Hey everyone,
I got the idea from LoyceV:
By the time a Newbie reaches 1000+ posts without earning a single Merit, it's pretty clear he doesn't contribute anything to this forum.
Now I know everyone only do very legal stuff, but for experiments only I've tried a few torrent sites and most of them have a seed/leech ratio. The idea is that if you download 10gb of files you must share at least 5gb of files so the site keeps being active.
I wondered, could this be done here too?
Not talking about a hard 1 merit / 1 post minimum of course. I'm the first one to go on in ridiculous debates on the P&S section that doesn't bring much more than my opinion in the forum and I would like to continue doing so.
But it seems to me that a 1 merit / 20 posts can't possibly be a difficult task unless you're a complete shitspammer... Thus you shouldn't be allowed to write.
I don't know if that seems like a good idea to you but I could easily imagine a ratio for everyone and the day you drop below a certain point you can no longer post on the forum. And why not warning you a bit before so you know you MUST post only extremely high value content or you won't post anything anymore.
Not all users here are Native English Speakers and you know about that. This forum is global so do not expect that all users could speak English language. Besides, even if there were local boards but still some of it are not that active and one should have to go to other sections like those SMT where they can reply posts in a simple way of manner of constructing English grammar which could not earn merits.
If we will going to have a ratio for the Source merits over the number of users in this forum then earning merit is just like difficult as hell.