I don't think it is waste for Legendary. They receive 0.5 sMerits per 1 received merit. Then they could distribute it to other members, someones even help junior (in general term) members to rank up. I see this type of initiative mostly among Legendary members. That is a very good think. And some of them are really knowledgeable and no wonder they get more merits.
2) Since a members also gets some Smerits on receiving merits, it gives legendary member a chance to merit other members.
The point is, if you give special privilege to the Legendaries such as making them merit source then you don't even need to waste one merit to have them 0.5 sMerits
...especially in the meta board, you will see a lot of persons spamming the forum with various merit talks which has been addressed over and over again.
- In time these people will get tired and only the people who cares about the community will last till the end.
I am not sure that this will work. There are so many ways to exploit this, I mean there are hundreds of free proxy. One can even buy dedicated IPs for multiple profiles. depending how much he is earning from his profile here.
- yes there are however things will be really difficult for someone then, and which will eventually reduce the numbers of the abusive accounts.2) There may be some genuine users making really good posts. All their posts might be deserving enough to get merits from same member again and again. If the rule you suggested is implemented, such members will also suffer and may get discouraged.
How would you justify a post whether it worth 1 merit or 50 merits? In my view since you do not have any standardisation so just come out with a default setting such as in a drop-down box set it like 1, 2, 3, 4 or the highest 5. The use will try to judge the post worth what number out of 5. If it's 2 then select 2!
It really hurt to see getting 10 merits or even 50 merits for a post where in a month a user can send the total of 50 sMerits.
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Yes, right for sure.