But.. Their is a shit ton of merit wasted on legendary accounts..
It's wasted in the sense that it can't be used to rank up, but it's not wasted in the sense that Merit is also meant to highlight good posts:
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
Hard to find posters worthy of merit that need merit? Yeah I feel ya..
Maybe you should give posters that need merit more.. Like 3 instead of 1, or 5 instead of 2..
So far, my average is very close to 1 merit per post. I prefer to merit more different posts than giving more to one post.
Before I give my smerits out I usually even check post histories and try to give it to posters that it will actually make a difference to..
I do that sometimes, but even if most of his posts are bad, receiving merit on a good post good be an incentive to improve.
Then again, maybe you're not talking to me