well you don't get that, if i want to merit people for tagging lauda is a choice of mine, i can do that without making it public as literally saying it.
and 2 weeks ago you were sr. member, just checked your merit history, tho this is irellevant, anything over newbie or jr member will get more visibility
it's different, you were encoring people to troll, so even those who were not planning to, might troll just for merit, it's a whole different story. also many things are simply wrong when done in public anyway.
ok does not really matter, 2 weeks or 3 weeks, you get the point.
I got 150 merit in about a when i was a full member.
i got 100 merits in about a month too when i was just a member.
( these numbers are rough, got no time to dig in exact numbers)
in fact looking the graph, the high i go in rank, the less merit i get, so it seems like things work the exact opposite of how you describe them , or my posts are turning into pure shit
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but bottom line, getting merit is not that hard really, so there is no excuse to beg for merit.