Does inactive users deserve merits?

[nurilham]

I think it is no problem as long as it is a quality post and is valuable. Sometimes people just found the post through "search" feature, they send the post merits because the post helps them. I think the post deserves for merits, it probably helps people by giving certain information. But if it is for a useless post, it doesn't deserve to get merits whether it is an old or new post. TBH, I personally never too much consider about how long the post is made, I will always give the merits for any post if the post helps me and I think it deserves merits.

In my opinion, it has nothing to do with whether he is active or not, a reader will definitely be rewarded if the reader gets new knowledge from his posts.

Agree. Merits won't determine by old or new post, it actually depends on the quality and usefulness of its content. For the useful posts, it will always deserve to get merits because it contributes to help people in the forum.

[letteredhub]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

Merits system was created to applaud good, quality and informative post's, it is of course deserving of a quality post to be merited despite the user being inactive. The merit is as a result of the post quality and not for being active or inactive. The shortfall there is that, while a user receives merit's the S'merits from those merits received would be dormant in an inactive user's possession and that's one core reason I notice as to why inactive user's posts that deserves merits don't get merited to avoid wasting S'merit that could be circulated around to other active users.

[_BlackStar]

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Merits system was created to applaud good, quality and informative post's, it is of course deserving of a quality post to be merited despite the user being inactive. The merit is as a result of the post quality and not for being active or inactive. The shortfall there is that, while a user receives merit's the S'merits from those merits received would be dormant in an inactive user's possession and that's one core reason I notice as to why inactive user's posts that deserves merits don't get merited to avoid wasting S'merit that could be circulated around to other active users.

No matter how many sMerit can no longer circulate among users who are no longer active - the purpose of the merit system is to reward quality and informative user posts. Satoshi is a clear example of this - he got 6279 merit until January 2024 even though he has not been active since December 13, 2010.

Of course there are exceptions for certain users - but as long as you get benefits from that user's posts, then you are free to spend your merit on them even if they are not active. There are no rules about it - but perhaps you should avoid it as much as you can if you are not merit source.

[Asiska02]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

A post to merit is base on your personal opinion about the post. It doesn’t matter how long the user have being inactive or how long the post was created. A post worth meriting is worth meriting irrespective of what others feel about it. We think differently and will have different views and opinions on a post, what Mr A feels with be different from what Mr B feels, so we can’t judge each other’s opinion.

Some users abuse the merit system and if caught can be penalized for it. How you feel about a post and the meriting of the post will always differ depending on what the post is and who the user is. I only come across old posts when a user sends a link to the post or when I am searching  the forum  for something. If those posts  are not related to what you posted and added the link there, it will look suspicious when just merited out of the moon.

[God bless u]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

I have only seen big personalities posts who are inactive but getting merits. for example Satoshi's post and Hal Finney's posts and some other renowned people in Crypto. Or I've seen historical posts getting merits like that of Buying Bitcoin Pizza. there are so many posts getting merits but their posters are not active.

Giving merit is everyone's personal choice. if you like someone's posts you can give him merit. But I don't for normal bitcoin users being active should be considered before giving merits. it is better to give merits to someone who is active and contributing to the forum than someone who might have left the forum.

[tabas]

If you think that they deserve merit, do it. That's how it goes if you think that they're meritable and high quality posts and helpful to you, you can even post the links here for everyone's reference and to see if many will agree to you. It's not just about agreeing that they deserve merit but if they seem to be good as well based on someone's judgement, then they're good to be merited. There have been a lot of high quality posts/threads that deserve more merits even the posters of it were inactive long time ago, it's like a legacy that they've left here.

[Outhue]

If the post is high quality you don't have to avoid it because the person is not active anymore, there must be a reason why you see the post as high quality, so yes it deserve the merit, even very old posts still get merits because as new people come on the forum and they stumble on the quality post, they have no choice but to merit it if they find the post to be very useful for them.

It's your choice to merit any posts, there are people who even merit posts that are not high quality enough, but it's theirs so there is no crime doing so.

[Ruttoshi]

OP, when we were in college the text books that we read were written by people that are no longer in the world i.e they are dead but that didn't stop people from using these text books because they have all the information that the students needs to learn that subject, and till date those books are still recommended in schools for students to have them in order for them to read on their own and have the knowledge of that subject, and how will you get these books, you are to buy them.

This is how those quality posts are even though the OP are no longer active, as long as you learnt something from the post, and you see it that it deserves merit, don't hesitate to merit them. This is why old posts are not deleted in the forum because they can be useful to forum members anytime. I have also learnt from a lot of inactive users post.

[reagansimms]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

It is very appropriate and deserving of merit for old posts that can help other members broaden their horizons about knowledge that has not been known so far. Merit is intended for quality posts, anyone who can contribute to the forum and can provide benefits to other users deserves to be given merit even though the topic owner has not been active for a long time. Don't hesitate to give merit to the post you mean because there is no prohibition on giving merit to posts made by users who have not been active for a long time. Merit is intended for quality posts, not who owns the post.

[kentrolla]

Obviously, Yes they deserve merits if their post is helpful and qualifies for one because we don't have to see if the user is active or inactive rather we need to see the quality of post and how helpful is it for us. I would definitely provide merits to such if I find them useful and don't be bothered checking whether the user is active or inactive.

[letteredhub]

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Merits system was created to applaud good, quality and informative post's, it is of course deserving of a quality post to be merited despite the user being inactive. The merit is as a result of the post quality and not for being active or inactive. The shortfall there is that, while a user receives merit's the S'merits from those merits received would be dormant in an inactive user's possession and that's one core reason I notice as to why inactive user's posts that deserves merits don't get merited to avoid wasting S'merit that could be circulated around to other active users.

No matter how many sMerit can no longer circulate among users who are no longer active - the purpose of the merit system is to reward quality and informative user posts. Satoshi is a clear example of this - he got 6279 merit until January 2024 even though he has not been active since December 13, 2010.

Of course there are exceptions for certain users - but as long as you get benefits from that user's posts, then you are free to spend your merit on them even if they are not active. There are no rules about it - but perhaps you should avoid it as much as you can if you are not merit source.

It is undisputed that the merit system was to reward posts be it active for a very long period or not, but be it as that it still calls to apply wisdom in doing that, the Satoshi account you use as an example it should satisfy you to know that Satoshi is an extraordinary figure in the forum to which users will for any unspecified reason want to merit his account despite being inactive. Now this is my personal opinion which is, I prefer rewarding an active user's post counting on the knowing that whatever S'merit that's made will be rewarded to another merit deserving post by the active user moving forward. It's a personal mindset.

[Queentoshi]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

The more that a post has merits, The more people were treated as quality or important whenever they come across it so if you read a post that is quality and will be as helpful to others as it was to you then it is OK to endorse it with a merit and increase the number of merits on the post so that whenever a new person comes across such a post they know that that post is actually a high value post. You do not need to exhaust all your merits, just a few is okay.

[Abu-Naim]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

The user might be off for some reasons and might come back to the forum some days to continue their forum journey; if their post is merit worthy, then meriting the posts of an inactive user's quality post is not bad because no one can tell if they are going to come back to the forum another time.
Although given merit to an active user is better since the smerits will keep circulating and the merit system will keep working properly.

[_BlackStar]

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It is undisputed that the merit system was to reward posts be it active for a very long period or not, but be it as that it still calls to apply wisdom in doing that, the Satoshi account you use as an example it should satisfy you to know that Satoshi is an extraordinary figure in the forum to which users will for any unspecified reason want to merit his account despite being inactive. Now this is my personal opinion which is, I prefer rewarding an active user's post counting on the knowing that whatever S'merit that's made will be rewarded to another merit deserving post by the active user moving forward. It's a personal mindset.

Yes - that's good, you understand me correctly. I don't want to repeat something that is so obvious - there are no rules about how you spend your merits, but make sure you do things at your own discretion. I'm not used to distributing merit to inactive users - but maybe I can do it when I get something that's really personally useful.

[Stable090]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

When you are giving out a merit, you giving it to a post which the person makes,  so if the person is not active on the forum, that shouldn’t be your problem, after giving out merit, the might end up coming back to the forum later and they are going to see the merit that you gave them, and if they didn’t come online again, then you shouldn’t have problem with that since you know that the post which you give the merit really worth it, and that should be a sign of appreciation even if the person doesn’t come online again, you have already appreciated them for the good post which they make.

[GeorgeJohn]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

From the contents or subjects of your post....I will say yes because I have come across so many inactive users in this community that continues to earn merit from the post the have posted before some of us join bitcointalk.org community, so a good post or quality posts continues to impress whoever that knows the value, that is while many Sr colleagues will advice you to make a quality post, because they know that quality post is always attractive and it pass information or knowledge across another.

[Benedictare]

 Of course they do as long as you find the post qualitable and you have learnt from it ,the post should be merited  Inactive or not because thes are the criteria for awarding merit because the post keeps on teaching whoever reads it, since you gain from it others too will

[Justbillywitt]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

Meriting a post that you find merit worthy is up to you, irrespective of the user being inactive for long. Some people are not an every user of the forum. Them being inactive doesn't mean that they have not been contributing with the little time they got. For me if I see such posts I will merit them.

[HajiBagi]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

You are free to award a merit to a post if you believe it merits it; it makes no difference if the user is active or not. As long as you have read the thread and the post appears to be worthwhile and beneficial to you personally, you are free to award it a merit. Giving merit doesn't mean that a user is active; rather, it refers to when a user posts something worthwhile on the forum and others read it and find it beneficial. Some users may be excellent at maintaining quality content on the forum, but they may still be able to be active, and some users may have a valid reason for not being active.

The primary reason we are in this forum is to learn about cryptocurrencies and other relevant topics. It is also guaranteed that if you make a well-written post and someone finds it extremely interesting and helpful, you will receive a merit. Additionally, you can award a merit to someone who you think is doing a great job in the forum by simply pointing out their excellent work, which will, in my opinion, encourage them to put in more effort.

[Dzwaafu11]

There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?

Active or inactive, as long as posts deserve to be merited, it is advisable to send your smerits to those posts. You know, merits are for showing appreciation to the content if you find the post meaningful, helpful, and educational to other forum members, and you too can merit them. We don’t have to wait till the OP of such content is an active member since he provides something tangible to the community. You can see that sending some smerits to the post is a good thing to do. However, some users inactiveness may just be for a while before he comes back and sees those merits sent to one of his posts, which may even encourage him to produce more quality contents for the community.

Some users abuse the merit system and if caught can be penalized for it. How you feel about a post and the meriting of the post will always differ depending on what the post is and who the user is.

You don’t have to wait to see who the user of a content is before sending merits to them, from newbies to legendarys. Regardless of anyone's rank, if their post is good to be merited, it's advisable to send them merits because if we should say we should consider who the user is, it will make no sense to me, so anybody that is doing a good job for the community is worth meriting.