Is the new merit system better?

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I think the restricting of signatures is a great first step towards removing the financial incentive for creating multiple accounts.

It would work even better if we require more merit. I think this is a very small step in the right direction but I still think we should go further and remove signatures from Juniors as well. Then you would need ten merit to become a Member and get a signature and that's still not much to ask. That would really sort the wheat from the chaff because at the moment it's not very difficult to get one merit whether you beg, trade or buy it. Ten merit is ten times harder/more costly to get. I don't think everybody should be able to come here and earn via posting straight away because it's that that has destroyed the forum by people who have no idea what they're doing and making them get one merit is just minor a inconvenience for them. Let them earn that right, but I think we need to make it more than one merit. One is fine from going from Newbie to Junior but I don't think it's enough to have a significant impact on the quality of discussions here. It's a small spanner in the works of farmers but they can easily buy or trade the one merit which will also easily go unnoticed in a lot of cases. The ones who have been earning thousands from farming accounts/bounties with hundreds of accounts will have no issue in buying the merit then trading it between their alts so it's not much of a difference to them.

I'm just thinking how it is just one merit enough to be Jr. member and they can continue on with his job. What kind of invasion is going on meta in the last two days I suppose that 2 merit requirements for jr member rank it would be like a catastrophe for many newbies.
in any case, it is a considerably less spam hereafter merit system integrated. the new change will be reflected mostly on bounty account farmers, and I must say a great job for the one who conceived this.

[kennen1113]

I think the restricting of signatures is a great first step towards removing the financial incentive for creating multiple accounts.

It would work even better if we require more merit. I think this is a very small step in the right direction but I still think we should go further and remove signatures from Juniors as well. Then you would need ten merit to become a Member and get a signature and that's still not much to ask. That would really sort the wheat from the chaff because at the moment it's not very difficult to get one merit whether you beg, trade or buy it. Ten merit is ten times harder/more costly to get. I don't think everybody should be able to come here and earn via posting straight away because it's that that has destroyed the forum by people who have no idea what they're doing and making them get one merit is just minor a inconvenience for them. Let them earn that right, but I think we need to make it more than one merit. One is fine from going from Newbie to Junior but I don't think it's enough to have a significant impact on the quality of discussions here. It's a small spanner in the works of farmers but they can easily buy or trade the one merit which will also easily go unnoticed in a lot of cases. The ones who have been earning thousands from farming accounts/bounties with hundreds of accounts will have no issue in buying the merit then trading it between their alts so it's not much of a difference to them.

I'm just thinking how it is just one merit enough to be Jr. member and they can continue on with his job. What kind of invasion is going on meta in the last two days I suppose that 2 merit requirements for jr member rank it would be like a catastrophe for many newbies.
in any case, it is a considerably less spam hereafter merit system integrated. the new change will be reflected mostly on bounty account farmers, and I must say a great job for the one who conceived this.

Disaster? You are overestimating this problem because with all the effort and meticulousness, a newbie can easily earn a lot of merit for a short time as long as they produce high quality post, it is not so terrible as you say. People are just being surprised and not timely adapt to the new system, however, things will soon be resolved when they adjust the mood and wait for the source of merit and of course, bounty hunters will die out over time with this system but a newbie with patience and contribution will definitely survive

[vallydelly]

Though i am affected in the recent demotion, But it's good because the rate at which new people join the space and post rubbish just to attain Jr member to start bounty signature is so alarming, so the new system will make newbies to focus on making good post so that they will rank up rather than posting shitpost in other to reach jr member to fulfill the bounty number of post in a week, also it will cut off multi account abuse, so it's a good decision coming at the right time.