[PROPOSAL] Partial reset of airdropped merits

[Findingnemo]

Newbie or Legendary, there is no special treatment for ranks other than signature space which means some responsibility from the campaign managers can solve this issue too in my opinion. I too agree than most members didn't earned any merits since the introduction of merit system which looks unfair to me for them to get such ranks with no efforts but I accept the fact life is unfair so I just don't care about them.

[Jet Cash]

Just make it illegal to sell accounts,

[Rikafip]

Just make it illegal to sell accounts,

Since majority of account sales happen outside of the forum, I don't think that ban would change much. Account buyers and sellers on forum get tagged anyway so thats almost as good as a ban.

Regarding the proposal to reset airdropped merit partially, this seems like a bit too drastic of a measure in order to stop something as account sale ( maybe I'm naive/ignorant on the matter but I don't think that's happening on a mass scale) and might affect those that don't have anything to do with shady business but just decided to take longer hiatus from forum.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Just make it illegal to sell accounts,

Illegal? Doubt forum has any official jurisdiction that considers anything legal or illegal... Anything that is considered illegal here is the same stuff considered illegal in real laws.

Regarding the proposal to reset airdropped merit partially, this seems like a bit too drastic of a measure in order to stop something as account sale ( maybe I'm naive/ignorant on the matter but I don't think that's happening on a mass scale) and might affect those that don't have anything to do with shady business but just decided to take longer hiatus from forum.

Exactly! Doesn't make sense to punish a few because of the few causing a nuisance. It's the same as banning newbies from creating threads because some of them are only spam links or currency exchange scam threads.

[Jet Cash]

Just to be pedantic - here is the definition of a law -

A body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognised, and enforced by controlling authority.

For example, the first law of thermodynamics is not based on a ruling by any nations's parliament, and Gauss's law is not dependent on Gauss being a country.

I understand that Theymos sets the laws here and is the controlling authority, and thus any breach of his laws is illegal in this forum.

[Pmalek]

Just make it illegal to sell accounts,

You mean like it's illegal to sell heroin and absolutely no one anywhere in the world sells or buys drugs anymore?

Exactly! Doesn't make sense to punish a few because of the few causing a nuisance.

You were probably trying to say that it doesn't make sense to punish everyone because of the few causing the problems.

Just disable signature if someone doesn't get X merit in last 120 days, it's more fair towards non-spammer and old members.

This is a good suggestion, but it would have to be done on a case by case basis. Even then, it will create controversy. Admins can manually disable signatures anyways, and have been doing that for members who get pardoned for plagiarism.

Maybe renaming "illegal" to "ban-able offense" is more appropriate words

I would say we have bigger problems than that. This is a forum where thieves and scammers can stay with only a tag on their accounts after it's been proven they stole and swindled. The forum doesn't moderate scams is the official response. How would an account buyer be a bigger treat to the community and deserve a ban when a thief doesn't?