Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 24, 2019, 06:45:52 PM

Begging for them by PM'ing members crosses a line IMO, but others may disagree.

I support this statement. It's obnoxious when I get all excited seeing that [1] next to My Messages and then it's just somebody trying to make me an accomplice in their attempt to game the system, Bastards. Grin

Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 24, 2019, 06:45:52 PM

Also, there's a difference between someone just saying "can you pls give me merit" vs. a member asking that you review one of their posts to see if it's merit-worthy. The latter case doesn't deserve a neg IMO, and it's something I'm actually quite happy to do (review a member's posts).

As you may be aware I used to run a thread for members to do exactly this and present me (and others) with posts/threads of theirs they believe were worthy for a "merit-review"; terrible word for it, but you likely understand what I mean. I encourage users to send me posts of theirs that they believe are under-merited. I only ever merit posts that I would merit naturally, but I am thankful when a post I have overlooked is brought to my attention; I am not an efficient lurker.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 24, 2019, 06:45:52 PM

Neutral feedback is useless in these cases...

Neutral feedback is "useless" in most cases, but in this case it at least stands as a marker for anyone making a future evaluation of this user. For instance, if something like this ever happens again I'm sure they will receive a negative. Their posting will be more heavily scrutinized.