Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 04:57:51 PM

It doesn't mean that:

Anyone agrees with your post or with you.
Your post is right or righteous.
You're trustworthy.
You're not dumb.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 05:19:44 PM

I like it, I still sometimes see people who think Merit means I endorse something. Allow me to add a few from my perspective:

If I Merit your post, it doesn't mean:

I endorse what you're offering

I clipped some of the list items out, but the ones I quoted are important to understand. There was a case of someone getting red-tagged by a DT member because the DT member doesn't like the merited member, and I think that's inappropriate. I think Theymos even got upset that there was some merit distributed to a member whose name I can't recall. It was recently, I think.

I've given merits to OgNasty, TECSHARE, and even Quickseller (I think), even though I don't have positive feelings about any of them in general. Sometimes a post is good, makes a lucid point and deserves a merit or two, and in those cases I put my feelings aside, hard as it might be sometimes.