LOL so basically someone is trying to launch a merit market.
on a bitcoin community, its pretty obvious that some people here are gonna have to buy merits to get up.
also i would like to show that excepted some senior/VIP/moderators members.
Next to no one got "merit" points. and the thread already has almost 40 pages.
With the current allocation rules the merit points are so scarce that selling or buying them makes little sense. And they cannot be very expensive, because nobody is going to pay that much for upranking.
this means to my humble guess, that its gonna take me and other entire year to reach the "full member" level. (ven though its only 40 activity points away ).
where the hell am i gonna find 90merit points ?
For me it is 150 points. I think it does not even worth trying.
if this system is here to stop people trying to climb the scale up, then it is an absolute success.
It probably is. It is essentially freezing the rankings.
anyway i'm not especially negative toward this, i'm quite used to natural selection, and fairness is just a human concept, not a reality.
I'm not sure if it is going to be good for the forum in the long term. Maybe it will change.