Don't buy merits

[XUR_TIP]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account, Brothers and sisters you aren't helping yourself if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

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[Poker Player]

I agree. Those who get the fast lane and try to cheat the system will probably end up like the guy I discovered in the following thread:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

He ended up opening this thread:

I apologise from you alll

But it was useless.

[Luzin]

if you buying those merits because you won't even know how better you are getting on the forum with your posts and contributions, and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

I won't do that, that's cheating. Anyone who does deserves to be punished. You are right even though the merit increases but the post will not change well, if you were previously a spammer. Even worse, if you get caught, your account will be banned permanently. In addition, the giver of merit will also receive the impact. You are quite diligent in studying and reading, I am doing that now and as a result, my merit increases and ranks up.

[DdmrDdmr]

There was a recent case I recall reading about, whereby a given account was eventually caught after having purchased merits. I’m not going to detail the case here, but these things, besides being unethical on behalf of both parties involved, may be unveil at any point in time in the future, potentially decimating the involved accounts if caught.

To be honest, if one resorts to this type of practice, it’s not as if they’re going to get very far up the ranking ladder anyway, and since the objective behind is nearly always to participate in a campaign, it’s barely going to push far in that direction (plus you miss out on all the necessary training ground to really get very far).

[Upgrade00]

Even worse, if you get caught, your account will be banned permanently. In addition, the giver of merit will also receive the impact.

Merit selling is not a punishable offense by the forum, but obvious sales could get the sender and receiver red tags, which would almost make those merits useless as campaigns usually do not accept red trusted members.
Merits are also always depreciating as it gets rotated around, making merit sales difficult to sustain.

Better to try and learn from the forum, cause, If a user's post qualities poor, they would still find it difficult to be accepted into campaigns regardless of the amount of merits they buy

[Raflesia]

I also often see red tags because of problems with the use of merits and of course it will be strictly prohibited in the campaign if the goal is only like that, so whatever is done in this forum do not abuse anything including selling merits to someone, I've also seen a group on telegram with selling merit at the beginning of merit is applied in this forum so many are caught and it will be a dead end for you especially just want to have merit from bad post quality.

Whatever it is in this forum, it must aim in good faith, meaning make quality posts and see how senior accounts do it, you can follow that step and the more in the future you will understand how to get merits from people and your posts are of such quality.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Buying merits equates to buying an account. What's the difference?  Purchased merits will be fake, and there is always an opportunity to look at those posts that have been judged with fake merit.
I just want to warn all interested buyers. By buying merits, you admit your weakness. We also see the seller, who will also be tagged. After all, he must find posts that supposedly should be good. And if a person himself cannot write a good post, then the merit will look stupid.
And the purchase of accounts and the purchase of merits is revealed sooner or later. The buyer is just starting to relax when he makes a mistake, and after that, he receives a red tag.
Don't do nonsense.

[The Cryptovator]

Merit hunting post anyway.

Keep in mind, merit sales on Telegram is just a scam attempt IMO. Most probably they will skip with your funds. There are ZERO benefits even you succeed to buy merits, because if your post quality isn't good, then it's not going to help you anyway. Besides that, if anyone caught trading merits would lead get negative feedback. Better just concentrate on contribution and build your id this way. I have heard before users getting scams when they attempt to buy merits or forum accounts. Don't go with any wrong way. It's quite easy to earn merits by your contributions.

[finaleshot2016]

Those who purchased merits are only interested in participating in signature campaigns and earning money, not in discussing anything significant about cryptocurrency. It's completely worthless to me, and it's already considered cheating, much like buying an account or joining a campaign with several accounts. The stuff I've learned in crypto and the way I build those contents have been essential in my journey from 100 to 924 merits. If the user really deserves those merits or if it's just random merit from a not-so-special post, you'll notice it on the user. Idk, but lately, some managers have made good posting a necessity. Merit is not a requirement in and of itself; it's just an extra credit that shows you're better than the rest, but if you're recognized as a good poster, it'll be easier for you to be selected.

That's how life works; to stand out from the crowd, you'll need to show off your skills and talent. Do not even buy those certifications and pretend to have completed them when you haven't because it'll make your life harder.

If I don't spend on studying and learning, I won't earn many merits, so it should be a motivating factor for everyone to make quality posts rather than buy merits.  

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Who are readily to sell you merit?

Hacked accounts. They are easily to be detected. So when you buy merit from them, your accounts will be detected too.
If I have a good account with many smerits, it means my account has a good quality. Do I take risk to sell some smerits to you?
I can use my account to get long term income from my posts and contributions here.

I earned 142 merit and only have 4 smerits to send. I sent less than 70 smerit to good posts and did not sell any of them.

[YOSHIE]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account,

You hear, it's not a sure thing, yes or no, but what you need to know is: in this forum, buying and selling of merit is not allowed.
The applicable rules at a glance: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Can I sell merit?

Selling merit is disallowed.

Can I give merit to my alt accounts?

No, this is frowned upon and will almost certainly lead to you receiving negative feedback if discovered.

and again if you are a bad poster you will always remain the same, abstains from such act

yes, it is better, if not done.
Do things that are useful especially for forums and communities here, you will be appreciated, maybe better of all.
Bottom line: do, talk, anyone can, do it is much more difficult, if we don't want to learn and do it.

[Daniel91]

A lot of new users on this forum are ready for anything just to get some merit and thus reach a higher forum rank.
I remember starting a merit giveaway topic in this section last year, I think.
I got very few quality applications from the newbie so I closed that topic.
After that, several newbie members sent me unwanted private messages asking for merits.
Of course, I reported them to the admin.
From begging for merits to trying to buy is a small step and I hope we will succeed in discouraging such a practice.

[CryptocurencyKing]

I agree. Those who get the fast lane and try to cheat the system will probably end up like the guy I discovered in the following thread:

Can someone check if there is something wrong with this?

He ended up opening this thread:

I apologise from you alll

But it was useless.

This is one hell of an interesting fined and read. I'm impressed at some of the works you guys are doing inactually fishing out these menace in the system and being right at it. You could see the user actually agreeing to the obvious suspicion through his plea though, it felt real but, it was obviously for the wrong reason, that which overrides the forums core value and I hope other users could learn from this.

No merit buying, its being said too many times and it would be very important should these telegram groups be reported so, the activities of the actual owners of these groups be watched carefully.

[nakamura12]

Everyone should think that buying merit have consequences so it is not advisable to buy merits. It feels good when you help someone in need without expecting something in return. I have done those things before and I will do it and surely merit will come just like I receive merits before by helping, joining discussions and many more.

[Darkelf11]

There are no rules in giving and receiving merits it's your choice if you want to send to others because it's a subjective thing also that's the reason why we have merit sources so to help other members giving an effort just to earn merit. Merit trading or merit begging is not recommended to the forum because they might abuse the system. It's better if you work hard to our those number of merits.

[AniviaBtc]

If you think that that's a form of investment then you're absolutely wrong with that because earning merit is not that easy especially that it should be worked hard for. In order for you to become a trusted member here, you should work for it and know that earning merit is by making quality and informative posts for the benefit of others. We are here to build a healthy and informed community about the cryptocurrency world and economy. Buying merits is really a form of cheating and it will not help you here in community instead it will just waste your money and earn negative trust which can lead for your account to become useless.

[Connor Britton]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

[Luzin]

As a newcomer, I don’t know that I can buy and sell merits. I just want to slowly gain merits through my own replies, comments or posts. Although this process is very slow, the efforts I put in for this can make me learn better. Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

That's very good, all need a process to grow to be big. You only need to be diligent in reading and trying, the end goal of your reply post is to have benefits for all members. I am like you. My merit starts from 0. Approximately 1 year I can only move up the rank at this time. All need a process and a willingness to develop. If you buy merit it will be the same, just look at how some high ranks have bad post quality. Maybe you will be like that if you buy merit, even your account can be banned. In the end you have to be patient to achieve it all.

[DdmrDdmr]

<…>Maybe you will be like that if you buy merit, even your account can be banned. <…>

It won’t be banned for the action itself directly, but it can easily lead to gaining negative trust (this is somewhat controversial and not all agree on the cause of action), which will probably defeat the purpose of the purchase made in the first case.

Additionally, merits do leave a trail that sometimes may lead to an account being suspicions of this or that, and that can bring the account under severe scrutiny (which every now and then bears fruitful results of the account actually breaking the rules at some point and ending-up banned for a different matter. Merits can act as a spotlight when they are incoherent or follow a suspicious pattern.

[Rengga Jati]

I heard you can buy merits through telegram links for your bitcointalk account,

Wow, even merit has become something for business with. But of course, this will create high risks. When an ordinary post suddenly gets merit from an account, and then it can be traced in relation to the account activity, it will cause suspicion of the recipient and the account that gives merits.
After all, why we must buy, if we try seriously and optimally, we will get merit from other members as long as our post really deserves that merit. 

I am sure, when he buys merit, it means that he himself is not sure if he is able or even that he is not able to make posts that are likely to get merit.
It may belong to merit abuse