Quote from: OutOfMemory on Today at 12:40:16 AM

Quote from: eXPHorizon on August 27, 2023, 10:25:00 PM

Quote from: SamReomo on August 27, 2023, 09:50:14 PM

Nutildah's stance is to stop those members from getting merits in this thread who aren't putting much effort in creating good posts, and they are just posting meme images created by someone else only to gain some merits from the members of this thread who are much generous by nature.

Have you seen the absolute trash posts and then you see like some el dude or some other old grumpy dude meriting that post? Not that i care about those at all but i care that they do not want Newbies to get Merits. They childish i can you cant mentality is really stupid and is ruining WO since the start of their presence. Have you paid attention to the posts of "Legendaries" ?

I know, i should not quote trolls, but to clear that up for SamReomo (and Merit-poor noobs in general)... Roll Eyes

So, i was a newbie here too, not too long ago, a while after the 2017 blowoff top.
I can only say that the quality of postings, as well as how you are percieved by other people on this thread while chatting, supporting each other and having fun, will "earn" you Merits, as well as making you give up to a half of them back to the community.
The best of all: I never really had earning Merits on my mind, it just happened as i went on posting various stuff and opinions, sometimes only for entertainment, sometimes more serious on serious matters.

So, eXPHorizon's lie is now debunked.

As
usual

EDIT: WARNING Shocked

I have collected quite some hours of deep sky data within the last few weeks.
After experiencing some difficulties with equipment and processing, i began to finish them images today.
Might spam this thread with some new astronomy pics, sooner or later Wink

I strongly agree with you! The members of this thread are very generous and someone who posts with pure heart only to convey his/her message on this thread is appreciated with merits. The main thing to keep in your mind is to make posts here only for the sake of distribution of information or to get others opinion. The community of this thread has been generous and everyone knows that thing, but I also believe that the ones who received merits from here or somewhere else gave them back to the community.

I won't say that getting merits is a bad thing if you deserve those but begging for merits is what I truly dislike. If someone like your words and they're truly convinced that you're putting much effort to share knowledge and your opinion with pure heart then most probably they believe that your posts deserve to get some merits and that's what the members of this community are sharing for a long time. I don't think that senior members of the forum are naive enough to send merits to undeserving posts and if anyone else thinks like that then they must have to introspect themselves first.

I would eagerly wait to see your deep sky images because I'm also among the lovers of astronomy and pics like that are really enjoyable. I don't own a telescope myself, but yeah it's still fun to view the work of others who enjoy spending time to it and collect data about stars and sky. Astronomy is really really enjoyable without any doubt, and the more we know about it the more curious we become.