Hey guys...did we lose a ton of merit sources or am I hallucinating?

[Zoomic]

...Honestly, I never had the slightest doubt that it would happen and I'm glad it did because it obviously means a lot to you.

Obviously, you were so confident about my ranking up. I already projected that it will happen before the end of 2026 Q1 but your positive energy attracted the favour.

Now you need to change your personal text and embark on a new adventure towards Legendary rank

I already changed my text, but for the legendary adventure, lol... It's scary to even take a step.

[Ultegra134]

I'm not a merit source but now that we're discussing the merit distribution, I've also neglected doing my part to the community, as I'm not distributing the smerits I've acquired. I will agree to an extent with @Alani123, I don't see too many quality posts from newer users, but just how Lucius pointed out, there's no way there aren't a handful of them that actually deserve to be merited; not necessarily with 50 points, I believe that's too much, but in general. And if my memory serves me right, there are a couple of users who have recently been approved as merit sources.

[GeorgeJohn]

I'm not a merit source but now that we're discussing the merit distribution, I've also neglected doing my part to the community, as I'm not distributing the smerits I've acquired. I will agree to an extent with @Alani123, I don't see too many quality posts from newer users, but just how Lucius pointed out, there's no way there aren't a handful of them that actually deserve to be merited; not necessarily with 50 points, I believe that's too much, but in general. And if my memory serves me right, there are a couple of users who have recently been approved as merit sources.

They're numerous quality posters in the forum, what i feel that is making some merit source not to observe some quality posters, maybe is as results of the boards They post, I observed that some merit sources doesn't consider a suggestion or a reply as quality post except that there's a new thread created.

[Lucius]

...Honestly, I never had the slightest doubt that it would happen and I'm glad it did because it obviously means a lot to you.

Obviously, you were so confident about my ranking up. I already projected that it will happen before the end of 2026 Q1 but your positive energy attracted the favour.

This is not the first time I've seen a case like yours, and every time there has been a case like this, the same thing has always happened. If you are a good user who is simply less visible and does not take too many initiatives, you will remain unnoticed.

Now you need to change your personal text and embark on a new adventure towards Legendary rank

I already changed my text, but for the legendary adventure, lol... It's scary to even take a step.

Why would that be a scary step? You need less than 500 merits to reach Legendary rank, and in one year that's quite achievable. On average, you need a little more than 1 merit per day, which is by no means an impossible mission.

[LoyceV]

Merits is like a river wave, if you are not on its lane, it will not touch you.

It's more like: I read what I like to read, and if you mostly post on other boards, I can't Merit your posts. I've Merited you only twice, and I think this can apply:

But undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.

I wonder if some merit sources who have some unspent smerits could finish meriting a post and get curious to check the person's post history to know if they deserve a few more merits.

It happens. But that takes more time than asking you to post some of your good posts in Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source so I can easily Merit them. Please do this