Quote from: Magister Magus on February 06, 2018, 11:54:55 PM

even with the new system, lot of people still write a big number of useless post just to respect the commitments with the bounty

Its thrilling to hear that spammers are so honourable about their commitments.

Quote from: Magister Magus on February 06, 2018, 11:54:55 PM

Now: one of the biggest problem I see, is the fact that - to receive a merit - you need not only to write a good post, but also to have the luck that it will be read by someone that appreciates it and has merit to give.
This is very difficult, due to the enormous number of posts and threads: even with the new system, lot of people still write a big number of useless post just to respect the commitments with the bounty, and your "wonderful" post will be lost between them.

Well, I see that there is a zone of the forum, the "Serious discussion" where there is no signature and your posts don't count for the campaign.
Now it has a very limited number of threads, but it seems to me that it would be a very good idea to expand this area and to encourage its use. (of course, every one could do this by his own initiative, but - for example - I'd feel a little intimidated to start a thread in a so "elitarian" zone; but I could make a post, if I had something to say as answer).

It seems to me a win win solution: we'll have a clean zone, where spammers and shitposters won't have any reason to post, and good poster would be motivated and stimulated to write high quality posts with more chances to be read from right people.

What do you think?

Why yes, then wed have a clean zonewhilst all the other forums would be left as a wasteland, with the lifesblood of good posts sucked out of them.

I have the same problem generally (albeit to a lesser extent) with Serious Discussion. It is an internal form of the Lifecycle of an Internet Forum, of which you may have read elsewhere on the Net (search if not). Forums usually start out good, then go downhill, and are overwhelmed with trolls, spam, etc. Then, the good posters leave and go to a new forumwhere the cycle repeats. Here, the variation is that the process would be internal.

I say instead, make high-quality posts where they belong; and give the merit system some time to clean up all the forums. Soon enough, we will have spammers with 0 merit and 500 activity (who would have been declared Heroes (!) without the merit system). At some point, that must become sufficiently unprofitable that they get the hint, and get the hell out of here.

Quote from: denis-z12 on February 07, 2018, 12:05:05 AM

Would you be able to quote here the links to some of the recent posts that got your a lot of merit points? I think that would be useful for everybody to see.
I know i would be interested to know

Even better: See the automated list on the merit page of my user profile. Scroll down to where it says, Received in the last 120 days.

To highlight just a few specific posts which have earned significant merit from multiple people:

My software release posts for the easyseed mnemonic/seed generator and the bech32 utility
My idea for branding Bech32 addresses as Bravo Charlie Addresses (cross-posted with edits from bitcoin-dev)
A discussion of Bitcoins Public-Key Security Level (currently +18, including +5 from a forum moderator)
A post about secure generation of randomness (0), plus two followups on the same thread (1, 2)

Those were in Development & Technical Discussion, where I have earned most of my merit. Here in Meta, my discussion of standards of proof for penalizing merit abusers, my mini-investigation of a merit abuser, and my discussion of trolling in Dev & Tech are three posts which have been deemed meritorious by multiple high-ranked members.

I hope that helps. Note: My point was that Im pretty sure that it should be much easier to earn +1/day engaging in pleasant and useful discussions.