With this new function, i think that only member that are already member rank or higher before today get Merit point because it's free one time Merit point. and the other with lower rank will never get enough Merit point to up level.
From where I stand I'm equally likely to merit a noob or a legendary... as long as the post is worth it.
What will happen if use all the sMerit I have? Do I get more?
0.5 for each merit you get.
yeah a new function and you got 1000 Merit point without doing anything. cool
Dont feel bad, Bruce Wagner has 250 merit, cablepair has 500 merit, cypherdoc has 1000 merit, MagicalTux (aka Mark Karpeles) has 500 merit, Inaba (aka EclipseMC, Butterfly Labs, his trust rating is the worst Ive ever seen -9999: -15 / +4p) has 1000 merit.
I dont think it matters what your merit is unless you want to jump ranks and be able to make signature money. This might help the mods out by cutting down on the meaningless posts aimed only at post count. Hopefully merit will succeed where activity failed miserably. It will be interesting to see how Merit is gamed. I can definitely see account sales increasing now.
It seems to be hard to get merits from others. I think it is simply because users should keep merits for themselves in order to be ranked up. Quite hard to get rewarded merits, I guess.