Quote from: Railai on April 09, 2020, 02:40:15 PM

It should be also a system where the merit can be airdroped to users that are constantly active and they posts have nothing to do with plagyarism. Simply reward content creators that are on topic.

I would add as rule minimum characters in order to get merit, let's say 40/50. I saw so many one liners where people get rewarded.

Absolutely not. Merit was specifically designed to be given to posts which are high quality, and not just any old trash that happens to be "on topic". See the quote from theymos when he launched the merit system at the bottom of this post. Meriting people simply for being active defeats the entire point of the merit system in the first place. Its reason for existing is to stop people from ranking up just for being active, and force people to actually contribute constructively to conversations and discussions. Airdropping merit to active users makes it no different from activity.

Furthermore, a post of less than 40 characters could easily be merit worthy, if it directly and succinctly answers a question. I'm thinking about posts in the technical section where users have asked for a specific command or piece of code to perform a task.

Quote from: theymos on January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM

Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
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While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.