I don't think anyone's credibility is being questioned here. It's just a difference of opinions. And as one of the WO "regulars" explained to us peasants, our opinions don't matter anyway.
Ok. Aren't you undermining the argument that smerit sending/receiving should be disabled on the WO thread?
I never said that it should be disabled. Some
merit sources could be more careful with the
privilege bestowed upon them by the almighty forum dictator, but that's just my opinion.
If you are tolerant regarding the idea of differences of opinions, then wouldn't you be tolerant of ideas about differences of opinions in regards to members who have smerits using their own individual discretion in order to decide which posts they want to send smerits, and if so, how many smerits they would like to send to such posts?
Source smerit sending discretion has limits and those limits have been successfully tested in the past (i.e. merit sources have been stripped of their privileges for misuse). Generally speaking, if there is a scenario where shitposters get merited by a source so consistently that they can successfully farm merits, that to me sounds like a problem for the forum even if it's perfectly fine for WO.
If you see a problem with abuse of discretion, then report those posts... or put together a package of posts and then report them all, and if theymos and/or his merit czar (if he happens to have a secret one) agree with your report, then maybe he will remove that member as a source or reduce his/her source amount.
There is no way to report posts for incorrect meriting (I mean one could report them but that would do fuck all other than a bunch of bad reports).
The problem is TOO BIG, right?
It's a problem. Not even in the top 10 BIG problems on this forum IMO.
AmInotrite?
I'll give you a solid maybe on that one.