Well only one of your upvotes on one post would be worth about 0.01mrt, so you'd have to upvote one user 100 times in order to give him one merit, therefore much more people would have to agree with the post being good or helpful or whatever, therefore that post would get at least merit partially since there's a chance like this that it wouldn't get merited. We all know what's the definition of merit, and a lot of people finding a post useful or helpful or informative is enough to be at least acknowledged.
Sockpuppets would upvote each other's posts and honest users would be at a disadvantage. At the very least this would incentivize absolute garbage posts because in order to e.g. rank up to Jr. Member one would need to make 100 posts and upvote them with an alt, or 50 posts and upvote with two alts, or 1000 posts and upvote only every 10th post to evade detection, etc.
I would rather see some sort of "send for review to a merit source" button but even that would need protection against abuse/spam.
Define honest user?
Lol at finding holes in his system. The current one is worse.
Why don't you want to adopt transparent objective standards as a basis for the trust system ?
What about honest users?
Would you say you are an honest user?
Is someone using puppets to power up alts to sell more honest or less honest than someone who deliberately protects scammers and prevents legitmate scam warnings on their pals ?
The current system demonstrates that the " select merit sources " or top 200 earned merit holders lose around 80% of their merit in you take away what they give each other.
Then look at their top merit fans and recipients.
Then look at their trust includes.
Then look at their chipmixer and highly paid sigs and other rev streams
Then look at their collusion to change the status quo
Then look at how they all fight against transparent objective standards as a basis for giving negative trust
So they can continue using the trust system to crush free speech, scam with impunity and ensure they get all the best sigs and rev streams.
This self debunking fool suchmoron says...but but but people can farm accounts.
Lol yeah cos that is worse than what is happening now lol