I would argue that willingly or not, many of the most high-ranking members here subvert themselves to rules and preferences of the administration, other than actively taking part to forming new rules.
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Features like merit fit the forum well but they were not made BY the community. Rather FOR it.
But it's a feature that was made in response to users requesting that something be done about spammers. Users outlined the problem and requested that a change be made. The administration acknowledged that and acted upon it. For the most part, users support the improvements merit has brought. There's just a small but vocal minority of antagonists (or perhaps even just one, lately) who would benefit from undoing such a positive change, and hopefully they will continue to be ignored, no matter how many sock-puppet accounts they create.
Notice how this doomed refuses to meet a challenge to debate " such a positive" when clearly it is hugely negative. Since this positive has been clearly debunked many times. It is such a negative.
Also very scared to debate the improvements that have been suggested many times.
Notice chipmixer, DT and probably merit source. Very positive for him.
Very negative for the entire forum.
This one run away from any challenge to confirm his words. Same for most member in meta. They like "subjectivity" this they can abuse for themselves.
You should get professional help for your obsessions. Not only you are wasting the time of many others... which it seems it is the lesser of your problems, but you are also wasting your life and whatever mental health you still have left with this trivial and pointless quixotic crusade.
And you all guys are doing him no favour feeding his mental issues each and every time. This must come to a stop. It's not fun anymore. I'm done here.