Suggestion about the Merit System on Airdropped Merits.

[stompix]

I'm ok with the airdrop merit decay, either slowly or nuked all at once but turning the entire forum in amerit hunting business I think goes overboard, the purpose of the forum is to discuss freely, not to turn into the academic board where everyone will try instead of saying

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It will have the same effect of signature campaigns paying for x words.
People will try to inflate their letter count and make the post longer just so it will look like they've spent a looooooot of time on it and it is merit worthy.

In the end, we will end with 1km posts that are going to be even more annoying that the two lines crap.

This will piss a lot of people off, you can't give someone something and then take it back like that , some people will be really really mad , what i suggest for a compensation would be keeping the rank but showing only earned merit, so that someone who earned 1000 merit does not look the same as someone who got them from the airdrop , doing this won't make a lot of them mad since they can keep their ranks , i guess .

Lol, I've already counted 3 people that bragged about having more merit than me, also laughing at me of being a Legendary with only 7 merits while they've earned 10

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[lobcmt2]

@darkluss123.
You did not get what I meant. There are key factors to consider: merit per post rate; total post made; period of actively posting. Small number of post should not be used to calculate merit per post rate (it should be a large enough post-numbers); period of actively posting should be long enough. For high rank users, they even can easily get merits with joking posts. I don't offend, and have no reason to offend, but if high rank users don't meet all three factors above, their quality should be put under low level. However, it is just opinion, not essential thing, even without demotions, airdropped high rank users (whom have not self-earned bunches of merits), nowadays almost unable to be competitive compared to selfmade high rank users if they apply in same campaigns, if they want to join campaigns. That's fine.
300 or 500 posts are enough to get good overview on post-quality of users.

[eaLiTy]

maybe now and might be in the next one or two years, when population of self made users expanded, demotions on higher ranks might be seriously considered, I believe. There should not have grand-father-rights for old users whom are not able to earn a single merit over 3 or 4 years.

Do you think earlier users in bitcoin had an unfair advantage to enter when the price was really low (a few pennies) and everyone was able to mine using their laptop and collected thousands of coins, yes there are rights if he was an early user in the entire echo system, no one stopped anyone to join the platform during the initial stages, if you are late who is to be blamed and that is the case with the account here, we need progressive thinking but that does not mean to demote earlier users because of inactivity .

@OP Even the so called airdropped merits you have according to your rank you need to have a certain merit in the last 120 days to join any significant campaign run by prominent members here. Nothing wrong in suggestion but it is not a realistic solution for anything to demote users.

[jademaxsuy]

There is a loophole to this idea OP since airdrop.merit users has still some smerita that could.be pass on their alt accounts and then give it back to the original account being used. So, a user will be free from the demotion.

Whatever system running now in the forum is still good and I think there is no need to modify the merit system but instead it should be good if it will be given a chance comply a good quality post every week on users that has not receive any merits but had already been airdrop to another users.