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Excellent, logical and positive post! Would have +1d but I ran out of spendable merit!

** If you need 2 merits to get one sMerit, will everyone eventually run out of sMerit?

There was the initial distribution of merits and smerits and the rippling effects of the initial distribution would be expected to carry on for a year or more for members to use their merits and then the halvening too, like you mentioned.

Yet, there are also 57 members that Theymos has designated as sources of about 12,000 smerits per 30 days, and Theymos seems to think that smerits flowing through sources will cause a sufficient enough supply of continued smerits rippling through the forum, yet it seems that it could take several months to determine how the merit system is playing out in terms of ranking up and flow of smerits, etc.

I doubt it will dry up, but there could be questions about whether it will be fairly distributed and what kinds of posts will attract the giving of merit.

The whole thing needs tweaking some more..seems to me. I dont have near enough merits to hand out. I dont want a shit ton more...but being able to reward comments daily and not run out seems like it would be a reasonable place to start. And another damn thing..some hero members had there merits raised if they where near legendary? If so..what about all the other ranks that where close to ranking up? Its all kinda arbitrary.

Not that I really care..I still am going to give out the forked WOsMerits when earned Tongue

slightly on topic...seems the east is wakening up and is not happy..more dump?

I read through a lot of the merit explanation thread (linked below):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

Your concern about some kind of more fair distribution, whether prorata or based on activity level, was brought up in that thread several times, even by me. So, yeah, someone like you seems to have been disproportionately impacted in a negative way since you would have ranked up to sr. member this week - except the policy change is going to cause the need for you to receive 150 more merits (and less than 120 now because you already received about 30 in the past week)... I am not sure if there would be some way for Theymos to tweak the initial distribution again in order to make it more fair, but I know that such subject has been brought up by quite a few members... and yeah so far, it seems that he only tweaked the initial merit distribution of the hero members in the legendary range and not any other ranks, and he did not even do that in a pro-rata way based on activity, so I am not even sure if it is possible with the system (as long as the member had 775 activity points or more, the member received 1000 merits - and the previous allocation had been based on legendary status received 1000 and hero received 500). The hero redistribution was more fair and better, but certainly not perfect, which may have been more difficult to achieve.