Topic: I have 26 merits!!!! Buy it if you want!!!!! - page 2. (Read 2520 times)

Personally, I think it's similar as selling one's trust. But can trust ever be sold? Trust is earned and has to be worked hard on it. It's never a good idea to sell one's merits as your merit is something like a prize, a trophy, or an achievement of some sort. But sometimes you can't just blame someone selling something like this as life becomes harder these days and will do so to profit for anything that can be made as money. No different for other people selling their chastity just to earn money.

Finally! A smart one!
This become so rare in the english-speaking section!

So how does this actually work, when I reach 240 activity and my merit is short do I make a post and ask members to provide me merit to move up to Snr Member or do I just hope and pray someone gives me 150 merits which is next to impossible to receive from users? Lets be honest this merit system is just like the DT0 where Theymos is in control and there is nothing you can do to get on it but to be friends with the guy, I wish to see only 1 person who went from Full Member to Snr Member or from Snr Member to Hero or from Hero to Legendary ever since this Merit system started, which I highly doubt has happened.

But such account is a bad influence on the forum. Off course, a member that goes all the way to sell merit and with multiple red tag would perpetrate more attrocity with the same account if allowed to continue.

I guess an existing account continues to generate merit (if not stopped) which obviously would be used irrationally and inappropriate. Is just a bad influence.

Not banned, active today - "Last Active:    Today at 12:03:45 AM"

That being said, it seems like -32 negative trust would be enough to keep that account from getting any action with sales.

Well, he's got 250 merits. Must have done something really useful to the forum
or may be he got it in this very same method.

Theymos give you free and to give to the right, why would you sell it? Did you forget your responsibility with that?

that's a desperate move. No wonder you've got negative trust because of this issue. You can just give someone your merit  instead of selling it. Many of us here wants to have merit but of course in a legal way. Giving away your merit for "free" will help other people here increase their merit, there is no need to sell it even for the lowest price. That's a ridiculous and crazy move.

It can be a problem if this guy give someone merit. Forum admin can punish merit "receiver" even if they didn't paying for them.
Ban merit seller is the best decision.

is this true? Why are you selling your merits? I think I'd better wait for someone here in the forum to give me 1 or 2 merit because of my honest work rather than waste my  .005btc to some cheater like you. What you are doing is not legal and may put you at risk, do you know that? As far as I know, selling merit is prohibited in this forum and you may be ban or get negative trust because of your wrong doing. Not only you, also people in this forum who will buy your merit.

Anyone who will buy or sell sMerit will probably get negative trust rating and if I were the admin like Theymos I will ban those account doing that.

Look like thread starter already banned.

By the looks of it, the DT members disapprove of this practice, and your trust just took a hammering. How could you not predict that this would happen? In any case, do you actually think 26 merits would be worth $50? Merits.... $50? Doesn't compute.

If people really wanted merit, they would post highly quality material here on the forum, the merit sources aren't exactly stingy with their sMerit. If you post something worthy, you'll be merited. Anybody receiving merit suspiciously (e.g. indicating it has been purchased) is likely to take a hammer just like you.

Someone is trying to mess up the system again. I thought forum is getting better because of the new points system but  here we go, someone is selling merit for their own good without even thinking the consequences. We should be more considerate and have more respect on admin/s implemented the new rule.

Give them away not sell them away.

What's the highest bid now? 

Copper Member: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbies-can-now-pay-a-small-fee-to-enable-images-2385104
Merit: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-new-rank-requirements-2818350

Give it some time until theymos add more merit sources. I know that there will be some in the local boards.

Yea indeed, the move he made was quite selfish those merits and smerits are given to improve the forum from signature spammers posting on bs topics.
And he tried to sell that hope. You're correct it's his mistake and an apology might work in this case and will be an example to smerit sellers in future.

What did I miss?

What is merit? I've got 1000 it seems.

Also how have some older members become Copper? What does this mean also.

Who is "we"? We do not know that the merit system isn't fair, because it simply is fair. From what you're saying people that post unique OP's that are extremely popular and helpful will get more merit than people asking questions in those same threads (or other less popular, helpful threads). I do not see the problem. People that post popular, helpful, informative contributions to the forum deserve more merit than somebody that simply had a tough time understanding the discussion. I fail to see your point.

If this person is helping somebody in a less popular thread, then the person they've helped can merit them or even another user that also found their post helpful; you know, the entire point of the merit system? Merit means you've earned it through competence, if you earn less than that is strictly and exclusively your fault/problem.


Less Traffic = Less People to give merit = Less merit circulating in local sections; Again, where is the problem? Should local sections be given additional merit, just because they can't contribute elsewhere? Those that sell merit will be tagged by DT, will not become a significant source of merit and will disappear within 2-weeks. I've seen multiple people tagged and run-off the forum for this kind of behavior already.

If less people find your post helpful, you will receive less merit; if there's less people in that section then there is naturally less people that are able to find your post helpful, therefore you need to expand yourself to other sections of the forum if you plan to progress past the merit levels offered in the aforementioned sections. Again though, forum ranks don't even matter... Why does it matter and where is the problem? It just seems like you and everyone else complaining about merits is worried they'll never earn merit, quick tip You are the problem if this is your concern presently.


You are a cringe-machine, this is not funny. Asking for merit isn't "bad for the forum", it's just bad for the person asking for merit; they won't receive more merit because of it, and I'd be willing to bet it has the opposite effect.  Behavior that is bad for the forum will naturally get scratched out by the DT members that do not allow for this kind of nonsense.

one may say that the system is imperfect, though he should also point that low quality posts degrade the forum. one way or another some filtering system has been expected. it will work its way out to a better quality i believe