Quote from: Vod on June 07, 2025, 10:05:01 PM

What if the community decides Legendary members get sMerit based on recent six month activity? How does that give account farmers the sMerit they need to rank up by spamming?

There are many old farmed Legendary accounts with no of barely any earned Merits. They're shitposters, and they shouldn't be able to rank up other shitposters.

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we need an overhaul. Suggest something.

Maybe your idea could work if the forum wipes out all airdropped Merits. That way there are no Legendary shitposters anymore, and one could argue anyone has had enough time earn enough Merit to reach their pre-Merit rank again.

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I believe the merit system is fine, but merit distribution isn't fair.

Your quote makes it look as if I wrote this. I didn't.

Quote from: The Cryptovator on June 07, 2025, 10:01:37 PM

Let's say I send 1 merit to Vod, so Vod will have 0.5 spendable merits. The rest of the 0.5 spendable merits should be added to my account. So I will be more interested to spend my merits.

If 1 sent Merit produces one new sMerit, there's endless sMerit to be produced! Vod sends 1 back to you, and each of you have 1 brand new sMerit. Repeat until you hit the maximum of 50 per month. Do that with 20 users, and you'll all earn 1000 Merits in a month while all you needed was 1 sMerit per user.

Quote from: mikeywith on June 07, 2025, 10:47:56 PM

If we limit it to, say, 10 merit per person, it would encourage us to seek out and reward a wider range of posters.

I'd never be able to empty my source that way. I don't read enough posts to find 80 users per month that deserve 10 Merits. It would also make it impossible to dump a lot of Merit on a low-ranking user who deserves it.

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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.

To Merit more different users, I'd have to read more posts in topics I'm not interested in, which I'm not going to do.
What if "the same few users" have better posts than the users who now receive less Merit? I'd say that's how the Merit system is supposed to work.

Quote from: Despairo on Today at 04:20:44 AM

I like this one, we need a policy where users (especially merit sources) give merit to widely users, not only for few specific users. Even though those users might won't change their habit, but at least this would reduce the gap.

I'd say the solution is in having Merit sources that visit different boards, instead of expecting existing Merit sources to visit other boards. I think the recent changes in Merit sources added a few local board users.