Quote from: bullrun2020bro on June 18, 2020, 12:32:48 PM

First of all, sorry for off-topic, but let me please answer to the "2 cents" guigui371 just posted:

Hey Bruno,
Thanks very much for this great detailed answer.
Retroaspectively, I shouldn't have have used the word "begged" but something like, "directed towards great, undermerited posts"

The quality of your response, and the fact you actually kept your temper in your response definitely show how good a poster and member you are.

Turns out, i've been merited overnight for one of my posts in the French section so I can merit your great constructed post.
I'm wearing as a personal message "C.D.P.E.M" it is an e acronym for "club of the poor people in available smerit to send" this is a club I started in the french board a joke for people that have less than 1 smerit.
I'm now at the limit, so I'm glag your post is worthy of the only smerit I got.

Quote from: bullrun2020bro on June 18, 2020, 12:32:48 PM

Please translate the whole text and you would recognize there currently is no such rule. But fair enough, I guess you're not a native speaker, so please put this into your translator:

I indeed didn't see that It was not an active rule anymore. It does change everything and make me look like an ass in my previous post. I do apologize.

Quote from: bullrun2020bro on June 18, 2020, 12:32:48 PM

It would be fair, if you would also say that there are several months in which the Merit/Post-ratio in the German and French sections is almost the same. Wink

Quote from: Rikafip on May 03, 2020, 04:35:56 PM

Merit/Post ratio between March 31st - April 30th

Fair point.

Quote from: bullrun2020bro on June 18, 2020, 12:32:48 PM

All in all, don't get me wrong. I would highly appreciate if the French local section would get additional merit sources. You guys have several high qualified users in your section.

This is something we are aware, I'm trying to see how we can increase the quality of our board, and have people to cycle more the merit.
I did an anlyse in the french board, and found out that 95% of all the merit sent in the board are from the MS and the ripple effect.
(what I mean is that only 5% of the smerit sent comes from smerit earned in the english part that are then used/sent in the french part).

Indeed this is off-topic, but I guess it is also a healthy talk to have about the way each board sees merit and merit use.
Thanks very much for the debate and answer.

Quote from: qwk on June 18, 2020, 05:17:40 PM

bullrun2020bro pointed out that there was criticism going on concerning my merit-"Airdrop", so "Bat-signal received, qwk to the rescue".

Haha, yeah, retrospectively, I may have been a bit harsh to use "begging" and it may have looked as I was attacking Bruno a little bit harder than what I meant.
Sorry, about that. See my above apology.

Quote from: qwk on June 18, 2020, 05:17:40 PM

I do not allow "begging for merit" anywhere, from anyone. Period.
If bullrun2020bro were actually begging, that'd earn him "red trust" instead of merit.

bullrun2020bro does look like to be a great poster.

Quote from: qwk on June 18, 2020, 05:17:40 PM

Quote from: guigui371 on June 17, 2020, 10:30:08 PM

On both occasions, you posted more than the max 10 posts you could submit.

This is a rule I've personally disabled for a while, because my time for my merit-"Airdrop" is severely limited nowadays.

I didn't see this, and obviously it definitely changes the context and everything. The "begging" word should not have been used by me.

Quote from: qwk on October 05, 2018, 11:06:06 AM

Quote from: guigui371 on June 17, 2020, 10:30:08 PM

The German Board is fantastic to earn merit.

Indeed, it is.
If you create a meaningful, helpful, useful post in the German board (apart from the shady area called "Altcoins") nowadays, you're probably much more likely to be rewarded with merit than in some other local boards.
That hasn't always been the case, though, and it was hard work over years to reach that point.
I sincerely hope that the French will get there as well, and wish you all the best luck.
BTW, I recall venturing into the French and Italian boards for a while to help out, but that was a long time ago, and my French and Italian are not actually that good.

We are trying to work on this, without putting more pressure on our MS (that is also our moderator).
Lifting the level of a board isn't an easy job. But eventually, one day we will on par with you guys.

Quote from: qwk on October 05, 2018, 11:06:06 AM

But aside from the local boards, let's face it:
"Meta" is the place to go if you wanna make serious merit, and has been for a long time Cool

Yes and it is a shame. It shouldn't be the case.
But eh, i'm not the one making the rules Grin

Thanks qwk for the answer, I would have merited your post, but eh, I'm smerit poor and my last one went to Bullbruno2020bro