Quote from: Thirdspace on January 25, 2018, 10:15:38 PM

Quote from: actmyname on January 25, 2018, 09:40:08 PM

Quote from: jambola2 on January 25, 2018, 08:40:26 PM

Yikes... is it just me or does the merit system seem like it might worsen the account-farming problem even further.
I don't see myself randomly meriting posts, even if they are helpful. So account farmers would have a much easier time gaining merit on their accounts than regular users...

False. Account farming is more difficult. You would have to trickle down merit from your larger accounts (and for that matter you need quite a significant amount to rank up). And because it is public, the abuse can be tracked down and the accounts will be negged.

this is true, account farming is more difficult due to new merit requirement for ranking up
new accounts don't generate merits, even current higher rank's merits will be used up fast in no time
there is no way for account farmer to do it easily unless he has several high level rank accounts actively posting and receiving merits

and the available merits are scarce and possibly getting rarer because a few things such as:
- trickle down effect in sMerit points
- only a few select unknown merit sources with limited merits to spread around
- the generousity of merit sources to spread it around
- decaying (implemented yet?) merit points unused by some users

note: Happy Birthday actmyname,
if today's really your birthday as shown on your profile Cheesy

He just turned 15!!! Happy birthday!

In a year, there will be a ton of people with thousands of merit points its just getting there