This will also help the forum. We can conbined Merit and Like system like if the post was helpful and meaningful it will be merited for those who have sMerit while for those who didn't have sMerit will use the Like system or the upvote.
Rank Required activity Required merit Likes
Brand new 0 0 0
Newbie 1 0 0
Jr Member 30 0 10
Member. 60 10 50
Full Member 120 100 120
Sr. Member 240 250 300
Hero Member 480 500 800
Legendary Random in the range 775-1030 1000 1200
Upvotes will be easily get because everyone will have it only 1 upvote per 1 post every users.
No. If you give a "like" some sort of value, then it will be abused.
The merit system has pretty much done what I wanted the "like" system to do.
Closing this thread.