Excessively meriting a mediocre post - rules? - page 3.

YOSHIE

legendary

Activity: 2128

Merit: 1775

@greeklogos, @Taki, not only have 2 accounts.
Also he has 3 accounts that he manages.
One more account connected @Tanic.

1. greeklogos
2. Taki
3. Tanic

Quote from: Taki on March 14, 2017, 02:49:08 AM

Bitcointalk Name: Taki
Bitcoin Address: 18HmcqjexaQsVWrPXDw1hTXn25wttTGhzH

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Link post by Tanic: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.16329788

Quote from: Taki on September 21, 2017, 09:52:11 AM

Update:
Waves address: 3P4B783SzierQ7grvhr9URh8VEScHxHE6gi

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Link post by greeklogos: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.22122536

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AdolfinWolf

legendary

Activity: 1946

Merit: 1427

Quote from: hacker1001101001 on April 07, 2019, 09:08:31 AM

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Hmm. I definitely felt something was off there, glad to see you found some evidence to back it up.

How exactly did you find these correlations? You just went through their search history or is there some tool to scan them which looks for adresses et al?

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on April 07, 2019, 10:22:21 AM

Some members just don't care about the merit system and think nothing of sending 40 merits to a member for a post that most of us might find bleh. Not everyone realizes (or cares) how valuable merits are to bounty hunters. I'm not saying that's the case with Taki, but it could be. Just let this one go, OP. Nothing can be done about it.

Well, that's what i was thinking as well at first, thought it would be interesting to see some other people's opinions on this, and whether or not it was accepted behavior.
But, as it turns out, he probably merited his alt account (?)

CryptopreneurBrainboss

legendary

Activity: 2408

Merit: 4282

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on April 07, 2019, 10:22:21 AM

Taki barely sends any merit, so my guess is that either he was just getting rid of it on a post that he really agreed with or the recipient bought it from him.

He was meriting his alt as poven above with connected Ethereum address. I'll consider his act as an act of foolishness, greediness and desperation. Foolishness for sending such huge amount of smerits to a post most people will classified as worthless. Greediness for trying to cheat the forum and Desperation for trying to rank up his alt to earn more from forum.

I don't see anything wrong with sending huge amount of smerits to posts (although I haven't send any yet) but that post he merited doesn't deserve any merit in the first place, lets say it wasn't his alt and he agreed with the post the best he would had done is sending 1 merit (at least that's what most people do). That's not the purpose of merit anyways but as humans we can't eliminate doing so sometimes.

The Sceptical Chymist

legendary

Activity: 3528

Merit: 7005

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Quote from: bones261 on April 07, 2019, 09:02:24 AM

It may have been abuse or it may have been a typo.

I doubt it was a typo. Taki barely sends any merit, so my guess is that either he was just getting rid of it on a post that he really agreed with or the recipient bought it from him. There's no way to tell, though. It's not against the rules to send huge amounts of merit for a seemingly mediocre post, and there's nothing anyone can do about it unless someone makes a habit out of suspicious meriting. Even then it's not likely there's going to be much of a response from DT members and there certainly won't be any sanctions from staff.

Some members just don't care about the merit system and think nothing of sending 40 merits to a member for a post that most of us might find bleh. Not everyone realizes (or cares) how valuable merits are to bounty hunters. I'm not saying that's the case with Taki, but it could be. Just let this one go, OP. Nothing can be done about it.

hacker1001101001

sr. member

Activity: 1288

Merit: 415

They are basically alternate accounts of same person.

Connected ETH address: 0xea5944EDdF486BC43Ab9Be4Be34De7486B15E69e

Quote from: Taki on June 11, 2018, 04:06:32 AM

Bitcointalk Username: Taki
Current post count with this post incl.: 2301
BTC Address: 3Kzfo64KxA4CTQXzrdLmBAd4xg9PSwVs2w
ERC20 Compatible Wallet Address: 0xea5944EDdF486BC43Ab9Be4Be34De7486B15E69e
Wear Signature : done
Wear Avatar : done

Quote from: greeklogos on December 17, 2017, 05:57:45 AM

Hello! On the first page I see that you have 4 open slots for my rank, so I would gladly take one of it Wink

Username: greeklogos
Profile Link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/greeklogos-800530
Rank: Full Member
Current post count: 366
BTC address: 124sV8Hhe3GvvV2RvLFucAcHHjtg8jPCxk
ERC20-compatible ETH address: 0xea5944EDdF486BC43Ab9Be4Be34De7486B15E69e

This is clearly termed as merit abusement.

bones261

legendary

Activity: 1806

Merit: 1828

It may have been abuse or it may have been a typo. The 40 merits given did not help the receiver rank up though. I have a couple of occasions were I gave 20 merits by mistake instead of 2.

Edit: I stand corrected. But what a stupid way to expend your merit on an alt. Cheesy

It did little to help the alt from what I can see.

The Cryptovator

legendary

Activity: 2394

Merit: 2223

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It's looking suspicious to me. That post doesn't deserve 40 merit in my opinion. To be honest post isn't consider as a good post for me. This is really generic answer. This is abuse but admin don't like to tag someone for this kind of abuse if they really not involved with buy/sell. So we can't make sure if they trade or sell merit. Perhaps admin could reverse this merit but I don't think it will happen.

AdolfinWolf

legendary

Activity: 1946

Merit: 1427

See link; https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50363129

I'm not sure what to think about this; is this abuse, or do the rules of free market and free choice apply here? The post doesn't look exceptionally good to me, especially since "better" (imo) answers had already been given.. (although perhaps Taki sees this differently..?)

Is this sort of behavior generally frowned upon, or is this perfectly fine?

Just wondering.

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