Quote from: amerrigan on February 09, 2018, 02:33:56 PM

Quote from: mrelich on February 09, 2018, 02:27:00 PM

Quote from: pvk444 on February 09, 2018, 12:40:33 PM

I presume (hope) there are others like me, who are less interested in the monetary rewards than in the intellectual rewards from participating. Thus, perhaps decoupling the rank and the merit system, and only use the merit system to have influence on the monetary benefits, maybe that would be cleaner in term of incentives? It would certainly work for me.

I don't agree. Rank of the member should mean his "seniority" not only by number of posts, but also by quality of posts. I think that nobody wants Hero members that are posting shitposts in this forum. So i like the idea that members should qualify for a higher rank only if they post something meaningful. If you are more interested in intellectual benefits, then there is no need for the rank upgrade anyway..

The other thing is that currently it's quote difficult to get some merits. It looks like a very long journey to upgrade from Member to Full Member for example, even for users that are posting quality posts. I hope this will get better once there are more sMerits available from Merit sources.

Isn't this just another form of elitism though? Only those with sufficient rank can decide on who can progress through the system.

Isn't it is also far too easy for some of these "shitpost heros" to level up their own secondary/multiple accounts and not use the system as intended.

We need a rank Hard-fork!

I don't think it is necessarily a form of elitism. No system is perfect, but they are attempting to decrease those 'shitpost heros' from ever making it to the higher ranks. They can do nothing about those that were already higher ranks to begin with as that would also be unfair to them.

You can send 1 sMerit for every 2 that you receive. I have used up my 1 unfortunately, but I hope to gain more with more quality posts that I put on this board with time. It's a slow process yes, but one that has to be fully-accepted before it can really change the way things are done here.