Everything what Charles-Tim and Rikafip wrote is correct.
The way he addressed Charles-Tim and Rikafip was surprising to me. He considers himself to be a valuable poster on the forum with only 1 merit in 120 days while he is called bad to those whom merits are uncountable at a single glance. He failed to know that merits are given to the quality poster only and it is almost impossible to manipulate it with alts, without being noticed.
By the way, I am against those who want the merit system to be Abolished and also I am against those too who want bounties and signatures to be eliminated too. We can improve things without losing any of these.
I agree with you. Merits are a very good criterion that separates the good from the bad posters on this forum.
If a member gets hundreds or thousands of merits on this forum, it means that his reputation on this forum is very good and that he has helped many forum members with his posts.
When merits were introduced I was skeptical about it, but now I think it was a very good idea because it prevented spammers from advancing on the forum without quality posts, just based on activity.
Of course, there are also older forum members, who got their rank before the introduction of merits, but that does not change the fact that merits helped to create some order on this forum and separate the good from the bad members.
Everyone can have a very high opinion of themselves, but in the end it is decided by the forum community in a very clear and transparent way, through the merit system.
I don't follow bounty threads, so I can't comment on that.
