Quote from: marlboroza on January 24, 2018, 11:43:46 PM

I have 500 merits as hero member. Does it mean this is minimum and I can't lose it?

Along with account sales, trust farming, cheating signature/bounty campaigns and all other shady activities I am sure we will see merit farming.
It won't change single thing about spamming:

Rank   Required activity   Required merit
Brand new   0    0
Newbie   1    0
Jr Member   30    0
Member   60    10

Instead of spamming 30 days to reach junior member status we will see newbies spamming for 2-3 months until they reach member status and join campaigns, and what will they do before they reach member status?
They will create more accounts, because they will need lots accounts to get merit points and rank up to higher ranks or they will just do "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" with other "I need merit" users.
Don't see how merit will help against spam.

On side note can you update this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats .

Lutpin answered this.

Quote from: Lutpin on January 24, 2018, 11:10:05 PM

You can only give 50 merit to a user in a 30 day window.
Unless they have an alt account, they cannot give you 100 merit (right now).

So it will still take you 2 months to get that 100 merits that you need then some activity again to be a full member.
That will somehow make them weary of making too much accounts just so they could upgrade one.

So 5 months to have 250 merits and activities to be a Senior Member.
That will need a lot of good posting because those 10 Member ranks that he created lacks the smerit afterwards.

Now I am getting the idea of it.
It could somehow make one person focus on just one account instead of too many which post quality gets bad when his brain is too tired. Grin