I've seen several topics on the same subject now, so let's do a Merit comparison:

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User legendster (full history)

• Received a total of 167 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 29 Merit (17.36%) for 4 (0.12%) of 3200 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0090 Merit per old post).
• Received 136 Merit (81.43%) for 59 (3.38%) of 1744 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.0779 Merit per new post).
• Received 2 Merit (1.19%) for posts that are now deleted.

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User kabit9 (full history)

• Received a total of 11 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit for 0 of 419 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 10 Merit (90.90%) for 7 (1.75%) of 399 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.0250 Merit per new post).
• Received 1 Merit (9.09%) for posts that are now deleted.

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