I see there is a lack of merit sent out in the Mining, Altcoin, Economics or Local
Sorry, I don't read mining. I do merit in Altcoin, but it's hard to find any decent posts there. I barely read economics, and even "my own" local forum for that matter.Quote
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
If users can apply on their own, I expect many spammers to join. But even if they're good users only, it'll be a lot of work to go over their posts (and context in the threads). ) where a list of users would be selected and the merit sources would go to their posts and merit whatever they find goodThe standards of people giving merits are so damn high. People don't merit normal posts,they merit high quality posts.
Agreed. I try to "lower my standards", especially for Newbies. Of course quality posts should be merited a lot, but just regular good posts are already far above the spam for which the Merit was introduced.I kinda like this. The higher the standards the better contents we will see in the future.
I disagree: you can't have a forum with only the very best people posting. That would mean the forum becomes very elite, and very quiet. One of the goals used to be promoting Bitcoin knowledge, and for that to happen, people should join.I'm happy if posts range from acceptable to good, better, excellent (and nullius). If I see a new user with good posts, I don't want him to be limited in any way by a system that was introduced to stop the worst of the worst spammers.
From now on, I'll try to merit a bit more posts. Note that me meriting a post necessarily doesn't mean I agree with them, it means I consider them worth reading.
There is already a process - merit source applicants need to post a thread in Meta, theymos needs to review it. Not sure if he's not reviewing, not finding suitable applicants, not seeing the need for more than 80, but I don't see how a Legendary vote would fix that.
It took me more than 3.5 months, almost daily bumping, and many "vouches" in the thread to get processed. I haven't seen any sources added since.