This is how I discovered it... I made a post yesterday on the meta section thought to provide some value for the forum. I get it, this was very poor of me. I was fucked up and out of my fucking mind or why the hell I would do that?
Click here for the post.
Reply got so far...
https://prnt.sc/ijgmdk (I have the humour it's a joke, thanks, no heart feeling)
https://prnt.sc/ijgmzv (good one, thanks for the advice, appreciate it)
https://prnt.sc/ijgnfu (sorry if i ruined it, i am a dumb ass, please excuse me, yeah right!)
https://prnt.sc/ijgnxz (I guess you need a break as well)
https://prnt.sc/ijgozz (looks like I am sanctimonious prig
)
https://prnt.sc/ijgp8e (
)
Then i received this comment (
Click here to read the full comment not just screenshot like above ) from
nullius. I was surprised first to see the loooonggg essay then I read it full. well-done by the way for this long post and thank you for the changed title for me in your local language I guess. I figured out from google that it means this
https://prnt.sc/ijgs65I am not sure if this was really necessary or not. I started researching the account and found a lot of members really respect the account holder. I started to take the blame to myself thinking well, yeah leave it, I made a mistake writing the post at the first place. Then I saw this reply (
https://prnt.sc/ijgt6u ) from
AliaNow this struck me... Jr. Member, Activity: 42, Merit: 105, Posts: 350!!!
No doubt this account holder is giving everything for this forum. Account created on January 28, 2018. Not even one month and the account already made 350 post and earned 105 merit! Low ranked member like me, this account is an ideal account to research.
These are the merit source for this account
| theymos | 1 | 1time |
| EcuaMobi | 1 | 1time |
| favours | 5 | 1time |
| iluvbitcoins | 1 | 1time |
| The Pharmacist | 4 | 2times |
| OgNasty | 1 | 1time |
| Rmcdermott927 | 5 | 1time |
| Foxpup | 10 | 6times |
| TMAN | 16 | 2times |
| Tesorex | 2 | 1time |
| LoyceV | 3 | 3times |
| Hatcher | 6 | 1times |
| midvoc | 1 | 1time |
| Cyrus | 2 | 1times |
| nullius | 23 | 21times |
| pugman | 1 | 1time |
| suchmoon | 1 | 1time |
| finaleshot2016 | 1 | 1time |
| mjglqw | 1 | 1time |
| zikabra | 1 | 1time |
| aTriz | 1 | 1time |
| Oceat | 2 | 1time |
| crwth | 1 | 1time |
| Hydrogen | 1 | 1time |
| PoolMinor | 8 | 1time |
| SM23031997 | 1 | 1time |
| mostkey | 2 | 1time |
| xIIImaL | 1 | 1time |
So without any doubt I wanted to see the special connection with nullius, TMAN, Foxpup, PoolMinor, Hatcher, favours, Rmcdermott927 and The Pharmacist for alia since they have given 23, 16, 10, 8, 6, 5, 5, 4 sMerits respectively.
I was more interested to see whats going on with nullius, TMAN, Foxpup since they have given the sMerits 21, 2 and 6 times respectively (I ignored 3 times from LoyceV and 2 times from The Pharmacist coz it's too much to do).
I found nothing with TMAN, Foxpup but for nullius, this is what alia sent...
So when I found alia sent 20 sMerits to nullius and in return alia received 23 merits from nullius, I wanted to see the detail posts on those alia received merits from nullius. I categories them into 3 category.
Category 1: Perhaps worth getting merit1 Merit for a good humorous post
https://prnt.sc/ijfxuw1 Merit for another good post
https://prnt.sc/ijfyam1 Merit for another may be good reply
https://prnt.sc/ijfz9e1 Merit for really good writing
https://prnt.sc/ijfznh1 Merit for another humorous reply
https://prnt.sc/ijg32s1 Merit for an average reply
https://prnt.sc/ijg4751 Merit (may be) for another average reply
https://prnt.sc/ijg7v41 Merit for a really well done reply
https://prnt.sc/ijg9r81 Merit may be a good reply
https://prnt.sc/ijga7y ( Wait!!! Is this looking odd?
https://prnt.sc/ijgbjo )
1 Merit for a good post (no doubt)
https://prnt.sc/ijgc1i1 Merit for an average reply
https://prnt.sc/ijge98Category 2: Questioned!!!1 Merit for writing only one line!
https://prnt.sc/ijfwkj1 Merit for writing another line!
https://prnt.sc/ijfypm1 Merit for writing another few lines
https://prnt.sc/ijg1qi (The original post was alia's though but do you see merit from TMAN
https://prnt.sc/ijg19c ? 6+10=16 merit)
2 Merit for another one line reply!
https://prnt.sc/ijg4o8 By the way it was a reply of "nullius" post
2 Merit for another one line reply!
https://prnt.sc/ijg5g1 I guess they already had so juicy conversation before this one line reply.
1 Merit, really nice post "Watch me gamble with your money, (possibly) naked!" (
!!)
https://prnt.sc/ijg719 1 Merit for another one line reply!
https://prnt.sc/ijg8ed Please give me a break
1 Merit again do doubt it raise question
https://prnt.sc/ijg93h Am i missing something? See the thread title
1 Merit again for one line reply
https://prnt.sc/ijgels please i really really need a break!
Category 3: Could not find the post so we really don't know what was there1 Merit for a deleted post
https://prnt.sc/ijg3ojI guess I know the secret: On February 16, 2018, 10:57:08 PM (
https://prnt.sc/ijgg6i ) nullius first encountered alia's this post
https://prnt.sc/ijfxuwthe post was a very good humorous post which immediately made nullius a fan of alia's. Then on top of it when alia send 16 merits (
https://prnt.sc/ijgfqn ) to nullius on the same day just in few mins difference (February 16, 2018, 11:00:10 PM) then no doubt that nullius has a good biased mind for alia.
This is what I learnt now after carefully watching alia's account. No doubt alia is doing a great job. The account holder knows his/her shit so account like this will keep receiving more merits.
Keep good relationship with higher ranked members, try your best to post some quality posts and always remember those higher ranked members, sMerits will come on your way.
PS: I guess i should forget about getting sMerits and thinking about getting ban from this forum after publishing this post
This post surely will upset some of the higher ranked members.
The merit system needs to be improved or the forum will suffer because of the biased activities of higher ranked members those have enormous amount of sMerits to favour othersEDIT
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So I changed the title "Thin (!!!) strategy to earn more Merit" to "
Thin (!) strategy to earn more Merit - Drama Queen (aka alia) busted Finally!!!"
I have spend almost last 24 hours to read only two posts on the forum. One about
alia and another one about
aTriz. Here I am thinking I have now a proven point to claim that I was right at the time of writing the original post.
After reading both posts above, it's obvious that alia was literally
fooling everyone even, theymos. So in my OP if you get an impression about nullius giving alia merits for her (his, their or whatever doesn't even matter) so called relevant and high quality posts then it's obvious that nullius was just a victim like other especially aTriz.
The strategy from alia was really very simple. She (he, they etc) simply targeted few highly reputable members like aTriz, Lauda, TMAN, Foxpup and others, not to mention nullius, made a circle around them and started taking benefit of the human weakness (Trust).
Great job
scam_detector PS: I was in vacation since last 3rd March so I really do not have much update about the forum. I will move my focus after posting this thread.
If we carefully give sMerits each others and do not abuse it (
some ideas are here) then merit system is really doing great work.
PS: Any idea how to remove a red trust since alia sent me a red trust without any actual evidence whatsoever. 
