I believe that this is more than conservative and there should be no issue for anyone who is not a shitposter. My situation:

• These days I have a fair number of posts in the gambling sections. Those receive practically no merits because 99.99% of the posts in there are complete shit. Aside from a few people, nobody reads anything there and the users just write whatever they can, no matter how wrong or bland it is. Merit sources generally ignore it.
• I am specifically ignored by a few biased global merit sources because they don't like my tone of writing and by the CSAM reviewing retards in Wall Observer.
• I am specifically ignored by local board sources because I call them out for their shenanigans and local merit farming.

Despite all of these, I am at a very comfortable ratio of ~ 1:1.27 (with this post included). Meanwhile:

• d5000 is at 1:1.06.
• stwenhao is at 1:0.45.
• Your ratio: 1:0.104.

I don't see any significant members having issues keeping a good ratio. The highest quality contributors or users that engage in merit cycling (like in WO) will converge towards 1 or lower. Most users will probably be in the middle 4-8 and only the worst shitposters will have an issue with this over time. However, since there are contests and other easy way to get some merits they will still have ways to try to fix their situation if they put in some effort. Furthermore, they can just play nice towards merit sources (both global and local board) and this will increase their prospects of earning merits (and avoid limitations as in my case). I don't see how anyone reasonable could complain about this proposal.

I'd make it much stricter if it was up to me. Even 1:5 would be generous, but there is no chance that the admin would approve of something like that. The ratio that you propose, as you said, is very forgiving.

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This is my post number 666, I guess that's some sort of sign.  

I believe that this is more than conservative and there should be no issue for anyone who is not a shitposter. My situation:

• These days I have a fair number of posts in the gambling sections. Those receive practically no merits because 99.99% of the posts in there are complete shit. Aside from a few people, nobody reads anything there and the users just write whatever they can, no matter how wrong or bland it is. Merit sources generally ignore it.
• I am specifically ignored by a few biased global merit sources because they don't like my tone of writing and by the CSAM reviewing retards in Wall Observer.
• I am specifically ignored by local board sources because I call them out for their shenanigans and local merit farming.

Despite all of these, I am at a very comfortable ratio of ~ 1:1.27 (with this post included). Meanwhile:

• d5000 is at 1:1.06.
• stwenhao is at 1:0.45.
• Your ratio: 1: 0.104.

I don't see any significant members having issues keeping a good ratio. The highest quality contributors or users that engage in merit cycling (like in WO) will converge towards 1 or lower. Most users will probably be in the middle 4-8 and only the worst shitposters will have an issue with this over time. However, since there are contests and other easy way to get some merits they will still have ways to try to fix their situation if they put in some effort. Furthermore, they can just play nice towards merit sources (both global and local board) and this will increase their prospects of earning merits (and avoid limitations as in my case). I don't see how anyone reasonable could complain about this proposal.

I'd make it much stricter if it was up to me. Even 1:5 would be generous, but there is no chance that the admin would approve of something like that. The ratio that you propose, as you said, is very forgiving.

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This is my post number 666, I guess that's some sort of sign.  

I believe that this is more than conservative and there should be no issue for anyone who is not a shitposter. My situation:

• These days I have a lot of posts in the gambling sections. Those receive practically no merits because 99.99% of the posts in there are complete shit. Aside from a few people, nobody reads anything there and the users just write whatever they can, no matter how wrong or bland it is. Merit sources generally ignore it.
• I am specifically ignored by a few biased global merit sources because they don't like my tone of writing and by the CSAM reviewing retards in Wall Observer.
• I am specifically ignored by local board sources because I call them out for their shenanigans and local merit farming.

Despite all of these, I am at a very comfortable ratio of ~ 1:1.27 (with this post included). Meanwhile:

• d5000 is at 1:1.06.
• stwenhao is at 1:0.45.

I don't see any significant members having issues keeping a good ratio. The highest quality contributors or merit farmers (like in WO) will converge towards 1 or lower. Most users will probably be in the middle 4-8 and only the worst shitposters will have an issue with this over time. However, since there are contests and other easy way to get some merits they will still have ways to try to fix their situation if they put in some effort. Furthermore, they can just play nice towards merit sources (both global and local board) and this will increase their prospects of earning merits (and avoid limitations as in my case). I don't see how anyone reasonable could complain about this proposal.

I'd make it much stricter if it was up to me. Even 1:5 would be generous, but there is no chance that the admin would approve of something like that.

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This is my post number 666, I guess that's some sort of sign.