Quote from: The Pharmacist on February 03, 2018, 04:49:06 AM

Quote from: roxbit on February 03, 2018, 04:39:35 AM

Just want to share my feelings about merit system here, just a few days before I am supposed to rank up as Member is the time the merit system was introduced. I feel really disappointed because my rank will be screwed as Jr Member until some members will merit me. It seems so impossible to get a meit from high ranked members because they are not obliged to do it. But I will not say I am against with it because I totally understand why they are doing this. But I hope it not be unfair to the new comers who are religiously posting constructive, informative, and no fouls words in the forum.

And I would ask why it's so important for you to rank up, and why it's so disappointing to you that you didn't just yet.

It might not feel comfortable for a lot of people having to wait until they get enough merit points to rank up, but that's exactly how this system is supposed to work. It's supposed to slow the process down so that people won't be able to farm 1000 accounts in a specified period of time. Introducing a quality factor here is fucking brilliant. Yeah it might be annoying to a certain class of farmer/shitposters, but you can cry me a river on that one. If your posts are such that you're waiting forever to get those merit points, you likely didn't deserve to rank up anyway.

I don't know if it's really going to work out very well. Sure it will slow down people trying to farm accounts but how slow is it gonna be? League of legends, a videogame, introduced a system that was almost like this called honor and at first people did give honor to players however after a while it became irrelevant and people didn't give honor anymore, they were forced to almost force you to give honor prompting a screen after each game to give honor. What I'm saying is that eventually less and less people are going to give merit unless you are forced to.