Bumping this. Did you ever get any feedback or try to get feedback from theymos? It doesn't have to be
this particular proposal, but it is clear that something must be changed.
The merit system isn't perfect, but it's relatively adequate.
Nonsense, it does not work at all. It merely punishes complete strangers at the expense of those who are connected to existing users or familiar with the ways of farming merit here.
his move would ultimately discourage some users who will struggle to maintain their ranks, may resort to lower traffic, less user base, and perhaps a loss in signature campaigns.
Your course of action is: 'Because your personal earnings are at risk here, write a post that criticizes the idea and state that more spam is good and less spam is bad'. You are brilliant.

If any traffic is good then we may as well let people fully automate their posting with AIs. The content of those posts would still be superior to the posts that are made by most users.