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.
OK, so make the generation of sMerit based on earned merits and
that issue goes away. Instead of outright dismissing "my" idea (it's not), why not suggest rules that would make sMerit generation fair and distributed automatically? List the rules you would like and let the community discuss. There has to be a universal way to please all the active users who want to give merit while restricting account farmers. Let's find it.
Also -
please keep signature reform to a different thread to avoid complicating the issue.
But it is an oligarchy that works.
I would agree it did work for you. But the whole forum king trust situation has changed and we have a right to ask for transparency. 