On the merit system, I have seen few controversial posts with large amounts of effort put into them that have merit, especially from merit sources. Conversely, I have seen many reasonably low-effort posts that make a "popular" statement with merit from multiple people.
It's not a participation trophy. "Effort" means nothing if you're babbling nonsense, which is what most of your walls of text are. I'll take a good meme over your sanctimonious posturing any day.
On the other hand, this "good posts go unmerited" BS is getting old. AFAIK you have not reported posts
here or in my sig, nor have you applied to be a merit source, so if you don't want to be part of the solution maybe just stop whining in unrelated threads.
Let me quote this for attention:
All that being said, I still discourage retaliatory ratings, and with these changes I encourage people to try to "bury the hatchet" and de-escalate rather than trying to use any increased retaliatory power you now have.
- You should be willing to forgive past mistakes if the person seems unlikely to do it again.
It seems to me the opposite is happening since the DT-changes.
For an example I've seen myself of "past mistakes", may I recommend jeremypwr :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=137185Pretty much the opposite of a good example. I have interacted with jeremypwr via PMs and given his "I didn't do anything wrong" attitude I wouldn't say that he's "unlikely to do it again". I'm quite certain he would shill any scam if the price is right and he's got toddler's temper, which doesn't help.