When I say reputation score I mean the merit score. I mean that if you send someone 1 merit then you will have 1 merit less and not still the same merits.
Wrong. I have earned a total of 338 merits. They still show on my profile, as I had 1000 given to me since I was already legendary when the change was made. I have never "lost" any "displayable" amount of merit showing on my profile, nor was I given ANY smerits for the 1k I got for free, so there was nothing gained there to give.
With the way it works now, new merits are getting "bornt" every time someone sends a smerit.
So what? When you get one merit, you only get half a merit (ie, 1 smerit), then when you give 1 "merit" away, you burn 2 smerits.... How does that even compute with your last sentence? Can you even math?
I guess you all just wanna whine about the lack of merit you are receiving. Go post something useful or substantial and you will get merit. There is no collusion among merit sources. Go look at LoyceV's merit stats, ffs...