Current amount of merit shared is similar to the 2018 but the difference is that compared to then, amount of posts dropped down 75% (and will continue to drop) and maybe even more which then makes it much easier for alt accounts to farm merit.

While merit system is made to stop shitposter ever reaching higher rank, maybe we reached a point where there's simply too much merit being shared around (speaking generally, there are still some parts of the forum that are undermerited) which then makes situations like in WO possible so maybe its time to adjust the amount of merit shared to the current situation.


Maybe I misunderstood theymos, but I always thought that by that he meant that he won't restrict newbies accessing large parts of the forum and only limit them to a certain board, because we have Ivory Tower where low levels can't access meaning he is willing to restrict them to some degree.