This whole merit system reminds me of communism
But seriously, I've posted here about the whole revamped ranking up system in short sentences to I thought to start a topic and get some thoughts on it.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827352.msg29136789#msg29136789).
Why do I think that voting up + merit points as a meter would be great:
1. account farmers couldn't vote up constantly their own posts, they could technically, but it would be available to see that constant upvoting from the same accounts and therefore get banned. Also, if someone just goes and upvotes all, it would have any direct impact on ranking up until the min number of upvotes is met.
2. 10 votes (idea) for merit points because that would lower the price of voting points because they would need a lot more to rank up and it would be practically nothing, unlike like this where someone can post on some obscure board and someone would merit him max merit for quite a sum of money.
3. it would be more known to community since I'm sure that most of you are visiting some website like 9gag or reddit where you can upvoting of content, therefore people would probably be more engaged in it.
4. the risk of abuse would be significantly lower. Example: 4 good pals on this forum go around and give each other merit, getting closer to the next rank with every week/month but with the voting up that wouldn't be of a use since they'd need more people outside of that circle to upvote it to get merit, making planned deals obsolete.
Just an idea, suggestions and thoughts are welcome.