Quote from: galambo on February 18, 2018, 09:45:01 PM

Quote from: gettingOneUps on February 18, 2018, 08:40:05 PM

Hi everyone,
I'd like to preface this post by saying, Im not begging for anything. Im just looking to start a discussion about possible membership reform. I have read the newbie forum posts and understand the system that is in place.

I am fairly new to cryptocurrency, so Ive got a lot to learn. I have however been using the TOR browser for quite some time, and believe in its value. That is why I am interested in the ONION coin airdrops. I do realize that there are specific requirements that need to be fulfilled to be eligible for the drops. However, for someone who is new to crypto and is still learning; the required steps to gain merits on this board seem a little steep. I would love to be part of this growing community and to contribute to the discussions; but because I am new, I have not gained the knowledge to respond in an educated manner to many of the posts. Therefore I'm not going to put some bullshit up there just so I can gain merits. There needs to be a better way to do this. If the purpose of a community like this is to educate and ramp up support for what we believe in; then it makes more sense to try to be a little more inclusive of the new members.

just my two cents because I want to play too

thank you for any responses

The merit system is applied to the forum so that the manipulation of the forum from the low-quality posters will stop and all the serious posters will get proper levels. To reach next level you need merits and gaining them is not an easy process. You need to attract others attention to your posts and if the person finds your post useful for others or him he will merit you. For some people, this is just a piece of the shit system which proves nothing but it is a very effective way to maintain the forum content quality and give chances to skilled peoples.

I think this system will make a huge difference. You can also check all the calculations about the merit system in the meta board.

The merit system is like the Operant Conditioning of B.F. Skinner wherein there is reinforcement in every post that a user did. Merit serves as reinforcement in order for a user to make a valuable content. So, for us to gain merit, we need to make a senseful post where the members of the forum will be satisfied.
Now, as we can see, the improvement of posts are slowly develop. Time by time, all non-sense post will put in trash and the useful context will remain. It is good to have merit system, for us to learn more and to filter those spammer of the forum.