Quote from: Crypt0BHunter on April 17, 2018, 04:39:22 AM

Hello people. How you like merit system on btt? I think it's quite effective to prevent a lot of spam accounts of bounty hunters, but because it's new i think it's need some fixes and rebalance. Especially what should do the regullar member to get amazingly 100 merits!? What's your opinion about that?

Maybe change the way of your posts? When looking at your last posts I only see one liners and bounty stuff. Consider changing that and Merit may come to you one day, else stop begging for it, it won't change anything unlike you do a real enrichment for the community.

I don't see myself as a good poster because english isn't my main language but I enjoy reading bct and I never got a merit under normal conditions but I'm still learning everyday so one day I will start accumulate merits (hopefully).

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on April 21, 2018, 09:33:09 PM

Quote from: Crypt0BHunter on April 17, 2018, 04:39:22 AM

Hello people. How you like merit system on btt? I think it's quite effective to prevent a lot of spam accounts of bounty hunters, but because it's new i think it's need some fixes and rebalance. Especially what should do the regullar member to get amazingly 100 merits!? What's your opinion about that?

Its true that ranking up is way more difficult now than before. You can see how things stand in my post on the Rank Pipeline (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3338915.msg34933172#msg34933172).

Remember that the Merit system was created to try to reduce spamming, increase overall posting content quality, and put the break on account farming. Those (declared) objectives cannot on the other hand drown the whole ranking system and draw it to a standstill.
There are other users on that track. In the Member to Full Member path, I would place as examples:

* Husna QA -> Looks Ok. -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1827294
* bitmover -> Looks Ok. -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1554927

Full member:
* coinlocket$ -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1339716

There are others like nullius (copper member) on a different league : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=976210

In summary, it is feasible to gain those 100 sMerits youre talking about, but they need to be sweated quite a bit

I agree with you that ranking up is more difficult than ever but your own statistic shows it clearly that lower ranked persons struggle even more with ranking up because of lack of merits.
Why? Are their posts that much worse than hero/legendary members? I don't think so. It's just nuances.
It's more because they reach activity limit much faster. Within 60days/5x2week cycle from M to FM compared to 240days from SrM to HM.
In addition, some higher ranked members know each other and trust them more and are therefore more tempted to give merits to those. No, that's not an accusation of Merit exchange, just a subjective opinion.

You listed a few members of this Forum that actually do good job in their postings and they clearly deserve merits for their hard work but that are how many?
How many actually got 90 Merits after starting from Member? How many got 150 after starting as Full Member? Yea I don't have numbers on that but let me guess it's less than 5% overall.
To be honest I think it's unfair to those that were active in here earlier than others and it should be possible to lose your rank over time if you don't collect merits in a certain amount of time (maybe last 120 days).