Quote from: DdmrDdmr on October 18, 2018, 02:22:44 PM

A couple of weeks ago there was a thread on Meta on the topic (see Sort posts by merit spent).

Seems like an interesting approach as well. Basically adding a column into the topic overview.

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One way to search for the most merited threads is to use the Merit Dashboard. If you go to a tab called Rankings, the right hand side block labelled Top Merited Thread Ranking sorts all merited threads (aggregate of posts within) by received sMerits and ranks them. You can filter by a specific section/subsection, and/or specify a date range using the filter at the top of the screen to, for example, see the most merited threads in the last month in the Bitcoin Discussion board.

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It is true though, as said above, that threads swerve to and from in terms of content, so merited posts within the thread are often not precisely aligned completely with the threads OP.

Well since you put a hammer in my hand

Let's see if I can drive my point of view home by an example. I filtered out the local boards (can't judge) and moved the slider to include only last month. I just glossed over the result and selected what looked interesting.

Flaws in LN (Lightning Network).

Which aligns pretty well with your last statement.

Quote from: bill gator on October 18, 2018, 01:46:07 PM

I have often seen a thread get posted where OP is completely out-of-line, incorrect, misleading, etc. and then the users that reply, call them out, provide proper information, etc. are given an extensive amount of merit. Under the suggestion you propose, it would appear as if OP was receiving the merits for their topic, when in reality those merits are effectively "anti-OP".

As shown in the example I gave, it doesn't have to be anti-op like that. The OP could be a useful hook, just a small thing, a simple question, for creating an otherwise very interesting conversation.

Quote from: YOSHIE on October 18, 2018, 03:31:13 PM

Heh, those are my posts. Funny reading them back. Not sure what exactly you are trying to say about it. Most of the time I just lurk around and only once in a blue moon I crawl out of the woodworks to post something. What you might call a lurkbie Tongue