Bump after a long time.
Do we still really have to talk about this ?💅🙀
Well, haven't said anything here previously... The point is:
I overcame my worst fear! Not totally anyways but atleast I have -- to some point -- began to realize that some legends that's HODL Smerit or some merit-source ain't getting petty sentiments into the merit system as others do. Some are treacherously biased. They could just keep meriting famous,top merit-earners even if they posted some crap, funny isn't it?
Yeah, I understand that it's fine to have a meriting standard, everyone does. But when your habits isn't corresponding with the prioritized intensions of its Creation, is it UNETHICAL? ( That's meant to be a rhetoric)
Alot of legendary members receive merits for the already-proven fact above, yeah but, sorry to say, sometimes it turns out a political affair - where only the FAMOUS ones are scouted - I have seen alot (don't wanna mention names) alot that can't make good sentence structures yet, vets merited for a post I barely understood.
Legendary members are legends and that can't be compromised so, what makes a legendary member SOMETIMES - take it if you want - to receive alot more merits is because they're Legends. Not because they post what most senior members don't know or they make Better conjugations than some full members.
I mean no disrespect, I'm being real here .
Sandra 👩🦱
Of course there is variance in the posting qualities of members who have achieved varying ranks, including legendary members who had already reached their legendary rank prior to the implementation of the merit system (prior to January 24, 2018).
Overall if your merit keeps up with your activity level then you will rank up at the same rate as the pre-merit system. You cannot really rank up faster than your activity level advances - even if you earn more merits.
Personally, I am more sympathetic to sending smerits when members write within bitcoin threads in a personalized and intelligent way and it seems that they are interested in bitcoin and backing up their points, and I am not so inclined to visit shitcoiny parts of the forum - although sometimes there is a bit of coincidence in terms of which areas of the forum that any of the more active members might visit.. and then some days there is not enough time to read posts or to appreciate the contributions of other members, and also I am less inclined to send merits in the meta sections.. but I would expect that members who have been around more would know more about things that are happening and/or how to write posts that make sense, as you mentioned Sandra.. it is helpful when the posts make sense, but then also sometimes the posts make sense but they still might be lacking in substance.. so personally, I try NOT to get too overly critical of other members if they seem to be making some kind of contribution and backing up their information and maybe even pointing out sources or other places in the forum that related information might have been posted...
Not that newer members cannot end up getting involved in meta matters, but sometimes they might need to figure out how much they are able to contribute.. I sometimes feel like I don't want to chime into threads that are based on personalities that I don't know and then sometimes it can take a long time to figure out where some members are coming from in terms of their motivations, and maybe folks will tend to send merits based on some sense of contribution or even if they got to know various members in other threads, in the event that paths are crossing in the same threads, too.