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You have a lot of holes for your idea. Another disadvantage is that there are some users here who are actually just providing their services and will only reply to those and take note that most of them are not getting merits as they are not that active. Therefore no watter what will you do for me theymos will also has the same reasoning for that and will not consider demoting certain users.
I agree!
By the way, I would like to contribute my dieas on
two points:(1) As we all can see that over months (around 9 months after the launch day of merit system), there are many higher ranked users who have not received any merit, even some Ledgendary users. How to explain those cases? Is it really ridiculous?
The fact has actually happened.
Someone actually made a good initiative on this issue:
[Merit Analysis] Users ranked Sr. Member & up that have not earned any meritMoreover, there are lots of Hero and Ledgendary have not earned any merit.
The percentage of users at Member, Full Member, Senior Member, Hero, and Ledgendary have not earned any merits till October of 2018 are 83%, 82.6%, 79.8%, 73.3%, and 47.2%, respectively. Amongst all ranks, Ledgendary is a outstanding one with nearly 47% of them have not received any merit. Ranks from Member to Senior Member (even with Hero Member) are almost the same.
Detailed statistics given below.
| Rank | number of users | number of users
received at least
1 merit
| number of users
with who didnt
earn any merit
|
| Member | 27 918 | 4 744 (17%) | 23 174 (83%) |
| Full Member | 18 181 | 3 173 (17,45%) | 15 008 (82,55%) |
| Sr. Member | 9 016 | 1 818 (20,16%) | 7 198 (79,84%) |
| Hero Member | 4 143 | 1 105 (26,67%) | 3 038 (73,33%) |
| Legendary | 2 145 | 1 133 (52,82%) | 1 012 (47,18%) |
(2) Furthermore, sometimes I have a feeling that threads published by higher ranked forum users have less odds to be deleted. I have seen many higher ranked users posted one-line (less than 10 words) threads, and don't follow to see whether those threads will be deleted later or not, but I guess those threads rarely deleted than same sort of threads published by lower ranked users.
I don't have suitable skills to get those statistics, but if someone can do it. I think we all can have a really interestingly clear picture on what's going on in the forum 9 months after the start day of merit system. A very clearer general picture on forum users on all ranks.
I don't want to fall into arguments there, but it's something like unfair system, even for lower-ranks, of course above Junior Member rank.
Do you agree at this point?
How fair the forum and merit system, rank system are if someone started as a Newbie and get 100 merits to rank up to Full Member rank. In another case, someone who is a Full Member and will not get any merit over the next one year, will be able to stay at Full member, forever.
It will become more clearly unfair for higher ranks, such as Senior, Hero and Ledgendary ranks.
Outside the forum, in real life, in some nations, there are strict requirements on professors, associate professors that they have to satisfy strict criteria, which require them to have new contribution, new project, new published scientific articles during speficic period in order to be as Professors / Associate professors. If they can satisfy those criteria, they will be demoted (as Junior Member rank witnessed weeks ago in the forum).