Merits should be given for the lower ranks only.

[greeklogos]

Opinions about shared as I see and I understand arguments of both sides in this point. I think even if you find out a lot of supportes the forum's rules will not be changed in the case of merit system, because of I see people who rule all the staff here (as Lauda) do not find your idea as a good one.

[Sasuke102001]

It is the higher rank members of the forum that would be the ones giving merits to us low ranked members based on post quality and other things and for that even they would require sMerits which they will have only if they receive merits so the cycle there has to be a cycle of distribution of merits among the users. What you are doing is just complaining about the system if you wanna rank up make better posts and the higher ranked members that are above us will do there work of giving merits to the people who deserve it.

[blackmagical]

Sr. Member, Hero and Legendary do they need a merits? These rank should be exempted on merits systems instead they are the one who will judge the lower ranks by giving merits.

These could benefit the forum members as a whole;

1. Newbies that work as a spam will be controlled.
2. It will give an opportunity those newbies that really working hard to rank up in fair time.
    (I saw a lot merits just given to the the higher ranks which a post is not really worthy of a merit. majority of the merits just dwell in their realm. Lower
    ranks just gets the crumbs)
3. Merits will be distributed fairly to the lower ranks because higher ranks will not think of their merits anymore.

'Hope this post can get crumbs.'

Those who are in the Sr. Member, Hero and Legendary ranks still needs merits because as you suggested, those ranks will judge the lower ranks by giving merits. If they (Sr. Member, Hero and Legendary) run out of sMerits to give, how can they judge those lower ranks? It's a cycle, they can't give if they don't have receive any.

You can read all of the forum and majority of the merits are in the circle of higher ranks. The lower ranks receive merits just only by chance.

Exactly. It's a game of chances, luck, randomization from higher-qualitied users to lowered my users.

yes, I agree with you, I doubt that post that belongs to high-rank members could earn merits more easy than lower rank members

[tekusa]

It is the higher rank members of the forum that would be the ones giving merits to us low ranked members based on post quality and other things and for that even they would require sMerits which they will have only if they receive merits so the cycle there has to be a cycle of distribution of merits among the users. What you are doing is just complaining about the system if you wanna rank up make better posts and the higher ranked members that are above us will do there work of giving merits to the people who deserve it.

You are a Full member here and still consider yourself as a low rank member ? What about junior members like me or newbies ? I guess no one is content here.

I think even the high ranked members do not have much control in the merit system. Most of the merits come from merit sources. But the fact is that a high ranked member has good knowledge about the forum rules and he also makes detailed posts related to bitcoin prices and updates. Thus they good good number of merits and it adds corresponding sMerits in their profile.

[Karavadinos]

Sr. Member, Hero and Legendary do they need a merits? These rank should be exempted on merits systems instead they are the one who will judge the lower ranks by giving merits.

These could benefit the forum members as a whole;

1. Newbies that work as a spam will be controlled.
2. It will give an opportunity those newbies that really working hard to rank up in fair time.
    (I saw a lot merits just given to the the higher ranks which a post is not really worthy of a merit. majority of the merits just dwell in their realm. Lower
    ranks just gets the crumbs)
3. Merits will be distributed fairly to the lower ranks because higher ranks will not think of their merits anymore.

'Hope this post can get crumbs.'

The merit system was brought to the forum to clean it up from spammers, only high qualified posts will be merited no matter what the rank is, still the high ranked people will be the first to judge the small ranks and give merits, but how exactly they judge posts ? on which scale they consider a post high qualified ?, what if you don't share them the same opinion and yet you are qualified, do you think they will still give you a merit ? or just impose their ideas and ignore you because you are a beginner, this is where the problem of the merit system lies, ranking up depends on what people think about you actually, it is a great move but not fair enough.