Merit vs Namevoting - What's the difference?
merit | namevoting |
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited .}}
To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
(demoscene) Voting for an entry in a demoscene competition because of its author or demogroup rather than its actual merits.
* 1999 , "eggbird", However..'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
As a proper noun merit
is .As a noun namevoting is
(demoscene) voting for an entry in a demoscene competition because of its author or demogroup rather than its actual merits.merit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
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English
Noun
(-)- there is always namevoting at a party. just dont enter a compo if you don't like that.