member next to your name. You can edit your countdown post and share it with everyone you want.

[Razmirraz]

Thank you so much boss 🙏 and I really do appreciate it. I would also like to thank the OP for this thread and everyone that are contributing in the smooth running of this thread and assisting potential ranking members to their next ranks.

You are feeling joy after successfully reaching a higher rank than before. Now you are promoted to Full Member after receiving merit assistance from a Merit Source or non Merit Source. Other members take turns helping you to be able to wear the hat as soon as possible, after everything is achieved now it's your turn to help other members who have the potential to move up to a higher rank.

Be a user who cares about the sustainability of the forum, contribute as much as you can. The people who help you never expect anything from you because they believe that by contributing to the forum they will be helped by other users. After successfully reaching Full Member, now it's your turn to help other users.