It implies that, as expected, we are running out of initial sMerits
I think the majority of users hasn't touched their sMerit yet. Theymos said about 600k sMerit was initially distributed, which is 4 times more than all sMerit ever used.
Topic: Large amount merit transactions (Read 625 times)
I just want to inform you that those accounts merited 50 to chachacoin17 isn't my alt. It happened that chachacoin17 was a person I've known mutually in this forum asking merit from me, but I am not aware during that time sending merit of that large amount is forbidden. If possible please remove the red trust in my profile.
SURE!
Your ETH ADRRESS on this post
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.22532005
archivied
http://archive.is/vBQZb#selection-1143.0-1143.55
Code:
0x13aA508b5F1717C67dfB949F27102c00FB115873
Check this transaction
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x38528253a3fd78a80aa09cedcaa976c1b3facdf83ddfd9c9f30d3454c9e23111
From:
0x13aa508b5f1717c67dfb949f27102c00fb115873
To:
0x9ba1ca71d5ab9b8360ce5b6b631cb2194036196
Code:
0x9ba1ca71d5ab9b8360ce5b6b631cb21940361960
This is a "fake bouncing eth"
Next transaction from this eth address
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x97bf18405047784d058e6f8868504df8a789f58ad24bfe3b2c4040e900bcd2e3
TO
https://etherscan.io/token/0x12b306fa98f4cbb8d4457fdff3a0a0a56f07ccdf?a=0xc1346eb12de99ab7b027df5fc49d500f33852091
https://etherscan.io/address/0xc1346eb12de99ab7b027df5fc49d500f33852091#tokentxns
Code:
0xc1346eb12DE99Ab7b027df5FC49D500F33852091
Rewind those transfers to this address FOR SAL TOKENS
This transaction
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf17d6c43cb91469a95bbec909f516b90283209787132da7769f6b9f04bc44a95
FROM
https://etherscan.io/address/0xd0521418e5c6b66c8f83afe8d281a3cdbc494b0f#tokentxns
Code:
0xd0521418e5C6B66C8F83AfE8D281A3CDbc494B0F
FROM SAL SIGNATURE spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16RzF474h6F-8XpHf89aENRgDgb5--tIwl5GkUkbPwig/edit#gid=1369555539
This prove the link with Twinscoin2017
Also you talked about STILL NOT TAGGED USER PROFILE : Chachacoin17
I just want to inform you that those accounts merited 50 to chachacoin17 isn't my alt. It happened that chachacoin17 was a person I've known mutually in this forum asking merit from me, but I am not aware during that time sending merit of that large amount is forbidden. If possible please remove the red trust in my profile.
ETH USER
http://archive.is/fLzw6#selection-527.0-527.42
Code:
0x8a69549a1b492A10e60Ad3875f327401A65C0B06
SCAN
https://etherscan.io/address/0x8a69549a1b492A10e60Ad3875f327401A65C0B06
TRANSACTION
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x800458d01a463355297c315dd4e2517a477d46504f14d09f51391fb2e0d09a6d
From:
0xc1346eb12de99ab7b027df5fc49d500f33852091
To:
0x8a69549a1b492a10e60ad3875f327401a65c0b06
THE ODDS!
Congratulation now you've compromized also this not tagged account. (till @The Pharmacist or any DT will read this post)
I just want to inform you that those accounts merited 50 to chachacoin17 isn't my alt. It happened that chachacoin17 was a person I've known mutually in this forum asking merit from me, but I am not aware during that time sending merit of that large amount is forbidden. If possible please remove the red trust in my profile.
It implies that, as expected, we are running out of initial sMerits
I think the majority of users hasn't touched their sMerit yet. Theymos said about 600k sMerit was initially distributed, which is 4 times more than all sMerit ever used. 
I am preaching that the way to eliminate this abuse is to create a merit award team which will not have vested interest. The vested interest in ranking up on this forum is signature. Therefore, those who are to be members of the merit award team will not alternative accounts that are needing rank up. All merit points should be withdrawn and handed to this team. Members will not have merit in their hands to abuse.
DT2 members could tag these people and then remove it after a while, let them know this behaviour is frowned upon, let this be a warning for others.
Let them contact you or post in public to discuss the issue, in time everybody would realize this is not the way to use merits.
Let them contact you or post in public to discuss the issue, in time everybody would realize this is not the way to use merits.
I was aware of chickenado, thend1949, and Chachacoin17 months ago and had them tagged as merit abusers IIRC, but I removed my tag when I decided not to tag merit abusers (with input from the community). Actmyname might have tagged them as well, but I can't remember. So this hasn't gone unnoticed by any means, but DT members have basically backed off from suspected merit abusers.
Indeed we might need to take a closer look, because they are swapping there sMerits to rank up, maybe they know each other, or maybe they engage on some sort of deal, maybe some of them owned many accounts and they are just sharing there sMerits to them. This kind of actions need to be minimize because these won't make the forum healthy.
I was updating the tables in the thread "Merit stat & all transactions more than 40 Merits" ( https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-stat-all-transactions-more-than-40-merits-3046077 ) to include the most recent transactions more than 40 merits, during which I noticed several transactions below seem to require a closer check. Some of them might have been already reported in other threads.
50 Merits sent back and forth.
50 Merits * 3 times made Chachacoin17 rank up from Full Member (100) to Sr. Member (250).
LongAndShort sent 50 Merits to casinocoin, and received back 25 Merits * 2 times.
However, good news is that the number of large amount merit transactions has been decreasing. Let us focus on 50 merit transactions. Starting with 68 transactions for the first 7 days, January 24 - 30, now there are only 3 transactions for the duration April 25 - May 1.
[Edit]
It seems that people have gradually recognized smerits are valuable and stoped sending 50 smerits to a single post.
145572 sMerits have been sent in 3.5 months, which should be compared with
600000 initial sMerits and
17750 sMerits per 30 days provided by 79 merit sources.
For those who are interested in checking the entire table for all the transactions more than 40 merits, direct links are as follows:
Link to tables
50 Merits sent back and forth.
| yyyy/mm/dd | hh:mm:ss | User_From | Post | User_To |
| 2018/03/09 | 16:51:32 | spartak_t | -> | batesresearch |
| 2018/03/09 | 12:09:54 | batesresearch | -> | spartak_t |
50 Merits * 3 times made Chachacoin17 rank up from Full Member (100) to Sr. Member (250).
| 2018/02/09 | 19:23:07 | chickenado | -> | Chachacoin17 |
| 2018/02/09 | 18:59:34 | thend1949 | -> | Chachacoin17 |
| 2018/02/09 | 11:41:41 | marcuslong | -> | Chachacoin17 |
LongAndShort sent 50 Merits to casinocoin, and received back 25 Merits * 2 times.
| 2018/01/26 | 09:40:43 | LongAndShort | -> | casinocoin |
However, good news is that the number of large amount merit transactions has been decreasing. Let us focus on 50 merit transactions. Starting with 68 transactions for the first 7 days, January 24 - 30, now there are only 3 transactions for the duration April 25 - May 1.
[Edit]
It seems that people have gradually recognized smerits are valuable and stoped sending 50 smerits to a single post.
145572 sMerits have been sent in 3.5 months, which should be compared with
600000 initial sMerits and
17750 sMerits per 30 days provided by 79 merit sources.
For those who are interested in checking the entire table for all the transactions more than 40 merits, direct links are as follows:
Link to tables
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