Quote from: stingers on February 07, 2019, 03:36:33 AM

This post shows that there is a lot of efforts put into explaining a situation by a low-ranked member and receives zero merits for his effort-full post.

It's a rant by a recently-uncovered scammer. I'm not about to reward that shit with merits, and I don't care how hard he worked on it. He also drew the wrong conclusion about why he sees a lot of the same members posting in the same threads. It's not because we're all on a team but because we've been posting mainly in Meta and Reputation for a long time now. This was true even before the merit system was implemented.

As far as rickbig41's post goes, it got merits because it was a good response to a whining post from someone who sees himself as a victim after he got discovered trying to scam someone and was caught making up excuses as he went along, trying to explain why he wanted to get money from a victim of an extortion attempt. Hopefully that's Rambotnic's last post on the forum. Rambotnic is a chronic shitposter who should not be ranking up with merits from merit sources. That's the whole purpose of the system.

Quote from: stingers on February 07, 2019, 03:36:33 AM

OO what I am saying there is a whole merit-circle out there, But still no action on the abuse from theymos.

There's no merit circle. I happen to go out of my way to avoid meriting posts by Lauda, Vod, actmyname, and others even when their posts are much better than what's in the rest of a given thread. I've tried to give as many merits to newcomers as possible, but it's difficult to find them in the sections I frequent.

Didn't know you got removed as a merit source. Maybe someone here can explain that. Were you given a reason?