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theymos will make a 'merit' page to see on how often members are giving merit to other one. And people who are giving merits to others are transparent and can be seen so there will be an obvious if "guy one" send merit to "guy two" most of the time. But this will be hard to determine on who are those people doing this thing all of the sudden, looking at their post one by one.
For now let's adopt this system and it's better to give credit to the valuable posts that contributes to the forum's greatness.
If you can see in the image Theymos has already acquired some merits which will eventually take up some space of your screen. If you acquired too much merit from different user here it will be annoying to the eye and obviously Theymos will do something about it and will have to add minimized option or hide.
Yes he mentioned it that he'll do something about it in the future.
theymos need to make a
public list of sent and received merit of a user, like a
trust summary. This will easily solve that problem.
I will do this in the near future, maybe tomorrow. Also top merited posts/topics/users.
Hypothetically, abuse from user will happen for creating such group in the following months or so, and another "great chase" will start to happen leaving yet another hard job for DT`s and moderators.
It may seem viable, but there are still some flaws towards the new merit system and for sure abuse will come along next to it.
Abuse will come along but for now let's see on how things will work on and when we are there, there will be another action to solve on it. But it will be exposed if there will be people who started to involved themselves with such activities about merit. For the meanwhile, all of us are liking this merit points system.