I definitely agree with you, or with Lutpin. Satoshi, being the founder, should have that much merit.

Any idea why s/he has only 360? Is it because of the number of activity?

Eh, why not? Not like he is going to ever use it now.

Lol, I thought the motion was for 21M sMerits for Satoshi. *facepalm*

I don't think anyone has 21m merits on them anyway and a sat would be too low a payment should such sales be allowed. (which it should NEVER be allowed).


Someday .. yeah .. for a guy that made most of this community of geeks and coders millionaires over night.

Why not both sMerit points and Merit points? It wouldn't make much difference anyway, though no one would see the sMerits.

you got it wrong, I didn't mean to sell for 1 Satoshi, I meant for Satoshi Nakamoto.

What a waste of merit points, and an indication of a lack of understanding about the purpose of merit points. I thought they were to encorage an improvement in the quality of posting. They should be awarded for current and future activity.

On another note - there is a growing body of opinion that Bitcoin was a group project, and was created by the Fed as an experimental currency. That explains why there are limits imposed that prevent it from every becoming a major world payment service. Do you really want to give your merit points to the US Fed?

Why would theymos changing a value be a "waste"? It's as simple as theymos setting his merit to 21M. Done.
There's no sMerit that would have be used for that and those Merits wouldn't exist and thus are not "taken away" from anyone else.

It's a fun little detail. Why does your postcount show leet when you reach 1337 posts? It's a waste of programming, nobody gains something from it.
Or maybe easter eggs are what makes things interesting. Small details that don't make a huge difference over all, but go a long way.

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I jokingly suggested that, and think it's unlikely theymos would agree/set them to this value. Though I'd still find it a nice little gesture.
The argumentation against however, I don't really understand.

This however would mean people couldn't merit the posts by satoshi. Thus those posts also wouldnt show up in the merit stats.
If we see merit as measure of quality, then those toplists are the lists of the best threads and posts on bitcointalk. I'd consider a few posts by satoshi as some of "the bests posts on bitcointalk".
They should have a chance to show up there and get listed.

Sending merits for exceptional posts sets examples of what "high quality" posts should look like.
Newbies can read those posts and learn how to improve their own posts by doing so. You can improve via merit sent to others, learn by observing.