People might sell they're merit points.

[dalesotpi]

Let us not jump the gun.. As many said, merit system is on it' early stages and still under testing. Also this will help put posts back on track rather than just nonsense and unrelated off topic posts.
I believe this is a good implementation.

[Triple]

Yeah this is a wonderful idea. Sig campaigns will no longer accept people that just shitpost without reading the thread. I think there should be an option to decrease merits of someone as well. If they're spamming or just posting nonsense, people should have the ability to decrease their merits so they get punished.

Great way to combat spam.

[chocolaty]

We have no control over this things. It is the sender's choice. If all merits will be PAYED (could be by cash, coins or by merit also), not EARNED, then let us expect a more toxic community here where people send merits to each other just because they get something in return.

[wklt2002]

Just because he was a newbie doesn't mean he can't have any merit points. If he wrote a good quality post and people find the post good they can give him merit. It would only be an indicator if it was a shitpost that didn't add anything to the topic, that would be fishy.

I think that merit use to know how long someone join in bitcoin. Who joining bitcoin for a long time, he will get many more coins. I think it is fair situation

If the post looked something like the quoted post above, he probably bought that merit.

[Ganerch]

I went to my profile because I was ranked up full member and I saw the merit point system, just wandering what is this all about and how can we send some merits to others and how do we gain merits? Where is this based on? Hope to find answer because Im really curious about this matter.

[Cacingkemi]

I think this 'merit is very important to assess the quality of someone's post,dont try to sell it I think it will not be good with the account.Dont even cheat like that to gain more profit,we must together build this forum to become better by following the rules of admin.This must have been considered strongly to assess anyone who can make a strong contribution at this forum.

[Lecam]

This one is uncontrollable, since ranking up is more difficult to do, and this was done to avoid account farming, people might sell their smerit so that they can earn money and at the same time people buying smerit will be able to rank up. This is unavoidable, so I guess admins in the forum will find ways to avoid or atlease lessen or if not lessen improve the ranking system.

Forgot to point out, merit system was implemented to improve quality posts, not to make it more difficult for us to rank up.

[LinAliza]

merits are born to keep the accounts of people who received some red trusts by people who are greedy for money they just gave you some red trust and saying that your posts are shit posts or grabbled english mostly their victims are from the Philippines.

[bonusdeposit]

merit is a very real setback for this forum.
very difficult now to rise ranking. if need merit even if the activity has been reached.

I think the big advantage for users with hero or legendary status.
they can benefit from the merit without doing anything.
very unfair I guess.

but they argue, this is a real step to clear the forum from spam, as well as poor quality posts.
but as a member of the forum, I can only follow the rules of the moderators in this forum.

[Xester]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

I do not know about what merit is.  I just noticed it about this week and do not know what it is for.  I would not sell any of my merits because it just show my effort and perseverance.  Itnos likey token for working hard.

[Bitcoin_Delivery]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

It's useless . because any merits now we can see who the giver. and this could potentially get RedTrust for the merit giver. we better learn to make a useful word

[NoNetwork]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

Yes they do, and they've be able to grant those merits to anyone, but I don't think it may affect the system - the merit system. Since the sMerits suppose to decay overtime, I mean you can grant them but it will going to have no effect if you're not that active. I'm not sure if there is some time limit to it but the point is, its not worth buying in case they would sell it.

Sure you're going to have its benefit at that time but, the system is absolute, that's the very meaning why the Merit System has been implemented to prevent people on having farmed accounts, or not being active in the forum, and much even better, helping these people to make constructive posts, meaning anti-spamming.

[secondgarlic]

Just because he was a newbie doesn't mean he can't have any merit points. If he wrote a good quality post and people find the post good they can give him merit.

But why? Why should any user give anyone merit? Do they earn something if they give merit? It's not like reddit where merited posts appear above others, it's not changing anyone's forum experience at all.

The scarcity of merit aside, as long as you can't create incentives for users to give merit, this system cannot work.

[nikjain422]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

It could very well happen if the earnings and the selection in campaigns becomes on the basis of merit.I like this new concept but should have the limitation.This merit concept should be there for peoples to understand where they stand in terms of quality of there post.I know every campaign manager would want there candidates to post quality but that should be judged by the manager itself or the hero members and the trustworthy should only have the rights to give merit points if that is going to be the prime reason for the selection.Every new concept is only good if it is fair for everybody.

[bug.lady]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

I do not know about what merit is.  I just noticed it about this week and do not know what it is for.  I would not sell any of my merits because it just show my effort and perseverance.  Itnos likey token for working hard.

you see, giving (or selling) merits doesn't lower your merit count. You simply can give away merit only if you gain merit yourself, but you don't give away your merit.

Speaking to the point, I understand why it was introduced. I was also seeing a lot of garbage posts and threads created just to repeat the same sentence all over again by different Newbies in hundreds of thread pages. It was disheartening.

However I don't understand and don't support the merit acquired automatically by high ranking members and above. It is not that their posts were pure gold, you see. I saw Members and above posting garbage. If anything, there should be something like a clear start for everybody. You see, if you change the rules - they should be changed for everybody. As things are now, the rules were changed only for new users and I think (or feel) it is unfair.

[thrylos]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

This is not created for selling and for making an unfair decision to all members, actually it could be helpful for building a great reputation here for each individual through posting with quality. Maybe those newbies are posted a quality post which is very helpful so recieving merit from someone is their worth. Every possible negative thoughts now will remain as an invalid due to the lack of evidences because this merit is a new implementation from theymos, so I think better to watch and see the results than providing a confusion assumption.

[GC2263]

Honestly i hv been in this forum only a couple of days. I hv been reading post and reply only if i hv my own opinion to the thread. Whether its constructive or a good post, it depends if anyone reads it or think its worth a good merit point. Unfortunately i havent got a single merit point even i only hv 1 single account, not picking opinion-piece which have been posted, nor pick it from somewhere in the internet. But does that means my opinion is not constructive or merely a spam? Its pretty subjective to measure.

Anyway good luck with the merit system, i'm learning things even without being legendary or hero member. I'm just trying to be part of the forum

[Walrus1]

I don't have any merit to sell but I will lease my forum name for 10btc a month

[Walrus1]

I don't have any merit to sell but I will lease my forum name for 10btc a month

Ha I just saw I do have merit I don't even know what it does and why would I be concerned about it. Either read what I say or don't, it's all good

[Kasliono]

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

In my opinion, Merit points is not really fair, as you can see, when we have many friends who have merit points, we can ask their merit points to send it to our account, may be some one else will sell it and we can buy it too. So based on the case you have been faced, I think that the newbie account which has a merit points got the points from his/her friends.