Merit became a business. What to do?

[lhtot8]

What to do are stay away from those merit business, and report someone who run the sort of business.
Good luck, topic creator.

[NickCliar]

You can just report if you want.

[Pablito89]

Just stay away from those "sellers".
A lot of people is already tagged as Merit seller or trader, that's not fun.

[caytienbct]

You can just report if you want.

Why did you start the thread, bro.?
honestly, no need to post your thread because your ideas were mentioned in previous thread, which is just above yours.
Please stop making non-sense thread like this, which is likely off-context because your answers have been already given by someone else before yours.

What to do are stay away from those merit business, and report someone who run the sort of business.
Good luck, topic creator.

To be constructive in the forum, your threads should be as unique as possible.

[BigDig]

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively. The number of conversions to a new rank decreased catastrophically. The administration is struggling with this, but not very actively. I think they are happy that there will be a huge number of low rank users and an elite that will collect all the cream from signature campaigns.

[Flash Cunt]

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively. The number of conversions to a new rank decreased catastrophically. The administration is struggling with this, but not very actively. I think they are happy that there will be a huge number of low rank users and an elite that will collect all the cream from signature campaigns.

I think they are hoping that the spammy/scammy low rank users will fuck off with their pajeet posting.

[TheUltraElite]

The problem of converting merits into a forum token is being discussed now very actively.

Lies and made up stories. People just make up new threads about every delusional dream that they have in mind and start shitposting about it everywhere they can. When will you people learn?

The number of conversions to a new rank decreased catastrophically.

So is the forum supposed to be the place where get ranked up at lightning speed? Or is it the place where people can make threads to ask questions and discuss different topics pertaining to a specific issue?

The administration is struggling with this, but not very actively.

They are not struggling. They are happy with the system and thus it will continue. You need to read more before posting shit.

I think they are happy that there will be a huge number of low rank users and an elite that will collect all the cream from signature campaigns

The only thing you people can think of is campaigns and how to make money from them.
BTW I like that bolded part of the text.

I think they are hoping that the spammy/scammy low rank users will fuck off with their pajeet posting.

Why do I have the feeling that I know you in some way or the other?

[Emilyp]

I think, you shouldn't do anything about it being a business as it wasn't against the merit rules. Just go about your daily activities and leave the merit system alone.

[icalical]

First of all $20 for a single Merit is overpriced. If we compared to the price of a Full Member Account which required 100 Merit, and it only cost around $500- $600. While if you buy Merit to reach Full Member it will cost around $1000, almost twice.
I mean do they have a really stupid client that willing to buy a single Merit for $20?

Since both transactions are illegal, why don't they chose the cheapest one.

[BeBlockTech]

This might be a stupid question, but really what's the point of merit? To show that one is a good poster? Are signature campaign really affected by this?

How higher the users are in rank, how more tokens they get for promoting the project in question, some projects even offer Btc or Ether to Hero Members and above, that's one the reason users want to grow in rank, if not the only reason...

[DarkKnightNeverDie]

What to do is doing nothing, except stay away from merit business.
Be smart with what you would like to do and keep yourself as safe as possible.

[change7]

There's nothing you can do bout it. I don't think there was really a place that condemned the selling of merits when merit system as first introduced. The only thing you can do is either join them or over look it.

[hygroscopicgymnasium3]

We should impose some taxations on the upper members holding merit points so that they only spend it whenever it is deserved.

[Real14Hero]

The best thing about limiting or putting a check on the sale of merit is that threads to sell merit on bitcointalk are not allowed, unlike the selling of accounts that bloomed a lot due to accounts themselves being sold on forum.

Without the threads it gets very difficult to locate merit sellers and at the same time gets difficult for merit sellers to find an audience to sell their merit. The business won't proliferate till ban on merit sale on thread is maintained.

[caytienbct]

Without the threads it gets very difficult to locate merit sellers and at the same time gets difficult for merit sellers to find an audience to sell their merit. The business won't proliferate till ban on merit sale on thread is maintained.

You might be right, Real14Hero. Official rules to ban accounts which exchange merits are necessary to maintain healthy, positive impacts of merit system on forum users.
However, I remember that I read somewhere in the forum that there are lots of telegram groups, and something like that, which were created specifically for merit business.

[appleslymphoma]

No quality woud be there, only there would be rubbish posts only.

[tranthidung]

And your are one of rubbish posters.  

No quality woud be there, only there would be rubbish posts only.

Let's them freely do what they wanted, then they will get what they deserved.

Hello guys, today i saw a russian telelegram grup about merit.

In reality, merits are invaluable for someone who need them, then you should not called such prices are over- or under-valued. Nevertheless, falling into merit business should be avoided somehow. In my stance, never should do this.

He sell merit on 20$ for eatch.

Furthermore, you should pay your attention on reading forum rules, forum structures, its basic/ essential functions, and helpful, informative available topics. You should choose the right things, most necessary to do in your early period as forum members. Please don't fall into merits, and stupid related questions like "How to get Merits? What should I do to earn merits? Lots of people abused merit systems, why have they not got punishments?" All of those sort of questions are non-sense, stupid in my opinion.

[7Dyoknga5]

Merit is suppose to encourage users to give quality posts. The problem with the system is that giving of the merit depends on the subjective judgement of the eligible members.

Now due to difficulty of acquiring merits, users resorted to these merit buying.

[ulages]

if the merits itself can be earned by buying them then whats the need of the merit system as the motive wouldnt be fulfilled?

[ducdr]

if the merits itself can be earned by buying them then whats the need of the merit system as the motive wouldnt be fulfilled?

This is another side of life. You can not ask for perfect stuffs, systems, etc.
You can not stop black markets, right?
But in the forum, merit exchangers will be tagged as red color, and banned by modes. That's enough.