Quote from: audaciousbeing on June 28, 2018, 04:55:31 PM

Quote from: Forward_Thinking on June 28, 2018, 02:44:02 AM

They don't like it when you beg, even perhaps when you are begging on behalf of others.

But I like your post and it's a great idea. People should collect merit worth posts and add them to this thread because someone should call them out. So what if you don't have merit points to give. That system doesn't work (as your post clearly demonstrates). Perhaps they need some sort of nomination process so older accounts can have some help. These are just people who didn't used to have to be involved at all in rankings and are now now for some reason expected to be rank granters of sorts and judges of post quality. Sucks for them. Who says that (1) want that role or (2) are good at it?

I like your post. I would give you merit for it, but I barley have any. But again, be aware...they are pretty touchy about merit and don't like people making suggestions like yours - from what I've seen.

And as a side, the best way to get merit seems to be to praise the merit system, not criticize it.

While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values. For example, one of the posts you quoted there relates to mining while another relates to technical part of the blockchain ecosystem. These topics as interesting as they might sound to someone else, it does not appeal to me to give a single merit and that is why sometimes when I make post which in my own eye is of good quality, solve problems, add value and merits should be flowing, it does not happen while those ones I am not too keen about gets merited. I feel the merit system has come to stay and people should be encouraged to give merit but skeptical to do this because its limited and can be exhausted in no time.

Well you quoted me, but mistook me for the OP. Though I'm going to reply to your reply to me where you said "While its noble to want to get merit for deserving posts based on your own understanding, there is no unified parameter on what a deserving posts should be because we all have different things we attach values."

That right there is the problem with the merit system. It was built under a false assumption (probably several). That essentially, all new people must be screened by all senior people and that all senior people would know who deserve merit and therefore are the best way to screen all new people. Actually, as it turns out, research shows that untrained judges are really bad at being fair. Humans are humans.

As one of the other respondents said, people have now become obsessed with merit. Just one more unintended consequence of the design flaws.