Maybe a solution for this issue would be to:
What do you guys think?
- select a few merit sources that are interested in these topics and regularly posts there for a better distribution of merits
- have something like a "Rank-o-Thon" (similar to Hackathon
) where a list of users would be selected and the merit sources would go to their posts and merit whatever they find good
What do you guys think?
I think that now the merit system is at the second stage of its evolving. The first stage is already gone past, it was useful for detecting an account farmers and a bounty cheaters which gave about 50 merits each other. At the second stage some users still have small amount of sMerit which has been distributed at 24 January 2018 and earned later, but they won't give them easy as they did it before. At the third stage the merit system will be mostly depended on the distribution of the merit sources, and ranking up will be harder than at the present time.
Probably your first solution will be useful in the future, but the second solution is similar to ranking up based on the user activity.