Can I merit a banned account?

[rachael9385]

Good day forum members, I have been on this forum for some weeks or months now and I haven't validated any of the rules guiding this forum, but there is one thing that disturbs my mind all the time and I need a clear answer to it.
Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

[Charles-Tim]

Move this to meta. Scroll down the thread, you will see move topic beside lock topic, click on move topic.

Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?

It is possible to merit a banned account, but merit only quality posts.

[Nwada001]

Can you identify a ban profile if you see one? 
I don't think you will be banned for meriting a ban account. Merit is to be sent to the post that you find worthy of being merit. 
But I don't see any point in meriting an account and then banning it since it will be of no use to the account, so better still reserve the merit for more deserving posts, which you will always come across every single day when you walk around the forum. 

[Cantsay]

Yes, you can send merit to an account that has already been banned but it will just be a waste of merit and time. And I doubt if you'll be banned for that.

Can you identify a ban profile if you see one?

Yes, you can by using bpip extension on your desktop browser,  but if you only have an android phone then you can also use the extension by downloading kiwi browser.
I'll try to search for the tutorial and update my post.

Edit:

Here's the link to the thread. BPIP extention using method in Mobile Browser

[Xal0lex]

I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

No one will ban you for such actions and we do not have any rules governing such actions. The only thing is that you will waste your merits by giving them out to banned users. You can always check if this or that user is banned with the service BPIP.

P.S. Your topic in this section is an off-topic. Move it to Meta.

[LoyceV]

First, you can't Merit accounts, you can Merit posts. As long as they aren't deleted and you don't have the board on ignore, you can Merit them. But you'll need sMerit to do so, and at the moment, you have none.

[Fiatless]

Merit is given to posts that were helpful or answered a question. Meriting a post of a banned user is not an offense in the forum but it might be seen as a waste of merit because it is useless to the poster. But it might not be totally useless because the member can be unbanned in the future. But I don't think I will merit a banned user's post except I don't know that he has been banned. It's not wrong but I am not just comfortable doing that.

[Cryptomiles1]

Good day forum members, I have been on this forum for some weeks or months now and I haven't validated any of the rules guiding this forum, but there is one thing that disturbs my mind all the time and I need a clear answer to it.
Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

There's no need meriting a ban account because that account remains inactive and useless as much as the account doesn't contribute to the forum anymore. So I will advised you sent those merits to a valuable user who contribute more to the forum than just a ban account. However your free though but is useless giving such account a merits.

[bettercrypto]

Good day forum members, I have been on this forum for some weeks or months now and I haven't validated any of the rules guiding this forum, but there is one thing that disturbs my mind all the time and I need a clear answer to it.
Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

As far as I know there are no rules in this forum that say that when you send or give merit to a banned account here you are violating the rules and policies of your platform.

      That's all that will happen because it's like you gave a flower to a dead person in the cemetery, I'm sorry, this is the illustration that was given as an example. Or maybe that will just give merit to those who you know are active and still able to contribute to this platform.

[rat03gopoh]

but it will just be a waste of merit and time.

As long as it is permitted, it won't always be wasting anything. Some "most earned merit" members also spend their smerit on trivial things and they never think it's a waste of smerit. After all, not all constructive posts from banned accounts are plagiarism,at least they also occasionally use their minds. lol

[ABCbits]

I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

No, otherwise many user (including few merit sources) in this page (Top senders to permabanned users, last 180 days) would already got banned or other penalty.

but it will just be a waste of merit and time.

As long as it is permitted, it won't always be wasting anything. Some "most earned merit" members also spend their smerit on trivial things and they never think it's a waste of smerit. After all, not all constructive posts from banned accounts are plagiarism,at least they also occasionally use their minds. lol

It's also possible the account changed changed (usually due to hack) where the new owner perform plagiarism.

[Husires]

I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

I thought the question was, can a banned account send merit points if they have it, and then it would be a reasonable question.

Since there is no clear mechanism for identifying a banned account, there will be no penalty for sending merit points to that account.

Technically, unlike merit sources, you are allowed to do whatever you want with your sMerits you have, but some practices may cause negative trust (selling sMerits or sending them to an alternate account)

[Lucius]

There is no doubt that what the OP is asking is possible, but is it possible for a banned account to send merits? I am primarily referring to permanently banned accounts - because they still have access to their accounts and can send and receive personal messages.

[acroman08]

Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

you can merit anyone as long as you have sMerit. you will not get banned or face any kind of penalties if you merited a user have been permanently banned. anyway, if you asked me it would be much better to merit someone who is active than those who have been banned.

[hilariousandco]

No, you won't get banned but why would you even want to? Seems kinda futile to do so.

[Lida93]

Good day forum members, I have been on this forum for some weeks or months now and I haven't validated any of the rules guiding this forum, but there is one thing that disturbs my mind all the time and I need a clear answer to it.
Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

Its considered that for a person to merit a post then the person must have found such post worthy of being merited based on what receptive information that's seems to be beneficial to the person in question, so wether be it a banned or not banned account it's a thing of choice out of the worthiness of such post. But one thing I find wasteful is that such merit would be of nonuse to the receptor as such account has been banned and has no legitimacy within the forum activities to operate so it's better to not merit a banned post at all irrespective of how interesting such post is to the reader for the sake of avoidance of waste.

[Findingnemo]

There is no doubt that what the OP is asking is possible, but is it possible for a banned account to send merits? I am primarily referring to permanently banned accounts -

As of now, sMerits of permanently banned account can't be spent.

At the time when merit system was introduced it was possible then after sometime it's found that banned accounts too got airdrop merits based on their activity number and they used to abuse it by trading merits then theymos restricted banned accounts from sending merits but they can still receive merits.

I am trying to find that old thread about but not really able to find cause it's few years old thread if my assumption is right.

[KingsDen]

No, you won't get banned but why would you even want to? Seems kinda futile to do so.

I do not consider it a total futile to send merits to inactive accounts. For instance when people talk about Satashi and the famous bitcoin for pizza buyer. Maybe also the HODLING posts guy, I could brag to them that I actually know where those people wrote and I personally sent merits to such monumental posts.
It might sound silly but I makes one feel among those that made the history even when the accounts are no longer active.

[Coin_trader]

Good day forum members, I have been on this forum for some weeks or months now and I haven't validated any of the rules guiding this forum, but there is one thing that disturbs my mind all the time and I need a clear answer to it.
Since am a newbie, can I merit any profile that is BANNED on this forum?
I am a bit confused that if I merit any profile that is banned I might get banned also or will I face other penalties outside banned?

YES. Merit is not moderated so it means that there’s no punishment by the mods on whatever you do to your merit. You can only get a negative tag from DT if you use it on improper way but your account will not be ban by the mod.

The status of the account doesn’t matter if the post quality is good. Besides, you can’t see if the account is banned or not if you are not using Bitcointalk plugins like Bpip.org to see the status of the account. Merit is based on the post and not to the user who post it. Eyes on the post.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Why not, a banned account can be merited since it's all about what the user had done that left you a desiring touch base on the quality of the content to tye post made, but make sure that what you're giving merit to worth the standard for receiving merits, accounts like Satoshi and that if Hal Finney still receives merits while they have remained inactive for long or probably being banned, but in your case, the account you are meriting matters as the post you wanted to merit, but if a user got banned and you insist on giving such merit, what has it got to benefit you or the banned user account.