a 7 word post from a user which received 5 merits from Pharmacist
You must be referring to this post:
If you don't like forum GO AWAY.
I don't often give out as many merits for posts, but this was in the first month or so of the merit system and I thought marlboroza's post summed up my thoughts exactly, and that's why I gave him 5 merits. Sometimes that happens, but if you take a look at the merits I've left you'll see that this instance was an anomaly and not good evidence that the merit system isn't worthwhile, isn't working, or is corrupt.
As an aside, why did you feel the need to make a new account just to vent about the merit system? I can't imagine anyone would criticize you for doing that, nor leave you negative feedback.
Another thing that surprises me is that a lot of users have some special affinity for Yahoo. So many of them are busy licking his balls and worshipping him. The majority of people that he has accepted in his own signature campaign are actually the worst shitposters I have seen around with absolutely no command over English grammar whatsoever.
I respect Yahoo62278 and we've done a deal together that turned out positively, and he's always treated me well--in that deal and in the Bitdouble sig campaign when I was in that. I would agree with you, however, that he's accepting a lot of shitposters into his campaigns lately. That's unfortunate, but he might be getting pressure from whoever owns the businesses that form the basis of those campaigns. Who knows.
I wish there was a better system in place compared to the Merit system. It makes it near impossible to ever rank up on this forum.
I have to agree with you on the first part. However, I would argue that what we have now is still much, much better than what we had before, which put up zero obstacles to shitposters and account farmers ranking up. The merit system isn't perfect by any means, but at least Theymos did something. Don't know if you were around in 12/2017 to 1/2018, but actmyname and I had been added to DT and were red-tagging shitposters, and you should have seen Meta in those days. Every other thread was by someone complaining about their trust page. It was a pain in the ass, took a lot of time, and it wasn't a good use of the trust system. I'm glad we've got this system now.