You can make 500 high quality posts over the course of a year and you might go somewhere on here. This site is a joke now.
You can get 50 smerit with a good post and you can make 0 smerit with 50 low-medium quality posts.
It depends and in my opinion, people here (including me) prefer to give smerit to low ranks rather than the highest one. I remember declining to merit so many good posts because the OP was a legendary...and I am pretty sure many did the same.
You cannot blame the system when most of people here don't care about the forum, nor contribute to the discussions here. They are simply joining bounties and spamming bitcointalk with their plagiarised texts.
As far as I have seen nearly every sub-forum on btc talk is a giant spam-fest w/ very little in the way of actual discussion.
Could someone point me to the sub-forums where the grown-ups hang out? Legitimately asking, not being facetious.
As far as the merit system, from my experience thus far is has been flawed since it is so hard to obtain merit, really favors old members who were grandfathered in by default. Perhaps that can be alleviated if someone answers the above question for me. That said I do like the concept of the merit system.
For anyone who also can't figure out what noob actually means, here's one concise definition.
