Request for the merit source for the Polish board

[wwzsocki]

How many smerits per month would get you guys going? 50, 100? ...

anything is better then nothing TBH,

we don't have active merit source from months, so we are running on left overs all the time

if few mentioned by me members that keep our local board alive don't try to get some merits outside Polish board creating merit catching threads and then share some in local board then there are no other merits coming in

...if they don't have an active source, OP could be a good candidate...

thanks for taking time to check this thread, agree OP is good candidate for merit source and few from our local members already mentioned that and vouched for him here, me included.

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[DYING_S0UL]

To be honest, I just don't like the idea of giving merits on local boards. I am sorry if I sound like a bad guy but I would say that local boards feel the national pride and duty to help each-other to rank up and give merits to their compatriots.
I think the situation is following: People from poor countries help each-other to rank up to participate in signature campaigns with high payroll. That's probably why I see that person only gets merits from local boards while his/her posts in English language never get rewarded. This isn't fair and probably destroys the main idea of merit system on this forum.
Correct me if I am wrong, I have no problem with that but this is just what I see and notice.

If a post really deserves to be merited, I would merit it without thinking twice. I wouldn't even check whether it was a local or global post. But again, I do believe what you just said to be true. It may sound sad and unfair, but it's the current reality with local boards (not all, but yes). For example, I can bring up my local board. If you notice closely, you will see that users are sending merits to themselves only. The incoming and outgoing merits are all in the local thread. Some could say that the user doesn't know English, which is why all his merits are local. But NO!!! That's not true. These users do post on global boards, but they lack quality and information. As a result, they don't get any merit from global users. The sad thing is they don't even try to improve their post qualities. As they know, they already have a way to earn merits, rank up, and join sigs. And this will continue until people stop giving away merits to the locals. I'm not against sending merits on local, I do send my merits to the locals too. But not as much as I used to be because of this reason.

[pawel7777]

How many smerits per month would get you guys going? 50, 100? I haven't seen any bias, or any signs of abuse from OP, it seems they are respectful and trustworthy, besides I don't think they need a lot. And if they don't have an active source, OP could be a good candidate.

Poland has been a country with talented people, who knows who can emerge from those unmerited newbies?

To be fair, I think we should be good for quite a while with all the merits we got even from this topic alone (again, massive thanks to all the senders). As per Rikafip's latest update, we jumped from being the worst (with 0.04 merit per post) to a number 3 (with 1.0 merit per post):

The current problem we have is with low activity, as there are only few active posters. Hopefully things will pick up when Bitcoin starts pumping.

We still don't have a merit source, but that's on us. We had a discussion, everyone agrees we should have one, but no one wants to volunteer for the job  Oh well.

[philipma1957]

How many smerits per month would get you guys going? 50, 100? I haven't seen any bias, or any signs of abuse from OP, it seems they are respectful and trustworthy, besides I don't think they need a lot. And if they don't have an active source, OP could be a good candidate.

Poland has been a country with talented people, who knows who can emerge from those unmerited newbies?

To be fair, I think we should be good for quite a while with all the merits we got even from this topic alone (again, massive thanks to all the senders). As per Rikafip's latest update, we jumped from being the worst (with 0.04 merit per post) to a number 3 (with 1.0 merit per post):

The current problem we have is with low activity, as there are only few active posters. Hopefully things will pick up when Bitcoin starts pumping.

We still don't have a merit source, but that's on us. We had a discussion, everyone agrees we should have one, but no one wants to volunteer for the job   Oh well.

Here is 50 more.

I am trying to lower my unspent merits from 1400 to 400. I am at 800 since I have been doing more gives.

I can't speak and read but one language so while I would love to read and help directly I have to do it with a proxy such as your self.

[pawel7777]

Here is 50 more.

I am trying to lower my unspent merits from 1400 to 400. I am at 800 since I have been doing more gives.

I can't speak and read but one language so while I would love to read and help directly I have to do it with a proxy such as your self.

Thanks Philip, that's very generous of you, really appreciated. I'll earmark the amount received as for the purpose of meriting our local board. I guess I'll be an informal merit source for a few months (or years if activity drops even further haha).

...if they don't have an active source, OP could be a good candidate...

thanks for taking time to check this thread, agree OP is good candidate for merit source and few from our local members already mentioned that and vouched for him here, me included.

Thanks both! We have a lot of potentially good candidates (some much better than me) but, for various reasons, none of us wants to apply for the position. I stated the reasons on why I'm hesitant in the discussion topic in our local board (and so did the others). But I'm sure one of us will step up to the challenge eventually  .

[Mate2237]

To be honest, I just don't like the idea of giving merits on local boards. I am sorry if I sound like a bad guy but I would say that local boards feel the national pride and duty to help each-other to rank up and give merits to their compatriots.
I think the situation is following: People from poor countries help each-other to rank up to participate in signature campaigns with high payroll. That's probably why I see that person only gets merits from local boards while his/her posts in English language never get rewarded. This isn't fair and probably destroys the main idea of merit system on this forum.
Correct me if I am wrong, I have no problem with that but this is just what I see and notice.

Well your point of view and opinion is not a bad idea but local board also part and parcel in the forum so if someone post a quality post in the local board and it is worth awarding with merits then there is no need for holding it. Now when a project is launched in the forum, those who are in the local board also use the service to do one thing or the other so if their services are needed in a particular job they would also be hired. Local Boards are also to expand the awareness of bitcoin and not only for Signature Campaigns.

Now what you are indirectly saying that people should not invest in bitcoin because it is through the local board participation people are well equipped in the general boards. I am not disagreeing with you but we should allow the merit Sources in the local boards therefore I am in full support of the op request. Some people post only in local board because they can't speak fluently in the general boards with English language but can do well in the local. So Those people should not grow in the forum because they can't speak with English language fluently?

[SmartGold01]

How many smerits per month would get you guys going? 50, 100? I haven't seen any bias, or any signs of abuse from OP, it seems they are respectful and trustworthy, besides I don't think they need a lot. And if they don't have an active source, OP could be a good candidate.

Poland has been a country with talented people, who knows who can emerge from those unmerited newbies?

To be fair, I think we should be good for quite a while with all the merits we got even from this topic alone (again, massive thanks to all the senders). As per Rikafip's latest update, we jumped from being the worst (with 0.04 merit per post) to a number 3 (with 1.0 merit per post):

The current problem we have is with low activity, as there are only few active posters. Hopefully things will pick up when Bitcoin starts pumping.

We still don't have a merit source, but that's on us. We had a discussion, everyone agrees we should have one, but no one wants to volunteer for the job   Oh well.

Here is 50 more.

I am trying to lower my unspent merits from 1400 to 400. I am at 800 since I have been doing more gives.

I can't speak and read but one language so while I would love to read and help directly I have to do it with a proxy such as your self.

I also wants to thank you for the help and little lift though it's not my local board but I feels the pains as well whereby the appointed merits sources are not active to distribute those merits accordingly to post that merits it. I will have a little suggestions for you to do although I am trying to force you to do that but is something other merit source with enough merits do offer to our local board.
Like for instance you will ask pawel7777 to develop himself or any other user from their LB to pick out some of the quality post and assemble them in a thread in their local board after which he should pm you the thread where he selected those users and their quality posts maybe you can do this for like 1 months or 4 months to see the activities of the Polish local board.  I don't know if others already suggested this as well..

Hugeblack also gives same offers to all local board were he posted at Beginning & Helps sections, I think is temporarily blocked for now, but still that of our localboard post are still active I guess.  Reason he did that  he is not a native of Nigeria and can't translate our local pidgin correctly even though most of the post were purely written by english but is being mixed with pidgin along the line there could be break in translation without the native speaker so he chooses the most reputable user in our local to do that. Believe me the activities of our NLB has increased exponentially I think @Rikafip can attest that of our activities.