Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on January 30, 2018, 05:03:18 PM

Quote from: 99th on January 30, 2018, 10:08:42 AM

Merit sucks. I've been studying threads and posts and now at this point it's obvious that people don't award merit to others for good posts, they reward it because they know each other on here. Very sad system. It needs to be trashed or redone.

Not true, I speak to very few people here on a personal level. Ive been giving out Smerits based on what I see as good, constructive posts that hold value to people in the community. Stop being so paranoid buddy & concentrate on posting high quality stuff & youll get rewarded.

One generous person Wink

Quote from: kiemnhieutien on January 30, 2018, 10:30:37 AM

Quote from: hilariousandco on January 30, 2018, 10:20:48 AM

Quote from: kiemnhieutien on January 30, 2018, 10:17:10 AM

Quote from: hilariousandco on January 30, 2018, 10:01:15 AM

What's the point in anything if it can be illicitly abused? Might as well just get rid of every law ever created. No point in qualifications either when you can just buy one off the internet. I don't think any system where you can gain some reward or qualification or kudos will be free from abuse but that doesn't mean it is worthless.

so now the main purpose of merit system appear. for abusing!

No, the main system is to reward great content and for those people to earn benefits they deserve. Lazy unscrupulous people will try abuse it though just like they will try abuse or exploit any other system, but as I just said it doesn't make it worthless.

Why there is not a beta version, a referendum?
I think this system is too poor. There should be a large and full function merit system, not just a button and click on it, put some merits. it's not like that. It should have more function, maybe like if someone report some fraud, and Mod record it, after 10 times reported successfully, reporters earn merit...just example, many other can go with this merit system

agreed, a beta version would've been better.

Quote from: Dreamchaser21 on January 30, 2018, 10:28:14 AM

Quote from: 99th on January 30, 2018, 10:08:42 AM

Merit sucks. I've been studying threads and posts and now at this point it's obvious that people don't award merit to others for good posts, they reward it because they know each other on here. Very sad system. It needs to be trashed or redone.

This is the problem right now about the merit system but it doesn't mean its not good, it just so happen that we have our own standard and we can't dictate people from giving merit if you just saw a quality post then you might either give merit or just scroll down because you can't do anything about it.

If you really want to help people from getting merit then try to post the link of their quality post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0
Don't worry, later on everyone here will adopt the new system and give merits to those who really deserve it.

and what if the thread is spammed with posts which don't deserve merit? The posts which deserve merit will get covered with spam posts.