Quote from: DarkStar_ on May 06, 2018, 03:14:28 AM

I don't think anyone source has gotten more merits. I know I haven't. The merit source stat page says:

Thanks for posting that. I am a source, and I started my private chat room for discussion with some of the other sources without having to admit publicly that you are a source. I haven't received a top up for many days now, and I have been awarding sMerits that I have received from posting. This is why I have backed away slightly from awarding merits. There was a problem with smerits being depleted as you awarded source merits, and Theymos warned about this, and appears to have fixed it. Source merits should be refreshed after 30 days of awarding, but I'm not receiving them, and I'm wondering if my source awards were not being recorded, but were being taken as sMerits. I'm concerned to think that my quota has been depleted because I only award merits singly, with the odd award of 2 for the best posts.

The Fit to Talk English project was started because I was spending so much time trying to read posts with badly constructed and intelligible English, and it is a saddness to me that more members haven't tried to use this service. I can only assume that the ban on signatures, and the fact that posting doesn't earn any activity or merit, makes it unattractive to the bulk of the new members.

I'm encouraged to read that merit beggars are not sending you any PMs. I put anyone who sends me a PM with a hint of begging straight onto ignore.