Topic: Merits getting abused like this? What can be done? (Read 527 times)

How can you report to moderator of the Merit is being sold outside the forum? I have seen this kind of offers as well in Facebook groups that is related in cryptocurrencies. Its hard to catch them because if its being sold outside the forum, you can't tell what username is being used by the seller unless someone is willing to go undercover and play as a buyer.

most of those who get them in large amounts are members with a good reputation which they can not risk.

I know about all of those merit abusing things. The first thing to do is to report to moderator. This thread is also good way for true searching, but you must to represent proves. For now it's only saying.

Now if you could catch these shitheads - that might make a difference:

Hunting that $15 merit is a waste of time.

Here is it:

https://www.fiverr.com/bounty_1/supply-bitcointalk-merits-for-your-bitcointalk-account?ref_ctx_id=df66693a-d0fb-4826-a0e6-f34489421726

Figuring out the one that comment in the gig, by the name of edwardtay, but so far there's no hit in the forum.

Here is it:

https://www.fiverr.com/bounty_1/supply-bitcointalk-merits-for-your-bitcointalk-account?ref_ctx_id=df66693a-d0fb-4826-a0e6-f34489421726

Figuring out the one that comment in the gig, by the name of edwardtay, but so far there's no hit in the forum.

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The OP removed the picture of the ad, and I am having difficulty finding it on fiverr.
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With the cost of $15 per merit, it means that a Member need to spend $1350 for more 90 merits to become a Full Member. <..>

<…>Also, each merit given has to come from somewhere. With the airdropped merits become less and less every day, this "merit" selling thing from account farmers will naturally become scarcer and scarcer to observe.

If we update the figures I’ve drawn-up in the pastconcerning sMerit circulation, we get:

 600.000      sMerits Initial Airdrop
-350.129     sent sMerits (Merit Sources and regular forum members)
+175.065    Min estimate generated (first halving taken to its maximum theoretical degree, and not accounting for all the other halvings which I cannot estimate)
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424.936   Total unsent sMerits (aprox. *)

(*) Not all is really sendable really, due to inactive users, banned users, and so forth.


Now Merit Source pool is currently of 20.855 sMerits per 30 days. Being conservative, and taking into account that the pool size has varies over time, lets say a bare minimum average of 12k has been sent each month since the beginning of the Merit System. That would mean that at least 180.000 of the sent sMerits were originated by Merit Sources .The remaining 170.129 (350.129 – 180.000) would come from the Initial Airdrop and halvings.

So even in the “best” case scenario (no halvings), there are around 600.000 – 170.129 = 429.871 airdropped sMerits in user accounts (*).

After 15 months of the Merit System, I don’t know how likely they are to come into the scene, but they also constitute a risk for merit trading. I would think that, after 15 months on non-usage, they should be withdrawn from the accounts on the basis of avoiding risks and not being into the Merit game anyway.

I agree there are abusers everywhere. As you said the prices are really high but the problem isn't the price, it's that even if prices were low, it should be prevented