Quote from: JayJuanGee on September 18, 2018, 01:01:12 AM

Quote from: 2weent6 on September 18, 2018, 12:09:05 AM

This forum is really challenging now, and this is actually good so those who are just posting to make money here will be lessen. I just hope that everyone will get merit based on their quality and not just because they know each other.

The giving of merit still seems to be discretionary, and likely members are going to give merits based on knowing the other person (through posts), and you become known by providing good posts, no?

Quote from: 2weent6 on September 18, 2018, 12:09:05 AM

Also is there anyway to help us receive merit?

One good way is for you to attempt to help yourself by attempting to provide good post contents.

Quote from: 2weent6 on September 18, 2018, 12:09:05 AM

I mean, why not change the setting that if you don't spend your smerit you will be punished for something. Because as I can see, merit system are not circulating and people already lose it.

You are talking about a merit decay system, and theymos seems to be disinclined towards merit decay for regular members - however, the source merit by merit sources will decay every 30 days if it is NOT used.

It seems to me that theymos has provided the right balance in regards to not implementing merit decay for regular members; however, there could be some way to implement incentives for regular members to spend their merits (perhaps?), and that would be a carrot approach rather than a stick approach - yet I am not sure whether that carrot approach is necessary, either, especially given that theymos is continuing to tweak the number of merit sources upwards, both in terms of source members and the total number of smerits within their 30 day distributions - so time will tell whether more merit tweaks might be needed in the future, and if so, the kind of tweaks that would help improve the reaching of forum objectives (facilitating quality substantive posts).

Quote from: 2weent6 on September 18, 2018, 12:09:05 AM

In addition to this, can you also set some replenishment of merit at least every year? So everyone can still give merit?

Surely, your replenishment of merits proposal would likely go against the current direction of the forum - in terms of attempting to diminish merit abuse, especially from farmed accounts and obvious disingenuous accounts, such as trolls, shills, spammers and scammers. Your proposal of yearly replenishment would come close to turning every member into a merit source - which seems to go far beyond what is currently being strived for.

I am retired I have time > I told thermos to send me some of the list to go over If he does I will post.