I wonder why there is not a team dedicated to monitor this system of merit.
There isn't a dedicated team, but there are a lot of forum members who do this on their own time, and they do a very good job. There isn't going to be such a team, however. Theymos basically doesn't endorse DT members tagging merit beggars or merit abusers, and since merit-giving is very subjective it isn't always obvious that someone is doing something wrong.
Sometimes it is, though. Right now, it's pretty much a waste of time to scrutinize people's merit-giving and receiving, because most of the time no action is going to be taken, and that's frustrating to the person doing the work to show the evidence and make the accusation.
The wall is a world of it's own - it's the chat room for the statistical traders.
Right, and that's why I don't think there was any merit abuse here. They're apparently a community within a community of chart watchers. I wouldn't have merited those posts, but I don't think there was merit sales or trading or anything like that. There's certainly no evidence of it.
That's because it is funny.
Agreed. I've been known to give merits to short posts or just memes that make me chuckle. That doesn't mean I'm giving merit to a friend, and alt account, selling merit, or anything else.
there are many, many posters on there who never step outside that one thread.
And honestly, they probably don't care that much about the merit system. They very well might just view it as sort of a thumbs-up system like reddit has--and that's kind of what the merit system is anyway,
except we all know it's much, much more than that to the average noob bounty hunter who can earn more money in a campaign if he can rank up.
