Poll: is it OK to send merits to your own alts? - page 5.

LoyceV

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Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

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I voted No.
I kinda want to vote again from my Mobile Tongue

Meriting my own alt is like leaving myself positive trust: even though I trust myself completely, that's not what the system is for, and it doesn't help anyone else in judging me.

I can think of one situation were not being allowed to merit an alt would have been frustrating, but luckily someone else came to the rescue.

actmyname

copper member

Activity: 2562

Merit: 2510

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No. Just as I conflate account trading with buying reputation, the same can be said of merit exchanges.

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legendary

Activity: 2576

Merit: 1517

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Of course no, it will be to easy and not ethical level up alts in this way and is nice to see that everyone so far has voted no.

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sr. member

Activity: 1372

Merit: 322

Since there is no way of sending sMerits in self post, it's forbidden to send in alt too. Sending merits to alt should not be encourage here. It is counted as abuse. DT member would tag those users.

The Cryptovator

legendary

Activity: 2422

Merit: 2228

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No, I am strongly against to send merit to own alts. Although it's against forum rules but seems few peoples are doing that. Obviously its merit abuse and they should tag if caught with strong evidence. Still now I have seen 100% vote on No, it's prove that community against to send merit own alts. Usually they will attack you who got tag for abuse merit system. But I don't think admin also like it. So no need worry about tagging them.

Atomicat

legendary

Activity: 952

Merit: 1002

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You have X sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people. There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you,

Merits are meant to be sent to other people's constructive contribution to this forum hence using sMerits in ways that personally benefits the sender will always be frowned upon by the community.
If a post truly deserves Merit(this includes posts made by alts) there are multiple ways to bring it to the attention of Merit sources so there's no reason to merit your own posts unless it's of low quality.

IMO, It's not OK to send merits to your alts because it only effects this community in a negative way(low quality posts receiving merits).

Lucius

legendary

Activity: 3234

Merit: 5637

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It is enough to look at poll to see what the majority thinks about this issue. For me it is immoral, unfair, and abuse of merit system, so every case found should be sanctioned. We can conclude that many users have alts on this forum just by look this thread. It would be interesting to see how many merits is exchanged between proved alt accounts so far.

The world is not perfect, so we can not expect this forum either to be perfect - there will always be people who will somehow abuse forum for their own personal needs.

khaled0111

legendary

Activity: 2744

Merit: 3097

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So you write a post and loggout then you loggin with your alt to read what you already posted and say: "WoW!! How did I think about that! Thank you my other me".

If not for abusing the merit system, I would absolutely tag these users for being schizophrenic.

mikeywith

legendary

Activity: 2436

Merit: 6643

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I think merting your own posts that comes from your own alt account is like a hotel owner reviewing his own hotel on TripAdvisor.
it is very unethical in my opinion, the merit system is already not doing so great, and if own merting would be allowed it will make things worse.

this will also affect those who don't have enough sMerit to send to their alts, and will keep the existing sMerit circulating among certain users own accounts, and newbies with good posts and without an alt full of sMerit will unlikely be able to get any merit.

Steamtyme

legendary

Activity: 1568

Merit: 2037

Not cool in any way shape or form.

Sorta like laughing at your own jokes, but more severe a faux pas like socks with sandals.

There is no valid or legitimate reason to be meriting yourself. The only persons doing so would be account farmers here to bleed SIG and bounty earnings.

The other idea is theh are trying to pad the merit marketplace and hoping that their alts won't be traced back to them.

Really just another tale as old as time, account farmer meets roadblock finds shady path around roadblock, gets tagged.

> insert surprised face pikachu meme<

bones261

legendary

Activity: 1806

Merit: 1828

It is definitely not cool to merit your alts. I think it is perfectly justifiable to add red trust to someone who is caught, with definitive proof that the accounts are linked. Unfortunately, if someone is crafty enough, there isn't much we can do about it.

yahoo62278

legendary

Activity: 3808

Merit: 4603

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I'm 100% against it. It's no different than sending trust to your alt, Ban evasion with a 2nd account, or any other way to cheat the system.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

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Quote from: eddie13 on January 04, 2019, 07:23:02 PM

No, it is not OK.
But I think they are not getting tagged for it right? Because theymos said to only tag for extreme cases of merit abuse right? So it's not something I would try to bring to DT or put effort into proving if I saw it happening..

I consider it extreme abuse, along with merit buying etc, and I'm red-tagging for it if the alts are provable. That's part of the reason for this thread.

Quote from: eddie13 on January 04, 2019, 07:23:02 PM

Where? How?

Via PMs. I would prefer to not make it public yet but let's just say there were two obvious sets of alts, one exchanged 50 merits, the other - ~30 (plus more between suspected but not proved alts), and I posted neg trust for them.

eddie13

legendary

Activity: 2296

Merit: 2262

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No, it is not OK.
But I think they are not getting tagged for it right? Because theymos said to only tag for extreme cases of merit abuse right? So it's not something I would try to bring to DT or put effort into proving if I saw it happening..

Quote from: suchmoon on January 04, 2019, 07:10:54 PM

I'm being attacked for that opinion

Where? How?

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on January 04, 2019, 07:14:13 PM

I also think some members have gotten tagged for doing so--in fact, I'm sure of it.

I'm doing that when alts can be determined with a high degree of certainty.

The Sceptical Chymist

legendary

Activity: 3556

Merit: 7011

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No, it's not OK in my opinion and I thought it was pretty well-established early on that it was either against the rules to do so or at least was common knowledge that it's extremely frowned upon. I also think some members have gotten tagged for doing so--in fact, I'm sure of it.

Giving a merit to an alt account is misusing the merit system. It's like being on a corporate compensation committee and approving your own raise. Sketchy at best.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Please vote and make a post explaining your vote.

I'm strongly against sending merits between alts. The proper use of the merit system is to award good posts. Users can't objectively judge their own posts. Self-awarded merits are as meaningless as if we allowed users to choose their own ranks, and essentially that's what self-awarded merits do.

But I'm being attacked for that opinion so I'd like to gauge community sentiment on this subject.

This is a self-moderated thread so conspiracy theories and other BS will be terminated with extreme prejudice.

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