Topic: One person has sent 50 merits to a service announcement thread. - page 2. (Read 770 times)

Other times, other manners. There are some cases in which more merits has been sent and is no longer a violation  "receive -ve trust from DT":

 - [ANN] ChipMixer.com - Bitcoin mixer / Bitcoin tumbler - mixing reinvented 50 merits from 1Referee.
 - Nessie.io - Exchange with Seamless Access to Digital Wallet & Gaming Services 138 merits from 6 accounts.

You have the freedom to send any amount of merits, but you are not entitled to sell, exchange or use it in the scam "send to alt."
If merit sources are allowed to send merits to " service announcement thread"[1], others will be allowed to do so.

[1] I will add the source when I find it

You cannot should not send out -ve feedback without sufficient reason and foresight.

Neither the thread-starter nor the merit sender should receive negative feedback (unless this is not an isolated case). We, as humans, are subjective by nature and some individuals may choose to send 50 merit on occasion to certain topics. This is not necessarily untrustworthy since we have no clear abuse between the two users.

In the case where it is not an isolated instance then we can start to formulate a conjecture. Back-and-forth merit transactions will usually dictate shady behavior.

That thread is almost funny looking back at it today and seeing how many merits were so freely handed out for posts that were just mediocre.  I'm pretty sure bitcointalk will never see anything like that again.

As to OP's point, I'd say 50 merits from a single member would certainly be excessive, but I doubt anyone would get tagged.  I'm not sure who Johny Depp is talking about, though.  It would be helpful for him to mention specifics and not broad generalities, because suspected merit abuse obviously depends on the circumstances.

I've seen a lot of campaign threads and ANNs where the OP gets enormous amounts of merits.  Hell, even DarkStar_ got 8 merits for the Chipmixer campaign thread, and there have been other bounty managers who've gotten far more than that.  

What can you do?  I wouldn't call it merit abuse; it's more like gratitude, and members have to have a certain amount of freedom to do what they want with their sMerits.  This is why I'm not putting on the gloves and stepping into the ring with suspected merit abusers.  It's not usually black-and-white like it is with account sales and whatnot.  As I said recently, though, I'm glad there are other DT members who are tagging the obvious cases of abuse.

Edit:
Dang, you basically just beat me to the punch and said very succinctly what I just wrote.  Anyway, without knowing who OP is talking about, all of this is just blabbering.  The answer to his question is that the member might get tagged.  That might not be what OP wants to hear, but that's the truth of the matter.

Giving 50 Merits to ANN topic isn't a best way to spend Merits, but I don't know can we call it as Merit abuse. Users are free to choose how they want to spend their Merit. IMO, it's better to give Merits to ANN threads than send to alt accounts or sell on black market.
Maybe you can show us ANN about which you're talking about?

Yours is neither a service announcement one, nor you have sent 50 merits to OP at one go!

So, unfortunately, its not you.

Interestingly, the service provider I am talking about, has also received some questionable trust feedback from DT. But, that was being discussed here - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/is-nepotism-celebrated-in-default-trust-5034828.

Is it me?   

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-new-rank-requirements-2818350

Should we consider it merit abuse? If yes, will the sender/receiver receive -ve trust from DT?