Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on October 13, 2018, 11:53:02 AM

Quote from: hilariousetc on October 13, 2018, 11:45:03 AM

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on October 13, 2018, 11:29:23 AM

I was going to send you 1 Merit for this post but I checked out your post history & its littered with Bounty Hunting spam so Im not going to now, sorry.

Youll never rank up if the majority of your posts are in that shit hole of the forum. More posts like this though & youll rank up.

But isn't this attitude counter-productive? We're meant to be rewarding users who make decent posts and if a user makes one then that post probably should be merited. I get your logic though, and this is why I'd argue that I think we should up the requirement to ten because I think merit sources would actually be more liberal with their merits and users would also have to make a few decent posts to get the merit and not just one. When all they need is one it makes their job much easier and merit sources much harder because they don't want to give a shitposting bounty hunter the merit if that's all they need. A lot of users will probably just give up trying to make decent/great posts once they'd achieved Junior rank and I think that's a real issue. It's a bit of pain when we have to start checking user's post history just to check if they should be merited, but if the requirement is ten merit then we probably don't need to do that and can start being more liberal which benefits everyone.

I think itd be much better if 10 Merits were required to rank up to Junior. Im in a pickle here because that post is Meritable imo but I dont want to be responsible for somebody earning money from the forum if they constantly post in Bounty threads.
If 10 was required I would definitely have Merited him.

My personal opinion is that one merit is fine for becoming a Junior and at least that is some protection for bots so those users can still be nuked, but I think Juniors should have their signatures removed completely and you only get one until you get ten merit and become a Member. Requiring one is just open to far too much abuse, and as we've seen people are reluctant to even give out one because of this. I would personally be more liberal like you if the merit requirement was higher because one merit isn't life or death and the one fluke merit doesn't give you the ability to earn.