Many meriters adjust their personal meriting standards when the post is created by one of the lower ranks, especially in the Beginners & Help board. Although the conceptual theory goes that you should merit the post based on the content and not the associated environment variables (username, rank, posting history, etc.), a content that postulates to being merited may be checked against variables of a kind, and ultimately tip the balance in one way or another.

The main drawback to meriting Legendries, is that they themselves currently do not receive a personal benefit by the received merits (i.e. they don’t need them to rank-up), whilst only half of what they receive may be resent as sMerits by them (due to halvings, as happens for every profile).

Nevertheless, earned merits are slowly becoming necessary for certain forum features (i.e. participating in some of the top campaigns, getting into DT1 as we saw yesterday (in an indirect manner), appreciation for the post’s content, etc. And who knows if another rank will eventually be created based on merit. Therefore, even if it is currently more efficiently used on non-Legendary ranks (meaning it contributes to rank), it should in no way be barred from mind at all.

Simplifying it all, just merit what seems fit.