Proposal for highest merit sender on the community award.

[Bright0515]

Moderator can do their job is this discussion is not supposed to be here.

So today I wanted to write on the [Voting 2025] Bitcointalk Community Award thread but something came into my mind which I would like us to consider, but first of all I know not everyone will agree with me but IDK because it is just a suggestion.

What I want to know is that is there an option to vote for the highest merit sender in the forum?
Only for source merits because they are really trying their best to read threads/comments. Since there are many categories like the Local Hero, Craft Master, help Buster and so on.

But if there is any category of which they are included that I don't know, I am still open to know

[Odusko]

Merit's sending can be subjective to alot of things, ranging from the merit's sources activeness in the Forum and time to go through post's, this unstable nature can make such category in the award be redundant I think.
Example of  such events, there use to much active merit's sources that where among highest merit's senders based on the public records posted in the past, those set of merit's sources are no longer active like in the days of one of the highest campaign that hard list of most prominent active Forum members as participants.

[GeorgeJohn]

What I want to know is that is there an option to vote for the highest merit sender in the forum?

There's no option of such, you have to go through the thread like twice to comprehend the basic criteria for voting and choose users of your choice and vote for.

Only for source merits because they are really trying their best to read threads/comments. Since there are many categories like the Local Hero, Craft Master, help Buster and so on.

You can appeal for that, by writing to the host through Pm to include "Highest Merit Sender" for next edition, this particular season has already started and i think op of that thread will not give you a listen ear by adding what you suggested as an option for now.

But if there is any category of which they are included that I don't know, I am still open to know

If their's any option for that, people will select their highest merit Sender through bpip.org

[Hatchy]

But if there is any category of which they are included that I don't know, I am still open to know

Well for me I don't see the use of such category for the vote. One thing you should know is that as long as merit is concerned, merit source sends out the highest amount of merit on the forum. It's not an act of good will, but it's more like their duty on the forum to balance the merit supply. So awarding such a position to me isn't much of use since slot of time we see how merits sources can decide to send out a good number of merit to lot of people.. also all merit source allocation aren't the same, so saying that one merit source is better than the other wouldn't be quite correct because one might want to send out a good number of merits but is tied to a certain amount..

[Mia Chloe]

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There's none like that and it's not necessary. If there be a category like such, then most definitely merit sources only would be winners meaning the votes are kinda fixed. As for the sources, those with the highest allocation get the highest numbers to send as such they'll be fixed as rotating winners.

If you are looking to say best source well it's quite considerable then again it may still be based off allocation.

[Rikafip]

This category wouldn't make much sense to me as  whoever is the highest merit sender is not up to the vote. You simply check the stats and see whoever send the highest amount of merit.

By the way, you could have suggested this in Bitcointalk Community Awards discussion thread, instead opening a new one.

[yahoo62278]

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There's none like that and it's not necessary. If there be a category like such, then most definitely merit sources only would be winners meaning the votes are kinda fixed. As for the sources, those with the highest allocation get the highest numbers to send as such they'll be fixed as rotating winners.

If you are looking to say best source well it's quite considerable then again it may still be based off allocation.

Even if merit sources were excluded, it would still open the door for cheaters to exploit the contest by using their farmed accounts to merit 1 or 2 of their accounts and mass send merit or something crazy like that.

@OP keep trying to make suggestions, this is the 2nd 1 I have seen from you. So far you haven't had support with your suggestions, but don' tlet that stop you from trying to come up with better ideas. Think more of the community and not about 1 person and you might get more traction.

[Mia Chloe]

Even if merit sources were excluded, it would still open the door for cheaters to exploit the contest by using their farmed accounts to merit 1 or 2 of their accounts and mass send merit or something crazy like that.

Yeah I don't disagree.  If a best source award was added then it just might make more sense. Probably something like your circulation but nahhh it wouldn't work bigger allocations means chances of better circulation in some cases so those with better allocation are still gonna bag it.

get more traction.

Typical Mat Armstrong and Car wow phrase lol you might get it if you are a car fan. that being said reality is you can't stop farming you can only try to curb it.

[Joy- maker]

What I want to know is that is there an option to vote for the highest merit sender in the forum?
Only for source merits because they are really trying their best to read threads/comments. Since there are many categories like the Local Hero, Craft Master, help Buster and so on.

But if there is any category of which they are included that I don't know, I am still open to know

First of all there is no such option to vote. Secondly I don't think that option is necessary, why because all the merit sources don't have the same amount or portion of merit allocation, there are merit sources with 700 plus merit allocation if am not mistaking, and there are merit sources with as low as 50 merit allocation, and those merit sources who fall into the second category are the newly approved merit sources by theymos. So if the contest host decided to include that option, then theymos have to allocate equal merit portion to all the merit sources, for the equation to get balance, Which I don't see theymos doing that. Note your suggestion is not bad, not just necessary if you ask me.

[Bright0515]

I get the point that it is not all source merits that have the same merit allocation but come to think of it, if there are a lot of source merits with a lot of merits allocation but the forum is still lagging merits. Most of them don't send it at all, many of them hold the merits because they thought that there are no post that meets that standards (which is not true). If new posts are not quality, what about the old posts?
^{Don't tell me to provide any, you can check for yourself.}

I'm very much sure that if such category is added in the community award from next year, those holding back their source merits will begin from now to send them to different posts even though those posts are 40% quality.

[Mia Chloe]

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Merit circulation isn't really low. I read a data dump a couple days back and the total circulation is pretty large. Everyone person has a role to play in merit circulation. If sources give out and the receivers aren't giving too then it's not the fault of a source. Then again that doesn't mean he can't continue to send that person merit if he makes quality posts.

Well I can say over 90% of active sources don't let a single merit decay. Instead they dump what's left in a couple old posts that's of quality. Not every source is generous to all posts.

[GeorgeJohn]

Op, I will suggest that you should lock this thread since you have not gotten any support, form the numbers of comments already here, because people will spam with the thread, some irrelevant and similar suggestions already suggested by few users here, will be repeated by some people..yahoo62278" have said it all, that you shouldn't be discouraged by bringing up ideas, but try to bring up a positive ideas that will be supportive to the forum....

And i read a cogent comment by someone, saying that bringing up a merit sources to the contest, it will bring up some voting manipulations, and people will chase merit and be bias, instead of voting sincerely.