⭐ Merited by stingers (2)
I have come across many merit spamming due to the new ranking update. Still, it was also taking place before this update happened but it has increased much these days as everyone has noticed.
I personally think at one point that this system is working in some parts of the forum but some people are just misguided about what posts should be merited as there is no single definition of what a merit deserving post is. Still, I read a statement from thyemos explaining what type of posts deserves merits.
But I think many people are using merits to merit the posts that they agree with and not meriting the posts which are of high quality. ( I think this is also done by some merit sources )
And This is the reason why many of the quality posts are ignored.
This is a very big Flaw I think which should get some solution instead the main purpose of merits will just be lost and only the merited posts will be related to views and not for the quality an of the content.
I want some views about:
1. What flaws do you think this merit system has?
2. How do you think merit system is abused? ( I don't want buy/sell as an answer )
EDIT:
You can also find much such posts where you think the merits are wasted for supporting the view.
I would like to add some of the example about how merits are used not for the quality but for just supporting views.
I personally think at one point that this system is working in some parts of the forum but some people are just misguided about what posts should be merited as there is no single definition of what a merit deserving post is. Still, I read a statement from thyemos explaining what type of posts deserves merits.
I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
But I think many people are using merits to merit the posts that they agree with and not meriting the posts which are of high quality. ( I think this is also done by some merit sources )
And This is the reason why many of the quality posts are ignored.
This is a very big Flaw I think which should get some solution instead the main purpose of merits will just be lost and only the merited posts will be related to views and not for the quality an of the content.
I want some views about:
1. What flaws do you think this merit system has?
2. How do you think merit system is abused? ( I don't want buy/sell as an answer )
EDIT:
You can also find much such posts where you think the merits are wasted for supporting the view.
I would like to add some of the example about how merits are used not for the quality but for just supporting views.
This analysis provided by r1s2g3 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAi_b3umCcFJO2dMoLYjWCjNz1JhOLWrsRHhYQK-nb8/edit?usp=sharing
Does add weight to your suspicions. If you could remove even the top 300 or 400 and merits from the meta board then you would start to see a more reasonable merit score table. Most would not have more than 100 merit.
You can see already many persons merit score is cut in half or in extreme cases reduced by 75% and that is without taking meta out of it or those aspiring to join the fraction of 1% that reward each other the most merit.
There are some on the top 200 who deserve to be there for sure but I would not pay much heed to merit scores.
You can there fore see great posters from the alt board will have extremely low chance of merit.
Where do most new posters post??
Merit is good for showing you like your friends posts or agree with peoples posts... I would far rather read through a persons post history in depth to get an idea of what they are like and how much you can rely on what they say.
Trust is a more important score to look at but again I would read through it deeply not just take the scores at face value.