I see a lot of sr/hero/legendary members that do not use proper English in their posts. How is this fair? What contributions did they bring?
With the old system, an active poster would reach Full Member status in about 3 months. Let's assume it's about a good poster that tries to bring value to this forum. With the new system, reaching the same status will take years (at least 5).
For example I try to do quality posts and help out where I can but have not received ANY merits for my posts directly. I am by no means a great poster, I would like to think I'm average, but definitely not a spammer. So, something is definitely not working with this system.
I still hope this system will be changed and the intent wasn't about creating a closed group. Not giving everybody the same opportunities will lead to people moving on to other forums or just keeping those ideas to themselves and not sharing, because they're fine with just reading.
I have also proposed some alternatives: new ranks on top of legendary or a "likes" system that is easier to use and is not limited to the amount of sMerit you have. Check my posts in this sub forum.
Hey buddy, If you think they didnt contribute at all, just think about their time, energy, etc that is spent on this forum long before bitcoin has a good price, has a signature payment for this forum, and has a big name like now. They did a great job to spent their time and energy thus creating a traffic to this forum, and you think that is not a contribution? You dont even contribute a bit of your energy and time to search bitcoin back then when you thought it was a scam in the early year of bitcoin. If there are no early people who plays in this forum, i guess you wouldnt be here to get money for doing signature/bounty/etc.
By the way, congratz man, 187 merits wow, thats a good achievement.
Not good enough. So in the seven days since you wrote that, Ive added another 113 meritsto get myself started.
For that amount of merits and you said it is not good enough? Man thats a good positivity you have there. Getting merits over our great posts indeed is a great feeling. I got some too in this week and i hope it will continue in the future.
Meanwhile i have a nice idea for my next thread, will finish it soon after my other work is done. It will involve some statistics again and i hope it can changes people to be more positive on this merit system.