Quote from: mdayonliner on July 04, 2018, 06:48:07 PM

Time for the topic to be locked. Response from xandry

Thursday, June 21, 2018 @14:19 BST: For obvious reason the archive.is of 1^st to 44^th comment
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Quote from: Alex_Sr on March 20, 2018, 05:38:28 PM

The moderator xandry gives merit for helping in moderating the forum. Russian section of the forum is very big sizes. And we promptly report the posts or threads violate the forum rules. For that sometimes he get merit...

In Russian section merit awarding for helping the mod is not ok looking in my opinion. Especially when it is coming from a staff and a possible merit source ~~(my wild guess )~~. Have a look: #, # etc.

Do you think this is a right way to award merit? This is not helping these users to improve their posting skills in the forum. I am pretty sure people will have different views however I am interested to hear it. I would appreciate your input in it.

Merit has been introduced to encourage high quality posting behavior. This explains everything...

Quote from: theymos on January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM

I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

~~I am calling out xandry for an explanation.~~ xandry, may I ask an explanation? As a member of the forum I/we have the right to learn a valid point of view since the whole thing is not ok looking.

Thank you xandry in advance.

PS: The whole thing popped in my mind when I done creating this topic: List of members achieved 0 to 100+ merits.
~~Closely consider looking the isQuestionable? column.~~ The column is no longer available.

Title changed: Merit for helping on moderating the forum (?!) Highlighting staff: xandry to calling out [staff] xandry for an explanation
Title again changed to [staff] xandry: may I ask an explanation? suggestion from AverageGlabella
30th June 2018: Body contents edited a bit