Quote from: Thirdspace on January 29, 2018, 09:43:17 AM

Quote from: B4RF on January 29, 2018, 07:37:11 AM

I was thinking the same and in addition to that I already posted my idea to even integrate the merit into the activity rank

Quote from: B4RF on January 28, 2018, 07:00:45 PM

Quote from: theymos on June 18, 2013, 08:44:42 PM

The activity number is determined in this way:
time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration
activity = min(time * 14, posts)

We would have used:
activity = min(time * 14, posts, merit)

your formula would make merit as higher importance than posting itself
while the idea of merit is appraising the quality of the post not the quantity of the post
with your formula, people will not raise in rank at all unless he gets merits

imagine someone's been posting one post/day for 1 year = 365 posts = 365 activity
with your formula he will be newbie forever if he hasn't received any merits
week2: min(14, 14, 0) = 0 and a year later week52: min(364, 365, 0) = 0
and for that reason, he would still have newbie limits for posting, PMs limit and can't post images
I would support fine tuning the merits with some limits just like putting a limit on activity gain/week

I understand your point but when someone actually has an account for one year and has never received any merit, maybe he doesnt deserve a different account then newbie because he never posted anything usefull?
And if no one ever gave him merit although his post quality is fine then he could easily ask in the meta thread for a merit source to check a selection of his posts.