Despite that, I have mixed feelings about the merit source application. I think QS knows what constitutes a good post and he might not use his sMerits for political reasons. The only concern with him (and all potential merit sources) is trading/selling it. With his spotty past, which includes account selling in addition to the escrow stuff, I just don't know. But hey, it's not up to me. Good luck, QS.
I won’t sell any merit, I don’t need to, if I was going to sell merit I would earn it myself, and have shown the ability to earn a lot of (in top 100), and have not sold any merit. I do believe that the forum selling merit would probably get the desired effect of improving post quality because people would be forced to pay to wear paid signatures and would have skin in the game when posting and would be risking losing what they paid if they post junk, but that is off topic here.
I won’t use merit for political reasons even though other sources have given merit for likely political reasons for posts that are not objectively high quality posts — they are just not as transparent as stingers was, but that is also off topic here.
I do wish for people who put in effort into their time and posts here to be rewarded and those that junk up the forum to not be. You can review my sent merit history (I have sent a lot, more than most people ) to see that I have a history of giving merit to objectivity high quality posts.