Re: Bias on giving merit, forum negativity and positivity to the newbies.
First, let's get clear which (opening) posts you use as examples (suchmoon already did this but I'll embed the images anyway):
1. [LEARN] BBCode Lessons & Tutorials [+tutorial videos!]: 15842 views.
2. Report plagiarism (copy/pasting) here. Calling for Mod action: please permban: 22399 views.
3. LoyceV's Merit data analysis (full data since Jan. 24, 2018; not just 120 days): 3875 views.
I didn't know the last screenshot was from my topic until I found it through the Merit history. I'll comment on both threads created by me:
2. The OP itself clearly isn't worth that much Merit, but there's more to it: Merit means it's worth reading, and considering the topic has 972 posts, almost all of them on-topic (otherwise I'd report them to have them removed), and lead to hundreds if not thousands of forum abusers getting banned, it's definitely worth reading.
3. Do you have any idea how many hours I've invested in creating that thread? Have you seen the weekly updates for more than 6 months, and the enormous amount of data I've processed into human readable format? I didn't keep track, but in total I've spent many dozens of hours on it.
That being said, time spent on it's own isn't enough to receive Merit. It has to be useful too.
While you're pointing at me, did you know that only 0.26% of my posts made before and 10.45% of my posts made after the introduction of Merit received Merit? I've seen plenty of Newbies (with worthy posts) who have a higher percentage.
Now, back to gellany32: Your argument would be a lot stronger if you could show 3 posts made my Newbies of equal quality that didn't receive any Merit.
You're not a spammer, so by that figure, you shouldn't be restricted by Merit. However, your posts look like you only made them to earn merit. Take this example: you're not adding any new information, you're just rephrasing text and numbers from other users.
Instead of pointing at high ranking users and complaining about Merit, try to add something helpful to the forum.
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I didn't know the last screenshot was from my topic until I found it through the Merit history. I'll comment on both threads created by me:
2. The OP itself clearly isn't worth that much Merit, but there's more to it: Merit means it's worth reading, and considering the topic has 972 posts, almost all of them on-topic (otherwise I'd report them to have them removed), and lead to hundreds if not thousands of forum abusers getting banned, it's definitely worth reading.
3. Do you have any idea how many hours I've invested in creating that thread? Have you seen the weekly updates for more than 6 months, and the enormous amount of data I've processed into human readable format? I didn't keep track, but in total I've spent many dozens of hours on it.
That being said, time spent on it's own isn't enough to receive Merit. It has to be useful too.
While you're pointing at me, did you know that only 0.26% of my posts made before and 10.45% of my posts made after the introduction of Merit received Merit? I've seen plenty of Newbies (with worthy posts) who have a higher percentage.
Now, back to gellany32: Your argument would be a lot stronger if you could show 3 posts made my Newbies of equal quality that didn't receive any Merit.
User Loycev has commendable post and there is no arguing with that. The only thing i empasized the post is that if you are a high ranks bias meriting would be possible and if you were lower rank you will be less likely to receive one.
I'll make you a deal: Find 3 high-quality posts made by Newbies without any Merit, and show them in this thread. If I agree, I'll merit all three of them, and your post too.You're not a spammer, so by that figure, you shouldn't be restricted by Merit. However, your posts look like you only made them to earn merit. Take this example: you're not adding any new information, you're just rephrasing text and numbers from other users.
Instead of pointing at high ranking users and complaining about Merit, try to add something helpful to the forum.
Now, can we be more friendly? I am started to worry now the possible replies.
Me not sending you Merit doesn't mean I'm unfriendly. Merit was created to stop spam, and nobody is going to miss spammers.You can check this thread, Bitcoin Technical Support. There's a lot of newbies getting merited by higher rank member, why? its because they don't care about merits and they really deserves to be merited anyways. So there's no bias whatsoever. If higher ranks really see newbies showing quality post worth of at least 1 merit then they will give it hands down.
I love meriting new users that show they aren't spammers! That's what this forum needs, and if they stick around, they'll be self-made high ranking users a few years from now.