Quote from: bitserve on March 07, 2020, 04:55:07 PM

Quote from: bones261 on March 07, 2020, 04:41:53 PM

One person's garbage is another person's treasure. If the WO regulars want to merit pictures of big green dildos and scantily clad women, that's their prerogative. The only time the administration got involved is when a merit source staged a merit giveaway. The only requirement was to be one of the first few people to post anything in the WO thread. That merit source had his privilege taken away.

Maybe it should also be noted that he was sending it in huge lots of 25/50 (IIRC) merits for each single post. And, AFAIK, even that was not considered abuse (there were clearly no ill intention or collusion), but Theymos just decided that it was not appropriate usage of the sourced merits.

Yes, it really wasn't abuse. He just wanted to distribute a whole bunch of source merits in a hurry and get them off his plate. I can definitely understand. I myself took a break for a few months from the forum. I came back to discover that my source merit allowance was increased. I compensated by increasing the amount of merits that I gave out per post. However, it appears that the number that I was using was too big, because I've been out of source merit for quite a few days and am now fresh out of smerit, too. No worries, though. The source merit should start to be replenished in a couple of days. I'm definitely not going to beg theymos to increase my allotment.