Lets not discourage the concept of merit giveaway provided there are quality standard put in place that reduce the rate of abuse. I have personally benefited from merit giveaway on several occasion especially when my contribution were going unnoticed as well as created a
thread to help reach out to users in section not getting much attention. On a larger scales, I think these merit giveaway threads have done more good than harm.
Users that were unable to recieve merit as a result of their contribution not getting enough exposure have benefited so have some users been able to rank up, all thanks to these giveaway threads. Understandable most meriters of this giveaway thread do so to provide the OP with additional smerits to send out but that shouldn't be the case instead if you have interest in a particular giveaway thread then you can volunteering join in meriting the participants.
Decision like this will help better the idea and probably reduce the rate of users hoping to use this concept to hurt for merit.
Thank you this piece brainboss, i feel like you took every word you typed here out of my brain.
But just to add to all youve said, I support the idea of merit giveaway as long as it doesn't go against the rules of the forum, and just like another user said, instead of the op in the linked thread giving merits aways in that form, he can try to make it a little more tasky, atleast to help the merit receivers make a better post.
I currently a Victim of people not noticing my posts, though I went off here shortly after merit was introduced due to some issues I had to deal with in my life, I got back fully this September, ive been posting and I've been my best to make sure my post are always helpful and not gabbage, but then, I've not been earning any merits, I've been in this senior member rank like forever and really wish to move to Hero, but good things don't come easy I know, so I will just keep working hard and hope I earn those merits to help me cross over soon.