I thought the idea of the merit system was to encourage good posting, and to reward posters who help reshape Bitcoin Talk. What's the point of giving merit to 4 year old posts.
Exactly, there is no need to give merit to such older posts, i also support your point.
I see that Satoshi was last active on December 13, 2010, 04:45:41 PM, but he has 736 merit points.
This can be considered as exceptional case, people must be thanking him for creating the bitcoins.
Maybe I'm being stupid, and really I should just go with the flow and pick up a few hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin by making general and lifestyle posts.
Also it is quite unfair to the users who were very close to become a legendary member but overnight everything changed and now they have to double their merits to rank up. I am not complaining, just highlighting the actual situation. I hope the new merit system will deliver the results and it will be helpful to keep this forum relevant and clean.