Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on November 29, 2022, 11:44:54 AM

Quote from: examplens on November 29, 2022, 11:31:58 AM

maybe it was already said somewhere, but I just found a position about this.
What about the winners from the "negative" category like Fail of the Year or Antihero? they will be nominated because of something bad they did, can they get rewards for something that most users have condemned as wrong?

Antihero seem fine. We are having a forum user but Fail of the Year, Event of the Year are two categories not for forum users. It's more likely a global event related to bitcoin or even not related to bitcoin. How would we decide who to get the prize for the two categories.

If FTX wins fail of the year, the money should be donated to legitimate victims or something, as I know three users from my local thread who were affected by the FXT drama, and if Bitcointalk show wins fail of the year, the money should be sent to theymos wallet Grin

I knew the YouTube thing would fail, just like the Bitcointalk discord pizza community did.

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on November 29, 2022, 11:44:54 AM

Not to mention again as I always like to discuss, Miss Bitcointalk is a category we don't even know who is what (I even got some nomination, same for yahoo too lol) and SpamBuster is a category where we have no numbers (I received a PM from Cyrus about it by the way, he said he will see what he can do). In fact even numbers are not enough. Someone can report 100 posts but moderator who is handling it may find he is a poor reporter on the other hand, someone reported 10 reports but he will be found a quality reporter. It's complete something to be evaluated by the people who handle reports not by the regular forum members.

Nothing would change much unless icopress limits this category to the top three reporters only (names listed) so that anyone could simply vote from there because as long as the top reporters information is limited to only a few people, people will continue to vote random people with low or no spam bursting history.

We shouldn't vote in the spambusting category in the first place because we already have the top spambusters.

Quote from: CryptoHeadlineNews on November 29, 2022, 07:22:12 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on November 23, 2022, 04:06:31 PM

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No, the merit system is controlled by the community, it is easier to farm merits, but a user must have been in the forum for at least 2-4 months to farm activity. a newbie with zero knowledge of the forum can register today, make topic and earn 50 merits with his first post, go on and copy-paste votes. (Another disadvantage of using merit point)

There are many times more users with high Activity and no earned Merit, than Newbies who earned 50 Merit on their first post. It's a rare thing. I have enough sMerit to create 48 96 Newbies, give them 50 Merit each, and vote for myself in the "Fail of the Year" category. And if I do that, it'll be blatantly obvious. So I don't think this is likely to be abused in this way.

Yes.. LoyceV is equally right in what he/she just said above, and thats why for me, I think for a user to be eligible to vote, he/she must have been a registered member of the forum for at least 90days and earned a minimum of 50 merits. As this is an important stuff which requires people who are serious about the forum, because of what benefits will it be allowing an ordinary Newbie to vote, who barely have little or hasn't known people that much on these forum, as it always take time for a serious minded beginner to be familiar with forum names.

So since "Merits" can be easily farmed, "Activity" on the other hand, is one stuff that can't be easily farmed, which is what plays a big difference

LoyceV is a MAN and a dad with with two kids ( a boy and a girl) just like some of us, at least that's what i know so you should start addressing him as HE. Grin

well you made a good point but why did you crop me out of your reply?