I thank the moderators for developing the merit system that have curbed spam and other negative tendencies in this forum as evident in the numerous testimonies of improved quality of posts in different sections of this forum.
I'm not sure if moderators are the one who developed or proposed the merit system.
According to DdmrDdmr's
stastics; the overall amount of posts from 23/01/18 to 22/07/18 have declined, but the Marketplace (Altcoins), where bounty section is located, the number of posts have increased. Bounty participants might be increasing.
However, I will need more clarifications in certain concerns that I have which include but not limited to the followin questions:
1. I guess no one have suggested this, but there are already bounty managers that doesn't require bounty hunters posting their fb/twitter links. Maybe the new forum software will remove posting of social media links, and these bounty platforms will be used by bounty campaigns.
2. If you are targeting to have merits, some merit sources might ignore you. But if not, as long as you follow mprep's
rule, you're on the safe side. I reported some posts on a bounty thread that doesn't follow this rule before, I'm not sure if those posters know how to read or language was the barrier for them to understand or they could be bots.
3. Some posts will be deleted if it was reported to mods. But you can delete yours if you find it irrelevant, but deleting a certain amount of post can also reduce your activity. I've seen a newbie with 500 merits before, it was originally a hero member, and he decided to remove all of his/her posts to lower his rank(I forgot his/her name here, but that user carries a negative trust).
Don't look at my activity, please.4. There are active members who hunt for merit abusers, but some of them are not yet caught or given any negative trust due to lack of evidence like this
user, do you think he/she deserved to be given any merit?