For example, selling merit isn't illegal, but it's negative trust-worthy. You can't suddenly freeze an account's sMerit just because they sold sMerit, which is not illegal. To give an official punishment for a crime per se, rather than an official crime, is an unfair exercise of power.
Who says that selling sMerit is not illegal?
Isnt it unfair that they abuse signature campaigns many times?
They already get a big profit here from cheating bounty campaigns, are they not contented with one account?
This is the perfect time to clean the forum its time for them to payback.
May I know the reason why do you think that they dont deserve to be punished?
That said, I agree with the other person on this thread that people who gain a negative trust, then realize they can't use their account for sig campaigns, they end up holding free sMerit giveaways for people with quality posts. I've seen such threads. If you totally lock their sMerits, it disallows for this kind of opportunity.
No they didnt, they just distributing their merits to their alts.
Please read the report.
I'm unaware of the current status of sMerit flow -- is it capped, is it flowing freely, are people just not sending them? Who knows. But I'd say that it isn't a good idea at this time to lock down sMerits from someone with negative trust who may or may not have abused the merit system.
If someone gets tagged they either abuse the system, cheat or scam...
Besides, if someone sends sMerit to an alt, that alt will no doubt spam the forums and be weeded out too easily and receive a negative trust... and the number of sMerits that alt can give gets halved anyway. It continues to get halved until none are left.
Can you catch and report them all? we are looking for a better way to stop those farmers instantly.