I know this new initiative by Thymos came as a surprise to almost all of us. We actually least expected it. How does it feel like; after several weeks of been a junior member and enjoying the benefits that come with it, you wake up the next morning just to realize you have been demoted. To me, it is not very welcoming news but that does not take away the fact that the initiative is good and may reduce unnecessary posts.
My major concern however is that, mostly merits are given to only new topics or new threads. I believe good posts do not only come from new threads but some replies to posts by people can be very good and may deserve merits even better than new threads that were given merits. I think this happens because people hardly read replies to posts. They just go on ahead and read the thread and some few replies.
And so to my dear higher ranked members who are capable of giving merits, please kindly be reading the replies as well and merit people who rightly deserve it. Thank you.
With me, the new management policy is really good. It helps to avoid the status of new accounts created for the purpose of bonuses or spam, it does not help much for this forum.
In my opinion, managers should give better policies, for example, need 5 or 10 merits to be able to rank Jr
