What qualifies as a good post, according to your standards?
I ask so because maybe merit sources should find a way to let the forum know what they stand for; that is their principles and what determines them to qualify a post as quality or not. Or is that better kept a secret?
In this way, maybe everyone both newbies and oldies would learn to employ this and create better post that would surely warrant the merits and upmovement of this forum in general.
For me:
A good post is one that smells brain juice.
A good post is one where at the end of the reading you don't say to yourself "Fuck, I have wasted X seconds/minutes of my life".
A good post is one that doesn't try to get merits, they will come naturally if you respect the first 2 points.
If there was an easy way for everyone to get merits, I would probably be one of the first MS not to give any.
This explains perfectly what a post deserving of merits should possess. Merit sources are vested with the duty of giving merits to those deserving of it. This days quality posters are just few in the forum, majority here (especially those in paid campaigns) are only posting to meetup with targets for the week. Do we want merit sources to distribute merits out of compassion to shit posters and spammers? Because that is one fast way of disposing off merits. I do not think anyone would want to hoard Smerits for no just reason as those Smerits will not be useful to them, except OP has more revelations he isn't telling us about.