Topic: Merit abuse by merit source Anon11073 [update: 30 merits abused] - page 2. (Read 863 times)

Ohh it's a good report buddy.

Hopefully, admins will look into it. Announcement thread obviously will not meritable to the merit source.
Let's wait for the further result and what will be taken action from our admin like this activity.

Maybe he appreciates those works that's why he merited those ANN threads.

Precisely mate, well, we will wait for the DT members comment to this.
Let's find out.

He claims that he's a merit source, and given his Moderator status in the Japanese board, I wouldn't be too surprised if that was true.


Which translates to


(OP did put this in his post, but it was kinda easy to miss)

Remove him as a merit source as he is effectively selling merit, and this is banned for merit sources. He should be red tagged and/or banned as well.

It doesn't look to me like that account is a merit source.  :/

This is really sad an unacceptable. I have noticed merit abusing (I have a topic where I investigate merit abusers, list them and tag them with the hope of the DT members see it) are out of control on local boards but never thought that case like this was possible.

The message was very clear from theymos...
But the translations from merit abusers really makes me ashamed. I guess I need to add another translation on my topic. Award merit to the bounty managers to show your appreciation of the project.

A service has been created purely for marketing, supporting that with merit from a merit source is questionable. Some of these bounty managers are the cancer of all spamming on the forum.


Of-course it's merit abuse and I hope other DT members and theymos will also see this thread and will give him/her a lesson

PS: I seen the user is a mod, I don't know if I am doing it right sending this message against him/her from my real account. I hope I am fine anyway.

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Update: By the way OP, you seems new to the forum   But good job

wow.. good catch just by following your instructions found out he is indeed awarding merits to ANN.

I think ANN/Bounties should never be receiving any merits. This is the problem first there are very few merit sources second they (some of them) are abusing the powers.

Anyway its up to the management to decide... you did your work by pointing it out.

Edit:
I have calculated his sent merits which does not seem much, and last merit sent was on April 11, 2018

Month…………………….	Total Merits sent
April	9
March	66
February	4
January	8
Total	87

May be he's not a merit source

Since I am not sure if this is allowed or not in the forum, let me ask in this thread:  Is it allowed for a merit source to send a lot of merits to announcement threads for coins for which he is the bounty manager and translator of the announcements?

I know some people send merits to announcement threads for their favorite coins as just "like".  I do not like that type of use as it is not suitable for the original aim of the merit system, but I admit that ultimately how to use merits depends on each person... However, what about if a merit source is sending merits to the announcement threads for which he is the bounty manager and translator?  To me, it smells like an abuse of merits.

I found this account  

Anon11073
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/anon11073-969327

has sent 25 merits to announcement threads:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/minexcoin-a-new-era-of-payments-1847292
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-lolminer-mnx-mining-minexcoinmnx-new-version-v04-july-22-2933939
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-cosplay-token-cosplay-platform-built-with-blockchain-technology-2821548
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annico-cosplay-token-2825011

From his post history, I found that he is actually the bounty manager for one of these coins.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bountyico-cosplay-token-cosplay-platform-built-with-blockchain-technology-2843223
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bountyico-cosplay-token-2843224

He is also a translator of the another coin's announcement thread.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annmnxminexcoin-2719420

Actually his post history shows that more than 90% of his recent posts are shit posts to these threads... so he has earned a few merits so far.  Wait, then why did he have a lot of smerits sent to the announcement threads?  I noticed one possibility... he must be a merit source.  My guess was correct, there was a clear transition in his merit sending history on March 20, and by checking his posts around the date, I found this post

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32817882

in which he disclosed that he was designated as a merit source.  According to google translate:

"Today, three merit sources including me have been added to the Japanese board."

In addition, I found he is the moderator of the local board!

I do not know why this guy was designated as a merit source and moderator... he is absolutely not suitable for a merit source... you can check his merit history and that he wasted most of his source merits to the announcement threads... I think it is an abuse of merit, but is it allowed for merit sources to use their merits in such a way?

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Update 1:

This merit source continues to award announcement threads... Here is new award, he abused 5 source merits in addition to the above 25:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bountyico-cedex-first-ever-certified-blockchain-diamond-exchange-2416310

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Update 2:

I am sure he is a merit source as

1) he wrote that he was designated as a merit source,

2) there is a clear transition of his merit sending history, and

3) from direct calculation below:
Using the formula theymos provided and taking his rank Sr. Member and his register date March 15, 2017, his initial smerit should be less than

9.5 months / 12 months * 0.25 * 250 = 50

He has earned 16 merits = 8 smerits so far so his smerit is less than 58 in total if he is not a source.  However, he has sent 92 smerits in total, so he is a source.