Quote from: itranslate on February 11, 2018, 02:02:06 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 11, 2018, 12:35:24 AM

I gave one merit for this post, and since your writing is decent, you may be able to find ways to get 9 more merits based on your post quality.

Thank you for replying on my thoughts. Really appreciate this.

Quote from: JayJuanGee on February 11, 2018, 12:35:24 AM

Even though this post is good, it looks like you have a lot of one liner posts, so it may be difficult to earn merit in certain sections and when there is not very much substance to your posts.

Yes I have a lot of liner posts as I am just starting to study cryptocurrencies. I don't yet feel to be able to produce high quality posts on specific cryptocurrency issues.

You do not have to have a lot of crypto currency experience in order to find threads that interest you and to attempt to constructively engage with
various thread participants. Through that engaging process you can learn and also provide your life experiences and opinions to the conversation, which may result in your earning merits.... You likely have a better chance with those kinds of interactive posts, rather than seeking bounty type activities.

Quote from: itranslate on February 11, 2018, 02:02:06 AM

But it seems that I have enough another life-based background to see that something wrong with merit system. I dare to ask a question:

If we look into the post #3 to this thread

Quote from: Vod on January 24, 2018, 11:05:37 PM

I already don't like the way clicking on +merit takes you away from the thread. Can you please have it open in a new window?

What is the super value of this post that respective members of this forum gave it more than 30 merit points? At the same time people making original Announcement of cool projects recieve 0 merit

Seems a waste of time to attempt to figure out why people give out merits. I used a lot of my initial distribution of merits to give to posters that I already know and based on past contributions that I believe that they have made to me and/or the forum. It is likely that the intitial sending of merits is not going to be as reflective as future sending of merit, and the system will likely adapt to members getting used to merit and perhaps looking at current posts rather than historical. However, there is also a subjective component to merit, too, which leaves discretion in the hands of the person who has smerits to give (rather than attempting to make some kind of objective validation regarding which posts or posters are more worthy of merit, which seems a waste of time endeavor).