Providing a good posting quality is essential to keep Bitcointalk’s role as an important source of Bitcoin-related content, with hopefully some new people signing up here and of course, established members staying active and not leaving Bitcointalk.
Since Merit is not limited to prevent spammers from joining Bounty Campaigns, Merit was also introduced to encourage more interesting content and Merit Sources are advised to facilitate and reward good content, while discouraging bad, uninteresting or flawed posts such like Shitposts.
I’ve tried to incentivize a good posting quality in our German local board by my 1miau Merit criteria, where I’ve outlined points resulting in Merits and points making it much less likely to receive some Merits.
Some examples:
Merit Contributions (translated)
Anti-Merit-Offenses (translated)
Please allow @1miau, let me summarize a little, hopefully it can be useful...
Providing
QUALITY POSTS is essential to maintain Bitcointalk as a source of Bitcoin-related content and to prevent spammers from joining bounty campaigns.
Merit was introduced to encourage more engaging content and to reward quality posts.
Example: Criteria that can earn
Merit include presenting interesting guides, tutorials, or in-depth topics, providing helpful comments, dividing articles into meaningful sections, avoiding spam, and avoiding violations such as excessive advertising or spreading fake news.
Violations that may reduce your chances of earning
Merit include unnecessary use of mixed language, spreading fake news, spam, and inferior posts.
A campaign has been held to raise awareness about how to write quality posts and encourage members to avoid useless posts.
One of the goals is to avoid unnecessary mixed language and ensure quality posts.
This campaign aims to improve the quality of posts on the forum (Bitcointalk) in the hope that members will focus more on the goal of making useful contributions.