Hey Guys,
The new merit system is not working properly and I think this can be quite dangerous for the quality of this forum.
Why? Simply because they are quite a lot very brilliant posts in this forum (especially in the local forums) which are not merited at all (not even 1 point). If you then see that they are a lot of free merit / scam threads this really dumps your motivation in creating serious content in this forum - cause its simply unfair.
Now consider there is a newbie who affords lot of time in creating some nice content in order to rank up, not merited at all. What do you think the motivation of this guy is going? Do you think he is gonna try this again?
So why don't we think about an demerit system?
Why don't we demerit for spam, off topic, insults or scam attempts and increase thereby the quality of this forum?
If their would be somehow a punishment for bad quality post this would really motivate people to increase their forum behavior.
I am exited how you think about that.
You have something to punish spamming kind of post which is 'report to moderator' button.
And if we have demerit system, this forum will surely become a battlefield. Because subjectivity into hate things is greater and easier to punish rather than subjectivity into positive things to be rewarded. It is not a kind of healthy forum if we have that such things.
And merit is only here for about 3 weeks now, how can someone says it is not working without giving a valid data? When you re not getting merit doesnt mean merit is not working, in fact there are so many merits already given in the process, and if its given wrongly, like selling or abusing, then it is only about time that these people got tagged.