Lack of proper education became counter productive because of that more then 50% of merits dropped is never used till date.
You can see even large number of high ranking users never used their smerits effectively.
Again, you should also understand that it is our prerogative to either used the smerit or not. If this high ranking users are not giving merits then that is not because of the lack of knowledge but simply because this users haven't seen any good threads or specific replies to be awarded by one. You know why does most of the high ranking users does not give merits that easily? Simple because they are more observant and not a part of the merit abused.
Unlike most of the merit abusers who are usually from Jr. member to full members who are participating in the system holes. Since they can all benefits trading merits.
as you have stated here:
On the other side, large accounts which got good amount of smerit, used merits to give to their own parked accounts. I have proofs but i recommend an internal analysis to take collective action.
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3. Stick to more active and bigger threads, and only post in that thread to make friends along and keep passing merits to each other.
I would like to call for action against merit abusers.
If you really wanted to then start acting, report every merit abused with proven evidences to the moderators. Through this you can easily help them to eliminate this kind of acts.
Also, smerit airdrop should again happen, eligibility and conditions can be discussed, like burning previous smerit left since months, or dropping more proportion to people who used smerits.
Airdropping of smerit is pretty useless thing. There are already a good numbers of smerit distributors.