Quote from: Mpamaegbu on April 01, 2018, 07:48:09 AM

Quote from: styca on April 01, 2018, 07:05:18 AM

Quote from: piter_wip12592 on April 01, 2018, 06:13:34 AM

I do not understand much about this new arrangement. Who can tell me if I want to become a member, I have to achieve something on .merit, politeness, fmerit, imagination, virtue, coins, karma. How do you get new rankings?

It's quite simple actually.

Every post that you make on a Thursday is run through an algorithm, which may assign you some 'imagination'. Any imagination you gain is then checked against all posts that you made in the preceding 6 days. If there is a high degree of uniqueness - i.e., you are not repeating the same posts, then this gives you some 'virtue' points.
'Politeness' is granted for every post, but then reduced if you have used swear words, bold font or CAPS. Use of exclamation marks is kind of a grey area.
'Fmerit' is short for 'f***ing merit' - you gain or lose points here depending on whether or not you make posts complaining about the merit system.
'Coins' is a complex calculation based on the total coins you hold in all of your crypto wallets, and when you bought them. Yes, even those coins that are supposed to be anonymous.
'Karma' scans your soul and awards points based on your thoughts and behaviour. I'm kind of confused about how they get the scores for this. It might depend on whether or not you have a webcam.

It is a bit unfortunate that this new system came out on April 1st, as some people might mistakenly consider it a joke.

Then what happens to "Imagination"? Theymos' explanation doesn't tally at all. I just saw a profile that hasn't made a single pictorial post with a 3 awarded it. This got to be a kind of joke.

This post quotes my previous post, so I lose some 'imagination'. However I gain 'karma' because I am helping to explain.
Also the line below increases my 'politeness', but also reduces my 'karma' because I am in effect gaming the system.
please thank you please thank you please thank you

So the effect of this post is to increase my 'politeness' at the expense of some 'imagination'. Net change to 'karma' should be close to zero.
_{Also it is still April 1st.}