Aren't they wasting time on a few merits? they should have more merits to distribute if they are doing the finding of high quality posts. they should not decide for merit sources which one of the members is going to get merits if they're not a merit source.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29718702
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.33119870
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3175633
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32647134
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3176369
If this one is not a source, why didn't he/she apply? also if the topic he started is resulting in receiving merits for himself, or any campaign manager, any of his campaign mates or any member with the same post count and activity is by definition merit farming. using the merits of his own and a few of the sources to the benefit of his friends.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28866078
I'm grateful for their efforts, but 1 merit shouldn't encourage dozens of posts. none of the posted threads are pinned, why wouldn't you post it and ask members to PM you? you could even bump your thread every day and then lock it.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32121418
This one is facked up, not a source, encouraging 25 members to post 7 each and then he would give a cash and merit prize only to 3 of them. his excuse for not applying to become a source is that moderators are busy. yes but you could've helped them by not generating 154 useless posts. if 22 out of 25 are posting 7 times and are not getting any merits, what would you call their posts? what would you call somebody asking and encouraging others to post in order to receive merits? isn't that merit farming?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.31460286
I'm not reporting them as merit farmers, abusers. you should decide for yourself. I'd say there is not enough of similar threads, while we have 80 merit sources, I couldn't find more than 10 topics. maybe most of the sources are doing what was expected from them.
What I'm saying, if there is no rules for this particular matter, everybody would post a topic in the name of contributing. if this is not stopped now, we'll have hundreds of topics doing the same, if they're telling me to fack off now, others would be encouraged to do the same. what I am asking is for a few new rules regarding this matter. @theymos.
