Okay, sorry for the stupid title, but you have to admit, it got you here now. So start reading. I think FORUM POSTS should be eligible for merits. Say somebody writes a well written, full sonny walkthrough, a book review, movie review, something that could help the site... Somebody give me ONE reason they shouldnt get a merit for it? for example, I wrote a Book review for Odd Thomas. I thought it was pretty good, almost merit worthy. im not trying to get at anything by saying this, but im sure theres MANY walkthroughs and things like that that deserve merits.
Voting up doesn't actually help moderators find merits, it just increases the text size so the moderators notice that particular comment. I don't think there is a need to implement yet another job for mods to do, even if you do appoint new mods to this specific task, the other mods will still end up doing this new task. Which in turn, lessens there time to find good merit-worthy game comments, and fight spam. After all... I think game comment merits should come before forum merits, since Armor Games is a gaming website.
*points at above post* A special section just for merit worthy Things would work out well. And its not like you'd see 50 a day. Most likely 10 at the most.
I don't think there should be a special section for merit worthy things. What if there is a topic, for example... in the World events topic, and two members has a huge debate about something, with very detailed arguments. Those could be just as or even more merit-worthy than the topics in the "merit-worthy section". However, since they are not in the merit-worthy section, no merit!
Did you read my first post? I said, "Reviews and walkthroughs. While those discussions are interesting, they don't influence the reader to buy or not buy something. or play or not play a game, or tell them HOW to do something.
Those discussions are interesting, and can influence the way people think. Those discussion can be about to buy or not buy something, for example "Don't buy an SUV because it will pollute the Earth... etc." Many debates in other sections can also tell people how to do something.
I don't think there should be a special section for merit worthy things. What if there is a topic, for example... in the World events topic, and two members has a huge debate about something, with very detailed arguments. Those could be just as or even more merit-worthy than the topics in the "merit-worthy section". However, since they are not in the merit-worthy section, no merit!
There was something just like that awhile ago. It was called the Great Debate. These debates would be on profiles, not on the forums.....I always wanted to bring it back....
so basically your saying you want a merit for your book review. but its a good idea i mean cause people help you out a lot in the forums y cant they get a merit for it!
