⭐ Merited by HCP (1)
will be "de-merited" with negative or (minus) "Merit points". He/she should aggregate that minus or de-merit points with positive merit points.
The merit system is meant as a reward system. The idea is to not be punitive but to allow ranking up and the associated benefits to come from improving or providing quality to the forum.
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I came with this idea because many newcomers who learned about merit will try to increase their merit points and many of them will try to beg/ask for merit, but this action should not tag them throughout their bitcointalk life with spammer with negative trust in red color because there is no such attempted spamming. It is too harsh for those who are new and coming here to explore new things and looking to grow in cryptospace with community.
These newcomers should continue on learning beyond just that the system exists and who to ask for them.
The red trust also is only punitive if you are here to solely make money off the forum, Red trust in no way limits you from learning or engaging with the community. Like I previously stated, given enough time and proof of learning from the experience the member that issued that trust may consider removing it or changing it to neutral. If they do not that's their decision and again just part of the forum environment members need to learn to work within
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Also, I would suggest legendary merit generator not to only distribute the merit points to those who will write goods things for your post or liked your advertised products but also to those newcomers who are trying to earn some merits with good posts. There are many who distributes fairly to newcomers with good posts also, I really appreciate those.
Merit "generators" or anyone with Smerit can give the merit how they see fit. I would say they do a decent job of getting them out there. Just don't expect every post you make to earn Merit. I don't think that there are many users that are only meriting posts that promote their projects or that are brownnosing.
If a newcomer can write something even a well worded useful question they will get the merit needed.