Merit became a business. What to do?

KingScorpio

sr. member

Activity: 1470

Merit: 325

Quote from: Sova_tmb on April 23, 2018, 12:27:56 PM

Hello guys, today i saw a russian telelegram grup about merit. He sell merit on 20$ for eatch. Look on the screenchoot: https://wmpics.pics/di-EKV9.jpg Some peoples buy merits and its very bad. Don't say about what they will be deceived. Also notice on the Russian thread many suggestion from Newbies: How buy merit or price on merit. In this thead man official sell merit:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3301296

Merit become a new coin on this forum and it the biggest problem. To my opinion moderator must be a ban all, who create a similar topic. Thanks for reading and what you do about it? How to struggle with this problem?

I think this forum gets to much meaning for its. Own good

tuanytcc

member

Activity: 476

Merit: 14

Bcnex - The Ultimate Blockchain Trading Platform

I propose to lock the topic due to massive shitshows from shitposters, who are usually already to join such boring topic and show their shits in order to rise their postcounts.
For the question of the OP author:
- Stay away from who are running merit business.
- If you find them, simply report them to forum moderators.
- Spend more time to read books, documents, topics on blockchain technology instead of focussing on merit business.

Wasii

newbie

Activity: 80

Merit: 0

Quote from: Sova_tmb on April 23, 2018, 12:27:56 PM

Hello guys, today i saw a russian telelegram grup about merit. He sell merit on 20$ for eatch. Look on the screenchoot: https://wmpics.pics/di-EKV9.jpg Some peoples buy merits and its very bad. Don't say about what they will be deceived. Also notice on the Russian thread many suggestion from Newbies: How buy merit or price on merit. In this thead man official sell merit:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3301296

Merit become a new coin on this forum and it the biggest problem. To my opinion moderator must be a ban all, who create a similar topic. Thanks for reading and what you do about it? How to struggle with this problem?

how can this be resolved, it will be highly grateful if there's a way this can be resolved to help we newbies

Hero of Legendary

jr. member

Activity: 94

Merit: 4

Don't worry my friend, there are red tags reservation for them, and it is unlimited compare to sMerit. Just wait for their perfect time of waving it and it will give us joy. Cheesy

ducdr

member

Activity: 147

Merit: 10

Quote from: ulages on May 21, 2018, 06:02:27 AM

if the merits itself can be earned by buying them then whats the need of the merit system as the motive wouldnt be fulfilled?

This is another side of life. You can not ask for perfect stuffs, systems, etc.
You can not stop black markets, right?
But in the forum, merit exchangers will be tagged as red color, and banned by modes. That's enough.

ulages

jr. member

Activity: 74

Merit: 4

if the merits itself can be earned by buying them then whats the need of the merit system as the motive wouldnt be fulfilled?

7Dyoknga5

jr. member

Activity: 210

Merit: 1

dApps Development Automation Platform

Merit is suppose to encourage users to give quality posts. The problem with the system is that giving of the merit depends on the subjective judgement of the eligible members.

Now due to difficulty of acquiring merits, users resorted to these merit buying.

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

And your are one of rubbish posters. Roll Eyes

Quote from: appleslymphoma on May 21, 2018, 12:53:01 AM

No quality woud be there, only there would be rubbish posts only.

Let's them freely do what they wanted, then they will get what they deserved.

Quote from: Sova_tmb on April 23, 2018, 12:27:56 PM

Hello guys, today i saw a russian telelegram grup about merit.

In reality, merits are invaluable for someone who need them, then you should not called such prices are over- or under-valued. Nevertheless, falling into merit business should be avoided somehow. In my stance, never should do this.

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He sell merit on 20$ for eatch.

Furthermore, you should pay your attention on reading forum rules, forum structures, its basic/ essential functions, and helpful, informative available topics. You should choose the right things, most necessary to do in your early period as forum members. Please don't fall into merits, and stupid related questions like "How to get Merits? What should I do to earn merits? Lots of people abused merit systems, why have they not got punishments?" All of those sort of questions are non-sense, stupid in my opinion.

appleslymphoma

newbie

Activity: 47

Merit: 0

No quality woud be there, only there would be rubbish posts only.

caytienbct

member

Activity: 132

Merit: 12

My dream is to be a self-made billionaire

Quote from: Real14Hero on May 17, 2018, 10:34:51 PM

Without the threads it gets very difficult to locate merit sellers and at the same time gets difficult for merit sellers to find an audience to sell their merit. The business won't proliferate till ban on merit sale on thread is maintained.

You might be right, Real14Hero. Official rules to ban accounts which exchange merits are necessary to maintain healthy, positive impacts of merit system on forum users.
However, I remember that I read somewhere in the forum that there are lots of telegram groups, and something like that, which were created specifically for merit business.

Real14Hero

hero member

Activity: 952

Merit: 576

The best thing about limiting or putting a check on the sale of merit is that threads to sell merit on bitcointalk are not allowed, unlike the selling of accounts that bloomed a lot due to accounts themselves being sold on forum.

Without the threads it gets very difficult to locate merit sellers and at the same time gets difficult for merit sellers to find an audience to sell their merit. The business won't proliferate till ban on merit sale on thread is maintained.

hygroscopicgymnasium3

newbie

Activity: 74

Merit: 0

We should impose some taxations on the upper members holding merit points so that they only spend it whenever it is deserved.

change7

newbie

Activity: 175

Merit: 0

There's nothing you can do bout it. I don't think there was really a place that condemned the selling of merits when merit system as first introduced. The only thing you can do is either join them or over look it.

DarkKnightNeverDie

member

Activity: 127

Merit: 10

What to do is doing nothing, except stay away from merit business.
Be smart with what you would like to do and keep yourself as safe as possible.

BeBlockTech

member

Activity: 304

Merit: 15

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Quote from: techbill on April 29, 2018, 12:48:57 AM

This might be a stupid question, but really what's the point of merit? To show that one is a good poster? Are signature campaign really affected by this?

How higher the users are in rank, how more tokens they get for promoting the project in question, some projects even offer Btc or Ether to Hero Members and above, that's one the reason users want to grow in rank, if not the only reason...

icalical

sr. member

Activity: 1372

Merit: 268

Graphic & Motion Designer

First of all $20 for a single Merit is overpriced. If we compared to the price of a Full Member Account which required 100 Merit, and it only cost around $500- $600. While if you buy Merit to reach Full Member it will cost around $1000, almost twice.
I mean do they have a really stupid client that willing to buy a single Merit for $20?

Since both transactions are illegal, why don't they chose the cheapest one.

Emilyp

member

Activity: 546

Merit: 10

I think, you shouldn't do anything about it being a business as it wasn't against the merit rules. Just go about your daily activities and leave the merit system alone.

TheUltraElite

legendary

Activity: 2898

Merit: 1253

So anyway, I applied as a merit source :)

Quote from: BigDig on May 10, 2018, 07:25:52 AM

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively.

Lies and made up stories. People just make up new threads about every delusional dream that they have in mind and start shitposting about it everywhere they can. When will you people learn? Tongue

Quote from: Flash Cunt on May 10, 2018, 08:23:12 AM

I think they are hoping that the spammy/scammy low rank users will fuck off with their pajeet posting.

Why do I have the feeling that I know you in some way or the other?

Flash Cunt

member

Activity: 69

Merit: 12

Quote from: BigDig on May 10, 2018, 07:25:52 AM

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively. The number of conversions to a new rank decreased catastrophically. The administration is struggling with this, but not very actively. I think they are happy that there will be a huge number of low rank users and an elite that will collect all the cream from signature campaigns.

I think they are hoping that the spammy/scammy low rank users will fuck off with their pajeet posting.

BigDig

member

Activity: 277

Merit: 12

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively. The number of conversions to a new rank decreased catastrophically. The administration is struggling with this, but not very actively. I think they are happy that there will be a huge number of low rank users and an elite that will collect all the cream from signature campaigns.

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