Quote from: Bennix on September 20, 2018, 04:31:32 PM

You can't tell that all the posts demoted jr members have are useless to the extent of not getting even 1 merit.
Some demoted jr members have more than one hundred posts and activity made in different days /months ,yet no merit has been given to them.

The vast majority of those members not only don't deserve any merits, they don't deserve to even be members here. They're parasites.

I've been trying to find low-ranked members to give merit to, and it is a mind-numbing task doing it the old-fashioned way, which is just by reading through threads. Most newbies write one-line posts that don't really say anything, and in most cases what they write is totally sloppy. This isn't the case with most of the posts from higher-ranked members.

Quote from: Bennix on September 20, 2018, 04:31:32 PM

The question is ,how do newbies attain to high rank if this trend continue ?

If they can't earn merit, they won't rank up. At this point, the average Newbie/Jr. Member has essentially ZERO chance of ever becoming Legendary. Someone like nullius could do it, but he was a statistical anomaly, a 6-sigma member.

Quote from: Welsh on September 20, 2018, 04:33:14 PM

Like almost all newbies right now. It's a pain that you have to actually look at their post history now, because they might just be trying to post 1 good quality post, get their merit, and go back to their shitty spamming ways as soon as they can get enrolled on a campaign.

Yep, and this is why I always check post history before giving out merits to a low-ranked member (not that I've been able to give out many to noobs anyway, because I can't find any good posts made by them).

But I do suspect that many noobs are creating threads with their best effort ever, and that if they actually earn a merit they're going to immediately revert to their shitposting ways. They'll never make it above Jr. Member anyway, but being a Newbie without a copper membership is a major handicap for them.