The idea here is that there's a new term called "carry" that will slowly de-rank you if you keep posting/doing things that nobody appreciates. That is, you can't just apply yourself to the task of achieving a given rank, you also have to apply yourself to the task of maintaining it. Just like your "merit" is a >=0 balance based on logged events, your "carry" is also a >=0 balance based on logged events. There's a more general version of this idea where different forum actions attract different amounts of "carry", but, the simple version that I think should be experimented with initially is just one where there's a single type of system-generated "carry transaction": Whenever you make a new post, your balance goes up by 0.1. In effect, you'll need to earn at least 1 merit for every 10 posts you write (on average) if you wish to prevent your account from slowly drifting toward a lower rank. And you'll need to get beyond a 0.1 merit-to-post ratio if you're aiming to increase your rank.
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That's a great idea , but I think it would effect the paid signature campaigns for peoples posting right now. I'm not disagree with this carry system , but do you think for mapping this ratio we should consider it more flexible way. Cause for the advertisement Manager's are seeking a certain amount of posts, and mostly half of these came from gambling section and I saw that talking about sport/casino anyone hardly intersted to contribute the merits there. instead of 1:10 ratio we can determine it by time countdown , like 30days /120D ratio. Everyone has to be maintain a certain amounts of merit in these timeframe, although the initial idea isn't that bad. Let's hear about comminty.
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I think this would help with a few things (without impacting any even halfway-decent posters):
(*) It would slowly decay "airdropped" merits that either belong to accounts that have now changed hands or that were awarded in the first place to users that would have been unable to earn those merits organically. Basically, I'm thinking of accounts like mich (that account has only managed to earn 36 merits over thousands of posts, but it has the rank of "Legendary" and wears a paid signature). If an adjustment like what I'm proposing were put in place, then the person behind that account would have to re-think their whole approach to the forum (if they wanted to keep spamming their signature, that is).
(*) It would slowly decay "airdropped" merits that either belong to accounts that have now changed hands or that were awarded in the first place to users that would have been unable to earn those merits organically. Basically, I'm thinking of accounts like mich (that account has only managed to earn 36 merits over thousands of posts, but it has the rank of "Legendary" and wears a paid signature). If an adjustment like what I'm proposing were put in place, then the person behind that account would have to re-think their whole approach to the forum (if they wanted to keep spamming their signature, that is).
That's an excellent observation, it would eliminate those who is only seeking this forum for cash grabing and buying/hacking/airdroped account will loose their integrity. Well what's the point if you've received the Hero/Legendary rank and couldn't even earn bunch of merits by contributing forum. This shows a user's contribution on forum .
One more thing is concerning here is should theymos increase merit sources or the amount of merit they recive each month.