SuperBitMan - Merit Source Application.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

A post containing a lot of words does not give it quality. Out of all the posts that you presented, only the first one is well written enough to really deserve merits.

I've taken (wasted) my time to read them and thought exactly the same thing.

The last thing we needed on this forum was for that sort of intellectually shallow posts – not to say something even worse – to be given more merits. They’re long posts, but length doesn’t necessarily mean quality. It’s something I’ve noticed over the years I’ve been on the forum. When I first signed up, shitposts used to be one-liners or short posts. These days, it’s common to see long posts that are just a massive pile of rubbish.

I think that World War III will never be declared in the world, or if it is, it will be done at the very last moment of the war, or an attempt will be made to end the war by declaring war, and its technological and economic impact will be even more extensive.

OK, so a long post about what’s going through the OP’s mind.

I am not asserting that this provocative sentence is 100% true. Nor I have enough information to prove that it is 100% true.
I even admit that this is not probably 100% true.

BUT

I make three bets:
1) "Crypto - of the poor by the poor for the poor" is not fully false as well. Not at all! There is remarkably large amount of truth in it - may-be 60%, may-me 70%, may-be even 80%.

Rubbish.

I don't think that AI is something to be worried about or concerned about whenever there is any technology revolution people always feel a bitconcerned and depressed as we have seen in the past that when computers were coming and became common then people started believing that they will eliminate the job of human being but they end up creating a whole new industry and million of new jobs positions, similarly AI is very powerful but it still depends on human being data and supervision even the ronots that can train at the robots are  designed by engineer and there are people who operate them and who create models for them, similarly teaching creativity there are certain decision taking related jobs there. Instead of being worried about that AI is going to replace human being work the only thing that AI is doing it is just changing the way we work the people have to learn new skills to cope up with the changing environment so they they can be easily adjusted without assuming that AI is replacing humanity.

Apart from the spelling mistakes and the length of the first unpunctuated sentence, this post doesn’t say anything significant that hasn’t already been said. The OP says there’s no need to worry about AI because there have been previous technological revolutions that have simply changed the nature of work.

This doesn’t say anything new that hasn’t been said a thousand times on the forum (and that is questionable).

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A typical, run-of-the-mill post from the Trading Discussion section, where you can find loads of posts like this one – full of tips cobbled together from the internet and posted here by people who aren’t even traders.

To be credible, the OP should post evidence of just how profitable those tips have been when he has put them into practice himself.

And I’ll stop analysing them now because the rest are all in the same vein. Those posts don’t deserve any further merits; in fact, most of the posts quoted shouldn’t have received any merits at all.

I think the OP saw this post from another application:

I'm not going to stick sticks in the wheels, but if the post is very good, or the other posts given in the example, then why didn't the OP, having, as we can see, a good stock of merit, first of all, give at least one merit to all the posts that he liked?

And decide to merit those posts quoted on the OP but most didn't deserve any merit at all.

[SuperBitMan]

I earned all my merit from different boards across the forum, this shows how active i am in the forum and across different boards.

You earned a lot of merits by hyping up a pump and dump shitcoin. It shows you are a skilled merit farmer, nothing else.

I can actually take what ever you say about me but calling me a skilled merit farmer is what I won’t take from you because it’s a big disrespect to my effort and contribution to this forum.
The only reason why you were able to get to this rank is because of witch hunting apart from that you will still be a full member or maybe a sr member, you don’t contribute anything else apart from witch hunting and that is where you gain 90% of your merit, if merit distribution stops going to reputation board your 120 days will surely be empty I assure you.

Talking about the shit coin you say I hype the name is Chamby token visit the Russia board and you will see a lot of reputation members even forum staff doing same thing, here is a crypto forum I don’t know if you forgot that however, you can actually invest in it if you wish at least you will have something doing than witch hunting.

[Sandra_hakeem]

I disagree with you

That's okay. What do I know:

2. In the automated scoring system I use to analyze merit sends as an initial starting point to decide who would make a good merit source

Theymos' response to Vod's appeal thread came into my mind immediately after reading this application.This application doesn't have my support. Also, let it be clear that I do not owe anyone an explanation for it.

[TypoTonic]

I intend to reward quality and educative posts anytime i see them especially in Economic, trading and politics & society board.

But you haven't done so, and the data says otherwise:

Board   Merits sent   Percentage Nigeria (Naija)   161   53.1% Speculation   31   10.2% Economics   26   8.6% Politics and society (Naija)   24   7.9% Reputation   22   7.3% Bitcoin Discussion   12   4.0% Meta   9   3.0% Gambling discussion   7   2.3% Trading Discussion   6   2.0% Politics & Society   5   1.7%

Anyone can check here: https://bitlist.co/user/id/3645972/merits?date_min=2024-07-30&date_max=2026-06-22

• Since joining the forum (July 30, 2024), you've only sent 6 merits to 5 posts in Trading Discussion, and 5 merits to 4 posts in Politics & Society.
  
• 61% of merits you've sent so far went to your local board/child board. I'd argue there's already enough merit circulating there, if not too much.
• You've only sent 2 merits last April, and 7 last May. I'd expect someone who wants to be a source to at least try depleting his available sMerit.

Sorry OP, but I don't support this application.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Shit posters managing to rank up is because of their local board, you need to visit different local board and see how merit are being awarded to shit posts, you can use translator to read through those posts.

Low-quality -"shit"posts receive merit from equally low-quality merit sources 🙂‍↔️ .

You earned a lot of merits by hyping up a pump and dump shitcoin. It shows you are a skilled merit farmer, nothing else.

Didn't I say somewhere that his brother, his friend, the alt👆, also tends to argue uselessly where it won't even be read?

Also, to everyone who enthusiastically writes here that there are high-quality posts in the politics and other sections, the question is, what prevents you from distributing your merits in these sections? I will answer, and at the same time I will answer Tungbulu, who says that no one evaluates anything in the gambling section either. I don't think I'm going to reveal a big secret to everyone, but everyone needs to accept the fact that there are very few people reading on the forum. But there are a lot of people who write for themselves, selfish, completely indifferent people, so it is necessary not only to write but also to read and sometimes to give merits to others. Others, meaning people not from their own farm or the local section.

That's why we see vain people like OP foaming at the mouth and arguing about their talents. But their talents are evaluated by those who are in their company, and it doesn't matter if these posts are good or not.

I'm against it too, but I've been having an OP tilda .🥱

[SuperBitMan]

I intend to reward quality and educative posts anytime i see them especially in Economic, trading and politics & society board.

But you haven't done so, and the data says otherwise:

Board   Merits sent   Percentage Nigeria (Naija)   161   53.1% Speculation   31   10.2% Economics   26   8.6% Politics and society (Naija)   24   7.9% Reputation   22   7.3% Bitcoin Discussion   12   4.0% Meta   9   3.0% Gambling discussion   7   2.3% Trading Discussion   6   2.0% Politics & Society   5   1.7%

Anyone can check here: https://bitlist.co/user/id/3645972/merits?date_min=2024-07-30&date_max=2026-06-22

• Since joining the forum (July 30, 2024), you've only sent 6 merits to 5 posts in Trading Discussion, and 5 merits to 4 posts in Politics & Society.
  
• 61% of merits you've sent so far went to your local board/child board. I'd argue there's already enough merit circulating there, if not too much.
• You've only sent 2 merits last April, and 7 last May. I'd expect someone who wants to be a source to at least try depleting his available sMerit.

Sorry OP, but I don't support this application.

I have received 247 merit from my local board and send more of my Smerit to quality posts on that same local board and is nothing, were you receive more you send more too, I also checked your history and I discovered same thing, the board you received your highest number of merit is meta board and the board you sent out more of your Smerit is still the same Meta board https://bitlist.co/user/id/3719408/merits,
so if you are actually judging base on the statistic that almost everyone including you has on this forum then you will actually not make a judge.
However your opinion is respected by me.

Didn't I say somewhere that his brother, his friend, the alt👆, also tends to argue uselessly where it won't even be read?

Just like you are arguing uselessly and foolishly right now, where your opinion won’t matter

[xLays]

Every time I see users whose accounts were created only in 2024 or 2025, yet they've already reached Senior Member, Hero Member or even Legendary rank, I can't help but feel a little jealous. lol
I know it's not their fault and it's not anyone else's problem that some of us have been stuck at Senior or Hero rank for years. That's on us who stuck on that specific rank. Yeah most of my posts were simply made to fulfill signature campaign quota rather than to contribute meaningful content (you can count this one) lol jk. Let's be honest many user here in signature campaigns do the same, even if some won't admit it. I didn't mention anyone but If you feel attacked, maybe the comment applies to you..
Well I understand why others progressed faster. They put in the effort to make QUALITY contributions blah blah while I often focused more on meeting posting quotas lol...

Just my opinion bro, I don't think you're one of those who are qualified to be a merit source..

[GeorgeJohn]

A post containing a lot of words does not give it quality.

i agree  with you,This is what so many of us doesn't know..Some forum members thinks that how ambiguous or lengthy, words are been contained in a post, is what makes it a post a quality...Not knowing that the content of a post, the information post carries is what makes it a quality.. if we should ask the forum members to outline a quality post, almost 85% of forum members will quote out a lengthy post as a quality...i think such narratives have to be corrected.... op thought that most of what it quoted is quality post..but not knowing that quality post are not measured by polysyllable of a post...

[TypoTonic]

I have received 247 merit from my local board and send more of my Smerit to quality posts on that same local board and is nothing, were you receive more you send more too, I also checked your history and I discovered same thing, the board you received your highest number of merit is meta board and the board you sent out more of your Smerit is still the same Meta board https://bitlist.co/user/id/3719408/merits

Right. In my defense, you mentioned in your application that you see those boards (Economics, Trading discussion, Politics & Society) lacking merit distribution, and that you intend to reward quality posts there. So naturally, I'd expect that a significant portion of your sent merit would be there.

Board   Merits sent   Percentage Trading Discussion   6   2.0% Politics & Society   5   1.7%

You've been here for 2 years, and you've only given 11 merits to 9 "quality posts", in two out of three boards where you're applying to be a source. I just don't see it as a good sign. I don't mean any personal attacks though, just trying to be objective. If anything, it just proves that LoyceV was right.

1. I have noticed that the trading, politics & society and the Economic board are lacking merit distribution.

That's because they lack good posts that are worth reading.

[SatoPrincess]

Any idea who the current merit sources for those boards are? I hardly ever post in politics & society board  because most of the opinions there are subjective and people get offended easily by opposing views. Tbh I can’t tell if the quality there is better than off-topic posts. However economy board has a decent amount of interesting topics, your application might be stronger if you focus on that board. Good luck with your application.

[Sticky Bomb]

1. I have noticed that the trading, politics & society and the Economic board are lacking merit distribution.

That's because they lack good posts that are worth reading. I checked the 10 posts you quoted, and I have 5 of those users on Ignore already. That's not because they make good posts.
I think there's too much Merit going around already, given that shitposters now manage to rank up to higher Ranks. The Merit system was supposed to prevent that.

I disagree with you, there are quality posts on those boards, we only have posts designed for those boards you don’t expect bitcoin technical posts on those boards because I know what you only see as quality posts are technical posts.
Those boards are designed for a particular discussion and that is exactly what is going on there.
No board in this forum is without some low shit posts even on Development & technical discussions we have such posts and ABCbits is always fighting to keep that board clean from shitposters However, merit distributions are still done in that board but to quality posts and it encourages more quality posts. So you can say because there are some low quality posts in Economic, trading and politics & society other quality post don’t also deserve merit.

One thing I've come to observe is that most boards that lack good merit distribution lacks quality contribution as well and this is not because the posters there are very bad, but since they may have made lots of good posts there in the past and was not rewarded, then they focus their energy on other boards that they are noticed and give their quality contribution there, only to return to the less rewarding board to fulfill their post count.
This is a natural phenomenon, not only forum specific, you focus more energy where you are appreciated. I believe posts with better quality would return to these sections if there is a dedicated source that rewards efforts with merit. This is why SuperBitMan has my support.

I have received 247 merit from my local board and send more of my Smerit to quality posts on that same local board and is nothing, were you receive more you send more too, I also checked your history and I discovered same thing, the board you received your highest number of merit is meta board and the board you sent out more of your Smerit is still the same Meta board https://bitlist.co/user/id/3719408/merits

Right. In my defense, you mentioned in your application that you see those boards (Economics, Trading discussion, Politics & Society) lacking merit distribution, and that you intend to reward quality posts there. So naturally, I'd expect that a significant portion of your sent merit would be there.

He doesn't have to be giving more merits there to notice, anyone can notice that by visiting there and it has nothing to do with where he spends his merits. While I agree partly with your logic, I would still disagree that he is compelled to exhaust his sMerits there before he can notice there is a lack of distribution there. I don't know about trading, I don't think I've even posted there before, but for P&S and economics, they surely need more merits.

[bitmover]

1. I have noticed that the trading, politics & society and the Economic board are lacking merit distribution.

That's because they lack good posts that are worth reading. I checked the 10 posts you quoted, and I have 5 of those users on Ignore already. That's not because they make good posts.
I think there's too much Merit going around already, given that shitposters now manage to rank up to higher Ranks. The Merit system was supposed to prevent that.

I disagree with you, there are quality posts on those boards, we only have posts designed for those boards you don’t expect bitcoin technical posts on those boards because I know what you only see as quality posts are technical posts.
Those boards are designed for a particular discussion and that is exactly what is going on there.
No board in this forum is without some low shit posts even on Development & technical discussions we have such posts and ABCbits is always fighting to keep that board clean from shitposters However, merit distributions are still done in that board but to quality posts and it encourages more quality posts. So you can say because there are some low quality posts in Economic, trading and politics & society other quality post don’t also deserve merit.

I also didn't like most posts in OP, and I think the discussions in Economics/Politics etc are very shallow most of the time. There are some knowledge people there, but they are very few. Most of the times people are just repeating useless or very basic stuff.

This is a bitcoin forum, not an economics/politics forum...

Although I think it is amazing to be able to express our opinions and experiences and share them with people from all over the world, this shouldn't a way to rank up an account in a bitcoin forum. People should engage in bitcoin related discussions to rank up.

I think you will find better Economics related discussions in the speculation/trading board (specially WO thread)

[Oshosondy]

The Skeptical Chymist was known to be distributing merits on the economic board before, but probably the posts there are not interesting to him anymore like the Bitcoin discussion board.

I am posting very well on the trading discussion board, you are unable to post a single topic from me. You can not be a good merit source for trading discussion, but I do not know of other boards.

Many of you are not real traders. If it is just Quit trading discussion thread that you included, it will be better, but you did not. I still think people will say I am one of the most active poster on the trading discussion board and I know other good traders.

With the people that I have discussed with on trading discussion, these are the people that I can select to be a merit source for trading discussion board if they will use it properly and if they are willing to be a merit source.

BitMaxz
tvplus006
Bitcoin_Arena

I also see Earnonvictor posting good their also.

[Majestic-milf]

The Skeptical Chymist was known to be distributing merits on the economic board before, but probably the posts there are not interesting to him anymore like the Bitcoin discussion board.

I am posting very well on the trading discussion board, you are unable to post a single topic from me. You can not be a good merit source for trading discussion, but I do not know of other boards.

Many of you are not real traders. If it is just Quit trading discussion thread that you included, it will be better, but you did not. I still think people will say I am one of the most active poster on the trading discussion board and I know other good traders.

With the people that I have discussed with on trading discussion, these are the people that I can select to be a merit source for trading discussion board if they will use it properly and if they are willing to be a merit source.

BitMaxz
tvplus006
Bitcoin_Arena

I also see Earnonvictor posting good their also.

There are still good posts. What made the Chymist stop doing his post reviews was because it was like empowering shit posters to rank up. They took advantage of his good intentions and maxed it out for their selfish purposes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but during the time Sceptical Chymist was doing his reviews, we seldom heard of people trying to apply for merit sources or complaining that there's no more disbursement of merits. So that should tell you something about some of the applications we're seeing now.
 It could be for selfish purposes or for the growth of the forum, but this application here doesn't convince me it's for genuine purposes.

[Btcdeybodi]

At the end of the day, it is theymos who does the final screening on who becomes a merit source based on his own assessments. One thing about the Internet is that you must be open to criticisms at all time (because not everyone will believe in your capacity) and be able to make amends in areas where they ain't doing well. Your real friends are those who criticise you because they give you a clue of what/where you are not doing well which will make you to work on yourself to become better but most people we call our friends do not care about our loopholes most of the time, they just applaud you even when things are not right. Merit source is a service without rewards, hope you are prepared to do such selfless service without bias. Good luck to your application OP.

[Sexylizzy2813]

What are the criteria of becoming or applying for a merit source in this Forum? I'm asking this because it seems like anybody can just pop out from nowhere and drop his or her application. OP no offense but I have to say it the way it is, have we asked ourselves how the other newly appointed merit source are handling their position as merit source? Are they doing well? If they are not doing very well then is ok to replace them with the new guys who applied but if they're doing ok no need for all these.
Before applying I think you have to do something to be recognized for not because you want to be in possession of merit or something, let's think of something more challenging to do other than becoming a merit source. Becoming a merit source is not the problem, the issue is can you do it the way is suppose to be done? If you can do better then no problem, use the mistakes other merit source have made to learn. Because it will be bad that after becoming a merit source (that's if they approve on it) the whole Forum will start calling you out that you did this and that.

[BlackBoss_]

What are the criteria of becoming or applying for a merit source in this Forum? I'm asking this because it seems like anybody can just pop out from nowhere and drop his or her application.

Everyone can apply to be a merit source. No offence to you or the OP.

There are conditions, and the first condition is "somewhat established member".
Hero member if ranking up without merit farming can be considered as somewhat established member so if only looking at the forum member rank, OP can apply for a merit source role.

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.
 2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.
 3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.

I am especially eager to have merit sources in sub-communities such as the local sections.

OP no offense but I have to say it the way it is, have we asked ourselves how the other newly appointed merit source are handling their position as merit source? Are they doing well? If they are not doing very well then is ok to replace them with the new guys who applied but if they're doing ok no need for all these.

You can apply to be a merit source anytime, the other "newly appointed merit sources" have their jobs and they can do that well or bad, but it's not OP's responsibility.

About a latest bad merit source.
SmartGold01 merit source or farmer?
She/he still sent merits to shit posts.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=3423588

For other conditions, some posts above are against this application.

[Oshosondy]

What made the Chymist stop doing his post reviews was because it was like empowering shit posters to rank up. They took advantage of his good intentions and maxed it out for their selfish purposes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but during the time Sceptical Chymist was doing his reviews, we seldom heard of people trying to apply for merit sources or complaining that there's no more disbursement of merits. So that should tell you something about some of the applications we're seeing now.

I was not talking about the merit giveaway that The Skeptical Chymist was given, even before he started giving the generous merits, he was posting very well on the economic board. He was the only merit source that I saw on the board at the time few years ago. He was reading many posts and giving posts that deserves merit some merits.

At the end of the day, it is theymos who does the final screening on who becomes a merit source based on his own assessments.

I am not saying theymos should not make him a merit source, but he should not give him merit source for trading discussion. I did not even see him posting on trading discussion because he is only posting on long threads there. Only where I noticed him was on Meta.

[Tungbulu]

With the people that I have discussed with on trading discussion, these are the people that I can select to be a merit source for trading discussion board if they will use it properly and if they are willing to be a merit source.

BitMaxz
tvplus006
Bitcoin_Arena

I also see Earnonvictor posting good their also.

Wow, I never knew one of the criteria for choosing a good merit source for a particular board or section was about who posts more on those boards/sections. And I didn’t know we could equally nominate people we feel would be fitting for such possible. Hey how about you open a thread for them, and maybe they’ll be obliged to accept the invitation to be a merit source.

but this application here doesn't convince me it's for genuine purposes.

Oh yeah….? And I guess you wouldn’t mind sharing your reasons to why you feel this application isn’t for a good course. Or maybe it’s just a gut feeling?

[Oshosondy]

Wow, I never knew one of the criteria for choosing a good merit source for a particular board or section was about who posts more on those boards/sections. And I didn’t know we could equally nominate people we feel would be fitting for such possible. Hey how about you open a thread for them, and maybe they’ll be obliged to accept the invitation to be a merit source.

I only mentioned them because they are the ones that I really like what they have been posting in the past, but what you mentioned are not the requirements to become a merit source. Someone that is not really posting on trading discussion will possibly become merit source and not focus on trading discussion. We that are on the trading discussion still know how to earn merits on this forum and we are not complaining. But if someone is not posting very well on a board, I do not see a reason he should apply for merit source of that board, although it is not a criteria.