Quote from: Fickle-Friend on March 08, 2020, 07:38:48 AM

Quote from: hugeblack on March 08, 2020, 12:42:57 AM

Secondly: I think that users are free to how them sMerits are distributed "especially those that they acquired" @theymos was not strict in exchanging Merits between alternative accounts, so unless there is any abuse from a Merit source, your grievance will not be valuable.

Wrong. Shitpost is prohibited by the rules, but you reward it in your Wall observing thread.

It sounds like you still don't "get" WO. It's the closest thing the forums have to an informal chatroom, so it's not held to the same standards as the rest of the board. Everything that needed doing was done ~3 years ago. If you want the full history lesson, these topics, in this order, should be all the reading material you need in order to understand:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1990962.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1993570.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2004227.0

Alternatively, if that's too much to sift through, the short version is that, rather than discouraging users from making off topic posts in WO, users are now discouraged from reporting off topic posts in WO because the moderators don't want to deal with the additional workload it was generating. Ergo, off topic posts (within reason) are permitted in WO.

As for your gripes about merit for "shitposts", the simple fact is that merit awarding is subjective and you don't get to determine other users' criteria for handing them out. If they find these posts entertaining, they are free to merit them.