Thoroughly explaining myself and trying to be precise with my words so that I get my point across is merit farming and using too many words? That's 2 high-ranking members offering nothing constructive to the idea at all. TMAN, I was honestly looking forward to reading your reply when I saw you had responded, since you're one of the few people doing something similar to what I'm asking.

I was thinking you would be open to expanding your "contest", collaborating with others and trying to scale what you are doing to a greater degree. Give what up?

I do not want merit. I do not care about ranking up or acquiring these points. I am happy with where I am at, but I thought it would be nice to use the new system in interesting ways. I encourage you to say exactly the same things I have in my post, without losing any meaning, significance or caveats with 10x less words; could be a fun exercise, because I think you're being pompous.