I quoted words that were written by those who received merit. It is a fact. What a person quotes does not apply to the content that he produces. The context of the messages can be checked by anyone, this is open information and I have provided links to it.
I checked and you're full of shit.
Good arguments and facts. Thank you for your response.
He does and he's got a 500-1000 sMerits to send every month. He is essentially obligated to send more than 1 at a time and of course he's going to merit mostly Russian posts... that's the reason we have local sources.
No one forces him to merit shitty messages, quite the contrary:
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.