I'm certainly not jealous of the time OP spends merit farming. I just think he's trying to utilize tactics that have worked for others to gain additional merit. He even referenced these threads that have previously been posted to celebrate rankings that have received merit. I simply believe there's an ulterior motive to this and don't approve of kool-aid sipping echo chamber merit threads. If members continue to receive merit for these, we're setting a precedent that will lead to more 'YAY 100 MERIT' threads. I'm over it.

I think it's fascinating that so many members+ delete posts that aren't receiving merit prior to the server updating activity count in order to make it seem like they have a higher quality contribution. We regularly condemn newbies for posting too much, but completely ignore members+ who have posted hundreds of times in 2 weeks because they know how to game the system. Seems slightly hypocritical to me.