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Once a post has been merited, then the post should be locked and can neither be deleted, nore modified. @theymos might want to consider making that small modification to the merit system.
Ironically, the current admins of BPIP ( @ibminer and @suchmoon ) have chosen to skewer the merit ranking to include only the earned merits in their ranking system, *but* are happy enough to benefit from the merits they were initially gifted from others when the merit system was created. It over inflates both their rank on BPIP and their egos.
They then use it to give them the power to include each other on DT you need 250 earned merits
Don't forget for every 250 merits you "earn" count as a vote, so 250 merits = 1 vote... 500 merits = 2 votes and so on. Being able to gift others 50 merits at a time fast tracks their voting ability.
Interesting points there. No wonder they enjoy sending each other bags of merits.
I have often thought the same about locking posts are they have merit. . However the poster should maybe have the option to modify the post if they dont mind losing the merits.
I mean you may prefer to have control over your own posts than retain the merits in some cases.