Guys, I've got something in my mind. Keeping merits in my account is useless for me as well as it always remind me of my responsibility that I am currently able to give them to someone who actually needs them.
What I wish to know: If I allocate some or all of my merits to a person I feel that they deserve it and that they should rank up, is it really fine if I do it like that way?
I was doing everything in favor of low rank members until I saw this:
I agree with this approach. I considered giving merit proportional to activity, but I decided not to because doing so would probably give far more undeserved merit than deserved merit in total. But undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
I also agree with the idea of (free) "reviewer" topics in general, for finding high-quality posts that went unnoticed. Barcode_ created one in the Chinese section, as well.
It's a quote from a thread by QuestionAuthority, please visit it as it won my heart and changed the way I used to think. Please don't come up begging for them, and also, please don't post stupid comments like: "They are your merits, it's your wish, you can do whatever you wish to." As I'm looking for some factual comments here and suggestions as well, please be fair in your words and let me know whether it'll be fair enough if I do it like this way?
I'm also scared of one thing that when we give higher amount of merits to users, others start backbiting and say that this user is an alt of that and blah! blah!
Is it not unfair with people like us who are trying to help?
If merits are mine, can't I decide whom they should be allocated to?