Earned-merits or trust points are not determinant factors for post quality of posters. They are only one of componental factors and they serve as supplementary inclusive factors for poster's quality assessment. Generally, to assess post quality of one user, readers have to consider lots of things:
Earned merit would be at the very top of the list when assessing someone's post quality. Earned merits means more than total merit as a lot of users got free merit for having over a certain amount of activity. In fact, I would think that a lot of users here disregard total amount of merit, and look at how much the user has earned in the last 120 days. Of course, is is combined with taking a look at their post history personally, but is normally the #1 indicator that someone is posting good quality content. Fully agree here - is there any option to check for "Merits earned in the last 120 days" other than ddmrddmr´s lovely tool?
I guess it would be a very interesting feature to either
A) solely have "Merits earned in the last 120 days" next to the user-info´s and/or
B) the number of total merits earned
rather than (or additional to) total number of merits
f.e. as it stands I can see user Efialtis has a 130 merits:
That means he ...
A) has earned 30 (started from 100) or
B) has earned 120 (started from 10) or
C) has earned 129 (started from 1) or
D) has earned them all
Well now I know that he just joined in May 2019 and earned 129 of those 130 merits, but without checking BPIP or ddmrddmr´s tool there is no chance to recognize his quality on the first glance.
I like BPIP but its some extra-clicks so to me this would be a nice feature on Bitcointalk, maybe we can collect some funds and pay for that feature!?
