Quote from: Delphinus on September 17, 2018, 10:53:30 AM

One merit might take a while to gather, but it's not unreasonable to ask before being promoted.

For the new merit sources, perhaps they could be given the guidance to focus specifically on accounts with 0 merits (and a quick review of their post history). That way new members won't get frustrated, since they should receive a merit relatively soon if their post history is "normal".

I don't think that "buying" older accounts is a problem necessarily. If moderators ban spammers, it's a lot of money to keep buying new accounts just to spam.

My only recommendation is to further limit PMs for newbies (maybe just 2-3 per week, why would anyone need more right at the start). If we focus on giving them one merit pretty soon, it shouldn't remain a problem for long anyway.

I was trying to contribution from dec 2017 and still trying day by day. Your guideline will be help people to contribution in this community as much as possible. People should more contribution in this community to keep moving. Personally i think this is the right decision. Hope everybody now careful and try to value addition in this forum by there real merit. thank you