Well in my opinion, with or without this kind of giveaway and other contests, merit still have a chance to go into merit farmer's hands. They are getting smarter day by day and it is hard to find out which one is a farmer which one is not, but with this kind of action the good ones have a chance to rank up, so i dont find this kind of action as a wrong action. We just need to be smarter to give merits to people who deserves it.
Well, mate that was also in my mind that to rush in getting smerit or something to abused the merit system but I realized that what if I caught from DT members? Besides from that, I'm guilty of doing that because I think my post was not deserving and it is transparent to others viewer that looks like suspicious.
Now I decided to forget it even I stuck with this rank and I enjoy posting and sharing an idea with the genuine thread, and who knows someone merit source who like my post and without knowing me it is merited.
a) Participants must be Member, Jr. Member or Newbie that have merited the post of another Member, Jr. Member or Newbie on three separate occasions
b) Posts must be in either English or German
Well, mate smerit is precious to the member here especially those lower rank or stuck rank member.
I will not post a link but highly appreciated if you view my latest post if deserving.