Hate to say it, but some of the best discussion happens in the Meta section. There are other sections like mining and other technical sections, but for the most part those are out of my league. That's why most of my sMerits have gone to posts in Meta.
I am not referring to whole Meta section. People purposefully active on only merit threads
for the most part and working around merits, running threads only for merits.
As if they dont know anything about rest of the crypto space.
Now coming to good actor part:
Consider example of user
EggdraSylDoing good work and running successful things, helping users, but limited to his forum work. But will he get merits like these merit thread runners, no.
Why no? Because he will not write essays and philosophy lectures in merit sections. He is concise in his answers because he is clear in what he is doing and keep his post to the point.
But He is not getting merits, because for merits you need to write a motivating, captivating post. Which he is not doing, so he will not get merits. He will stuck to his lower rank even if he cross his activity.
This is one example, I can give a number of such good actors.
Check the previous example of merit grabber, how he is earning merit is via merit threads. Does he deserve these many merits, for running merit threads and writing philosophies on merit system or making statical data around merit is such an important work in crypto? While people who are really working in crypto are not promoted to next level because of lack on merits. People should focus on real stuff and not worry about how to get merit.
These only active users in merit threads are clearly to gain merits.