Quote from: KingsDen on July 11, 2022, 07:24:08 PM

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on July 11, 2022, 01:04:20 PM

When a good post is coming from a higher rank member, you know that he is not fishing for merit

Merit fishing is a phrase coined to wicked lower-ranked members. Since my newbie days till today, I am yet to understand why the so called merit fishing is a problem.

What is not acceptable in the forum is merit begging, but I don't know the place of merit fishing and importantly, why it is used mainly for lower-ranked members. I have seen countless times posts that are tracking the merit status of high and reputable members. EG, posts that tracks first to reach 10k merits. Tbh, those posts are merit fishing posts, even if they were not created by the people concerned. Such posts indirectly biase the minds of merits senders (sources), either to increase the rate of meriting a particular account to enable him reach a merit goal or reduce the rate of meriting another in order to slow his rate of reaching a certain set merit target.

When I was in high score my lecturers said I beg for score while writing exams and that is why I was always the best. I do not practically ask them to score me high marks, but my points and method of presenting them begs for marks on my behalf. Why didn't my lecturers fail me and tag my answers as score fishing?

Well, if there is anything like merit fishing and should dwell in this context, I would say that everyone in the forum fishes for merit, the difference is while higher ranked members fish in the high sea, the lower-ranked members fish in a shallow water and that is why they are always seen and accused.

If a user sees a post that he doesn't like, it's better to skip rather than accusing the op of merit fishing. This act has denied many newbies their first merit and more.

Okay I got 1000 airdropped and earned over 3500.
I don’t ever need another merit yet I like getting them whenever I do.
In fact sometimes I make a very good post and will guess if that post will earn more than 10 merits.

So am I merit fishing technically yes as I am efforting to write a quality post to a thread.
But I don’t earn from my signature and simply don’t need the merits.

Newbies generally need merits. They are not fishing for sport like I am doing with this post.
I have given hundreds of merits to newbies. I also have tried giving rank up points to jr members and full members and senior members.

It can be a bummer to follow a newbie that posts well and then they get caught for cheating earning a ban.
I have been following majestic-milf

liked the name he or she has been a good poster I hope they continue to do well.

I am now debating to delete this or post it.
I write over 100 posts a month that I never post.

I am going to post it.

I am also going to check on majestic-milf posts.