On the contrary, the merit system is a way to introduce consensus about post quality, and the future direction of the forum.
Alright system is good. But why merit was calculated with that activitiy. Why not all of us with zero points: legendary, sr.members and others? Guy with 22k posts must have same points like new members and ofcourse with status Legendary.
For your information, this forum is owned by a person because he made the idea and made it real with some hosting job, coding job, etc. That person also pays for the fees of moderators and other things to make this forums goes well. You, me, and others are all only people who gathers here to talk about cryptocurrency, and some to try to get money from it. You don't even pay a single bit USD to the owner yet you claim this is an open forum and before something implemented in this forum they need to consider what the users want. Hello, wake up please !
As for your question no 2, why all people not given the same merit, zero. I believe it is also for the sake of new member too. Imagine if all people starts with 0, I bet all high rank member who is friend to each other will give merit to each other because with their experience, most likely only them will make a good and high quality posts and then all the lower rank will be ignored, resulting to much more time to rank up.
