Can a merit source use it's status to shill own project by giving merit ?

[JohnBitCo]

I'm not saying that you can't reply in a forum sincerely to say these things but precisely in this forum posts of this style are not well seen....

The difference with the "great project" bump spammers is that, judging by their feedback, those users really mean it and really buy such items. The Collectibles board can't be compared with the altcoin spammers.

Yeah, i don't think if  krogothmanhattan merits every post in that thread, it will gonna financially harm anyone. The only negative thing which i see is that some merit hunters might write something good about those collectibles in order to collect merit only but then everyone can get merits by giving the greetings at Merry Christmas to the Forum
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[Pmalek]

 

So krogothmanhattan hasn't said anything here. But his response to the question why he is giving merits in his own thread to people who support him and say nice things about his service was to give merits to people who spoke about him giving merits in his thread. Legendary!

[Ring_Lord]

So krogothmanhattan hasn't said anything here. But his response to the question why he is giving merits in his own thread to people who support him and say nice things about his service was to give merits to people who spoke about him giving merits in his thread. Legendary!

He has merits to speak for him. 

[The Cryptovator]

Merited posts aren't really merit-worthy anyway, at least not for me as a merit source. On the other hand, I will not consider merit abuse as well. It's not a big deal really. If merit sources aren't selling merit, then let them spread merits. At least merit circulation will increase. If the sent merit amount is big then it would be a different case. But here just don't be too strict since the admin isn't too strict regarding merit distribution.

[skarais]

I wouldn't take that as an accusation of abuse of merit by merit source, but sometimes it's also not the best way to spend some of the merit he has. krogothmanhattan sends 1 merit per user post regardless of whether they like it or not about his business. 90% of the merit recipients are users of good repute who may have been involved in many successful trades on this forum before.

So if you're asking if it's abuse of merit then I think you still need to review the goodwill of krogothmanhattan who sent the service to any user who replies before March 4th.

I will PM him a link to it so that he can say something if he feels like doing that.

krogothmanhattan seems to be aware of the existence of this thread, he started posting 1 merit for some users above even though he didn't say anything.

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So krogothmanhattan hasn't said anything here.

You are faster than me. 

[tranthidung]

Merited posts aren't really merit-worthy anyway, at least not for me as a merit source. On the other hand, I will not consider merit abuse as well. It's not a big deal really.

It's not a big deal if it is your self-earned merits, not sourced merits. And if the purposes of give smerits away are not related to unofficially require people to say all good things about your business.

If merit sources aren't selling merit, then let them spread merits. At least merit circulation will increase. If the sent merit amount is big then it would be a different case. But here just don't be too strict since the admin isn't too strict regarding merit distribution.

It might not be merit selling or exchange but as I said above, if it is like an unofficial give away to attract members and force them to say good compliment to shill your service, it is something wrong. Fortunately, in this case, I don't see that intention.

It is easy to realize that because such shady intention will catch a lot of newbie accounts join the party. Moreover, if compliments are over-exaggerated about a service, like it is a best on the forum while in fact we know it is not. It would be signal of something wrong.

All of them are not found in this case. So, the accusation (if it is) is inaccurate.

[_BlackStar]

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1 merit does not mean anything in the circulation of merit so maybe @krogothmanhattan is not to blame. Sending some merit to the user in the thread it create is something I've done before. That's the most appropriate way to respect other people's opinions but still based on the quality of the posts made. In the case of krog I think he needs to pay attention to the quality of the post before sending the reward, but when he wants to gift someone then I think there is nothing wrong. I'm sure he did it outside the business he owns.

[dataispower]

krogothmanhattan has so far not responded in this thread. Not that he really needs to do that. It's not an accusation, and even if it was, he has no reason to justify his actions because he isn't doing anything bad. Since he might not even be aware of the existence of this thread, I will PM him a link to it so that he can say something if he feels like doing that.

Some minutes the user krogothmanhattan was online and is known that he has over sea the response of any body, pm the user you mention is good again because every thing discussed is aware of it, i noticed the he was online few minutes after when i received merit from him in this thread, and that is telling us that is seeing every thing over here, but i don't know if you have pm him already that motivates him to come online

[Pmalek]

but i don't know if you have pm him already that motivates him to come online

I PMed him like I said he would. I am sure he read the PM and saw the link in it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have distributed all those merits in this thread. He probably doesn't think this is even something worth discussing.
Honestly, OP should just lock the thread. @FunctionalFedora lock it up!

It'll be double if you consider "Bump the Topic" <A lot of people will respond to get Merits, so that subject matter might be first> firstly then You can try "False Critiques" <If you can show it, it's far like promoting deserves for wonderful comments, that is conduct that merits poor acceptance as true with>

Therefore, you want to prove that Merit resources use Merit (indirect promoting) to get high-quality remarks.

This is just a sad combination of words that resemble meaningful sentence-like structures.

[Findingnemo]

I don't find its an abuse even they can have their merit giveaway threads and pour merits for whatever reasons as long as it deserves but I remember when a merit source gave tons of merits just for fun in WO he has been removed from merit source snd also the merits were reversed if I am not wrong.

[_BlackStar]

I don't find its an abuse even they can have their merit giveaway threads and pour merits for whatever reasons as long as it deserves but I remember when a merit source gave tons of merits just for fun in WO he has been removed from merit source snd also the merits were reversed if I am not wrong.

Abuse merit can be done because the merit system is not moderated. But when merit source provide a large number of merit just for fun, then theymos should consider removing it simply because it doesn't suit the purpose of the merit system. I also don't agree with this accusation, because I don't think krogothmanhattan is committing any abuse of merit just for issuing 1 merit to some users replying in his thread.

[ChiBitCTy]

OP you created an account just to say this, that’s 10 x more wasteful, and pretty weak if you ask me. I hate when people hide behind alts, such a cowardly move.  That said, Theymos has said he’d rather see merit spent than lost, and Krogo doesn’t care about rankings, doesn’t do sig campaigns, and his project has absolutely zero to do with trying to make money. He is a fellow collectibles nut like myself who loves bitcoin for its technologically, not for “profits “ like 75% of this forum and wanted to create a cool collectible just for the fun of it. He wants to give his NFTs away for free as well, for the record. Sometimes I like my own YouTube comments just because it draws attention to something I care about others seeing and discussing, I’d liken this to that.

[OgNasty]

So krogothmanhattan hasn't said anything here.

Speaking from experience, it's probably better to let the trolls punch themselves out with their nonsense as opposed to trying to get the truth across.  If for no other reason than that nobody really cares and trolls have more time to concoct lies than busy people have to refute them.  If he were to respond it would likely just be a back and forth that wastes everyone's time until someone has a stroke.  It's just not worth it.  Kudos to krogo for being able to laugh this one off as opposed to wasting more of everyone's time on some nonsense forum drama that some around here crave so dearly.  

He wants to give his NFTs away for free as well, for the record.

He's giving away free NFTs?  Legend.

[skarais]

I hate when people hide behind alts, such a cowardly move.

I'm here with you, I don't like this way either but I don't think the OP is at fault for it because he didn't break the rules. So you shouldn't really care about that because maybe the OP doesn't want his main account to be known to anyone just because of a question like this.

That said, Theymos has said he’d rather see merit spent than lost, and Krogo doesn’t care about rankings, doesn’t do sig campaigns, and his project has absolutely zero to do with trying to make money.

Of course he's innocent of send the merit in that thread but I'm sure not everyone will like it this way although in general he can spend his merit on any post he deems appropriate. So far I don't know that he is one of the merit source, so maybe he knows how to spend his merit even though some people don't like him.

[Pmalek]

@gacpoue
Filling Meta with your thoughtless spam posts isn't enough, now you have decided to plagiarize as well?
Don't bother deleting it, forum scrappers have picked it up by now.

People realize that Merit is worthless right?