closing the thread wouldnt do much as they can just make a new thread, thats why i went from "should we delete" to "should we disable merit on WO"
Even if we all voted "yes," I don't think theymos would change it. It could be a bit more work than he wants to do, plus it doesn't make much sense, plus there's no way everybody would vote yes in the first place, plus there won't be an official vote on the matter.
I feel like you are still operating under the assumption that this statement is true because nobody bothered to correct you:
id say the majority of merit being holed up and distributed within a single thread is pretty harmful 
This isn't true -- not by a longshot.
According to the official Merit sources stats:
massive merit inflation on WO
Uh... merit is deflationary... I don't think you even understand what the concept of "inflation" means. We'd need to sucker more merit sources into WO culture at an exponential rate in order for merit to be truly "inflationary."
Stop and take a breath unless your goal is to have 100 merits before you go to sleep, which might very well be possible.
You know what thats actually a good arguement for once, thank you, your quite right on that part
Although on the merit inflation subject, even though merit is technically deflationary you can still exchange your merit between each other in order to double the total merit on a user, ie if 2 users had 100 merit (so 50 smerit) they could both merit each other and end up with approx 199 merit and 0 smerits each. But now that you have made it clear for me that only 14% of newly generated merit goes to WO, i still think thats a large amount considering the type of content that is made there, but i suppose it was a much smaller issue than i imagined, it appears i was looking at the wrong figures (i was looking at the highest merited threads list)
