Quote from: SamReomo on June 03, 2024, 06:14:30 PM

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on June 03, 2024, 12:08:40 AM

In fact, I could probably do with a lower number of sMerits each month right now as I've ended my post history review offer.

I believe you deserve to get the number of sMerits that you're getting already because you have been a very generous merit source and most members appreciate your generosity including me. With your post review offer you've helped so many deserving members with your sMerits and I'm very sure each of those members wholeheartedly appreciate that.

Gaaah!! Thanks for all the compliments, but lately I've been such a lazy-ass merit source and feel incredibly guilty because of said laziness. The position of merit source is strictly a voluntary one of course, and I could easily just tell Theymos I don't want to be one anymore....but I vividly remember the days before the merit system came into existence and I know how important it became in slaying account farmers who had god-knows-how-many alt accounts making zero-value posts all over the place and in general making it much harder for shitposters to rank up, thereby disincentivizing them from even trying.

So I'm happy to help worthy members rank up. It's just that when I'm browsing through threads, most of the posts I'd consider merit-worthy are being made by Legendary members. Don't know if anyone else agrees with that, but I guess everyone has different standards.

By the way, it isn't a question of whether I 'deserve' my monthly allocation of sMerits; it's a matter of whether I can unload all of them each month, and lately I haven't been doing that. I will strive to do better.