if your post had not started out like a bleeding vagina I would of given you the merit.. so yes, saying anything is unfair isnt the way to deal with it - fuck anyone else, worry about yourself and if needed improve yourself to get to your goal.

The Merit system is in place now & there’s nothing you can do about it. If you’re a newbie you’ll need to work harder to gain Merit, that’s just the way it is. Try & be different, stand out.

It’s like when you leave school & you’re the new kid at work. You get the shit jobs in the office, you have to make the coffee & the tea but as time passes & you get more experience you become useful at work. You’re not the new kid all of a sudden & then a new, new kid joins

If you get me

WRONG!
If somebody who is a Legendary Member was a regular shitposter & or spammer it’s likely that somebody would have reported their posts & they’d have been banned before reaching Full Member status.


Most Legendary Members post at least mediocre quality posts.

Sorry, but how a post from 2015 where I join a signature campaign has anything to do with this? You WHOLE post history is shit.

You literally went stalking for a post from 3 years ago to post here. Can you try with any of my last ~3000 posts?

Have you not read anything about how the merit system works?  It's not exactly new at this point.
*Never mind, you're newer than I thought.*

The reason we don't run out of merits is because the merit source members keep getting their sMerits replenished.  So there's not a fixed amount at any given time.  It keeps increasing.  And I would add that Theymos just added 36 more merit sources AND advised them to be somewhat liberal when handing out merits to Newbies.  I've been trying to be liberal so far, but right now there's a hell of a lot of spam threads and merit-grabbing attempts.  

I'm going to hold off until this all settles.  Some noobs, no doubt, are trying to make their best posts ever in order to get out of newbie hell, and then they'll likely go right back to shitposting.

You're free to call it whatever you want, but you're obviously not grasping the "life isn't fair" concept.  I'd also point out that you're just now complaining about something that happened back in January and that it's useless to complain about it.

There is nothing to correct. It's pure trash.

1. It adds nothing to the discussion.
2. It adds nothing to anyone's life.
3. It's just an effortless oner liner made while you were shitpost bursting for the sake of filling a quota or increasing your post count. You literally go from post to post writing the first thing that comes to your mind.

It's simply just a waste of bandwidth and space on the server's database.

I'm sorry if you are so delusional that you can't see how bad your post is and how wrong is your mentality on this forum.

Timing was important, yes.  Deal with it.  But you're wrong about this being luck.  Legendaries put in a lot of time here posting and many have still earned lots of merits on top of what they were airdropped.  Again, you're going to have to deal with it.  Nobody cares about claims of "this isn't fair, wahhhh".

You don't get merit because you post trash like this:

Again, you're another noob who was nowhere to be found when this was actually being discussed, which it has been for months now. 

If anyone had started a poll, guaranteed you would have missed it, just like you missed the dozens of other threads asking the same question you just asked.  Most noobs are pure spammers and don't deserve to be able to wear advertising in their signature.  That's obvious to most senior members AND Theymos himself. 

Also, life isn't fair.  Suck it up and deal with it, because that fact likely isn't going to change in your lifetime.  However, this change is completely fair given how badly the spammers have diluted all the good posts with their nonsense.

Newbies and juniors suffer because they keep starting duplicate threads like this one.

Buying merit or normal ranks is like buying yourself a bunch of trophies to put on your shelf. It's stupid, and it's an insult to everyone who achieved it legitimately. I can't see ever doing that. I don't particularly mind letting people pay for some of the privileges of these things, such as with copper membership, but it should be a parallel system.

Copper membership is good. Now, if you want to participate in signature campaigns, you can either pay the $10-$20 for copper membership or accomplish the herculean task of making one good post. I don't think that it's unreasonable in either case.

If people are making good posts but are still struggling to get merit, then that's a problem with the merit system and should be fixed on my end. Demanding money in order to bypass a broken system would be really bad. But AFAICT the merit system actually is reasonably effective at identifying good posters.