That's it!
Lots of users mainly think about how to earn merits with their threads; hence they don't concentrate on their flow of ideas, threads' logic and don't spend too much efforts to sharpen their threads in terms of coherence and cohesion.
They simply focus on how to attach several words inside their threads to call for merits give away; which usually lead to side-effects instead of getting merits, lol.
Moreover, threads need time (might be long span of time from the point it was published to the point it receive merits). After posting threads, don't pay attention about whether it get merits or not, at which time; instead paying attention on your next threads and their qualities.
If you hope to get merits for your posts, then stop and think before you post. Think about the thread, and the reason it was started.
Agree! Bumping old topics like this also annoys old topics' authors at somewhat extent.
If it's an old thread, ie. more than a couple of months old, then don't bump it. If you have something meaningful to add to the topic, then start a new thread, and link to the old one.
There are bunches of available non-sense topics related to merits and how to get merits. So, highly recommend do not start new topics on merit issues. I will call someone do this is new-adapted spammers!
Don't start another thread about merit. Everybody understands merit now, even if they pretend not to. If they don't, then there are so many explanations now, that they can get all the information they need from those.
For this English issue, I also give link to TMAN's topic:
TMAN's guide to getting meritsDon't translate a quote into garbled english, and post it pretending it's your original creation.
If you don't have halfway decent English, then stay out of the English threads.
Agree too! Over-quoted, over-used infographics and images will mostly result in negative side-effects. Don't over-use them when composing next threads. It hurts my eyes and my fingers; then that sort of posters should be responsible for my medical bills.
Don't quote long posts. You can snip the relevant bit for your reply, or use one of the snip shortforms - <snip>. ~~, or >..<
Don't include large images or infographics in a text discussion thread.
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