How merits spread started?

[Note3]

This maybe a noob or complicated question and apologize in advance if this may find you a dumb question to ask but i just want to know the history of how the Merit spread in the forum.

The question doesn't look stupid and what I remember about Merit being first enforced was in 2018 for everyone on this forum.

Secondly, in relation to the title of the topic, I was told that Merit system was introduced by Theymos and my first thought then was, did Theymos hold thousand of Merit when the merit system was implemented and distributed it to the pioneer of this forum? or is he have a merit source key people to do the job? or when the merit system implemented all of the users that time got rewarded some automatically?

When the merit system was implemented in 2018, some people who were already at a certain rank such as Member, Full Member, Senior Member and so on, obviously got a limited amount of merit automatically in their respective accounts.
For example, Senior Member rank automatically has 250 merits in their account and has 20 to 25 smerits in their account at the time, as well as higher ranks such as Hero Members who immediately have 500 merit units in their account. So it is automatically in their respective accounts when merit is applied to this forum.

Because if not then all the rank will back to newbie so it's given for free, don't forget Legendary members gets 1000 merit don't know how much sMerit they got from system.

[uchegod-21]

You have to differentiate between:

• The forum and Bitcoin, they are completely different.
• The forum and people like Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi ended their link more than 10 years ago.

Merit system was established in the year 2018 to solve the problem of increasing spam, which is numbers that are updated within the database and therefore have no value. Theymos can create or delete millions of these points because they only represent an update to the database in the forum

It's fine you noted to OP that there is a difference between bitcoin and bitcointalk. I have seen in many occasions where newbies confuse the too. Most times they question how bitcoin works in Bitcointalk which normal, but when they start questioning how bitcointalk works in relation to bitcoin, you will understand that there is a mixup somewhere.

I was not here when they said there was too much spam, but with what I witness now, I can only imagine how bad it was then. Moderators would have seen alot. ThankGod for implementation of the merit system.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Because if not then all the rank will back to newbie so it's given for free, don't forget Legendary members gets 1000 merit don't know how much sMerit they got from system.

Accounts created after 2018 do not receive any privileges from the forum, and therefore all merit becomes more valuable.

But if you look closely, today there are a lot of people who very quickly increase their rank and become legends by giving their devotion to the forum.

Therefore, it is in no way worth relating to the issue of what it used to be just to increase one's rank than it is now.

[Republikcoin.com]

Because if not then all the rank will back to newbie so it's given for free, don't forget Legendary members gets 1000 merit don't know how much sMerit they got from system.

I think you already know that so I'm not going to tell you anymore that Legendary gets 1000 merits when the merit system is implemented and also has 100 to 150 smerits in it.
And what I remember is that only Jr.Member rank dropped to Newbie a month after there were new rules so that those who had been in Jr.Member had to try to get one merit in order to be in Jr.Member Rank again, while for Member Rank it was automatic has 10 Merit units at the time the merit system was implemented.