Quote from: fillippone on May 23, 2019, 01:20:07 PM

Quote from: RivAngE on May 23, 2019, 12:19:37 PM

Quote from: vfilchef on May 22, 2019, 04:15:28 PM

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Quote from: DdmrDdmr on May 22, 2019, 04:26:44 PM

Looks like youve got quite a bit of reading and catching up to do satoshi has 2016 merits, which are really totally irrelevant in the big picture of things, so how exactly are you on the same group?

You are on the other hand in a larger group of 2.591.651 existing accounts 28.340 (earned) merited accounts = 2.563.311 accounts that have 0 earned merits

Edit: Well, now you've abandoned the communards group and entered the group of those that have earned 2 merits or more: 17.419 accounts in that group. Quite a leap

LOL this deserves a merit for making me laugh! Cheesy

Which by the way shows how vague the merit system is. Some posts are merited because they are funny, some because they are informative, some because they have a lot of effort put into them even though they might not be as useful, some because we agree with the content of the post which might be a hateful post against a coin we also happen to hate!

I had a pretty active week this time, and all I got was 2 merits? Man... I feel like this shit is getting harder and harder by the day!

Man, I tell you a secret: You can enjoy the forum without getting merits.
If you had a pretty active week and you got only 2 merit AND you complain, you have to blame yourself, not the merit system.
Otherwise, you should put more effort in what and how you write it, before calling the system vague.
Allow me a little bit of self promotion, that is my story, but actually it's full of other people out there with similar ones.

Sure, RivAngE has some kind of point that there can be something a bit whimsical about merits, but at the same time, it does not seem healthy to either get psychologically obsessed with getting merits for decently good posts and it comes off as a bit petty to post something like "I wished I could receive more merits for my 'valuable' posts." It seems to take some credibility away from your posts (and even insulting other members from making their own assessment about the "value" of your post) when you self-assess them as "valuable."

Just showing up and posting on a regular basis does seem to cause merits, and reminds other members of your existence. Sometimes, I come across a member that I want to merit, but I don't want to merit based on merely one good post that I see, so I put the member on a "watch list" that I maintain, so if I don't see any further posts from the member after a certain time I might remove the member from my watch list - or I might actively go through the members prior posts to find a post that I believe is worthy of a merit.... So, there certainly can be some whimsical practice of the merit system that can be partly attributable to considerable individual differences regarding what they deem merit worthy and/or just if you catch them on the right day (merit sources included).