I tend to ignore most post offered to me for merits, they tend to be boring and of low value. It's much more fun to spend some time cruising through the indexes looking for interesting topics. You learn all sorts of new things that way. I find that it is often best to visit the third or fourth index pages for a popular board. That way you can avoid the low value threads that are being bumped by the bounty spammers.
the problem is this, i only go on a few boards, i don't have the time to roam around all of them, and some good posts might be there somewhere, so it would be easier for me to spend my Smerit this way.
better still send OP the merit as other users have done.
do you even understand how Merit works? so I send the OP you talking about 10 merit, he ends up with 5 Smerit so smart ! , plus this is clear that i want to help newbies and members rank up, i can't do this by Meriting someone who is offering to help other members rank up. it doesn't work this way.
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anyway i appreciate the contribution and i would ask people not to spam this topic , the rules are clear, if you are a newbie or jr.member post 1 post that you think deserves merit, if you want to discus an alternative way of doing this, start your own topic and host the talk there, i would like to scroll down and see only LINKS to posts so i can do this easier.
Thanks.