Quote from: Vitacplus on January 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

Peter asked a question in a forum, he has received 3 quality replies from 3 different person. Each of the comment has helped him. However since he can only give 1 merit points, the other 2 contributors are not rewarded. This scenario only affects Peter and may not be helpful to other people, so why would other people notice and give merit to the contributors?

Peter should/can grant his sMerit point to the most useful post, or the first one, or to whomever he sees fit.
Anyone else can grant merits if they think the post was constructive. It's not a requirement they are 'affected'

Quote from: Vitacplus on January 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

What if someone thinks that a post has added value to him/her but another party doesnt think it's "good enough"?

How to justify a post is deemed worthy of merits when everyone has a different opinion?

Everyone will grant merits based on their own opinion. Of course it will be different. But a post with just the word "interesting" or "reserved" or "I'm in" shouldn't be considered worthy of merits by anyone.
On the other hand, a post with unique information, well written, with arguments that make sense, will be considered constructive by several people (if not all because everyone has a different opinion) even if they already knew the information or if they don't agree

Quote from: Vitacplus on January 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

Personally i feel that "RANK" != "Influencer". Currently all aged account has a very high rank because of the number of posts that they have made till date... this new merit system is suddenly implemented to ranking based on "influence" that are deemed worthy. It is not a level playing field since aged old accounts that have high ranks are "out of the game".

As I've said before, old members have already posted hundreds or thousands of posts and they would have earned a lot of merit points.
It's impossible to know how many exactly so this rounding is as good as possible without having to check everyone, which would be impossible.
I do think there should be a way to report old users with poor posts and take a lot (all?) of their merit and sMerit points.

Quote from: Vitacplus on January 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

I have another question: what does posts with the highest merit even mean since earlier posts are receiving higher merit points as the ability of giving merits by members are higher?

I'm not sure I fully understand you. I do think good old posts should be granted merit points. And I also think high ranked members must make an effort to read posts made by new members and reward them if their posts are high quality. I normally didn't read the Newbies section but I'll try and do it once in a while now