Introducing some feature like smerit for benefiting the community is helping some top ranks to cash the opportunity, i would like to suggest admin/moderators to come up with new feature some thing like like/dislike/favorite some post similar to smerit but every one was given few of those at first based on the rank and have some conditions similar to count/timer of posts at entry level, in that case there wont be feeling like you are left out and if you had donated smerit you may be not sure that you will recieve more at the same time.
I like the conception of meriting but not with the way of providing smerits.
I really do not know why you guys keep complaining about smerits, if your post is good enough to get a merit, you will get. Those who are freely giving out merit to those who deserve it are available on this forum and if you have an impact to create in the community without spamming, plagiarizing or going against the forum rule, you should be fine. However, this whole thing shows that most people here are more interested in the pay than contributing effectively or learning on the forum.
you got some point here dude but i guess they are only complaining because they cant now rank up. You know ranking up is now quite imposible due to the effects of merit system, that is the main reason why these guys always keeps on complaining about these stuffs. Aside from that , earning a merrit is also pain on the ass and it is actually pretty hard to obtain it even though you think your post are good enough.
Actually, I'm fine with merit except in one detail...someone who came 3 days before me to BTT has 250 default merit now, and I have 100.
At this rate I'll get next rank not in 3 days, but in more than 3 years. I can't speak about whole forum, but I'm a lot on altcoin mining part of
forum, and I can tell with confidence that people there give no merit at all...you can spend 100+ hours of your real life making
them mining BIOS-es for free, and get no merit at all. Meanwhile, I see hidden merit trading everywhere (posts where people say
"show me your good post, and I'll reward it")