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the merit will lead to new memers never to get rank rise, and surely more and more people people will quit from this forum, i just want to know how to handle those hero and legend members with scam posts? i think most scams are posted by those high rank members who participate in bounty campaign

No, its possible just work hard and smart.

I know that this is the intention, but it's not how it works. Equating working hard and smart with the possibility of gaining merits, is not reality. There are way too many great posts out there which recieve no merits while weak posts receive several merits. The causality that's being claimed here, does not hold on average

Then make a thread with those "great" posts without merits entitled "Me Applying to be A Merit Source". This is the greatest solution for your complain. Members may merit those posts that don't really makes sense to you but I think they have their own reason why they've done that, these reasons include merit trading and alt accounts.

Everybody has there own reasons, and that's exactly my point. The reason MIGHT be because the post is of good quality. But it MIGHT also be because you simply strongly agree with the opinion. Or it MIGHT be because you just want to raise the importance of the post in a debate. Or it MIGHT be just because you feel like giving away some merits ... And exactly because of all these possibilities, it is a false equivalence to state that with good quality people will eventually earn the merits they deserve.

Furthermore, if merits are used also in merit trading and other matters, then that again demonstrates that the quality => merits is simply not accurate.

As I mentioned previously, as long as the system works to keep spammers in check, I don't really care about these side effects. But making people believe that the quality of their contribution will be reflected in the amount of merits they gain, is misleading.