Quote from: DVlog on August 09, 2023, 05:30:16 PM

Quote from: Etranger on August 08, 2023, 01:46:57 PM

Quote from: _act_ on August 08, 2023, 01:11:53 PM

Just like I have said before, merit system has been the reason we have quality posts on this forum. If merit system was not introduced, this forum would be a place of trash posts.

You can noticed someone not posting as good as another person, but having more merit, but still he is having merits and ranking higher. People that are giving merit can be partial, especially those on local boards, but merit still ensures that posting quality on this forum is achieved.

Merit system is not a direct cause of quality posts on the forum. Qualified content existed even before the implementation of this system. Moreover, many users who have been here on the forum almost since its inception claim that there were more high-quality discussions than now. Merits did not affect the improvement of the quality of the posts. They just contributed to reducing the number of users who spam.

In my point of view, the most notable thing the merit system does is that it draws a line between quality posters and spammer. The higher number of merits below your forum names represents his dedication, contribution, and ability of that person to make quality comments. When i saw some posts that got merited i tried to read them all in case i might learn something new.

In order to draw a line between a quality poster and a spammer, it is not enough to look only at the number of merits. Unfortunately, there is still trade in merits and accounts on the forum. And an unqualified spammer can write from a promoted account. Or a large number of merits may be due to the initial distribution, when the system was first introduced. And after that, the user practically did not earn merits. So, in order to evaluate the user, you need to conduct a more detailed and qualitative analysis, and not let the number of merits mislead you.

Quote from: Doan9269 on August 10, 2023, 01:57:18 PM

The merit system was introduced as a means of separating the shaft fro grains, if you're a spammer or troller, the merit system will bounce on you and halt you down from growing, this will now advance to helping people know that it is required of them to be a quality posters, if not then they will remain on the same spot without ranking up, not giving a quality post may not result into ban since it's not on the forum rules and regulations to ban users not engaging quality posts, but ca results to being tagged and your posted being deleted or moved to off topic, the merit system instroduced helped alot to know those who are serious from those who were not on this forum.

There is no doubt that merit system made a great contribution to the development of the forum and decrease in the number of spammers and trash posters. However, we cannot make a wrong conclusion that it happened solely because of the merit system. It is necessary to take into account the fading interest in the forums in general. Therefore, those who remain here must be quite devoted to this format of communication. Moreover, a huge number of spammers were associated with more opportunities to earn money on signature campaigns and bounties. Now there are fewer such opportunities, and this is killing the interest of those who registered only for the sake of monetary rewards.