You are not a source, why are you encouraging people to post in order to earn merits?
I dont feel you need to be a merit source be allowed to encourage people to post quality content, even non merit sources have freely encouraged people in meta (read: the mods, DTs, veteran users, etc who aren't necessarily sources but still want the betterment of the forum)
You have literally one of the top merited members participating here, we all know that he has the ability to participate with several accounts and win the prizes, you do have the same ability as well as any other Chipmixer members
I have no clue what the link to Chipmixer is and pretty sure that the one of the top merited members statement refers to Nullius, pretty sure there's tons of people willing to pay him much more than the average 2nd and 3rd price here per week to post (the prizes are 5-10$ if I'm not forgetting which is much much smaller than the average payout for a full members account). He has no reason to alt and post quality content to get like what is 15$ extra a week.
why don't you read through boards and pages to merit the good posts if you want to contribute? the whole merit system is a challenge for everybody, why would you create a mini challenge to do the same but with a big difference, you are producing more unnecessary content.
IDK about the others, I'm surely not posting exclusively for the prizes, if I were then I'd be participating in the millions of low effort bounty programs that "bounty hunters" love. I do not understand why you feel that we're producing unnecessary content, even if we were I'd say how is it bad that some productive content is being posted to balance out the utter garbage the aforementioned bounty hunters spew to fund their shill money filled pockets.
I wanted to merit DarkStar_ for something he provided me with. I told him that I wont merit him with my source, because he is a campaign manager, I shouldn't send any merits to a manager while I'm enrolled in signature campaign.
Again doesn't relate to this campaign in anyway
you are asking people to come to you for merits. 25 participants and 3 winners, that means you have made 22 other members to post garbage, they are getting paid with money and yet they are posting garbage, do you think earning merits could be a better motivation?
What? Why would garbage posters even bother for a campaign which is more or less a competition? (I mean I agree some idiots exist who just join thinking this is some run of the mill campaign but those don't even participate a second time and are dropping as the rounds are passing from the looks of the registrants). I also don't understand what you mean by what 22 people posted garbage? Participating in a signature campaign = posting garbage? That's not how stuff works.
if you are indirectly making other members and merit sources to spend their merits on a member with the same post quality of another unmerited member, you are by definition allowing a selected few to farm merits.
I'm not upto date on merit sources but isnt Darkstar the only merit source who's sponsoring the merits? And that too he seems to be doing so willingly on a volunteer basis. Most of the the other merits are from regular users. Besides how is the campaign different from what many merit sources run where they audit your posts? This is just a more "fun" way to do the same thing
Btw, why didn't you apply to become a source? if you had the intentions of helping, you didn't volunteer why? you didn't want to help or spend time? what you are doing now is not spending time right?
Just wondering on this one, Joe and Bill why not apply aswell?