I have noticed that a lot of merit is given to people with legendary accounts or people are just willing to give merit to higher rank accounts than others. But why do people give merit for Legendaries ? The main purpose for merit should not be just to reward users for quality post but also to let them rank-up, but if you give it to legendary account it became just a waste. Why you can't just reply them and thank for some quality post ? A lot of people are even giving merit for moderators because of their good work. But why ? They don't need it. Isn't it better just to say them that you have appreciated their work/post or something like that. Of course Legendaries can give it to some other ranks but still half of merit will be wasted. Maybe forum should restrict the ability to give merit for legendary accounts. What do you think?
And save merit for who, exactly? Newbies? Jr. Members? I'd have to do more reading than I did in college just to find one of those members to give out a merit to who's truly deserving of it. No thank you. I do, in fact, try to merit lower-ranked members, as I've mentioned before and as you can see from my merit history. I agree that they "need" it more than higher-ranked members, but from my experience it's the Heros and Legendaries who make the best posts--hands down, no contest.
I think giving merits to Theymos or Satoshi or a member who's inactive is a bit of a waste, but people can do whatever they want with their sMerits, as long as they're not selling them or doing something against the rules. There's no need to complain about this, since it smacks of juvenile jealousy.
