Maybe theymos will now consider what we have been saying all this while, all airdrop smerit should be burned
Maybe, but I don't see this as a huge issue. If you haven't given out your airdropped merit already, you probably never will and I highly doubt there's that much still available to abuse even if it were all used for that purpose (which it won't be).
OP's situation is just a consequence of people being free to do what they wish with their sMerits, and I have no reason to doubt his story. Not everyone realizes the value of merits and a lot of people just don't care about the system. It's really only the shitposters who could earn more money if they were able to rank up who obsess over merits.
Imagine if Theymos decide to rollback all ranks counting only the earned merit so far, should be fun.
It would certainly be interesting to see.
Yes it would. But there would be a lot of pissed off Legendary members being demoted in signature campaigns, and they're usually not the ones making the garbage posts and all of the problems around here.