[April fools] Adjustments to Merit calculation

[Agbamoni]

Any abracadabra person here. Because after reading i want my merit score to remain the same way. Let me start reading  

[Cricktor]

Sadly the party poopers couldn't hold on tight. Love the new ranks! Who's gonna win with most negative merits?

[ABCbits]

We should use upload our post elsewhere and share it's short link to preserve our total merit .

It's going to take a shitton of shitposts to get myself into negative numbers.  Maybe I need to take up plagiarizing entire chapters of War and Peace.  

You could just use AI random text generator to achieve that.

[apogio]

It's funny but I kinda liked this system. 

[Helena Yu]

I'm wondering why you didn't sync/adjust the avatars and signatures restrictions based on the current users' ranks?

If you sync it, people would be more careful to post because when they're back to Member rank, they're technically should be kicked from the campaign because they can't wear appropriate avatars and signatures.

Probably Certified Shitposter deserved to be banned.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Merit overflow incident.  

[Betwrong]

The sophistication of the April Fool's jokes is getting harsher each year.

[DdmrDdmr]

Fortunately it’s not a Thursday or Friday for some of my scraping processes, but those that gather profile information on a more recurrent basis are seemingly lapping up the new Merit scores from the profiles (i.e. bpip for example). Merits score consistency between systems entering a 3 body problem scenario …

[Tmoonz]

Every body is shouting April fool, mean while majority of those that had an increased in their merits are wishing it remains like that   others want everything to come as normal as  quickly as possible, this joke has shifted my womb   sorry my kidney. This joke is really expensive and it got me when I saw the banned notification. Oh nooo I just had miscarriage my merit is going down and going up.

[Alamin191]

I don't understand why the show negative merit.

[LoyceV]

I don't understand why the show negative merit.

It reflects the quality of your forum contributions.

[BlackHatCoiner]

It reflects the quality of your forum contributions.

Good. Good. Here, take a few merits. Spend them wisely.

[LoyceV]

Good. Good. Here, take a few merits. Spend them wisely.

Thanks, I needed that. Actually, I need 215991 more. Although I'm curious what happens after -999999: will I become a "Dedicated Shitposter"?

And another 23 Merits gone

[NotATether]

Thanks, I needed that. Actually, I need 215991 more. Although I'm curious what happens after -999999: will I become a "Dedicated Shitposter"?

No, you ascend to "Master of the Shitposting Order".

[Majestic-milf]

 OMG 😳. Theymos really outdid himself on this one! I really bought the whole thing till I got to the line where he said " you'd get merits for just reading posts" and I'm like "how will he know I read a post tho? Will there be like a bot to monitor users that do this? Damn, this is good! 
Funny thing about this April fool's day joke is you can't predict what Theymos will do next...

[adultcrypto]

I'm now a Member rank! I see some people with negative merits, does that mean they are owing the forum some merits? 

[Sexylizzy2813]

I never thought of this whole April fools day would come to this merit deduction. I still can't get it how Theymos finds a way to get everyone in the panic box, is just outstanding and amazing. I almost restarted my phone, off and on back my network connection 🥵 (which I did) but the merit was still the same. Can we call the cops on Theymos for being such a good prankster 😅? You're the best Mr Theymos.

HAPPY NEW MONTH

HAPPY FOOLS DAY

[Sandra_hakeem]

I actually thought he'd taken heed of the community's posts about merit source applications and whatnot and had decided to respond.  But nope, just before I saw your post I realized it's that time of year again.

Exactly! I feel Theymos has a cool plan for the merit system but for this? Y'all know what it is!!!

Thanks, I needed that. Actually, I need 215991 more. Although I'm curious what happens after -999999: will I become a "Dedicated Shitposter"?

And another 23 Merits gone

Isn't this exciting enough? That you'll either wag your tail around with the tag "Alpha shitposter" or surpass the forum's most merited profile, Leo? You ain't got no competition yunno... How 'bout that?

Theymos is a bot.

bahahahaha!!!

[Lafu]

OMG  
Now i am a Shitpost with losing Merits and maybe getting banned 
For sure a nice April fools day this year and i was just wondering whats going on as my first Message i readed was i got banned on Telegram from Tryninja.
So i was more then happy that this was also a April joke , Happy Easter to all .

[JiiBs]

So to counterbalance the penalty, I also added a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts. If you want to write a lot, you'd better do some reading as well!

For both the penalty and the bonus, this applies only to your merit score, and does not affect sendable merit (sMerit).

Let me know what you think of these adjustments.

My interest here seems to apply to the reading more! Perhaps there have to be some mic icon I could press to read to, as some signaler or proof of my having to read more. Maybe I’ll upload a voice note of my having to read as proof and perhaps some app sensor that would sense my having to stir at my screen to relate my screen time and by some means calculate how am having to read. Lol,,,

Okay, am reading now…