Do you check the merit history of users before meriting them?

[gentlemand]

My point is that the community leans towards thinking that it is OK not to send merits to someone based on a generally low-quality posting history, even if the occasional post of that person is good.  

I only do that in extreme cases, but the extreme cases are often the majority.

Quite often the ratio of coherent posts to referral shit is 100 to 1 or more. In that case that's enough to not make me want them to progress. It's clear they're here for a reason that'll turn out to degrade the forum.

[Findingnemo]

Yes I do check the merit transaction history and their post history to find the user is actually making some efforts to bring contribution to the forum or that post was made for some purpose like getting merit at that time to join on a signature campaign or like that.And when they are low ranked I check for plagiarism as well, honestly I suck at checking this but I try to do as best as possible.

[Pmalek]

These are the final results:

There were a total of 44 voters.
27 (61.4%) voted NO.
12 (27.3%) voted YES.

I don't send merits received 2 votes (4.5%).
And I would like to thank those 3 (6.8%) who voted for 'Piss off'.

I think the thread and poll have served their purpose so I will lock them now.