Is self-meriting possible?

[Majestic-milf]

I wouldn't blame you though if you feel curious because I think I harboured such a question when I was starting out. As tempting as it seems, it ain't Gon be possible else like someone pointed, what would then be the point of the merit system? Doing such would invariably look like you saying "hey guys, no need to merit my work, I think I can do that all by myself, hehe!!"
 

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[Belarge]

No I don't think self-meriting is possible, even if I see an option of such I won't even try it,

[knowngunman]

Instead of creating a thread about it, why don't you try it yourself and see? I believe you have enough smerit to try.  Btw the answer is NO

You probably did not read the complete post before making your comment. The poster clearly said that he doesn't want to default hence he's making the thread in order to hear from others but your response is challenging him to give it a trial which is wrong. You should have just answered and add little information you know about self meriting thou it's not possible.
I might be right or wrong for referring OP as masculine gender  never mind!

[reagansimms]

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Have you ever found a similar case happening before, I mean have you ever found someone sending merit to himself.? The merit system is designed to reward other users posts that are considered worthy or qualified, someone will give you merit if your post is considered worthy. You cannot send Merit to your own account because the system limits it.
Thanks for asking this simple question, some users are still curious about how the merit system works because in the post history they made there is a +Merit button.

[summonerrk]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

And what would be the point of the whole Merit system if it were possible?
It was introduced precisely so that you could exchange with others, for valuable posts, valuable information and useful information. Of course, theoretically, you can exchange all the way with your second account, or another person (collusion), but this is a fraud. And such an action will be noticed, after which it will be possible to get a negative trance. Or managers will no longer be allowed to participate in signature campaigns.

It is best to become useful to the forum and earn merit honestly. For example, to give advice in an area in which you are well versed, and others are not.

[Peanutswar]

Typically now there's no way that you can make a loop with your merits and getting abuse with this, seems like you want to immediately rank up.
That's the purpose of merit which is give and take once you find a quality post why not give those merits to well-deserved content and the same with you. Once they find a good quality post created by you; there's a chance you'll get a merit.

[octobuzz]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

[Stable090]

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

If you can read what the OP is referring to, you will see that is completely different from what you are saying, the OP is not saying having multiple and sending merit to each other, what he is saying is that having just one account and after creating thread or comments, then you trying to merit yourself, not sending merit from another account.

I think trading of merits from different accounts is not allowed on the forum here. Having multiple accounts is allowed but you shouldn’t cheat with those accounts, if you are sending merits to each other, then you are already cheating.

[Etranger]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

It is not exactly self-meriting, mate. It's owning multiple accounts, from which you send merits to one another. I would not say that lots of people do this on the platform and they get away with it. Once, when merit system was only presented, that was an issue as far as I concerned. But this is against forum rules and nowadays there are a lot of people who make sure that this does not happen and report to moderators in case it is happening. Measures have been taken quite a long time ago and such accounts are just get banned.

[Razmirraz]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

The function and use of Merit is to appreciate other people's posts that are considered to have quality, as well as other people assessing your posts. Nobody respects themselves, it's impossible and its unprecedented.
What's the use of Merit Source if you can respect yourself. Merit system to reduce spammers roaming the forums, without an additional number of merits you won't be able to rank up, that's the reason Admin chose several Merit Sources to spread sMerit on quality posts.

[ScamViruS]

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

OP didn't say about giving merit to multiple account, you will understand if you read OP again. Said about giving merit from own account to same account which is not possible in reality. Community members have already discussed this in detail in this thread and told the op how and why it is not possible to give self merit. So you should read this thread again and that will further help you to increase your knowledge about Merit.

[asawale]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Meriting your own posts is not possible. I believe if possible, that will negate the core value of creating the merits in the first place. People merit your post based on the ways they feel about the positivity it portrays in the forum and encourage you to keep doing that or do more

[Dzwaafu11]

Is it possible to merit yourself?

That's not feasible; if someone can merit himself, it will be incredibly simple to move up the forum ranks since, in my opinion, they'll just be flowing merits to their own posts rather than those of others, and they'll be sending merits to some of their less-deserving submissions. LOL When I first started using these forums, I used to constantly check my Smerits and wish I could still mail them back to myself so I would have more merits and rank up sooner.

Instead of creating a thread about it, why don't you try it yourself and see? I believe you have enough smerit to try.  Btw the answer is NO
Edit:
I just checked, you've 27 merits and sent 13 merits meaning you have exhausted all your smerits.

When you were a newbie, you asked questions because you needed more guidance, and the forum members didn't leave you behind; instead, they did everything they could to assist you. Accordingly, I believe that asking questions for more clarification and guidance is one of the major roles that these forums play when it comes to assisting newcomers.

[BitDane]

@OP it is an obvious question that you yourself can answer.  You just need to look at your post and see if the option to merit yourself is allowed.  You already have merit and you could have try it yourself if meriting oneself is possible  Honestly, sometimes we need to work on our exploration than just posting question that can be answered by ourselves.

[qwertyup23]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Nope it is impossible to merit yourself.

The purpose of the implementation of the merit system is for forum users to strive creating/making meaningful threads and discussions that would warrant a merit from users. With this merit, this enables these users to rank-up their forum rank the more they receive merits. If the system was designed to be able to merit yourself, then this destroys the entire purpose on why it was implemented in the first place.

Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.

It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.

Well technically, you can merit yourself if you have two (2) accounts that have merits to send on. But if you do not have any alternate accounts, then meriting yourself is impossible in any way.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

That's funny, because that's what I asked myself 5 years ago or so. In principle you can click on the merit tab and even try to merit yourself, the only thing I preferred to ask at the time rather than merit myself because it could have been seen badly by the community even if it was an experiment if it worked and I got to send a merit to myself..

@OP it is an obvious question that you yourself can answer.  You just need to look at your post and see if the option to merit yourself is allowed.  You already have merit and you could have try it yourself if meriting oneself is possible  Honestly, sometimes we need to work on our exploration than just posting question that can be answered by ourselves.

Yes, that is what happens. You can follow all the steps but if at the end you try to send the merit you get the error message. I hope this solves the OP's doubt.

[Sandra_hakeem]

May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Yeah....lmao
It actually sounds really silly you know what I'm saying? Are you just getting too used to the system already? Or rather too tired to rock-on that you're tryna think of ways to cut corners?? _{😹jokes anyways..}
It's not possible to merit your own self from the same account... You could merit yourself assuming you've got two accounts running, BUT THAT'S NOT ALLOWED AND YOU COULD POSSIBLY LOSE THE TWO ACCOUNTS IN A ROW... It's actually funny cus I thought of even more silly things than that.....and it didn't work

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Smartvirus]

Typically now there's no way that you can make a loop with your merits and getting abuse with this, seems like you want to immediately rank up.

It's good it wasn't because, the only once that might have been issuing merits in the forum would have as well be merit sources.
That's because, should OP harbour the thought in a scenario where such was possible, you won't be expecting anyone to dish out merit to you @OP when you are about meriting yourself.
Besides, it would be a slap on the idea of meriting as, you can't be the accurate judge of your own post. Your posts are expected to make impact on others and you can't tell how much impact it has made on me if your the one doing the merit as OP.
You might be conscious on efforts put in but that too is better said by those reading.

[BitDane]

Well technically, you can merit yourself if you have two (2) accounts that have merits to send on. But if you do not have any alternate accounts, then meriting yourself is impossible in any way.

I believe @OP is talking about an account to merit itself and not by other account owned by the same user.  So technically speaking, the answer will be always a no.

That's funny, because that's what I asked myself 5 years ago or so. In principle you can click on the merit tab and even try to merit yourself, the only thing I preferred to ask at the time rather than merit myself because it could have been seen badly by the community even if it was an experiment if it worked and I got to send a merit to myself..

If you are that curious and wanted to not be the subject of flame, then you can just create a thread on Meta explaining the topic you wanted to explore yourself before trying to check if self-merit is allowed by the forum system.  You can even publish the step by step procedure or make a video of it.  This way you can establish a proof that you are not maliciously intending to use a possible exploit but instead you are just exploring stuff for self-awareness. 

[BTCGalaxyA12]

Is it possible to merit yourself?

Appreciate yourself by correcting the location of deficiencies that need to be corrected, not by sending merit.
All answered send merit to yourself can not.

If you wander through these forums a lot, you'll come across one and two posts asking for the option to send merits to yourself.
In the meta thread there is the same topic that has been locked because the answer has been obtained.

That said, it's a good fishing effort.