Quote from: Poker Player on Today at 04:36:19 AM

As I say it's just a curiosity, but how did you get to that comment? Diving through all the posts?

This topic got me curious how many old posts I Merit. I looked it up, and these are the 10 oldest posts I've Merited this year (in 2022):

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10583. Mon Feb 7 12:50:43 2022: 1 (29580) to satoshi (Trust list) (history) for Re: What's with this odd generation?
10634. Thu Feb 17 09:58:16 2022: 20 (29830) to jackjack (Trust list) (history) for Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet [Update required]
10614. Sat Feb 12 19:01:40 2022: 1 (29744) to nonbody (history) for Re: Advice Required
10629. Tue Feb 15 15:47:07 2022: 4 (29794) to ranochigo (Trust list) (history) for Re: signmessage doesn not work - Address does not refer to key
10625. Mon Feb 14 15:52:33 2022: 1 (29780) to theymos (Trust list) (history) for Re: Hacked invites/accounts are not allowed
10545. Tue Feb 1 10:29:54 2022: 2 (29344) to ruber1 (history) for Re: Braiins OS: open-source mining firmware [S9, T1]. New release includes AsicBoost
10568. Wed Feb 2 18:53:33 2022: 4 (29458) to Stunna (Trust list) (history) for Re: Primedice.com | Creators of Dicing 🎲 | 24 Billion Bets | 112+ BTC Jackpot!
10519. Fri Jan 28 20:08:40 2022: 8 (29242) to DarkStar_ (Trust list) (history) for [Userscript] Automatically append ;dt to the end of URLs (View as DT) [v0.2.3]
10546. Tue Feb 1 10:29:54 2022: 8 (29352) to ruber1 (history) for Re: Pangolinminer & Whatsminer FAQs
10449. Sun Jan 16 10:57:52 2022: 12 (28957) to Andriian (history) for Dead man's switch: better approach proposal

To answer your question: I usually just stumble upon those posts by following links. If the (new) forum ever implements a system that ranks posts based on Merit, good old posts should have Merit too.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 05:21:07 AM

The merit in question was given to you by Welsh, a moderator. I have also received merit from him for old posts of mine.

Let's see the 10 oldest posts Merited by Welsh this year:
3094. Sun Jan 30 01:12:37 2022: 3 (12417) to jambola2 (Trust list) (history) for TIL Activity does not work on precisely 2 week intervals + interval timings
2943. Wed Jan 19 22:29:51 2022: 25 (11923) to mprep (Trust list) (history) for Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
2883. Tue Jan 18 19:22:15 2022: 4 (11715) to Coding Enthusiast (Trust list) (history) for [C#][Github] SharpPusher, broadcast BTC, BCC(BCH) transactions to the network
2940. Tue Jan 18 22:07:16 2022: 2 (11894) to OgNasty (Trust list) (history) for Checksum verification for quoted messages/posts
3032. Wed Jan 26 01:11:04 2022: 2 (12282) to LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Best Linux distro to run a full node
3146. Mon Feb 14 12:09:48 2022: 2 (12688) to ~~DimNik~~ Banned! (history) for A script to count the number of symbols in a message
3209. Fri Feb 18 15:17:53 2022: 2 (12914) to EcuaMobi (Trust list) (history) for Re: Enhanced merit UI [1.1]
3142. Mon Feb 14 12:05:58 2022: 1 (12653) to EcuaMobi (Trust list) (history) for Improved images on the forum - Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey user script
2865. Tue Jan 18 17:31:59 2022: 1 (11662) to nick_bogdan (history) for Why we trust in cryptocurrencies? (or not?)
2864. Tue Jan 18 17:31:49 2022: 1 (11661) to ~~angel55~~ Banned! (history) for Re: Why we trust in cryptocurrencies? (or not?)