Isnt it really ironical that the OP who looks out to merit quality posts (by his own perceived standard) hasn't got a single of his posts merited? He is still stuck at default merit.
What a satire!
Could it be a case of the sick trying to heal the sick or that the OP's numerous posts are not attention deserving to get merits? I think some are merit worthy but I leave the forum to that decision. However, honestly, I am sick and tired of these numerous and needless threads on Merit.
Everyone is entitled to have opinion and I respect that. Mind that I'm not clearing position here. People seeking merit are mainly focusing on bounty or signature threads.
We need to understand why are people finding merit system difficult to have handle on it? Because majority of the users are not accustomed to appreciate efforts of other. One may see users being hyper-polite while posting on bounty or signature campaigns. User will appreciate moderator of thread with 'thanks, thank you sir,madam, etc etc.' However same user are less attentive towards what other person has posted. This directly affects very purpose of the starting a thread discussing particular subject. Lets say if I start a topic about bitcoin and its effect on economics, then it is understandable to have response to the OP comment. However once at least 10 or 20 comments passed it is desired to have conversation or reply on inputs shared by other users. In reality, majority of users will respond to the OP comment even though that thread has crossed over 100 comments. Very few people go through what others have said about the topic.
This behavior itself is sophisticated form of spamming. This in result makes thread more and more redundant. Many similar thread like 'gold vs bitcoin' keep on resurrecting every one in while.
Many start the thread of topic which will have easy to comment subject.
From the perspective of new users or users with lower than member ranking find it difficult to get motivation to write quality posts. In process of increasing the post count shitty threads are created and more shitty responses, one word responses, one liner responses are posted.
Those who learn the craft of composing meaningful posts are now finding it difficult to get merit. This is because inherent nature of forum(almost all forums and not just this forum) so far did not have a culture where user appreciate other users effort in writing meaningful post. Thus for them getting denied of merit even after composing really good post is frustrating.
As seasoned user we must encourage those who are doing excellent job. Once all users on forum are accustomed to the philosophy of merit-sharing, we wont need this kind of thread anymore.
