the merit page: "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you".
It should also mention that there is no point in meriting shitposts such as
I got my tokens, but I'm not sure if I've received the Incent bonus.
I have no problem with how members like to spend their merit, but if we start to think that all of this is an "okay" way of dealing with merit, we get to the point where we all think the whole merit system is completely useless.
If you check the OP's posts and compare it to MichaelX's it actually makes more sense that OP "should" have earned more merit , I know the merit system isn't exactly perfect and things don't work that way, I have probably gotten more merit that I thought I would get in 5 years , so it's kind of irrelevant to me at this point, and I am sure it's the same to many others, but to Newbies it makes a lot of difference, someone who posts some quality posts and don't get half the merit MichaelX "or anybody else for that matter" get ,might be discouraged and leave the forum for good.
it's not about the 18 merit Dabs sent, it's the whole future of the forum overall content quality, we either take the merit system a little more seriously, or watch it slowly fall.