we are only at the beginning we will see with time if this system will manage to raise the quality of posts and reduce spam
Yeah, sure. That's why legendary are sending each other merits, not sharing with anyone else.
In the meantime don't hold your breath. You won't be ranking up any time soon and neither will I.
Uhh... I think I should be offended.
My rank is legendary, and I've tried to distribute what sMerit I get to posts by newer members that strike me as interesting, constructive, or at least well thought out.
Mind you, the system is new and it's NOT habitual to me yet, but I have made the effort. And it appears to me that I am not alone in this.
Bitching by itself will not get you merit, that I can almost guarantee. Bitching with a point, or sharp wit, very well might
Actually I could have been Legendary myself if only I had spammed a lot in these years - we all spam at a certain point, you can't explain in every post the sense of life. There are also "shitposts" like "hey I love that and I love this".
Into the Italian section of this forum there are people complaining about legendary sending merit, frankly I take it for granted, I'm starting to dislike the system and I won't investigate any further since I will just give up "giving my best".
Also I don't like ... licking boots with "hey this sssssMerit rocks".
I'm confused on one thing though. There is this "leitmotiv" going around that merit is going to kill spam.
I find this statement an open defying of logic.
Merit, as it has been show, is just a "like" system, à la facebook, with a substantial difference that accumulating points (that reminds me the points you get on the supermarket to buy a new set of pots or something like that) will make you, eventually, rank up.
In any way that won't prevent spammers from spamming - low ranks can still post, maybe not as fast as they want, but still they can post.
And that won't stop anyone else from posting what is called "shitposts", since there is no "de-merit" (oh crap, now I'm starting to give bad ideas to the administration...).
So, again, what's the point exactly for this ssssMerit system? (I have to make an avatar with Gollum saying "my sssssssMerit", too much fun...)
I'm not being rethorical here. I honestly don't get why the administration had the urge to add something more than just activity.
And activity alone is sufficient to speed down fake accounts.
It is claimed that new merit system is introduced to control spam, low quality, and irrelevant posting system. Theoretically it is assumed that one person posting a question when gets satisfactory relevant reply may send merit points to the person replying to the question and also some other member can send merit points to the person who replies satisfactorily. This is named as quality post but it is not so simple, the world is not so merciful that only on getting or finding nice relevant reply will give merit points to others. I think most of the people here gathered to earn some money so selfish interest are the base of everybody’s entry to this forum. Now what will happen most of the members will be requiring more merit points to improve further his ranking and will be trying to receive merit points. He will be certainly watching someone else who could give merit points and on the other hand same will be the position for the other member too so there may be trading between the two, both giving merit to each other’s posts. Good barter system.
Now junior members like me what they can do under such circumstances. May be some senior member approaches him to sell merit points for certain amount, so a new business opportunity for senior members having good storage of sMerits. Jungle (forest) law will apply now only. Big and stronger eating the weak and the small.
It is said that quality posts will be rewarded. But who will decide the parameters of quality of certain post. Everybody will define the quality standards in his own interest and opinion and knowledge.
I also fear that this system is started to benefit senior members of the bitcoin. Because now more and more people are joining this forum and with the old system of promotion many new members will be reaching to higher ranks as a result number of competitors in bounties / campaigns will be increasing thereby decreasing the earning of seniors already there due to increased competition.
It is also said that it is a move to stop persons to run various fake accounts which is also beyond understanding. Law breakers invent more effective tools to break laws; I doubt the forum can be saved from the greed of such people.
Old senior members have been granted hundreds of merit points according to their rankings it is also beyond understanding. A very senior man who is at this platform active for the last say 4-5 years is holding high rank and is granted say 1200 merits. He is given just because of his seniority but can we say honestly that his posts were so much high quality and also high quality in large numbers that he deserves for 1200 merits? No. But just for his being senior he got it. What is the fault of juniors than, just one fault joining late by 3-4-5 years.
Posts are subjective not objective. One person may be liking the other may not be liking it. Two people liking the same reply may not be giving same number of marks to the same reply. One may be giving 85% while the other may be giving 65%. So why such a difference in giving marks to the reply. It depends upon the opinion, knowledge, and even mood of the person judging the quality of the post. A man in good mood (other circumstances being the same) will definitely grant higher marks than the other who is in some difficulty or in sad mood.
I am not against the meriting but I suggest that there should be some objective method adopted for meriting the posts. A decision taken in haste for the removal of bad elements from the society if harming honest; innocent people should be reconsidered. A law should be implemented for the well being of the society but justice should be done with all.
If I claim that I tried my best to post the best of my knowledge to the various post there are many knowledgeable people here in the forum who may select one of my post and may prove me wrong, but sir I have to say that I just tried to do justice to my work.
only God knows whether I will be promoted to the rank of member even; higher ranks have become just dream for me.
Still laughing. I am of the belief whatever happens ; happens for the good because I am God fearing man.
Was it a one time action, (to give the 500 additional merits to those who has reached the 775 activity these days), or it will continue? If it was a one time thing, I would really miss that 1 activity period that made me miss this chance... But that's life 
bye
.. i'm a newbie here. Thanks