I currently have received more merit than everyone in the forum except for 218 people, and I have not received sufficient merit to achieve Full Member status, but am a Legendary member only because I was grandfathered in. ~ Surely there are more than 220 people who make sufficiently good posts to be a Full Member.
Full Member requires 100 Merit, you have earned 141. As of
last Friday, 343 users have
received 100 or more Merit (and 423 users received 90, which is enough if they started with 10 airdropped Merits).
An ideal system in my view would be for someone to pay maybe a dollar to become a junior member (that would not allow signatures of any kind), pay $10-$20 to become a Member/Copper Member~
I've seen rates of $1000 per week per thread for a "bumping service", and they used 35 different accounts to do this. A small payment per account isn't going to stop them.
are you happy jon?
@theymos: how can this user still have a signature? Is it only removed when someone reaches 30 Activity?
Update: I created a
new account last week, that one still has signature and Personal Text. I kinda like it: a Newbie starts with some perks, and has 30 Activity to prove he's worth keeping it. If not, it disappears.