Is that a completely fair statement tho? I see you registered 2015, I'm a rather new member, but didn't old members at some point get free merit,
which would make it much easier to have a better ratio
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there is surprisingly many high ranked members who seem to be just another spammer.
Since the merit system was introduced, I already received 126 merits.
Yes, I am Sr. Member already because I'm a old member. But so far, I've received almost 1 merit/day.
(The merit system is 129 days old, I got 126)
This means that with this rate, I would have become a Sr. Member in 250 days since my registration. Just 10 days more than how long it took to get Sr. Member since I registered my account 3 years ago.
Not receiving merit is no excuse, mainly if you are the type of user that made 500 posts and have almost no merit (E.g: I've seen some users with 600 posts and 0 merit, which is ridiculous).
I like to chat here alot so I'll always get my activity points, however, merit is much more difficult to come by.
Posts in SMT (Spam Mega Threads) will not get any merit. There is simple too many pages of redundant and repetitive answers. Other than the other spammers going there to pretend they are having a conversation, no one is seeing those posts.
I do generally try to write good posts and contribute to discussions and help people, not really for chasing merit (I don't think I'll ever reach 100 anyway).
I really don't chase or care about merit (I already have a "good enough" rank), and I already got many.
I mean, having 10 merit and 200 activity doesn't seem too unusual? I'm at 435 posts currently but only 16 merit.
You post a lot of SMT on the Altcoin Discussion board (you post there and 10 seconds later your post gets burried with tons of shitposts). This doesn't necessarily means that you are a shitposter, since most of yours posts aren't going to be read by a merit source (too much spam).
Unless you ment specifically zero merit, zero merit and alot of posts is probably a bad sign
It is. Those type of users are without a doubt spammers.