Quote from: Stedsm on January 08, 2019, 11:22:46 AM

I'm also scared of one thing that when we give higher amount of merits to users, others start backbiting and say that this user is an alt of that and blah! blah!

Merit isn't only meant to limit ranking up, it's also meant to highlight good posts. I wouldn't send all merit to just one post, make the amount appropriate to the quality of the posts. I first did that here:

Quote from: LoyceV on December 24, 2018, 04:19:57 PM

If I interpret this post from theymos slightly out of context:

Quote from: theymos on January 26, 2018, 06:06:49 PM

~ if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.

You're not a spammer, you engage in decent conversation, and you use the forum as a forum instead of an ATM. I think you deserve the Merit needed to rank up.

I'm posting this here as a reference in case someone wonders/questions why I went on a meriting spree

Note: sending Merit doesn't necessarily mean I agree with a post.

This was my Merit spree:

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December 24, 2018, 05:19:32 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: [ANN]XDNA-Revolution in mining|GPU ONLY HEX algo|Charity Support|NoICO|Cryptopia
December 24, 2018, 05:19:32 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: [XRP] Ripple Speculation
December 24, 2018, 05:19:32 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
December 24, 2018, 05:19:31 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: ARK - Blockchains Interoperability with SmartBridge 🔹 ARK Core v2 Live 🔹
December 24, 2018, 05:19:31 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: 1080Ti Specific - Best mining option
December 24, 2018, 05:19:31 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: Merit & new rank requirements
December 24, 2018, 05:19:30 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: NEW BAKKT game
December 24, 2018, 05:19:30 PM: 2 from LoyceV for Re: A simple bitcoin Q/A. Learn new and interesting stuff about bitcoin.
December 24, 2018, 05:19:29 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: NEW BAKKT game
December 24, 2018, 05:19:29 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: Community generated suggestions to improve the forum (+ eventual voting on them)
December 24, 2018, 05:19:29 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning
December 24, 2018, 05:19:28 PM: 1 from LoyceV for Re: Anyone here that experience a long bear market besides this one?

By spreading the Merit over many posts, you also get to read them and make sure the user deserves it.
A week after I did this, theymos doubled my source sMerit, so I assume it's approved Cheesy

I made another "targeted Rank up" here and unloaded some more here.

However, I wouldn't have done this if I wouldn't be a Merit source. Do with my opinion what you want

Quote from: AdolfinWolf on January 08, 2019, 03:47:09 PM

(As i'm pretty sure no user has ever received more than 250 merit in 1 go..?)

The maximum is 50 per post, and 50 per user per month.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on January 08, 2019, 04:12:42 PM

You can also see a list of "Top merit senders to permabanned users" here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendban. There are some very senior members on that list, including several staff members. They are not held responsible. If users were held responsible

That list doesn't say anyting about the posts, a banned user can still have good posts (let's ignore plagiarism for this statement Tongue

).