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Re: (Suggestion) sMerits Of Banned Accounts
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DdmrDdmr
on 25/02/2019, 15:48:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by morvillz7z (1)
@Suchmoon keeps track of the earned merits that are “destroyed” as a result of a ban/nuke (see [MERIT][NSFN] We're destroying more merits than we're sending. Like, way more). We can’t derive the exact amount of sMerit that gets trapped in those accounts, but we do have others indicators such as the amount of merits and earned merits destroyed, as can be seen in the above referenced link.

<…>This is the data for ~5 months:
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24564 permanent bans (including nukes):
    13104 Newbie        0.01 average merits
     6455 Brand new (nukes I'm assuming)
     1062 Jr. Member     2.1 average merits
     1883 Member        11.5 average merits
     1142 Full Member    103 average merits
      494 Sr. Member     257 average merits
      189 Hero Member    516 average merits
      191 Copper Member
       44 Legendary     1007 average merits

413404 merits destroyed:
    20616 earned merits**
       17 average merits per ban
      831 single-merit users banned
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data as of 15/02/2019.

I’m not really too concerned on the amount of sMerit that gets trapped in the event, since were it to be significant, @theymos can easily increment the Merit Source quotas to make up for it. Nevertheless, I doubt that it is significant enough to have to even need consider the option from a global perspective.

Transferring those sMerits to the reporters that originated the bans would seem to turn reporting into a sort of bounty hunting, where the bounty are the sMerits on the banned account. I don’t really like the idea, and reporting should be a natural procedure on one’s day to day browsing on the forum, and not a treasure quest.

It goes without saying that people who publicly report other users for rule breaking on threads (farms, plagiarism, etc.) do get merited, and some of those cases get uncovered after putting quite a bit of effort into it, and thus are likely to be appreciated by others with merit. But making a merit modus vivendi from a forum policy point of view is not likely to be endorsed.