Appreciate the reward but if you have a limited amount of it it's probably best saving it for lower ranks who need it more than I do.
Merit is meant to highlight good posts and restrict spammers, so I don't exclude higher ranks. I've never been out of sMerit to give, and I'm having a really hard time handing out more than I receive (probably because I give only 1 most of the time).I also think that the merit system is good in theory but can be improved.
For example in the local sections there are very few merit sources.
That's a community effort: someone has to step up and apply to be a merit source.For example in the local sections there are very few merit sources.
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84 sources for 2 mln users.
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If you can live in the real world you can accept the merit system 
There is such a system: some get paid more than others in the real world. Sometimes it's deserved, sometimes it isn't.@LoyceV we also have a representative for being a merit source in our local, Is it true that it takes a lot of time to review the applicant to be accepted?
Mine took about 3 months, some were much faster, and some are still waiting.Of the 447 average that sign up per day, I'd bet 400 of them are a combination of bots, shitposters (airdroppers and sig campaigners), and people who otherwise don't give a damn about anything other than how to get "free money."
It took 42 days to go from 2200000 to 2300000 user accounts. That's over 2000 new accounts per day, 16,000 per week. Last week, only 241 users received Merit for the first time, and most of them were old accounts already.In my opinion, even if all 84 merit sources worked hard and efficiently, they have still alsmot been unable to catch all high quality threads to give their smerits away.
Good threads are hard to find because there are so many bad posts. But from what I've seen, I don't think many good threads get overlooked.