Shouldn't we rather accept the merit system and move on? Merit has come to stay for the best interest of this community as proposed by Admins. Thankfully, Merit is instilling sanity in the forum. But just like any other rules the full purpose of the Merit system can only be realized through effective, fair and balanced implementation. Despite the good intentions behind the Merit system it has a  major challenge which is the lack of objectivity in the award of merits. In other words whether or not a post or comment deserves a Merit point is at the discretion of the giver. OK, a really, really good post deserves some Merit points, but most times you come across some Merit winning posts and you can't help but ask: What really passes for a really, really good post? So long as the award of Merit points is subject to the personal judgement of the giver Merits can't be said to be a true measure of the responsibleness of a member or the quality of his/her posts, and is open to abuse for the same reason.

I have read and followed the comments of members of high merit as well as the author of this topic. I understand that in order to have merit points I have to actively work as well as have meaningful and quality articles to contribute to the forum. I have read every page in this thread. The article is very good and meaningful, I will try my best to contribute to the forum. Thank you very much. Wish you a lot of luck in life

Weekly update sorry for delay

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We are GREEN! (after sources recharge)! Still -10% from 1st week of last month.

this system is very cool, make someone pay attention to the post he made, avoid the post less good.
the better the post, the more chances of getting merit.

Just to clarify, how many post or activity do we need to level up to another rank? Or it doesn't really matter how many post or activity you made, it all depends on the merits ?

If you make an awesome work, you can get 20 merit points with only 1 post, we have many examples in meta section. However, people having 1000 posts with #reserved #join will not get any smerit for sure.

I have been inactive for a long time and when I get back , there is this merit thing. Im not really into checking about how the ranking goes not until this merit thing came up. Anyway thanks for the info. 👍

Some suggestions by me

We, the jr.members and newbies make posts  to get some merits. For this, we post so many shitposts which are not necessary for the people. First time I also made so many shitposts but now I realized that merit comes automatically when you post some new and helpful posts. If you post some helpful post which can help other people, the senior will automatically give you merits as your reward....So, guys.. specially newbies and jr.members try to make some new and creative post, merit will come by your talent...Best of luck✌

Not true. This is not an automatic way to earn merits. While I, personally, can appreciate the non-shitposts and helpful posts, that doesn't mean that you will automatically be awarded merits. For example, I come across an array of posts about "how to earn bounties" or "the best campaigns to join", which may be considered helpful to some members, but you'll never see me merit these types of posts.