... it likely means that:
- You made a post and someone thought it's a good post, or perhaps someone clicked the wrong button.
It
doesn't mean that:
- Anyone else thinks it's a good post.
- Anyone likes your post or you.
- Anyone agrees with your post or with you.
- Your post is right or righteous.
- You're not a shitposter.
- You're trustworthy.
- You're not dumb.
- Your post doesn't break the forum rules.
- You'll get any more merits for that post or any post.
- You should try making more such posts.
- You should pester other users for merit.
Just some inspirational-motivational thoughts for your Monday. May or may not be based on a true story.
What ? Now merit score isn't a super accurate indicator of undeniable value when analysed objectively?
That must be why you said the terms good poster and bad poster are meaningless without strict definition and criteria to measure against.
So the only issue is..
why is this meaningless garbage the basis for the trust system ?
Why do campaign managers put any stock in this meaningless nonsense?
Anyway good to see some reality creeping in.
Challenging the status quo or presenting very valuable information that is also inconvenient to DT or merit sources ( generally the same thing shockingly) will not get your posts ignored. They read them are unable to debunk them but of course would never merit them or any other valuable insights you offer whether they agree with those or not.
Once you are on the merit starvation list you don't come off.
It really doesn't matter I guess to any that are not here for financial reasons.
The only shame is that theymos sanctioned those controlling this meaningless crap to manipulate the forum software into turning their petty gripes and annoyance at being whistle blown on into fake lies of scamming and claims of financially motivated wrongdoing.
That is more of a design error. Well the entire shambles of merit and trust is one big design error but that is the most offensive part.
When a meaningless metric empowers proven scammers to label their whistle blowers as scammers with zero evidence you start to see the dangerous mess merit is in its totally subjective and meaningless form.
A members true value is based only upon any lasting change their posts resulted in. Whether that be for bitcoin, another project or for a group of people who's lives you have changed in a huge way they didn't expect.
The forum has given thousands of members an opportunity they would have never had elsewhere. For that we all should be grateful. Merit is a cancer but fortunately even that can not destroy the forums past. It can destroy the forums future but let's hope its prevented from turning the entire place into an echo chamber and completely discouraging new users.
The most valuable post is that which opposes popular or accepted widely held views and conclusively debunks them.
Of course CH bingo posts are valuable too. Anything pertaining to real legends deserves a nice sprinkle of merit.
I think perhaps he is just that polite these days. Someone should hit him up with an invite.