You can tell it's had positive effects already by the number of shitposters complaining about it. Only lazy/low quality posters complain because they know it's going to be very difficulty for them to rank up or at the very least they're not going to have to start putting effort into their posts that also needs to be recognised by others. To your average illiterate generic shitposter this will be nigh on impossible.

Quote from: yamortsac on January 30, 2018, 04:40:48 PM

Yes I think so, this system was created to improve the quality of posts of everyone here and to clean up this forum. And when I have read some posts and comments of some users, I can say that many are trying to adapt the new system and trying to improve the quality of their posts.

Quote from: di.ako.toh on January 30, 2018, 03:30:33 PM

I think so, in some part merits system has still a positive impact because these could measure the quality of these posts in the bounty program.

Quote from: Siopao on January 30, 2018, 02:33:16 PM

The effects of this merit system is yet to be find out. For now I think it's still on acceptance testing. I find this new system very challenging as there are slim chance of being given with merit so I really have to work hard for it. I hope that this merit system really serves its purpose of cleaning the forum.

I wonder what are the odds you are all the same person? All on the same campaign and all registered in September 2017 Roll Eyes

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on January 30, 2018, 04:52:54 PM

The post quality (in my opinion) has dramatically increased around here since the new system was implemented. Ive seen much less shitposting from people.

I think its a massive positive to be perfectly honest.

Shitposting will naturally decrease because previously any old shitpost would count towards activity/post count but now these sorts of posts will get them nowhere so they know they can't easily rank up this way anymore. Now all we need to work on is getting campaigns to not pay for shitposts and the forum will clean itself up.