Honestly, this list to me just backs up my belief that the merit requirements are too high right now. We're going to have a pretty bad lack of people ranking up to Sr. Member/Hero Member/Legendary over the next few years if the requirements aren't decreased. That's got a few problems with it but the main one in my opinion is that it will make account selling even more lucrative for accounts that had high ranks prior to the merit requirement being introduced.
That's the point of the Merit system: it was far too easy to farm accounts, and that stopped now. Of course scarcity leads to higher prices, but the number of accounts available to be sold keeps dropping. See
A wave of bans: 400 yesterday, 300 the day before. What changed? for example: I'm pretty sure we're still
destroying more Merit in bans than we're distributing to users.
That's 16 low-ranked members earning 20 or more merit per month, most being around the 20 mark. If they consistently keep getting 20 a month, that's still 50 months to hit Legendary - so even for that small number of people who are doing well for themselves, it's still a very considerable amount of time.
Merit was introduced about 21 months ago. Let's say that's 630 days.
101 users received more than 630 Merit in this time, and 235 users reached half that amount. I assume not all of those users have been around every day, but to keep up with Activity, 1 Merit per day is enough.
I'm having a bigger problem finding enough good posts, if you find unmerited good posts, please report them in
[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. Or apply to become a Merit source.
Right now Full/Sr/Hero/Legendary is 100/250/500/1000, and as I've stated before I think it should be 50/200/400/750 personally, or something around that.
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This has been suggested and discussed before. I don't think it's going to happen, and I also don't think lowering it by ~25% is going to matter. If you can reach 750 Merit, you can reach 1000 too. Most users can't reach the 750 either.
I know you've been away from the forum for a while so you've probably missed most of the Merit discussions, but there are more appropriate topics to discuss the details of the Merit system.
I'll use my latest list to see if I can Merit some of them. That's the purpose of this topic: find the rare good users and Merit their posts
No, the reality is different. These numbers are not difficult to achieve but the problem is that everyone becomes miser when it comes to give merits. You see a good posts and give 1 merit to it. (Most of them give just 1 or 2 merits). They could easily give more merits to good posts.
I usually give only 1 Merit at a time, but it's not true that I could "easily" give more Merit per post. I've sent 6648 Merit in 4612 transactions, and currently have more than 500 sMerit left. I could at most have given less than 10% more per post with my total supply.
As an example above by a newbie who received 20 merits for a single post, its only the merit abusers who give merit generously to their alts for bad posts. All this is bitter truth but who cares.
Merit abusers only send sMerit to a few users. I've merited 1315 different users. That explains the difference.
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