in mining and tech related stuff the emphasis is more on how complete your information is, and how clear the problem/solution is presented. probably pretty useless info to the forum in general, and its quickly ignored.
Yeah, but to those in the know it's probably some of the most useful information out there. I wouldn't merit any of it, because I don't understand the vagaries of it and I don't visit the mining sections--but it would be fantastic if those posters now have someone who can award merits there, if they even care about that sort of thing. Seems like the people most concerned with ranking up are those doing bounties/campaigns and I don't think they're miners.I'd say it's pretty pathetic when you have >1000 posts and no merits, but I don't think those mass posters are doing anything but posting in the bounty threads (and there's some evidence of that here). That's actually a good thing that I don't usually see such members in the sections that I frequent. Sometimes I do, yes, but usually Meta/Reputation posters have earned some, and even in Economics and Speculation people usually have earned one or two.
I have one bigger, huge one, but I'm waiting a mod responce here 
