Some question about merit source to know.

[Majestic-milf]

Gaaah!!  Thanks for all the compliments, but lately I've been such a lazy-ass merit source and feel incredibly guilty because of said laziness.  The position of merit source is strictly a voluntary one of course, and I could easily just tell Theymos I don't want to be one anymore....but I vividly remember the days before the merit system came into existence and I know how important it became in slaying account farmers who had god-knows-how-many alt accounts making zero-value posts all over the place and in general making it much harder for shitposters to rank up, thereby disincentivizing them from even trying.

Well, I don't think @Samreomo is just laying compliments, it's the truth. Although I've been a beneficiary to some of the merit sources we know, but I think if there were a chart made for highest number of merits from a merit source, you would be topping that chart.

So I'm happy to help worthy members rank up.  It's just that when I'm browsing through threads, most of the posts I'd consider merit-worthy are being made by Legendary members.  Don't know if anyone else agrees with that, but I guess everyone has different standards.

By the way, it isn't a question of whether I 'deserve' my monthly allocation of sMerits; it's a matter of whether I can unload all of them each month, and lately I haven't been doing that.  I will strive to do better.

For me, there are actually quality posters who aren't legendary members but may not be so consistent and as such it could make you a bit confused. I remember going through a thread where someone said the gambling section needs merit sources too because inasmuch as there are spammers there, good posters can also be found but the thing is most of these sources may not have the time to start searching. You could decide to unload your smerits there.

[_BlackStar]

For me, there are actually quality posters who aren't legendary members but may not be so consistent and as such it could make you a bit confused.

Legendary tend to speak/ post based on their experience and knowledge - that's more meaningful than the average user who is trying to build an account and earn merit from here and there. So it's true that more experienced user who rank highly have more meaningful quality posts than others - but I'm also not generalizing them all to be the same.

The posting quality standards for each merit source are very different. They can sometimes consider posts like mine to be quality because they contain elements of argument, facts, or so on. Some of these others are ordinary posts that are of no use being given merit even if your rank is Legendary.

I remember going through a thread where someone said the gambling section needs merit sources too because inasmuch as there are spammers there, good posters can also be found but the thing is most of these sources may not have the time to start searching.

There are several merit source on the gambling board - but more often than not they distribute the merit on specific thread. The main problem is probably the quality standard of the posts - I mean, they really struggle to find good posters in the many thread that already have hundreds to thousand of page.

[Justbillywitt]

For me, there are actually quality posters who aren't legendary members but may not be so consistent and as such it could make you a bit confused.

Legendary tend to speak/ post based on their experience and knowledge - that's more meaningful than the average user who is trying to build an account and earn merit from here and there. So it's true that more experienced user who rank highly have more meaningful quality posts than others - but I'm also not generalizing them all to be the same.

The posting quality standards for each merit source are very different. They can sometimes consider posts like mine to be quality because they contain elements of argument, facts, or so on. Some of these others are ordinary posts that are of no use being given merit even if your rank is Legendary.

What you are saying is nothing but the truth, there are some certain things in life that comes with age and experience. There things you will never understand until you get to certain age and level in life. Here in this forum account ranks is what show how long and how dedicated someone has been in this forum. There are many threads that Legendary Members come across and have learnt from and contributed on that new members can't easily access. Most lower ranked members don't usually have the time to go and read those threads to enhance their knowledge only few does dedicate their time to go in search of these threads and go through them. Getting to a legendary rank is no easy thing I must confess, so there is a clear difference in their posts when compared with that of a lower ranked members, no matter how knowledgeable the lower ranked members are. Just like you have rightly sated lower ranked members has many things distracting them and one of it is growing their account to a higher rank.

[fillippone]

By the way, it isn't a question of whether I 'deserve' my monthly allocation of sMerits; it's a matter of whether I can unload all of them each month, and lately I haven't been doing that.  I will strive to do better.

if you are struggling, and you think it might be useful for you, you can join me trying to deplete my backlog of posts in my thread:

[Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed

if you fancy having a bunch of self-submitted "good posts", please go on!

[Z_MBFM]

Today I just visited meta board and saw this topic and some old question in my mind araise once again that-
We know that forum has total 109 merit sources and as this info total Smerit generation of up to 32990  in a month.

Merit courses are tasked with distributing some merit to quality posts on the forums every month, that can motivated the quality poster and all merit sources fulfill their responsibilities.

So questions is-
  -Are all merit sources have same smerit generation?

Theymos gives Smerit to all Merit Sources accounts at a certain time every month. again to distribute merit for that month. We know that for every 2 merits received, 1 Smerit is auto generated, but distributed Smerits to  merit sources are  by Theymos.

  -Another question is once a merit source can be a lifetime merit source?  Or is it also pick and drop system like DT¹
    member election?

Once someone is a merit source, he is not a source for lifetime. Merit source list is updated every month. If a merit source is inactive in the forum for a long time or does not distribute the Smerit given to him, then he is removed from the list of merit sources.

[Halab]

Once someone is a merit source, he is not a source for lifetime. Merit source list is updated every month. If a merit source is inactive in the forum for a long time or does not distribute the Smerit given to him, then he is removed from the list of merit sources.

Oh boy...
For example, this user is on the 109 Merit Sources list since 2019 and is still there. And there are others like him. So we can conclude that it's better not to write something when you don't know much about it.

[_BlackStar]

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Oh boy...
For example, this user is on the 109 Merit Sources list since 2019 and is still there. And there are others like him. So we can conclude that it's better not to write something when you don't know much about it.

Halab - thank you. If you never told - then maybe I never knew that @baba0000000000 is one of merit source appointed since 2019. Based on the merit information - this user has spent 258 merit so far and received 288 merit. From the merit gap you receive and spend - then it is clear that he is one of the merit source on the list. @baba0000000000 has been inactive since September 19, 2019 and has not spent any more sMerit since then. But the question is - why doesn't the admin replace it with another user?

[uchegod-21]

Once someone is a merit source, he is not a source for lifetime. Merit source list is updated every month. If a merit source is inactive in the forum for a long time or does not distribute the Smerit given to him, then he is removed from the list of merit sources.

Oh boy...
For example, this user is on the 109 Merit Sources list since 2019 and is still there. And there are others like him. So we can conclude that it's better not to write something when you don't know much about it.

The audacity some people use to give information they are not sure about is alarming. That person isn't a staff or moderator and neither is he a merit, but he gave out wrong information with so much confidence.

Halab - thank you. If you never told - then maybe I never knew that @baba0000000000 is one of merit source appointed since 2019. Based on the merit information - this user has spent 258 merit so far and received 288 merit. From the merit gap you receive and spend - then it is clear that he is one of the merit source on the list. @baba0000000000 has been inactive since September 19, 2019 and has not spent any more sMerit since then. But the question is - why doesn't the admin replace it with another user?

Take it this way;
Whether he is replaced or not doesn't really matter. There's no definite number of merit sources to do the job. Theymos can decide to use lesser or higher number of merit sources. The emphasis is on how much merits is in circulation and not who are those circulating them.