Today I saw that one of the participants of the forum proposes to introduce a new rule and restrict people who can wear a signature. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32278787
But in the Russian-speaking branch, few people share their merits for a good post. Now there is a flourishing sale of merits, is 5-7 dollars for one.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--2918758
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2848925.new
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pa-mepa-2876354 and so on
I just want to say that merit is a business from which many people earn who have many multi-accounts.
I want to say that with the new rules it's really hard to increase in rank your account. Merit began to buy and sell and people who write good posts are not rewarded in any way. Perhaps the moderators will come up with new rules
If you are not seeing people getting merit, then i guess you are not roaming the entire forum i guess. There have been a lot of merit given to high quality posts. And please, it is not even 2 months since merit comes.
If you see this kind of buying and selling activity, i guess you need to contact your moderator and ask him to help you to appeal this kind of problem to other moderator or even admin. Because not all moderator can read and speak in russian, but i guess your local moderator can talk russian and explain it to other moderators.