I kinda like this. The higher the standards the better contents we will see in the future. throwing up 50 merits for a single line post seems very annoying and it happened a lot at the early stage of merit introduction.
Anyway whatever happens, it's actually pretty clear that we need more merit sources. I hope theymos has the same idea in mind or may be a better one.
Exactly, the frequent posters of meta like having this high standard thing whereas most of them who post in the spam boards don't. The rest already have enough merits or they don't care. Anyway whatever happens, it's actually pretty clear that we need more merit sources. I hope theymos has the same idea in mind or may be a better one.
People, the few non-spammers that don't post in such sections at all but post in the spam boards, unfortunately don't get merits, because other people have given up on reading anything there.
This is the main reason why people aren't getting their posts merited--the only good sections of bitcointalk IMO are Meta and Reputation. Everything else is just a spam-fest, and even if you wanted to post in sections like Bitcon Discussion, there's no point. Anything you post is just going to get buried within seconds. I posted a question about Changelly dropping Dash in Altcoin Discussion, and I actually wanted someone to answer it. Guess what happened? Nobody answered, probably because nobody even saw the question. It was only after I started a new thread in Exchanges that someone answered it.There's not enough merit sources to be sure, but I think the awarding of merits tends to poop out near the end of each month. If I'm not mistaken, merit sources get new allocations of smerits at the beginning of each month. They probably use them up before the month is over. That's my guess, anyway.
I had come across somewhere that not all merit sources spend their entire source merits. So that goes away. The standards of people giving merits are so damn high. People don't merit normal posts,they merit high quality posts.
Agreed. I try to "lower my standards", especially for Newbies. Of course quality posts should be merited a lot, but just regular good posts are already far above the spam for which the Merit was introduced.It took me more than 3.5 months, almost daily bumping, and many "vouches" in the thread to get processed. I haven't seen any sources added since.
So it will take me a year atleast to become a merit source. Nice.