1. They are newbies, and hardly anyone cares about them.
On the contrary, who cares about the opinions of the older members of the forum?
"Care" in this context is for those who make informative posts. If newbies come to the Meta section to either ass-lick the merit system or call it bad then they would be ignored. I think this is already well known.
2. Enough smerit is not available in the market to fulfil the needs of all the new "genuine and real" newbies that join the forum.
So for that we need more merit sources. Time is the key here. Unless more merit sources come in the system people have nothing to do.
This puts a check on the growth of new members hat might be helpful and really beneficial for the forum in the long term.
This idea of merit is not what it was meant to be. Merit was introduced to prevent shitposters from ranking up.
So I was just thinking of a way to distribute "very minute" amount of merit to people on basis of "something" that might help them to lift up their accounts to a better position. This distribution may only be limited to newbies and Jr and not be there for higher ranks.
This "something" can be based on their number of posts and time (as in case with the activity) or it can be something else(please suggest).
Why dont you suggest it yourself?
And as this is only limited to very Jr accounts , this wont ultimately dissolve the purpose of merit on the forum and yet keep the forum open for new members to join.
What do you think about it?
I highly doubt this would work. Also dont expect to get merited for your post because it was junk - according to me.
What I was thinking was we could also include something like as in steemit. You get merit for sending merit and the merit is very minute and is based on how much merit you hold. Or it could be very well a modified version of steemit because it won't help new members in any way.
Is there any way that the steemit model could be implemented for merit system?
If merit was actually made a commodity like steempower, it would really have some fine value.
Steem is a shitcoin being pumped by some shitcoin shillstar youtubers. Please move on and learn to do some research and to put your money into other coins.