I have gotten accustomed to the bitcointalk forum to certain degree since my time here. I have noticed something in the forum, I won't be pointing fingers at anyone but I believe most will agree with me that there is a high probability factor that people give merit to those who merited them in the past, therefore creating a merit ring. You can easily discover such people from their merit summary. This could simply be a coincidence or I'm just imagining things. But if this is true, then such individuals are cheating the system and us unfair to others who take time to put in the work to develop good discussions and topics. Reading
this there is no clear or postulated indicator that credits a post merit worthy. The system only demands quality spots, and quality posts is subjective to the reader. I think this is misused by those farming accounts. Without the merit system, I can't imagine what the forum would look like. There won't even be any interesting subjects to talk about just shit posts flooding every board.
Nah the problem is your interpretation.
I have been here since 2012 I know a few hundred posters very well. I don't know you very well at all.
So if I see your name I won't go to click on you. Unless the thread title looks interesting.
I clicked here today because the title caught my eye.
This thread is short right now and I can tell you I know 85% of the posters on it.
They know me and if they like what I say I will get a point/merit. I could not care less about merits anymore I have 1000's of them. Many earned. Plus 1000 given since I was here a long time. I know I write good posts. So if it was always a merit system from 2012 I would likely have earned 2000 not the 1000 they gave us. legendary members. I liked the title enough to give you a merit. SO I will now read your posts and see if you should get more points. Its hard to catch my eye if you are a newbie but if you look you will see I gave more than 100 newbies their first merits.