The merit mechanic is great. It encourages users to post well to rank up. Maybe in the future signature campaigns can pay out using Merits instead of BTC 
Thats something I think merit sources could be used well for.
But right now, why don't we make every 10 merits we recieve, translate to 8 or 10 sMerit? People with current ranks become the merit sources, and the merit can be passed around while the 8 merits recieved will stop merits being too common. Besides the example above, can someone help me try to justify the need for merit sources?
Thats something I think merit sources could be used well for.But right now, why don't we make every 10 merits we recieve, translate to 8 or 10 sMerit? People with current ranks become the merit sources, and the merit can be passed around while the 8 merits recieved will stop merits being too common. Besides the example above, can someone help me try to justify the need for merit sources?
I think its a good suggestion.. or maybe instead of merit it shows up as a temporary "highlight" of the post to draw attention to it in a pile of posts.. but it may all just boil down to forum limitations and the system it can support, and any potential upgrade just may be outside of its abilities.. I do like the idea of incorporating thouse who earn merit into the smerit pool though.. since most who are actively low and earning merit are also surrounded by others trying to gain merit. I think its really too early to tell though whether the amount of merit being doled out is appropriate or not..it could be that merit will function like bitcoin and overtime the difficulty of mining merit will become more difficult as time on the forum passes.. making the legendary status still possible.. but very very time consuming.. I like the system but it seems a bit slow.. but I guess time will tell when it comes to fine tuning it.