What you don't say (or maybe don't know) is that you are already one of the biggest MS. So you are already very privileged.
I take Theymos' silence like this : learn to deal with what you have, I don't want to go brrrrrrrr.
Biggest in terms of what, sMerits allocated per month? I'm not sure what you mean by that, but currently I'm #13 on the
most generous merit senders of all time (and no, I don't consider that list to be a competition). That certainly could be due to the fact that I wasn't one of the original merit sources or that I started offering post history reviews very late in the game, but I have no way of knowing how my monthly allocation measures up to any other merit source. If you're saying it's one of the highest then that's constructive feedback and something I wasn't aware of.
"Privileged". BRB, going to scream into my pillow for a minute.
Ideally I try to give members the full 50 merits per 30 days
Excuse me, but this is the stupidest thing I've read about merits.
50 merits per month to each user will make him/her go up faster in merits than in activity. What would be the point ? What was the merit system created for ?
Sorry you feel that way, but there are a lot of members who are making decent posts but aren't getting any merits for any number of reasons unrelated to post quality. And in response to your argument about activity and merits, there are a number of people who've sent me PMs that have >1000 activity but lack sufficient merits to rank up. In any case, it seems like the ranking-up process has slowed down to turtle speed, and I don't think dropping 50 merits on a single member per 30 days is in any way stupid. But hey, we can agree to disagree.
I do appreciate criticism no matter how harsh, as I'm trying to get a sense of what the community thinks (and having a staff member weigh in is great).