What the fuck is the internet?If we are making merit a crypto, I would like to volunteer to organise a coin burn to make merit even more valuable. Send all your excess merits to me, and I'll make sure they are burned.
Here's a (/s) just in case anyone honestly thought I was being serious.You want a serious answer though? If you make merit a crypto, people can buy it, and it therefore defeats the purpose of merit. The end.
If someday merit become a crypto, the bitcointalk forum will be abundant with tons of shits (one more time, almost the same as before merit system launched and even worse).
As you said, merit crypto will defeat the original objectives of merit system, which launched by Theymos to keep spammers stucked at lower ranks.
It is a terrible scenario if merit is a crypto.