Oh God, another thread about merits? Yes! But I promise. This one will be a bit different.
Many times, we have heard the accusations: merit cycling clubs, merit gangs, legendary members giving merits to their legendary friends, etc.
I believe that
Development & Technical Discussion and
Bitcoin Technical Support are this forum's cream de la creme. These sub-forums are the sections where issues about the Bitcoin network are raised and solved. When users experience particular problems or have questions, the members in those subs take care of them.
But who are the users that help newbies and everyone else to solve problems?
More precisely, what rank to they belong to?
That is precisely the reason why I decided to create this thread. On 27 August, I took a screenshot of the two mentioned sub-boards to check what ranks are the members who reply to threads there.
I checked 5 threads in each section.
In the tables below, I have listed the titles of those threads. You can see the number of legendary users who have replied there. Besides that, I have written down the number of times a legendary user was the first to respond after a thread was created, and how many replies there were in total per thread.
What is the purpose of all this?My hypothesis is that legendary members get so many merits because they are usually the first to reply and offer advice. They are the most frequent posters in the mentioned sub-forums, and their posts are simply the best ones.
Let’s now take a look at the stats and see if I am right or wrong:
Bitcoin Technical Support
| | | Thread Title | | | Total Number of posts | | | Number of Legendary replies | | | Was a legendary the first to reply? | | | Percentage of legendary replies | | |
| | | | | | 5 | | | 3 | | | Yes | | | 60% | | |
| | | | | | 19 | | | 15 | | | Yes | | | 78.9% | | |
| | | | | | 19 | | | 3 | | | Yes | | | 15.78% | | |
| | | | | | 13 | | | 7 | | | Yes | | | 53.84% | | |
| | | | | | 13 | | | 9 | | | Yes | | | 69.23% | | |
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I looked at posts only from page 23.Development & Technical Discussion
| | | Thread Title | | | Total Number of posts | | | Number of Legendary replies | | | Was a legendary the first to reply? | | | Percentage of legendary replies | | |
| | | | | | 18 | | | 3 | | | No | | | 16.66% | | |
| | | | | | 20 | | | 0 | | | No | | | 0% | | |
| | | | | | 6 | | | 1 | | | No | | | 16.66% | | |
| | | | | | 20 | | | 10 | | | Yes | | | 50% | | |
| | | | | | 20 | | | 16 | | | No | | | 80% | | |
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I looked at posts only from page 105.**
I looked at posts only on page 1.In summaryThese 10 threads had:
- 153 posts in total.
- 67 (or 43.79%) of those came from Legendary members.
- Legendary members were the first to reply in 6 from the 10 checked threads.
This is just a small sample that shows that legendary members receive plenty of merits for a reason. So the next time you think how the world is unfair or that the powerful are only helping the powerful, remember this thread and try to improve and do better.
I have seen instances that newbies like me or Jrn members reply first,second and even third in a post like that but won't be given any merit no matter how reasonable the information looks ..
Sometimes i use to feel bad and ask different questions in beginners and help to know if people that deserve merits are people that have them already ?
Seriously, i mean no disrespect but it is what i have seen several times and it sucks
I am not saying these to gain merit to myself Earnestly, but this is what i feel..
What you have analysed now should be the normal thing to be done because no body has the time and strength to review several pages just to see everyone's opinion except in rear cases.
Please, no offense legends
But lets be FAIR
This forum and the world of bitcoin would be a better place tomorrow..remember,people are still joining day by day ..LEGENDS REMAIN THE GRANDMASTERS HERE AND SHOULD ACT LIKE ONE
Trojane
eh, the only reason why I send out merits there is when they help solve a problem I have, or offer a suggestion, or give me some helpful guidance (or maybe they developed some useful software).
You only merit people in those boards if they help you personally? What if they help other members or post something that can be of benefit to everyone, even those who don't seek help?
You are a merit source, so I guess you were joking with the statement above.
Each of us has a different mindset and attitude about merits and that is normal.
First of all, each of us has different interests and follows different parts of the forum.
Also, each of us has a different definition of what kind of post or content on the forum deserves merit.
I believe NotATether didn’t express himself best in the post above and that he probably meant to say that he rewards posts and forum content that help him and others.
Exactly brother.
We all know that the truth is sometimes bitter.
Nobody started a hero member or legendary
Everyone started from the scratch and most legends were supported to the toll of 1000 merits depending on their post and activity when merit was invented.
If you are a merit source, i wouldn't tell you what to do with it but whatever you do,always remember to do the right thing and make the right judgments..these is not about your presumptions
Try to encourage any newbie,not just me because i know how excruitiating it feels when you read very well just for a topic and you finally get nothing for your reasonable opinion but will see people getting merits for just one line of rigid statements just because he has the tag ''legendary" lets grow beyond these ..
I mean no disrespect at all
Trojans
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