So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
We can make presumption that those acts are shady ones but we cant really conclude yet since we don't have an evidence that they are alts or do belong into one person which means its still valid to have those exchange because there are really some scenarios that community members do really give out merits to those person who do give them merits too.Just like a exchange of gratitude and I know you do feel the same way.Therefore,we cant really accuse someone if we don't have strong evidence among the connection of the two.
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to get merit I think is very difficult, the problem of some people is very stingy to give merit to others. yes it is good to not give merit to just anyone, but a lot of hope to get merit appreciation from my friends bitcoin forum .I have a merit, and I certainly will also give to friends who post quality. I hope we can improve the quality to get merit .
If you come across someone exchanging merit, ppint them out. You can see that there are topic poping out from time to time in meta about merit abusers and there's also a whole thread dedicated to the merit abusers reports. It's not that it's not being cracked down , there's just so many people, but still is something to kill some free time. Them russians and turks yo.
So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
There is topic in meta regarding merit cheaters so if you have found users who are exchanging merits you can post it here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-suspected-users-that-are-abusing-merit-30-2896910. I can tell you that sending merits to friends, exchanging merits and sending merit to alts is very usual around here but don't worry eventually they will all run out of merits. So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
I think you have a point, but the rules doesn’t have that limitation. You have the freedom to send śmerits according to your discretion to a constructive post or someone deserve it. If you have found abusive use of this system, it is better to report it in meta as there is an existing thread about that. And just move this post, as it isn’t belong in Marketplace. Merit System discussion is a forum related issue that can be found in Meta Section. Proof is needed in accusing someone a friend of or an alt if anyone to establish this connection.
Proving something needs more than accusing anyone of anything, proper investigations and technical analysis is needed. That’s why, those who are doing such effort has to be applauded because it’s not a easy job and most shocking is DT (default trust) or other members, doing it for free. To help this forum and the members to have a better place to discuss freely without us being annoyed about spammers.
So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
I think you have a point, but the rules doesn’t have that limitation. You have the freedom to send śmerits according to your discretion to a constructive post or someone deserve it. If you have found abusive use of this system, it is better to report it in meta as there is an existing thread about that. And just move this post, as it isn’t belong in Marketplace. Merit System discussion is a forum related issue that can be found in Meta Section. Proof is needed in accusing someone a friend of or an alt if anyone to establish this connection.
So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
I think you have a point, but the rules doesn’t have that limitation. You have the freedom to send śmerits according to your discretion to a constructive post or someone deserve it. If you have found abusive use of this system, it is better to report it in meta as there is an existing thread about that. And just move this post, as it isn’t belong in Marketplace. Merit System discussion is a forum related issue that can be found in Meta Section. Proof is needed in accusing someone a friend of or an alt of anyone to establish this connection.
So I was interested in how to obtain merit and so I looked at a few profiles of members with a large amount of merits (250+) and saw that a few seemed to be sending merits backwards and forwards to each other repeatedly. I’m assuming they were either to friends or his alts but surely this is against BCT rules and should be cracked down upon?
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