Quote from: Mr.John19 on January 25, 2018, 02:37:26 PM

Legendary accounts don't need or care about merit requirement because they are already at the max rank. I want to recommend on the high position right there, What if the legendary accounts have a job or obligation to give merit to the lower ranks, 14 different accounts or user to every two weeks

Forcing people to give points doesn't help improve post quality.

Quote from: Foxpup on January 25, 2018, 02:39:11 PM

Nonsense. Look at Lutpin: he went from 500 to over 1000 in less than a day. Granted, he's an exceptional individual, but it proves that the path to Legendary status is not impossible.

I'm curious to see which posts got points (Lutpin: care to share the list?). I'm mainly curious to see if it's (partially) used as a popularity contest so to speak.

Quote from: S.Sandberg on January 25, 2018, 02:52:09 PM

Next to no one got "merit" points. and the thread already has almost 40 pages.

I received 6 and gave out 5 today, mainly for posts I had bookmarked, which means I value the content enough to read/use it again. I don't need to give away all my sMerit today, it'll be part of my normal forum use. If a post is worth it, I'll leave a merit. I wouldn't mind becoming a "source" in the future, and hand out a few merits per day.

Quote from: johhnyUA on January 25, 2018, 03:02:52 PM

And how we can fight with such things?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2770539.msg28896442#msg28896442

50 merits for useless post. Multiaccounts Cheesy

If it's his own account, he could have deleted the post to remove all (public) evidence. Isn't this similar to leaving trust for your own account?
It will eventually end when people run out of sMerits, and don't earn new ones. Short-term it can be heavily abused indeed.