Not sure if the merits system was intended to be held or difficult to earn; if you judge a new member and a veteran member equally, something is wrong. It was created by the community and for the community to use. Lowering the bar
So yeah, it's supposed to be hard to earn merits and rank up. I've said that a million times since 2018, and I'm sticking to it.
Sounds more like Hellyal to me. I had to work hard to earn my merits, and you will have to do the same. What happens to the phrase "parents should never make their children go through what they went through"? Because the Legendary members serve as mentors to the Newbies.
We had fewer merit sources back then. We now have more than 100 and still counting.
I bet if you checked which sections I've given merits in, it'd be pretty broad. I'm not sure how to look for that data, else I would have posted it here. Most of my sent merits have probably been in Meta, Reputation, and Economics, but I do post history reviews for members on request, and so I often travel outside my ignore zone to hand out merits. Keep that in mind whilst you're judging me, eh?
As of time of writing you've sent out 14k+ smerits since 2018,
4082 to Economic
3270 to Meta
63 to B&H ( not surprise)
61 to Offtopic
295 to Altcoin discussion.
Others.
There is always one good poster in every spammer community; don't burn the community down because of a few bad eggs; try and SORT!! I would SORT if I become a merit source!
You'd sort what? And why would you only do it if you were a merit source?
Because I would have enough smerits to distribute at my own pace, Do you have any idea how it feels to see a good post and not have any merits to drop on it