Quote from: loengrinm on March 06, 2018, 05:46:10 PM

I do not agree to this suggestion because:

1) This is just a change to forum rules and thus there is no need to create a separate section for it. We may see further changes if the merit system fails to combat the spam completely. Should we create a separate section for all those changes in future ?

Merit is not exactly a forum "rule". It is a system - something like the reputation system in other forums - just for the sake of crude comparison, since both serve different purposes. Also Merit is here to stay. Modification may be made but it wont be removed. Any changes done to merit system can be reflected in that section.

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2) With time members will get used to the merit system and thus these posts and threads will disappear.

Again you did not read my OP. It has been 1.5m already.

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Then that section will become useless or look weird without any activity.

Are you aware of a section called "Chinese Students" here in "Other". It also had some purpose and after its purpose was complete it became inactive. What is the problem?

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But one suggestion that you gave regarding pinning the official thread is correct. It can however be done here itself.

Why not keep specific pinned posts to specific places? Roll Eyes