Quote from: RussaX on December 30, 2018, 03:41:00 PM

There are just so many low quality posts that sometimes makes me feel as if nobody reads the topic but rather just rambles non constructive answer based on topic title.

I hear you totally. I've been involved in a thread in the Economics section, one that hasn't turned into a mega spam thread yet and one I'm interested in enough such that I requested help from smarty-pants math and economics members. I just posted this yesterday:

Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 29, 2018, 10:23:52 PM

Quote from: geyayy on December 29, 2018, 05:58:16 PM

Have you ever considered inflation?

You've got to be joking, you shitposter. Obviously you haven't read this entire thread or even all of the first page, where I mentioned it and made it a sticking point for this entire thread. You're a great example of why things can't be discussed in Economics reasonably, because it's not a discussion, it's a shitpost-a-thon

And that's not the first time I've written a response like that or noticed that someone was answering a question in a thread that had been answered 100 times already. I even noticed it in my early days here with that (in my brain) infamous bitcoin for cupcakes thread.

A lot of what you suggested has pretty much been written before, and I'm fairly sure that Theymos knows what possible solutions he could implement. He tweaks the system in small ways with long intervals in between changes. Since he just made the 1-merit requirement for ranking up to Jr. Member, I figure he's going to see how that works before doing anything else. Your suggestions aren't bad; they're just not new.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on December 30, 2018, 06:00:38 PM

As stated, theymos is generally against any more restrictions to new members posting

*sigh*

Putting a restriction on newbie's signatures doesn't keep any of them from posting. It just keeps them from earning money from their output, which is usually a bunch of shitposts. If the solution was merit-based, a legitimate newbie member ought to have no problem earning whatever the requirement is, albeit probably slowly--but that was anticipated since the beginning of the merit system anyway.