well guys I read somewhere there is 36 new soruces for merit added today
we have to earn it
we have to earn it
This is correct I am a new source.
I gave you 2 points.
I have a lot of points to give and will be looking at newbies in this thread only.
I think you made a mistake there philipma. This is the exact kind of account for whom the step was meant to. This guy has over a 1000 posts that are only "Reports" while the other are one-liners.
He has had zero merits until you hastily awarded him 2 merits for this one-liner post. To all the new merit sources, This step will only be truly successful if you take the pain to at least read/browse/glance at the post history of the guys whom you decide to merit.
Spending it the way Philipma just did would only lessen the effectiveness of this courageous and desperately needed step from Theymos. Lets make sure it is put to the best use.
Go through the post histories to see whether the people you are meriting have actually made the effort. Not like this toheed2x account which is probably just someone's farming alt. Defeats the whole purpose, causes a lot of heartburn for people who have actually made the effort and have felt ignored because of the spam.
that post stands on its own for the merits it got. There are now 36 new merit sources such as myself. I used to be slow to give merit as I would lose it. I now don't drop when I give merit. So I will give merit more freely.
Even if he is not a good guy that was a good post. It is important for people to know that there are 35-36 new people that can give merit As a source. He mentioned it and gets my points.
Do you think I want to read hundreds of posts to judge a guy no I don't
do You think I get paid to do that no I don't.
He wrote a truthful informative post worth merits.
He wrote it On an important thread explaining these demotions. So once again he got 2 points.
Btw do you know on another thread about this I read 98 posts and gave out merits.
Did I get paid to do that no.
I spent 25 minutes reading to give out that 2 points.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030976.msg45833279#msg45833279
Now I will tell you what this means to me I will end up reading an extra 300 to 500 posts a week giving out points.