Quote from: hisako on April 03, 2018, 06:01:51 PM

what was the common problem of the newbies in this forum? What are they whining for?

The merit system is concerned not only to newbies. Actually, it's not a problem. In my opinion, the merit system is a good thing.

Let's assume that the earliest users mined this forum as a blockchain. At the end of 2017 a lot of new users registered here. In other words, the hashrate was increased, therefore the difficulty of mining (of ranking up) was increased too.