Each time i merit a user for their contribution to forum, I notice this message "
There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future. But what surprises me is some user still ignores this message, keeping the smerits they received as a trophy to themselves.
So I asked myself why is this the case, are they not seeing the message as I do. (If they aren't then it should be written in bold letters so they don't have an excuse of not seeing the message.) or do they have other intentions like hoarding those smerit to merit their alt accounts in future. As a defaulter you can't give the excuse of not seeing a post/reply worth meriting when the likes of
LoyceV,
bones26,
Jet Cash,
suchmoon,
The Pharmacist etc. even with their strick criteria concerning post worth meriting are doing so almost daily.
When I look through some records of user when I'm about meriting them I just feel discourage sending them merits because their sent/received ratio is nothing to write home about. E.g
cryptovigi and
~ don't you think you're doing others bad by not sending out your Smerits ~
You are right. I stopped thinking about merits all together and that was wrong. From now on I try to think about giving merits to others as well. It is only fair this way. Thanks for your input.
In conclusion, I feel the decay of unused smerits law should be implemented sooner and unused smerits should not be decayed /destroyed but instead recycled by sending them to merit sources to continue in their selfless service to the forum. And the duration for these smerits to be labeled unused should be 1months to keep the community members engaged.
PS: topic locked, it has already been discuss before