Quote from: Falconer on Today at 05:19:46 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 04:07:10 AM

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.

You're right, but the more merit they get that may outweigh the activity points then they tend to be safer rank up than higher activity points than merit. I was one of the majority of users who when the merit system was introduced stuck at Hero rank, because I didn't have enough activity so I didn't get the 1000 merit airdop as one of the Legendary requirements.

You forgot to mention that you are actually a merit contributor who has a distribution history of 70% - 75% of the total merit you submitted (18K+ merit) on economy board, while you only have 9% - 14% distribution on the bitcoin board (3K+ merit). Then in Meta, you have send 1817 merit or 7.49% all the time but it will probably increase over time. I can find all that data on the merit dashboard.

One other fact, you have send 17,728 merit for the Legendary rank.

Yes. You are referring to data that you got off of DdmrDdmr's merit dashboard..

Maybe I had gone off topic a bit when I was responding to Sandra_hakeem when she seemed to be hitting on topics about the receipt of merits overall, and even her suggestions that there might be a bit of an insider's club going on, abuse of merits and members who do not seem to deserve their rank.

Of course, we cannot necessarily even describe the receipt of merits in terms of soley being a product of good and substantive contributions to the forum, because there remain subjective components in sending smerits and there are also members who likely receive more smerits because they are able to send more smerits.

I guess that I was attempting to focus more on the dilemma and frustrations that some members seem to have in terms of ranking up, and in that regard, there seems to be a need to look at the merit system from where they are at rather than potentially getting worked-up because some members may have reached their merit status and even rank through other means.. and prior to the merit system.. and that was part of the motivation for my remark about the fact that if you are earning merits at the same pace of your activity level, then you are not really disadvantaged by the merit system in terms of making rank on the same kind of timeline as forum members who were here prior to the implementation of the merit system.

Sure members who were here in the forum prior to the merit system did not have to earn merits in order to rank up, but to me that seems like a BIG so fucking what? That's my less nice way of saying it, even if that might not have been amongst the points that Sandra_hakeem was touching upon.

In life, there are all kinds of areas in which at some point we are newer to that particular circle, and if we stick within the circle we become older (or veterans) or receive rank within the circle.

There are similar kinds of concerns about people who want to get into bitcoin, and they might truthfully reveal that they just heard about bitcoin and at the same time proclaim that the whole bitcoin system is NOT fair because some people have 10s of bitcoins and others have hundreds and others have 1,000s of bitcoin, and they do not even have enough spare cash to buy a whole bitcoin. But, they still have to start building from where they are at rather than getting worked up about their thoughts that some people who have bitcoin don't deserve their bitcoin. Bitcoin is not going to give any shits if the bitcoin newbie does not start to act upon their having just had learned about bitcoin and if they decide to be resentful about their not having any bitcoins or the means to get very many bitcoins rather than trying to work from the position that they are at in terms of figuring out and strategizing regarding whether they might start to accumulate $100 per week in bitcoin or if they are ONLY able to put enough cash aside to accumulate (buy) $10 per week, and it may well make a difference 5-10 years down the road regarding if they took the matter seriously and started to act right now or if they just whined about the matter of the bitcoin accumulation levels being unfair and even questioning the initial bitcoin distributions and the methods of the earlier distributions. It seems to me that there are a lot of advantages in starting early, but there are still ways to catch up, too.. because incumbents are not always working hard on keeping and/or advancing their position, but the newbie might take years and years to reach 10 bitcoins that the incumbents had bought for a few thousand dollars in 2015.

Even if the exponentials differ from system to system, we might consider the forum ranking systems in similar ways, but maybe even easier than the exponentials that likely exist in bitcoin that should inspire earlier involvement in bitcoin because the damage to future potentials are likely to be greater than they are within linear systems (and the forum seems to be way the hell more linear than the bitcoin system is quite likely going to continue to be exponential).