Quote from: aoluain on Today at 09:29:47 PM

I want to use a gardening analogy for this proposal..

Spraying toxic weedkiller everywhere to eradicate troublesome weeds which actually
kills all the other beneficial plants which largely go unnoticed - but yay we killed a
few nasties

There was discussions a while back that the forum was in decline, I fear with
this approach there will eventually only be 20 or so members with 10,000 merit
each just rattling around on their own on an otherwise empty forum.

Anyone that implement such a thing in this forum don't have the forum at heart because it's the easiest way to kill the traffic in the forum.
Members will be afraid of posting and sharing an idea or knowledge because if the post is not merited, he might loose his rank, and because of that we can't have a decent conversation anymore concerning a topic, which will make this forum very boring and uninteresting .
Or are we going to kill the forum because of spammers?
If that's the case then it's a very big shame to all of us here