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 are right. To ke I think this merit system has narrowed our path for being high ranked. But if it's needed to control the post quality then Merit system may be applied to high ranked id. Because it already seen that many high ranked id has a low post quality.