Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 01:55:11 PM

Is that a direct quote from Theymos? It could well be, but I don't remember him writing that (though it's quite possible I either missed the quote or forgot it altogether). As to the second sentence above, the merit system doesn't just make it more difficult for newbies and bounty shitposting, it also makes it waaaay harder for account farmers to even exist.

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One of them being newbies having an easy time ranking up in a month and a half and promoting their Bounties through the signature campaign without any hassle.

No, Theymos mentioned something like it'll be damaging to the forum if he did that, I'm 75% sure that the Newbie problem was indirectly mentioned there.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 01:55:11 PM

How did you miss all the threads asking this very same question? Anyway, since you happened to stumble upon posts by members complaining about the merit system, maybe you should look in Meta for all the threads asking "How I earn meritz?"--because there are a lot of them, and the answers basically never vary.

At that time merits weren't the problem i was making enough money from my other main IRL business and wasn't active that much on the forum unless it's related to online gaming Topics, gambling, etc. But now due to Corona IRL business isn't that much active anymore and i'd be making as much as i could through side source incomes, One of them Signature campaign, tbh I didn't care about merits back then because i thought it'll come to me naturally, But it's true people don't merit posts in all the sections and don't read all the pages as Lucious wrote -

Quote from: Lucius on Today at 02:45:58 PM

I notice that some, so to speak, somewhat good posts are buried in some mega-threads, and you can hardly expect anyone to find your post on page 9 of someone's thread - and that after all these answers you will write something meaningful and original.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 01:55:11 PM

I would be happy to review your posts, and I even encourage members to PM me asking me to do so. However, right now I'm extremely low on sMerits and may not be able to give you many even if you've made posts that are worth meriting. If I find I'm unable to give you merits because I don't have enough to give, I'll bookmark your post history and will come back to it when my source sMerits are replenished.

If you're ok with me making a list of topics/posts I've made that I think are merit worthy and sending that list to you for checking their worth of receiving merits then i'll be happy with it,

Or I've come up with another solution that there should be a Topic with Sub-links to the Topics of users that contains their links to their posts that they think they deserve merits and that Main thread should be in meta so that members with enough sMerit resource can randomly select users from the Main-Topic list and give merits to the users.

Quote from: Lucius on Today at 02:45:58 PM

I looked at a few pages of your post history, and the first problem I detect is that about 35% of your posts are in Games and rounds, and as far as I know that board is not exactly part of the forum where you can expect merits. Furthermore, I notice that some, so to speak, somewhat good posts are buried in some mega-threads, and you can hardly expect anyone to find your post on page 9 of someone's thread - and that after all these answers you will write something meaningful and original.

That's correct, It's a problem that people don't read every page of the topic and it's worse for people who write good stuff on page number 99.

Quote from: Lucius on Today at 02:45:58 PM

I don't want to give you advice to be what you are not, in the sense that you force yourself to post in boards that don't suit you according to your knowledge -

IRL I do that same thing you're telling when someone asks me for advice, I also don't tell people their shortcomings since no one is perfect and it's not possible for everyone to understand why you explain something so that could be another reason, But it's ok to guide someone to a direction by telling them honestly what's at the end of it (Which you did and I quoted next)

Quote from: Lucius on Today at 02:45:58 PM

but I can tell you that it's completely wrong for you to hunt merits, and in fact merits should find you. My advice to you is to find a few members who have earned a lot of merits, to study their posts and try to find the best way to become a better poster - we all learned from someone and we were all beginners at one point.

1. Well I'm not begging for merits or complaining about the system but I'm just curious how can I post effectively to be worthy of earning merits, not fishing them Grin

2. Well yes, I'm looking for some members that earn lots of merits, I'll post the details on the thread later after doing enough research.