Having more activity doesn’t necessarily make you better or more worthy of sMerit than someone with less -- it just means you have more free time to spend on the forum, so I think that is a bad idea.

One thing I think should definitely change is the total amount of merit you can send to a single user. If we limit it to, say, 10 merit per person, it would encourage us to seek out and reward a wider range of posters. Right now, it feels like most members give the majority of their merit to the same few users, which is understandable, but it limits merit distribution. That’s something we should work on.

Other than that, I think the merit system overall is pretty solid. The trust system, on the other hand, is a mess.