'Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair'
- Nice one (do not matter where did you get it). Anyway that's off topic. I sent you an sMerit (only one I had) for good constructive feedback. Keep it up.
it's always nice to have healthy discussion and bounce suggestions back off other people.
-Sure it is.
...you would not be able to then do this without first finding someone else to give merit to...
- You won't need to find someone else to give merit for that post. Someone else will surely find it to give merit since it's a good post. I believe there are enough people who are merit source (or will be) to merit for good work. In my opinion restriction will improve misusing sMerits giving someone again and again and again. You can give sMerit to the same person after certain period of time though. All you need to do is to wait.
Consider when you were a new member. I guess when you are a new member, just joined, the system did not allow you to make two posts in an hour. This was for spammers who has intention to spam, is kind of just to stop them from what they wanted to do. Sure you can not stop everyone, still we see people are spamming but at-least it's a good way to stop them for a while at the first place.
It's my own view of-course I do not disagree with your views as well.
PS: It's a shame that most of the people in the forum are keep saying new members are lacking knowledge hence
they can not post quality contents. Guess what it's not always true. I seen there are new members who are doing better then some of the highest ranked members. I went through your posts and you deserve more merits on some of your contents.