Quote from: r1s2g3 on March 24, 2018, 06:40:12 AM

I did not understand it, when theymos himself publicly do not want to disclose this information then why you are so vocal on it.

You have snipped my quote where I have asked Joe to announce the 2nd round winners, there is no mention of theymos publicly denying to disclose information. if you are referring to the list of merit sources, of course he wouldn't want to disclose it publicly, that would put a lot of responsibility on sources. he wouldn't tell anything I have said, that doesn't mean that he disagrees with them.

Quote from: r1s2g3 on March 24, 2018, 06:40:12 AM

Quote from: digaran on March 19, 2018, 05:30:06 AM

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From below quote, I think Theymos is also in agreement for starting the Merit awarding threads.

Quote from: theymos on January 26, 2018, 06:06:49 PM

I also agree with the idea of (free) "reviewer" topics in general, for finding high-quality posts that went unnoticed.

In a signature campaign everybody is getting paid. here only 3 members are. note what theymos said, free reviewer topics. this is not reviewing quality posts, this is asking people to post for money and merits. would any of the participants post without the promise of money and merits? if the answer is no, then what they are doing is farming merits. somebody like nullius would post if there is no merit or money prize. find his posts and merit them, find people like him and merit them. not only this is merit farming, they are advertising it on their signatures to invite more people to come here and farm merits.

When they do come here to farm merits, only the best quality posts would receive merits, what about other posts of participants? if 3 out of 25 users are receiving a prize, 22 members are posting garbage, for what? nobody needs their posts. they are not even going to rank up just with posting, so what they have done, is producing more garbage, there is already plenty of such posts. we should merit anybody who is not posting for merit.

Why do we have merit sources? if every forum member without being a merit source decides to do the same, what would happen here?
Contributing would be finding 25 members with unmerited and ignored high quality posts, then helping merit sources by introducing them to each other.