Merit "trading" - buying and selling Bitcointalk merit

[dustboy]

Introduction of merits award actually helps in the improvement of quality of posts in the forum. But sometimes, people make quality posts which are unfortunately not merited, most especially when it comes as a reply to a post.

If you find unmerited good quality posts, you can report it to the merit sources. Go to this [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. You can report/submit posts made by other users or report your own post on that thread. Once you report it, let the merit sources decide if the posts deserved to be merited or not.

[andeluna]

Thats why merit created because of the other forum member abusing the ability of this forum to make money by selling higher rank dummy account to other lower account member and now some of member get the idea of merit trading to maintain their activity by creating higher account here in bitcointalk and still they can sell it with other member. But its not totally easy to get merited because we all know that this forum have moderator to check all the post all the reply that really worthy to be merited by other member. Even me I struggle to gain merit in this forum because I have lack of knowledge when it comes to crypto currency for me to share knowledge to others.

[Rehan Zakir]

You are saying right brother. Some peoples just come on forum to join bounty campaigns. They post only weekly report posts. But there are many bounty campaigns that include signature campaigns to help peoples to increase their posts and they earn coins through signature campaign. But merit system differentiate between the users that who is working with devotion on forum. Because a person give us merit which post is excellent

[Theones]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

[Kanjeung]

Indirectly "sMerit" is given to the person who plays a role behind an account. If it is sold then the account changes character because of owner change. And it will be different sMerit to get, the new owner can get faster sMerit because more qualified or otherwise never again get sMerit.

but i've seen that there is someone who gives merit to those who make bad posts, they give so much "merit" just by they have a higher rank, i see that i'm envious, why do other people give merit so easily .

[adiwibowosakti]

If someone buys and sells merit it means that he abuses the system.
I can guess that Merit trading is forbidden and those who try to trade Merit will probably get their thread to be deleted.

Merit also very helpful as it gives users the option to thank other users for their posts.
An ability that wasn't available before.

[taufik123]

If someone buys and sells merit it means that he abuses the system.
I can guess that Merit trading is forbidden and those who try to trade Merit will probably get their thread to be deleted.

Merit also very helpful as it gives users the option to thank other users for their posts.
An ability that wasn't available before.

not just to thank you for the posts made. if only referring to the gratitude system, then all posts can be included in the category that gets merit.
More precisely, useful posts will be easier to get merit from others. There are also some special posts that are planned to be awarded a merit prize for everyone who comments on the thread.

It's easy to get merit without having to buy, just by being a good member and following discussions and giving good and quality feedback. other members will appreciate the comments and posts you make.

[BD Crypto]

I don't know why we need to do merit trading ?.Are they don't know ranking up in this forum isn't so hard.Because if someone post regularly something informative and helpful to newcomers they will be appropriated with a lot of merit from Higher Rankers.

[markdario112616]

As far as I remember, there is already a lot of users getting red-tagged for manipulating the Merit system. That's why the idea of Merit source was born, there's a respective user per country (or per se)  that has been granted such task in the community. This is to somehow, gives out merits to those who post are worthy of having merit especially on the local boards.

I'd say this is still quite a problem as of now, but thanks to others who spend time tracking down such accounts who tends to cheat his/her way on ranking up. But yeah, there are still others who are doing it yet their time hasn't come yet though sooner or later, they'll be exploited and for sure will be red-tagged by the DTs. Worst, getting banned.

[kaseygriffin]

I don't know why we need to do merit trading ?.Are they don't know ranking up in this forum isn't so hard.Because if someone post regularly something informative and helpful to newcomers they will be appropriated with a lot of merit from Higher Rankers.

Perhaps many people have refused to learn how it works and are taking advantage of accounts with Merits to commit misconduct.
I personally think things will work out for it and the 'merit' transaction has also been tampered with and flagged for errant accounts.
And above all we still have a good space to discuss knowledge.

[Quidat]

I don't know why we need to do merit trading ?.Are they don't know ranking up in this forum isn't so hard.Because if someone post regularly something informative and helpful to newcomers they will be appropriated with a lot of merit from Higher Rankers.

Perhaps many people have refused to learn how it works and are taking advantage of accounts with Merits to commit misconduct.
I personally think things will work out for it and the 'merit' transaction has also been tampered with and flagged for errant accounts.
And above all we still have a good space to discuss knowledge.

I disagree that ranking up on this forum isnt hard because these merit trading wouldnt exist if it was indeed really very easy on the first place.For some people who do really have exceptional kind
of posting or really truly something remarkable then getting merits wouldnt really be that much hard compared into those who do have from low-average kind of thinking ending up
with low quality kind of post then it surely a challenge to make yourself ranked up.Thats why these kind of selling does exist but somehow it could really be noticed on
by the community and there are some who got caught.

[sovie]

It's easy to get merit without having to buy, just by being a good member and following discussions and giving good and quality feedback. other members will appreciate the comments and posts you make.

People need merits to go up in ranking and participate in signature campaigns that pay good return. There isn't any good bounty for Newbies, Jr or Member rank. Getting merit is not hard but it takes time and effort. Just see this thread for instance, OP got 7 merits for starting this thread. One can get idea by reading such posts that how to get merit.
If you buy high level account then chances are you will very soon get red flag for violating rules, that will make your account and investment worthless.

[noormcs5]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

[Taskford]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

This is not totally a major concern in the forum since provably on few members to this and its easily to exposed about those activities since we can see large quantities given on a nonsense post here, but its still good to discuss so that newbies will be aware about what bad consequences they will go thru if they do this and they will just waste their money for doing this activity since it needs more merit to rank up and for sure before they reach that they get busted and have a red trust.

[Ems.]

Im agree,even im first timer here,yes those who are higher ranks here ,good if they monitoring every single,running for Bitcoins,to avoid abusing ,there rank or those same like me hard to earning MERIT better just try try to post that from your own idea so you can get MERIT from your own knowledge and understanding to CRYPTOCURRENCY.Studying and researching is best way to have a idea so you can post ,someday we as begginner we can earn MERIT,to avoid abusing and not to banned.

[Theones]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

This is not totally a major concern in the forum since provably on few members to this and its easily to exposed about those activities since we can see large quantities given on a nonsense post here, but its still good to discuss so that newbies will be aware about what bad consequences they will go thru if they do this and they will just waste their money for doing this activity since it needs more merit to rank up and for sure before they reach that they get busted and have a red trust.

I am glad that those who trade merits are monitored and exposed. However, I still see announcements for selling merits, mostly in local forums. Of course, both buyers and sellers do wrong to try to cheat the system, but in this case only the buyer gets the penalty. The sellers are still running their business.

[Taskford]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

This is not totally a major concern in the forum since provably on few members to this and its easily to exposed about those activities since we can see large quantities given on a nonsense post here, but its still good to discuss so that newbies will be aware about what bad consequences they will go thru if they do this and they will just waste their money for doing this activity since it needs more merit to rank up and for sure before they reach that they get busted and have a red trust.

I am glad that those who trade merits are monitored and exposed. However, I still see announcements for selling merits, mostly in local forums. Of course, both buyers and sellers do wrong to try to cheat the system, but in this case only the buyer gets the penalty. The sellers are still running their business.

You can report them or post a thread regarding on the activity they do so that they will be exposed on the bad things they do here, that would be a warning to other that never participate on any of this since all of your effort will go to waste and also your money since there's no one succeed on doing this buy and selling merits in this forum. Also its easy to spot those buyers especially the seller is known merit seller so there's no area to hide for the buyers if they really push to do this act.

[finaleshot2016]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

This is not totally a major concern in the forum since provably on few members to this and its easily to exposed about those activities since we can see large quantities given on a nonsense post here, but its still good to discuss so that newbies will be aware about what bad consequences they will go thru if they do this and they will just waste their money for doing this activity since it needs more merit to rank up and for sure before they reach that they get busted and have a red trust.

I am glad that those who trade merits are monitored and exposed. However, I still see announcements for selling merits, mostly in local forums. Of course, both buyers and sellers do wrong to try to cheat the system, but in this case only the buyer gets the penalty. The sellers are still running their business.

You can report them or post a thread regarding on the activity they do so that they will be exposed on the bad things they do here, that would be a warning to other that never participate on any of this since all of your effort will go to waste and also your money since there's no one succeed on doing this buy and selling merits in this forum. Also its easy to spot those buyers especially the seller is known merit seller so there's no area to hide for the buyers if they really push to do this act.

I recall some people getting caught buying or exchanging merits, which is sort of unfair to other people who are working hard to produce excellent contributions in the topic. Fortunately, there are far too many users right now that are compiling or making threads for those accounts that employ this strategy. Let us urge everyone to do so because we are the ones who always put forth effort, yet just a few of us are rewarded for it every time we write anything nice.

[Taskford]

Merit system is a two edge sword. It has done both good and bad to the forum. The best thing about this system is that we can the post is coming from ab experienced user and is valid one.
The bad thing is that people are selling high merits account to people of low calibre. One more thing is if you are experience btc user, still you won't have much say on the forum.

I don't think this merit buying or selling should be a concern because all those buyers of merits are usually exposed. We have seen that some average and poor quality posts got many merits and on investigation they were found to be bought merits. If you buy merit, you are risking your account to get tagged.

This is not totally a major concern in the forum since provably on few members to this and its easily to exposed about those activities since we can see large quantities given on a nonsense post here, but its still good to discuss so that newbies will be aware about what bad consequences they will go thru if they do this and they will just waste their money for doing this activity since it needs more merit to rank up and for sure before they reach that they get busted and have a red trust.

I am glad that those who trade merits are monitored and exposed. However, I still see announcements for selling merits, mostly in local forums. Of course, both buyers and sellers do wrong to try to cheat the system, but in this case only the buyer gets the penalty. The sellers are still running their business.

You can report them or post a thread regarding on the activity they do so that they will be exposed on the bad things they do here, that would be a warning to other that never participate on any of this since all of your effort will go to waste and also your money since there's no one succeed on doing this buy and selling merits in this forum. Also its easy to spot those buyers especially the seller is known merit seller so there's no area to hide for the buyers if they really push to do this act.

I recall some people getting caught buying or exchanging merits, which is sort of unfair to other people who are working hard to produce excellent contributions in the topic. Fortunately, there are far too many users right now that are compiling or making threads for those accounts that employ this strategy. Let us urge everyone to do so because we are the ones who always put forth effort, yet just a few of us are rewarded for it every time we write anything nice.

We see few numbers doing it right now since many forum users watch this kind of activity and actively report if they found something suspicious regarding on this issues. Lets really urge newbies to act fair since its really good to rank up using your very own effort since the experience and learnings we can get by reading the threads on this forum will help us to be more knowledgeable on crypto and most especially the scams happening in crypto.

[Bollexz1]

Most users want to get rank up so fast probably because they want to be getting higher rewards from their bounty activities, which is why they go in length to buy merits from other users and not interested in gathering knowledge. Of course, the forum is built for gaining knowledge and your freedom and not just money.