I am not sure if there has been a similar proposal so I apologise if there has.
Since merits seem to be on everybody's mind, has the forum administration ever thought about giving users an incentive to help with everyday moderation tasks and in return earning a few merits.
The forum is huge, the admins/mods have a lot of work to do, why not make it a bit easier and get some help in finding rule breakers.
New users keep opening threads "how to earn merits", "please give me merit" etc. If there is an incentive to help out with different tasks around the forum maybe it would be good for the entire community.
Here are some examples:
Find proof of merit selling/buying = get rewarded with 1 merit.
Find 5 members posting low quality "thank you", "great project", "this project will have success" type of posts and other spam = 1 merit
Find phishing links, malware, links to viruses, illegal content = 1 merit
proof of account sales/offers to buy/sell accounts - 1 merit
bumping services, illegal ANN/Bounty bumps - 1 merit
Trolls, referral links, url shorteners etc - 1 merit
Basically it can be anything that the Mods do as well, anything that is against the forum rules.
I am aware that this might create a lot of false accusations and even spam if such a topic is created but if implemented in the right way it helps the entire community.
The admins get fresh eyes who are looking for rule breakers, users finally have a way to earn merits by doing community work which will limit merit begging/opening threads/PM and begging for merits and similar activities and improve the overall quality of the forum.
