While returning from holiday with my beautiful wife, I have an accident on the slippery road. We hit a tree. My wife dies on the spot and I spend months in physical recovery with internal bleeding and serious fractures. I lose the will to live and need months of therapy to return to my old self. I finally find the strength to look at Bitcoin again so I log in to the forum only to see that I am now a Jr. Member. Thanks a lot Fivestar4everMVP!
Don't take it personally.
How Will This Idea Help Improve This Forum?
1. It will drastically reduce shitposting
Not necessarily. Good posters won't have problems getting 1 merit per month. Many don't have difficulties earning 1 merit/week/day right now. So they wouldn't be affected anyway. Who would be affected? Shit posters who barely made it into the next rank or those who rely solely on their airdropped merits. Now they have to step up and earn at least 1 merit/month to not lose their forum rank. That will result in an increase in shitposts with a hope that at least one of them gets merited.
4. Even in the Altcoin board, those participating in Altcoin signature campaigns, instead of spamming the altcoin board, will have no choice but to start adding some quality to their posts, in other to earn merit that will enable them to at the least, keep their current rank intact.
If you are a bounty hunter with nothing constructive to say, that won't change if what you are proposing gets implemented. The only thing that will change is that they will start spamming other boards with low-quality/low-effort posts trying to find that 1 merit lifeline.
5. Dormant accounts/alt accounts/accounts that are placed for sale will start loosing their rank if their owners don't start making quality posts from those accounts to earn merits.
That's true, yes.