Quote from: cyber_smiley on January 24, 2018, 11:25:53 PM

Quote from: Kiritsugu on January 24, 2018, 11:23:09 PM

Quote from: cyber_smiley on January 24, 2018, 11:21:08 PM

This might not be fair for new people, I don't know if others will ever consider to give merit to newbies. Guess I had to been registered here like 1year back to get some kind of "good" positions. Juniors and newbies are often treated poorly.

It's perfectly fair to new people. It just means that in order for you to rank up or earn Merit, you have to write high-quality posts, rather than just spam a bunch of worthless stuff. You're not being treated poorly; everyone has to write high-quality posts. The only difference is that higher ranks start with more Merit as a baseline, which doesn't provide them any kind of advantage over you.

Well it provides them with sMerit, with more sMerit to vote for other posts if I may say this. While I, myself and I DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY to give merit to others. So if you are an "old schooler" here you have more power in your hands. Same applies with getting this "merit source" status you have to be high rank to be able to give merit to others and this is not related with our knowledge or engagement within the community.

This is a necessary evil when introducing a system like this, especially in a forum/community already running for years.
You somehow need to introduce merit and sMerit into circulation, if you wouldn't, there would be no way to gain them and rank up.
It makes sense giving those that are here for a long time and contributed over that time a little head start.

Hopefully people will send merit points based on post quality and not based on the rake of an user (eg "that's a newbie, I wont send him merit"), and if they do,
this won't be a problem in a year, or maybe two. It will only be a bit off balance at this very start.

Quote from: entr on January 24, 2018, 11:27:58 PM

If there is no demeriting right now. How does this guy at the topic -link below- demerited by the same guy?

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Merited by crairezx20 (-10), crairezx20 (-10), crairezx20 (-10)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2605767.140

Did you forget to limit the merit you can send to positive numbers?

Quote from: TryNinja on January 24, 2018, 11:29:16 PM

This user now has a merit of -20 and the user who gave the negative merits still has 500.

I wonder if that actually increased their sMerit by 30 instead of decreasing it.

I hate you lauda. Why do you have to do this Cry