OK, after using the forum for a couple of weeks, it is enough clear (probably for everybody) that the merit system does not work.
I understand the admins have decided to implement this feature to reduce the spam but has totally freazed all people ranks and also created a parallel market where people on telegram have started to sell their merit for money (that is worst than the account farming etc.).
I understand the admins have decided to implement this feature to reduce the spam but has totally freazed all people ranks and also created a parallel market where people on telegram have started to sell their merit for money (that is worst than the account farming etc.).
It seems that you know something about it. They are abusing the new system hence reporting them to the admin will give them the punishment they deserved. If their ranks freeze, I think the problem there is their posting quality and not the system. If the spam posts is been reduced, then I think the new system is working fine.
Also, if we want to say more, I cannot understand why we receive just 1 merit every 2 merits distributed: this means that the more the system goes on, the less merits people have to distribute to other users.
But I guess the more you get, there will be a lot of merits to be given and that will be equivalent to spam posts that you give merit into someone even they don't deserve it since you have a lot of them, right?
I have understood that some people have the possibility to give merit for post because have like a "source" of new merits (please correct me if I am wrong) but in the various national sections of the forum no one knows who they are and according to which rules they release those merits.
You have a point since in our local thread, there are only some people that are releasing or giving their merit due to the fear of being banned because they thought that if they give some merit to someone, they might be red trusted for that which is not really true. Though, it is their merit and they can use it however they want to.
In the end, the system needs many improvements, I hope the admins will hear our suggestions and try to improve the platform as much as it is possible.
Every system needs an improvement but the system is still new and we need a little more time to consider that it needs to be improved or not, for now, let's just see what will happen.
one merit is not much help and ask for what you want 
