To sell your sMerit points is the most stupid thing you could do. First of all, you are likely to get caught and tagged with red negative trust. Second, you would likely sell it for peanuts, very cheap, so basically you would end up compromising your high ranking account for basically nothing.
I guess this is called natural selection.
Topic: People might sell they're merit points. - page 8. (Read 1923 times)
This forum is being cleaned so that this can really serve as a bitcoin forum, with less or zero non sense posts. With that, I think the merit system come from. I hope this works and won't be abused.
I have no beef against this new merit system, but the funny thing I noted is that this system smells of centralization in a forum that is supposed to be the backbone of decentralization 
As said previously, spammers can always manipulate with multiple accounts and buy merits and what not as opposed to guys who are in crypto for good.
As said previously, spammers can always manipulate with multiple accounts and buy merits and what not as opposed to guys who are in crypto for good.
So I think this merit mechanism is unfair, because it would allow those legendary or heroic users to profit from the merit mechanisms, and not to upgrade those who can not afford it.
I'm definitely coming from the opposite perspective here, as being here on these forums for a while and finally reaching a high ranking. However, I don't think this system is particularly unfair. Those who have merit will not be selling it; hero and legendary members at this point in time know better than to sell their merit. Even if it is being sold, it ends up being pretty obvious because all you need to do is look at the suspects posts and who merited them.
There's nothing about affording here; merit is not a form of money. It's (I guess) just another way of protecting the forum from spammers who are just trying to get into sig campaigns.
I agree with player514. He has been in this forum longer than I have and based on what I've observed for the past months that I've been part of this forum, a lot of people here would just post for the sake of reaching their quota for a signature campaign. People would just write anything to reach the limit they are required of. I am pretty sure the high ranking members in this forum are well aware and knows better when it comes to constructive posting. So I guess you just can't simply fool them into giving you a merit just because they have the power to do so. I know they will give it to those who are deserving because I feel that they have also experienced different hardships in reaching their rank.
As per the newbie who got the merit points, maybe he does truly deserve it for he posted something constructive, cohesive, and helpful to this forum. If he is not truly deserving of it, then there may be a lot of possibilities on why he got one. If he gained it through illegal means, I'm pretty sure he will get a punishment for it sooner or later but right now what really matters is that we take this situation as an opportunity for all of us to learn and truly be helpful in this forum by being constructive.
if there is buying and selling merit very in pity once
we all must know the purpose of this merit system what
which I know merit system that works apart from to raise the rank but also works for us to learn
make a meaningful sentence and there is contents let no spamer
this is also a challenge to increase rank well if anyone buys
back to the person just buy meri in order to pursue anything other than rank
we all must know the purpose of this merit system what
which I know merit system that works apart from to raise the rank but also works for us to learn
make a meaningful sentence and there is contents let no spamer
this is also a challenge to increase rank well if anyone buys
back to the person just buy meri in order to pursue anything other than rank
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
The only unfair thing about merits in m opinion is making it a requiremnt to ranking up, there are plenty of poeple who are constanly posting some productive posts and people don't give them merit, so they don't rank up as fast as others, while people with multiple accounts who are always spamming the forum could abuse this system and get into campaigns and rank up before those who actually stick to the rules. Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
In my opinion, Merit points is not really fair, as you can see, when we have many friends who have merit points, we can ask their merit points to send it to our account, may be some one else will sell it and we can buy it too. So based on the case you have been faced, I think that the newbie account which has a merit points got the points from his/her friends. I don't have any merit to sell but I will lease my forum name for 10btc a month
Ha I just saw I do have merit I don't even know what it does and why would I be concerned about it. Either read what I say or don't, it's all good
I don't have any merit to sell but I will lease my forum name for 10btc a month
Honestly i hv been in this forum only a couple of days. I hv been reading post and reply only if i hv my own opinion to the thread. Whether its constructive or a good post, it depends if anyone reads it or think its worth a good merit point. Unfortunately i havent got a single merit point even i only hv 1 single account, not picking opinion-piece which have been posted, nor pick it from somewhere in the internet. But does that means my opinion is not constructive or merely a spam? Its pretty subjective to measure.
Anyway good luck with the merit system, i'm learning things even without being legendary or hero member. I'm just trying to be part of the forum
Anyway good luck with the merit system, i'm learning things even without being legendary or hero member. I'm just trying to be part of the forum
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
This is not created for selling and for making an unfair decision to all members, actually it could be helpful for building a great reputation here for each individual through posting with quality. Maybe those newbies are posted a quality post which is very helpful so recieving merit from someone is their worth. Every possible negative thoughts now will remain as an invalid due to the lack of evidences because this merit is a new implementation from theymos, so I think better to watch and see the results than providing a confusion assumption. Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
I do not know about what merit is. I just noticed it about this week and do not know what it is for. I would not sell any of my merits because it just show my effort and perseverance. Itnos likey token for working hard.
you see, giving (or selling) merits doesn't lower your merit count. You simply can give away merit only if you gain merit yourself, but you don't give away your merit.
Speaking to the point, I understand why it was introduced. I was also seeing a lot of garbage posts and threads created just to repeat the same sentence all over again by different Newbies in hundreds of thread pages. It was disheartening.
However I don't understand and don't support the merit acquired automatically by high ranking members and above. It is not that their posts were pure gold, you see. I saw Members and above posting garbage. If anything, there should be something like a clear start for everybody. You see, if you change the rules - they should be changed for everybody. As things are now, the rules were changed only for new users and I think (or feel) it is unfair.
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
It could very well happen if the earnings and the selection in campaigns becomes on the basis of merit.I like this new concept but should have the limitation.This merit concept should be there for peoples to understand where they stand in terms of quality of there post.I know every campaign manager would want there candidates to post quality but that should be judged by the manager itself or the hero members and the trustworthy should only have the rights to give merit points if that is going to be the prime reason for the selection.Every new concept is only good if it is fair for everybody. Just because he was a newbie doesn't mean he can't have any merit points. If he wrote a good quality post and people find the post good they can give him merit.
But why? Why should any user give anyone merit? Do they earn something if they give merit? It's not like reddit where merited posts appear above others, it's not changing anyone's forum experience at all.
The scarcity of merit aside, as long as you can't create incentives for users to give merit, this system cannot work.
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
Yes they do, and they've be able to grant those merits to anyone, but I don't think it may affect the system - the merit system. Since the sMerits suppose to decay overtime, I mean you can grant them but it will going to have no effect if you're not that active. I'm not sure if there is some time limit to it but the point is, its not worth buying in case they would sell it.Sure you're going to have its benefit at that time but, the system is absolute, that's the very meaning why the Merit System has been implemented to prevent people on having farmed accounts, or not being active in the forum, and much even better, helping these people to make constructive posts, meaning anti-spamming.
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
It's useless . because any merits now we can see who the giver. and this could potentially get RedTrust for the merit giver. we better learn to make a useful word 
Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.
I do not know about what merit is. I just noticed it about this week and do not know what it is for. I would not sell any of my merits because it just show my effort and perseverance. Itnos likey token for working hard.
merit is a very real setback for this forum.
very difficult now to rise ranking. if need merit even if the activity has been reached.
I think the big advantage for users with hero or legendary status.
they can benefit from the merit without doing anything.
very unfair I guess.
but they argue, this is a real step to clear the forum from spam, as well as poor quality posts.
but as a member of the forum, I can only follow the rules of the moderators in this forum.
very difficult now to rise ranking. if need merit even if the activity has been reached.
I think the big advantage for users with hero or legendary status.
they can benefit from the merit without doing anything.
very unfair I guess.
but they argue, this is a real step to clear the forum from spam, as well as poor quality posts.
but as a member of the forum, I can only follow the rules of the moderators in this forum.
merits are born to keep the accounts of people who received some red trusts by people who are greedy for money they just gave you some red trust and saying that your posts are shit posts or grabbled english mostly their victims are from the Philippines.
This one is uncontrollable, since ranking up is more difficult to do, and this was done to avoid account farming, people might sell their smerit so that they can earn money and at the same time people buying smerit will be able to rank up. This is unavoidable, so I guess admins in the forum will find ways to avoid or atlease lessen or if not lessen improve the ranking system.
Forgot to point out, merit system was implemented to improve quality posts, not to make it more difficult for us to rank up.
Forgot to point out, merit system was implemented to improve quality posts, not to make it more difficult for us to rank up.
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