Quote from: Satofan44 on August 28, 2025, 12:10:58 PM

Quote from: Xiestar on August 28, 2025, 11:31:13 AM

Yes it’s not the highest but still they are one of the highest merit count than most of the participants

It proves me right, Check those accepted members merit history. Does the thread where the merit acquired looks familiar to you in relation to this topic? Wink

Extra: those that applying typically just the merit jerker buddies. They just recycling merit through themselves on merit thread.

Quote from: Satofan44 on August 28, 2025, 12:10:58 PM

Look at the quantity of merits that this thread got: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5542027. It is much less than D5000 posts often get. It is not even a substantial thread. Cheesy

Most of that user's posts are shit, it is clear that they helped him rank up fast to join campaigns. This doesn't mean that he wasn't better than other applicants though, I have not looked into that. That's besides the point anyway.

This is what I notice. Merit jerker circle either send first merit to attract other user to easily follow the merit pouring or hype the thread with support post to encourage user to think that the post is super good.

Quote from: Satofan44 on August 28, 2025, 12:10:58 PM

Quote from: Xiestar on August 28, 2025, 11:31:13 AM

Notice that these guys rarely send merit out of their circle.

For reference, from the whole list of merit senders in the example thread only Halab sent me 2 merits once. Some forum data magician could probably do a good analysis of these claims, but the results would upset a lot of people. LoyceV? Tongue

There’s a lot of cases of potential merit abused from this jerker that go to thrash due to lack of connection for obvious reason that these account was controlled by experienced forum member that knew exactly how to hide their track.

It’s the reason why I mention that merit system is now being used as easy ticket to campaign because this jerker has huge source of merit to rank their account while normal user struggle to get one since if they post same content as above they will usually being ignored or criticized because of lack of connection.

Quote from: Satofan44 on August 28, 2025, 12:10:58 PM

Quote from: Xiestar on August 28, 2025, 11:31:13 AM

I’m too tired to fight this merit jerker. Merit system is now use to carve an easy path for a guaranteed signature campaign spot for farmer since normal user that using forum having a hard time to
get merit without merit buddy unless they are initially good on Bitcoin technical discussion while this jerker just post hype bitcoin post and received tons of merit.

Some would argue that it is a supply and demand problem, but that is a symptom not a cause. Yes, managers need more quality posters to employ in their campaigns but they are not available. This is where this user makes a good point. When the situation is like this, it is hard for normal people to earn merit if they are not able to provide very substantial contributions or very technical contributions. Their contributions have to be several magnitudes better than the shitposters from these circlejerks to earn the same quantity of merit. Their decent posts get hidden in the crowd, and they have to make extra effort to try to earn some merit such as applying in those report your posts threads.

Both ways of approaching the problem will have their respective downsides. For example, if you push the campaign managers to reject all these posters then there will be a period during which they will not be able to fill their campaigns.

There’s a lot of decent poster that better than this jerker already leave the forum because they can’t compete with this jerker when it comes to merit count as this is one of the factor that manager consider.

Most of the active signature campaign is on gambling board. Normally, campaign manager preferred regular use that post on that board as natural poster but the problem is there’s low merit distribution on that board.

That’s the time this jerker enter and fill the spot. They are not regular gambler poster but they can post now mostly on football thread discussing an event like “wow Arsenal won today hope they won again” like that which is obviously just meh post on sports.