i wonder if a newbie is eligible for merit or not?.. and does it has a demerit function also? means can someone demerit others.
Merit can be compared to "like" of facebook, twitter and other social medias. But the merit points reserved for us are limited. We can give merit to the person who has a great contribution to the forum such as producing quality post and comment.
It was created to avoid from spammers, account farmers and "shitposters".
It was made to encourage everyone in the forum to make a good quality post and comment.
There is no option of Demerit.