I think I understood how Admins wanted us to use merit system! 
(But it's not for sure)
In my opinion it could be great addition to ranking system if mature forum members could give their respect (sMerits) to each other freely and much more often. If every merit holder take part in this "flow", we will have much faster growing merit balances and much more people will want to make something useful! Because now a lot of times I heard "I've tried couple of times to write something unique and interesting and got 3-4-5 Merits. I'll need to repeat it at least 30 times to level up. It's to much for me..."
Of course we need this system to rate members by their usefulness for the community, but i think we need to share our respect more easily, like in any other social network for example...
I mean that we must not think SO MUCH about every point we give to somebody (yes i think current restriction on the amount and income of Merits is too small, but of course they must be limited due to a day for example).
Its awesome to show how much every member is "liked" by the community, but for now we already have "whales" who became Caesar for gladiators with his big finger pointing up or down, and some of them become such not only because they are well known veterans, perfect bounty managers or smth, but only for ranking up their account in a proper time (and nobody know how much spam they made
)
One more idea about the problem with too much same theme or useless posts... It would be great to make Topic Starting Merit needed (sorry for my English). I mean if you want to start topic - you need to pay merit for it
*And may be it would be interesting to merit Topics, to keep them close to pinned themes without commenting with for example every day merit decreasing and 0,5 of Topic merits going to topic starter... (you know it is hard to stop when you started to dream...
)
I hope you will not find this topic totally bullsh@t and MAY be it will help somehow to make this place more close to perfect.
Thanks for reading and sharing your opinion
(But it's not for sure)In my opinion it could be great addition to ranking system if mature forum members could give their respect (sMerits) to each other freely and much more often. If every merit holder take part in this "flow", we will have much faster growing merit balances and much more people will want to make something useful! Because now a lot of times I heard "I've tried couple of times to write something unique and interesting and got 3-4-5 Merits. I'll need to repeat it at least 30 times to level up. It's to much for me..."
Of course we need this system to rate members by their usefulness for the community, but i think we need to share our respect more easily, like in any other social network for example...
I mean that we must not think SO MUCH about every point we give to somebody (yes i think current restriction on the amount and income of Merits is too small, but of course they must be limited due to a day for example).
Its awesome to show how much every member is "liked" by the community, but for now we already have "whales" who became Caesar for gladiators with his big finger pointing up or down, and some of them become such not only because they are well known veterans, perfect bounty managers or smth, but only for ranking up their account in a proper time (and nobody know how much spam they made
) One more idea about the problem with too much same theme or useless posts... It would be great to make Topic Starting Merit needed (sorry for my English). I mean if you want to start topic - you need to pay merit for it
*And may be it would be interesting to merit Topics, to keep them close to pinned themes without commenting with for example every day merit decreasing and 0,5 of Topic merits going to topic starter... (you know it is hard to stop when you started to dream...
)I hope you will not find this topic totally bullsh@t and MAY be it will help somehow to make this place more close to perfect.
Thanks for reading and sharing your opinion