[April fools] Adjustments to Merit calculation

[Crypt0Gore]

My cups are full, I already have enough going on in my boring life as we speak, don't add more balm to my injury    

  

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[MusaPk]

Happy Birthday @LoyceV🎂

Thank you! I'm glad someone noticed after all those years

HBD man. Enjoy the day and have a blast.

Merit: -274

[maxi786]

At last, I became a Jr.Member after 3 years (I think for a day)

[Halab]

I just saw Cyrus: -876953 Merit. He hasn't posted much today, but in my posts archive, I'm missing a couple hundred posts. So I guess there's been a private party on the (hidden) Mods board.

I was going to reply "No, there's nothing in the Staff forum".
But the trashcan is just below the Staff forum and the truth blew up in my face :



I have obviously reported this topic and requested a ban for this spammer

[LTU_btc]

I guess it's only coincidence that theymos introduced this thing on April 1st. He is serious man and wouldn't joke with us this way. Prepare that when you will wake up tomorrow this new merit calculation will stay.
But seriously, I think that these new requirements will only increase shitposting and very short posts. People will try to deliver message as short as possible to lose less merits. If you will make long posts, it's barely possible to get enough merit that will cover your losses. It's something similar like we were charged for every symbol in SMS message. I don't have to remind how our messages looked back then .

[seoincorporation]

Great prank, i love it!

Its nice to have some humor sense on the forum, thanks theymos for this surprise and i wish you a great Happy April Fool's Day!

Is fun to see people reporting this as a bug on Meta 

[dkbit98]

Let me know what you think of these adjustments.

I think you are running out of ideas theymos, or you are getting older, but you probably noticed a lot of complains and requests about merits and merit sources in last few weeks

I am waiting for day when you are going to donate everyone in forum a Bitcoin, I hope it's not going to be on April 1.

[Hyphen(-)]

At last, I became a Jr.Member after 3 years (I think for a day)

Hahaha , this joke got me too, u was demoted to Sr member with this prank this year that focus on merits. Some people get more while some get less; but I think it will only last for 24 hours mate.
All merits should became normal as they used to be after this joke is over.
Happy April Fool to you all.

[uneng]

Is 'Loudmouth' the bottom, or is there still room for the 'Sewer-Mouth' rank?

[Ryu_Ar1]

It's annoying that my merit is slowly disappearing because I'm becoming a shitposter :3

But no matter at least being SR again isn't bad lol. Hope those of you who ruin forums tomorrow can't have breakfast with milk and jam on your bread so you can feel the dryness in your throat.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

This year prank comes with an amazing and unpredictable pertain of operation in the way the merits degenerates and how you can earn more, though the issue of shitposting has been long term addressed and it could have been more real if this wasn't coming on the 1st of April, honestly, many had thought about the merits sources and other aspect than this, we cant deny the fact that this is already going entertaining and have lots of fun in it.

[ajiz138]

It's annoying that my merit is slowly disappearing because I'm becoming a shitposter :3

But no matter at least being SR again isn't bad lol. Hope those of you who ruin forums tomorrow can't have breakfast with milk and jam on your bread so you can feel the dryness in your throat.

Hahaha my merit goes up and down, but no it doesn't become a rank drop, LOL no -merit no "Loudmouth" at least it's not a desired position.

There are only a few hours left to enjoy this fun, you don't ruin the forum because you feel like a shitposter, I consider this the same as us.

[ibminer]

Does it count characters on edits as well? 
yes. 

[OgNasty]

I was going to reply "No, there's nothing in the Staff forum".

Calling the Donator section the Staff forum is the most cringe thing ever.  Most of us Donators wanted the Staff banned from that section.  

[bSpend]

Happy April fools day ladies and guys on this forum, I must commend theymos for such a brilliant idea, I've not been too active on this forum for a long time, I managed to recover my lost account and started being active again some several weeks ago.

I came online today and saw several legendary and hero members returning back to senior and full member ranks, some even lower, I was very surprised 🤨 and really wondered what was going on, I decided to search the forum and now discovered it's an April fools prank, just 😂😂, this can create a lot of confusion in the forum if no one knew this was a prank 😂😂

[Alone055]

Lol, good one. 

I came rushing to the Meta section to find out what was going on after I noticed a deduction in my Merit points only to find out that we had been pranked.

That loudmouth rank with the symbol beneath it is hilarious. 

[Halab]

Calling the Donator section the Staff forum is the most cringe thing ever.  Most of us Donators wanted the Staff banned from that section.  

Having a bad day ?
How should I have named this section :



I never think about the Donators section.
I posted there once in 2018 to answer a question about a... moderator. I hope you can forgive me for that.

[KingsDen]

In recent years, it seems that a lot of people have been making low-value posts just to get paid. To address this, I've added a merit "cost" to posting: from this point forward, for every 15 characters you post, you will lose one Merit point. This should eliminate any incentive to make low-value posts.

Any halfway-decent poster should be able to earn much more merit than they lose due to the penalty. But I recognize that some good posts are occasionally overlooked. 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.

Hey!
Theymos got me on this one
I have refreshed my system like 30 times and discovered I became a Hero member again. I checked my merits and it reduced much, I thought I opened an older tab, I had to refresh one more time and nothing changed. I went to my merit history and nothing worked there. My next move was meta, I carefully read this thread from beginning to the end without having the April fool in mind. I was going to reply to the thread telling theymos how everyone is gonna become a newbie before 7 days time. Then I read the first reply and understood today's date. I wasn't April fooled in the real life, thanks theymos for not allowing today pass me by.

[Woodie]

This would really be good if it was posted pre-April fools day 31st March lol

Happy April Fool's Day theymos & Bitcointalk community 

[KingsDen]

Has anyone asked @LoyceV or @TryNinja to make a list of users with the most negative merits?

_{Characters to add negative merits.} 

Those guys are Certified Shitposters , they cannot make any table or list.