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
Yes, that setup is correct!
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If I analyze your picture it seems that indeed the blue cable is connected to the right socket at the right voltage and also the yellow one seems to be in the right place. Judging by this and taking into account the schema that comes with the device I can assume that everything you have done is correct and indeed the setup will work flawlessly unless something unexpected happens.
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