Re: Before you give merit to a newly-demoted newbie...

Quote from: alanst

You will be getting a merit as soon as you'll stop looking for it. Just start helping instead of complaining and it will come.

And just look at that, he was given a Merit on his second post without a sweat.

I explained my rationale for giving him a merit here, and I stand by it. It was for that post which was a short but well-written post by a noob who I thought deserved it.

I gave him my last source Merit (for the first time since I became a source, I finally managed to spend them all). On top of your reasoning: he's also a Copper Member, so he doesn't need to be Jr. Member for the perks. And he made only 3 posts since June, which isn't the typical spammer. Basically new users who aren't spammers make me very happy, as that is what this forum needs.

Quote from: Delphinus on September 17, 2018, 01:14:41 PM

~ I have made 5 people very happy today. That gives me plenty of offline merit to be able to do something like that for someone

I'll have to disagree with your reasoning here. Making someone happy isn't a good reason to merit a post. I can just as well get them banned if they break the rules, knowing damn well it can seriously impact someone's income in a poor country. I won't merit them to make them happy, and I won't stop reporting bad posts because it could make them sad.

There are many responsible members like you so well, many members have quality posts but little attention. And they really should get at least 1 merit for their contributions...