The majority of people that post decent stuff never get any merit. And newcomers that actually post decent stuff will be included in the ignored list. I dont know how well this system will work out.
Just like I said earlier, this plugin is for making unreadable sections readable. I don't believe each and every member here will start using this. There will be plenty of merit sources and people who won't use this. Plus this isn't the final thing... Plenty of stuff can be added to make it friendly towards merit-worthy users.
Maybe, if possible, you could add a detector for plagiarised content or thread duplicates.
I will look into it. I hope there is some kind of an API for this. Else, I don't see how this could be implemented. Plus something like this will slow down the plugin.
However, yes not enough members posting good quality posts are getting merit.
That's another story. Ask Merit sources to be more generous, spend more time hunting for merit-worthy posts etc, This plugin wouldn't hinder their efficiency at all... Even if they are on a "Merit-run" all the plugin is asking them is to click that 'Read Anyway' Button. I dunno how hard can it be to click a button.
I would love to see this as an official forum feature, where you can just click "show users/posts with xx Merit only" on top of each board. I hope this will be implemented in the future (after the Merit system has had some more time to mature).
Yeah, I wanted to suggest it in the community suggestions thread But thought it won't get implemented anytime soon, so I took it to my self. Hired a guy to code this. But this would make a great 'official' Feature.
I'm paranoid to install browser extensions, so I'm not testing it yet.
No worries
, I am waiting for devs from the community to review it.
