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Quote from: pugman on January 31, 2018, 01:11:36 PM

If users really don't know about the merit system,and what sMerits are,they shouldn't even be here in this forum. You can't expect theymos or anyone else for that matter to personally PM them about the newly integrated merit system. If people even go to their profile and click the merit hyperlink,they can know about sMerits. And there are so many threads in and out of meta(some jackasses are creating threads trying to "criticize" about the merit system in Alternate Cryptocurrencies board). So if users really want to be adamant ,let them be,they will realize they won't be able to rank up anymore.

Admin has made a thread about the merit system but it would have been better if he made it sticky as well. So many new threads opening about merit system may be because of this. Also, the official thread gets buried as we see more new threads in meta.

Quote from: Jet Cash on January 31, 2018, 01:17:43 PM

The forum is swamped with Merit and sMerit threads. Anyone who doesn't understand the system by now should go back to school, or maybe they should read some of the existing threads.

Merits aren't awarded just for posts that aren't spam. They are given to posters who make a useful contribution to the Bitcoin Talk community ( or they should be in my opinion ).

Agreed - members have a lot of options and Meta isn't necessarily going to be the first place to check for them.

There may be some people who might be not that active in meta section. However, it is hard not to notice merits in own profile.

+1, it should be stickied. Or there should be some obvious link to information at the top of the page. Go ahead call me stupid, but how is anyone supposed to know where to find the information about it? Especially people who don't speak english well? They might not have any idea what 'meta' means. Putting a sticky and an obvious link might cut down on these posts about it.

Agreed.

I know that I typically go straight to the threads or categories that I'm watching and don't navigate through the home page. I assume that a large number of users never check Meta.

Even the info when you click through to the Merit info page doesn't tell you about how it's really intended to be used. Sure, it briefly describes how Merit works, but I didn't really understand what types of posts should be receiving Merit until I explored some threads. I don't expect everyone to do that, so there should at the very least be a stickied FAQ linked to from the Merit page.

The fact that there are a million threads is more a problem than a benefit. I wouldn't expect people to go sifting through everything. There should be a comprehensive official source that's easy to access.

If users aren't properly educated on its intended use, then what's the point?