This should be a good measure to decrease spam and increase posts quality but a possible disadvantage is that some deserving members with good posts may get stuck in ranking due to people not meriting their posts. Anyways a sacrifice always has to be made for something to work

Is it really random in accordance with the system?  I recall that I had gotten mine around mid-900s, and I was watching other posters of similar activity levels get their legendaries around the same time as me, and so by looking it seemed a bit like it could have been random...

Is there some explanation that describes the algorithm for ranking up from Hero to Legendary as systematically random within that 775-1030 activity range?

Hey guys!

I think I found a bug in the Merit system: on the Merit page from my profile if I refresh the page, the system sends the same amount of sMerit points to the last person I have sent the points, see here:



I don't know if this is relevant but, I'm using Opera browser.

Cheers!

Your further explanation seems to make sense (including the top secret part, too) and conforms with whatever I had seen previously in respect to the topic, but I did not see that "concerned affected folks" (euphemism) thread, previously.   

Even though I was in a signature campaign during my pending transition from hero to legendary and I would receive more .03BTC per month more based on such a higher rank, I did not obsess about such rank because it seemed to be something that I could not change anyhow, and even at the time, receiving an extra .03 BTC per month (when BTC was in the $700s-ish) did not seem to matter too much to me.. especially when I considered my proceeds from my signature campaign to have been a kind of icing on the cake.. anyhow. 

This has already been mentioned for example here


But I actually dont know if someone is going to work on a fix or if we simply need to make people aware of this to avaoid some overmeritted posts

According to OP, only merit sources have smerit that is updated to their accounts on a regular basis, and there are currently only 57 merit sources.  Everyone else has to rely upon receiving merits in order to therefore receive .5 smerits per every merit received.

Yes, everyone needs sMerits in order to rank up, whether they are Senior or hero member.


I can understand mate but you don't have any other option than making quality post to earn sMerits.

Thanks for the heads up! Thought I'm the only one with this issue The search did returned a post for "refresh" but that was not related with this issue.

This system was created to protect hero and legendary to get more stakes at bounties. Keep their cheese slice intact. If they wanna solve the new accounts problem that were other ways to solve it. At the start of the new accounts.
This merit thing will never result. Almost no one send smerit to others. Older members with triple accounts and more will send smerit ot each other and not to third party accounts.

I just had a quick look at that dumb Bcash forum and the first thing I found is that for the recent Electrum vulnerability they just copied theymos' post from here.