Is this an abuse of merit & something else or maybe I got it wrong?

[TokenTikas]

Recently, I was going through posts on my local board and I noticed something that felt a bit strange. A simple reply post was given 50 merit, which honestly surprised me. I don’t understand how a regular reply like that could receive such a high amount of merit. If the post was really outstanding then it would make sense but in this case, it doesn’t seem deserving of 50 merit at all.



Not only that, after sending 50 merit, the same person also sent 20 merit to another simple post. It felt suspicious to me, so I checked the profile and saw that the person suddenly became active and started giving out merit like that.



How do you all see this merit system being used? To me, it feels like there might be some misuse happening. Normally, people get merit as a reward for good posts but giving that much merit to such simple posts looks quite questionable.


Looking at the condition of the account that sent the merit, it feels even more suspicious. It seems like the account might have been hacked from the real owner.

[hugeblack]

Apparently, this is a stupid way to send merits; the account may have been hacked or those merits may have been sold.
Unless there are strong links between these accounts, all that can be done is to add neutral trust.
@allthingsluxury is not a merit source (that mean will not be able to generate more merits) Therefore, it will not be a problem.

[SatoPrincess]

According to bpip, the allthingsluxury account has had its password changed five times this month. I suspect the account was hacked/sold, and for someone who hasn’t been active in the forum for the last 6 years, isn’t it strange that their first action since their return is to visit a new local baked and hand out merits. I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume that the smerits were sent to other farm accounts.

[lovesmayfamilis]

At first glance, it is clear that the account  @allthingsluxury has changed hands and then spread its merits to accounts from a very old farm. At least one account CryptoATM somehow remained without a negative tag, while all of his "colleagues" were caught abusing the bounty. We can expect further merit exchanges from these accounts to our alternative accounts.

~
Notice how they share merits.
Gorosden     May 30, 2020, 03:11:11 PM   -2
FloridaKid     May 30, 2020, 06:50:22 PM   -2
Ceyflix-Rez     June 01, 2020, 10:22:22 PM  -2
Skinny48     June 01, 2020, 04:36:11 PM
Zotak337     June 02, 2020, 06:20:05 PM
Refrumatrix     June 02, 2020, 05:21:11 PM  -1
Synerggy     June 02, 2020, 08:41:23 PM
Looper_U     June 02, 2020, 09:01:46 PM  -1
BitKongy     June 02, 2020, 09:14:19 PM
Bravehash     February 24, 2021, 11:02:46 PM  -1
CryptoATM     February 26, 2021, 11:19:29 AM
HashingTower     February 27, 2021, 10:38:25 AM  -2
CrossroadBTC     February 27, 2021, 06:41:59 PM  -1
MCcryptonia     March 02, 2021, 11:42:11 PM  -1
TheMimic1     March 02, 2021, 11:19:58 PM  -1
Williamm07     March 02, 2021, 11:32:42 PM  -1
HardCore12V     March 08, 2021, 12:16:04 PM  -1
XUR_TIP     March 08, 2021, 12:07:47 PM
7deadlyBTCIN     March 29, 2021, 11:09:45 AM
LostEcho     March 31, 2021, 11:42:46 PM
~

Bounty : Re: 🍌 Apeswap.Finance Bounty + Airdrop Campaign | $50,000 in $BANANAs up for
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WxvuLpaPX7B0A5DKQ5dMPVtH1CNKyYuX2FRviLmDbAU/edit#gid=316117001
1. Daodex #189
2. Synerggy #191
3. XUR_TIP #192
4. CryptoATM #205
5. BitKongy #203

Proof:

Bitcointalk Username: Daodex
Telegram Username: @daodemon
Bep20 wallet address: 0xDB43AFe98766509Ce0f52BaCe227Bef12844E5bF

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: XUR-TIP
Telegram Username: @TIPXUR
Bsc address: 0xAf5F229990819D0febC109909EBaC9Eb189C9c4a

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: Synerggy
Telegram Username: @Synerggy
BSC Wallet Address: 0xEBACe99b3519B38E314287B936003172cABA530d

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: CryptoATM
Telegram Username:@dracoATM
Bep20 wallet address: 0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: BitKongy
Telegram Username: @bitkongy
Bsc Wallet Address: 0x378C3d0d48c650C90eB6a515B9c4d990D9Ba5FFb

[ Archive ]

Bounty : Re: 🍹🍸[BOUNTY] MocktailSwap🍸🍹 The World's First Semi-Fungible Token on BSC ✅SFT✅
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19lr2qE1nW8n_VR0HO2I9E0k4fj1-yKDz4WddvijY26A/edit#gid=339962687

Regulations:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
4. Negative trust members i.e. using multi-accounts, cheating, using someone else's work and spamming, multiple signature for the same users or any kind of unethical behavior for the sake to involve in fraudulent activities will be banned from the campaign and payment will be denied.

1. BitKongy #43
2. Synerggy #44
3. CryptoATM #45

Proof:

Telegram Username: @bitkongy
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0x378C3d0d48c650C90eB6a515B9c4d990D9Ba5FFb

[ Archive ]

Telegram Username: @Synerggy
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0xEBACe99b3519B38E314287B936003172cABA530d

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: CryptoATM
Telegram Username: @dracoATM
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19

[ Archive ]

Bounty : Re: [Signature Campaign 2.0]   The Standard   🚀 HOT Project - Lucrative Rewards 🚀
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zIkaxJ8_Z2WkMVCwwrXz7IBEJONcxDwavZ4ZdvGQkk4/edit#gid=279783581

Rules
3. 1 account per user. Any user found to have alternate accounts in the campaign will be kicked and denied payment.

1. HardCore12V 169
2. Skinny48 172
3. Synerggy 236
4. Zotak337 238

Proof:

Bitcointalk Username: HardCore12V
ETH wallet: 0x74d6602AF4eE10Ea87e398d0f7CC1d8a6937c7A7

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Skinny48
ETH wallet: 0xAe3e3f0bB2b09E618f8Dd14D395B3329a4E387A0

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Synerggy
ETH wallet [Must be the same which you used at the standard website.]: 0x31de4280d84F2Eae5BEb3310da431C78d2b162cF

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Zotak337
ETH wallet: 0x61745e5DaeBb3d72D0295e84EE7b7E3346D0c1ec

[ Archive ]

Is this evidence enough to mark them? They have a history of abuse of Campaign Rules in the past?

I will restore what was mistakenly not marked earlier.

[CryptoATM]

At first glance, it is clear that the account  @allthingsluxury has changed hands and then spread its merits to accounts from a very old farm. At least one account CryptoATM somehow remained without a negative tag, while all of his "colleagues" were caught abusing the bounty. We can expect further merit exchanges from these accounts to our alternative accounts.

~
Notice how they share merits.
Gorosden     May 30, 2020, 03:11:11 PM   -2
FloridaKid     May 30, 2020, 06:50:22 PM   -2
Ceyflix-Rez     June 01, 2020, 10:22:22 PM  -2
Skinny48     June 01, 2020, 04:36:11 PM
Zotak337     June 02, 2020, 06:20:05 PM
Refrumatrix     June 02, 2020, 05:21:11 PM  -1
Synerggy     June 02, 2020, 08:41:23 PM
Looper_U     June 02, 2020, 09:01:46 PM  -1
BitKongy     June 02, 2020, 09:14:19 PM
Bravehash     February 24, 2021, 11:02:46 PM  -1
CryptoATM     February 26, 2021, 11:19:29 AM
HashingTower     February 27, 2021, 10:38:25 AM  -2
CrossroadBTC     February 27, 2021, 06:41:59 PM  -1
MCcryptonia     March 02, 2021, 11:42:11 PM  -1
TheMimic1     March 02, 2021, 11:19:58 PM  -1
Williamm07     March 02, 2021, 11:32:42 PM  -1
HardCore12V     March 08, 2021, 12:16:04 PM  -1
XUR_TIP     March 08, 2021, 12:07:47 PM
7deadlyBTCIN     March 29, 2021, 11:09:45 AM
LostEcho     March 31, 2021, 11:42:46 PM
~

Bounty : Re: 🍌 Apeswap.Finance Bounty + Airdrop Campaign | $50,000 in $BANANAs up for
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WxvuLpaPX7B0A5DKQ5dMPVtH1CNKyYuX2FRviLmDbAU/edit#gid=316117001
1. Daodex #189
2. Synerggy #191
3. XUR_TIP #192
4. CryptoATM #205
5. BitKongy #203

Proof:

Bitcointalk Username: Daodex
Telegram Username: @daodemon
Bep20 wallet address: 0xDB43AFe98766509Ce0f52BaCe227Bef12844E5bF

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: XUR-TIP
Telegram Username: @TIPXUR
Bsc address: 0xAf5F229990819D0febC109909EBaC9Eb189C9c4a

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: Synerggy
Telegram Username: @Synerggy
BSC Wallet Address: 0xEBACe99b3519B38E314287B936003172cABA530d

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: CryptoATM
Telegram Username:@dracoATM
Bep20 wallet address: 0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19

[ Archive ]

Forum Username: BitKongy
Telegram Username: @bitkongy
Bsc Wallet Address: 0x378C3d0d48c650C90eB6a515B9c4d990D9Ba5FFb

[ Archive ]

Bounty : Re: 🍹🍸[BOUNTY] MocktailSwap🍸🍹 The World's First Semi-Fungible Token on BSC ✅SFT✅
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19lr2qE1nW8n_VR0HO2I9E0k4fj1-yKDz4WddvijY26A/edit#gid=339962687

Regulations:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
4. Negative trust members i.e. using multi-accounts, cheating, using someone else's work and spamming, multiple signature for the same users or any kind of unethical behavior for the sake to involve in fraudulent activities will be banned from the campaign and payment will be denied.

1. BitKongy #43
2. Synerggy #44
3. CryptoATM #45

Proof:

Telegram Username: @bitkongy
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0x378C3d0d48c650C90eB6a515B9c4d990D9Ba5FFb

[ Archive ]

Telegram Username: @Synerggy
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0xEBACe99b3519B38E314287B936003172cABA530d

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: CryptoATM
Telegram Username: @dracoATM
Binance Smart Chain Wallet Address: 0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19

[ Archive ]

Bounty : Re: [Signature Campaign 2.0]   The Standard   🚀 HOT Project - Lucrative Rewards 🚀
Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zIkaxJ8_Z2WkMVCwwrXz7IBEJONcxDwavZ4ZdvGQkk4/edit#gid=279783581

Rules
3. 1 account per user. Any user found to have alternate accounts in the campaign will be kicked and denied payment.

1. HardCore12V 169
2. Skinny48 172
3. Synerggy 236
4. Zotak337 238

Proof:

Bitcointalk Username: HardCore12V
ETH wallet: 0x74d6602AF4eE10Ea87e398d0f7CC1d8a6937c7A7

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Skinny48
ETH wallet: 0xAe3e3f0bB2b09E618f8Dd14D395B3329a4E387A0

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Synerggy
ETH wallet [Must be the same which you used at the standard website.]: 0x31de4280d84F2Eae5BEb3310da431C78d2b162cF

[ Archive ]

Bitcointalk Username: Zotak337
ETH wallet: 0x61745e5DaeBb3d72D0295e84EE7b7E3346D0c1ec

[ Archive ]

Is this evidence enough to mark them? They have a history of abuse of Campaign Rules in the past?

I will restore what was mistakenly not marked earlier.

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

[lovesmayfamilis]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

[CryptoATM]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

How did my account get linked to either of the accounts mentioned them ?

If there was any linkage as at then, I would have been tagged along others

I want you to prove a linkage of my account to another account on here and I would accept your red tag but for now please review your tag.

[SuperBitMan]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

I went through the evidence you dropped as reference for the negative feedback you gave him and to be honest I’m not seeing him being connected to those accounts listed over there.
Do well to make the evidence very clear so we will know if he truly deserves to be given a negative feedback or not.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

I went through the evidence you dropped as reference for the negative feedback you gave him and to be honest I’m not seeing him being connected to those accounts listed over there.
Do well to make the evidence very clear so we will know if he truly deserves to be given a negative feedback or not.

https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns

If you've figured out so quickly that the tag is invalid, you'll also be able to see and parse these transactions.
By the way, why create a second theme in the meta? Don't answer, fisherman.

https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5689/56890079.html


https://bscscan.com/address/0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19
https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5383519.msg59113894#msg59113894

Another interesting fact is that it appears that all of these members are GPU mining with solar power and batteries. What are the chances of that?

How does this still justify your tag

Please explain because I never cheated and want justification for your tag

You are all the ones who were cheating. I will not comment anymore.

[CryptoATM]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

I went through the evidence you dropped as reference for the negative feedback you gave him and to be honest I’m not seeing him being connected to those accounts listed over there.
Do well to make the evidence very clear so we will know if he truly deserves to be given a negative feedback or not.

https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns

If you've figured out so quickly that the tag is invalid, you'll also be able to see and parse these transactions.
By the way, why create a second theme in the meta? Don't answer, fisherman.

How does this still justify your tag

Please explain because I never cheated and want justification for your tag

[SuperBitMan]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

I went through the evidence you dropped as reference for the negative feedback you gave him and to be honest I’m not seeing him being connected to those accounts listed over there.
Do well to make the evidence very clear so we will know if he truly deserves to be given a negative feedback or not.

https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns

If you've figured out so quickly that the tag is invalid, you'll also be able to see and parse these transactions.
By the way, why create a second theme in the meta? Don't answer, fisherman.

Did you even read my post at all, did I say your feedback is not correct, I only said I didn’t see the account being connected to those other accounts that is being seen on the reference you gave, and then demanded for a more clear evidence.

What right do you have to ask me why I created that thread, if I don’t understand something can’t I ask to get more clear answer I believe other members will benefit from those answers over there. Why asking if you don’t want me to answer, fisherwoman.

[CryptoATM]

Please can I get a clearer prove and valid explanation to be tagged for randomly receiving merits from account I don't even know where it came from.

I think you're abusing the DT System now because it is unfair to tag me for an investigation since years back where nothing was found against me simply because I received merits suddenly ?

I have not even been active and was surprised to receive such number of merits and now a red tag ?

Please review your tag @lovesmayfamilies as I have great respect for you and your works.

Thank you

Do you see your participation in bounty companies (the link is in my post), the terms of which were violated due to the fact that all participants were alternative accounts? Weren't you the one who participated by registering your accounts in a row, ignoring the rules?

I went through the evidence you dropped as reference for the negative feedback you gave him and to be honest I’m not seeing him being connected to those accounts listed over there.
Do well to make the evidence very clear so we will know if he truly deserves to be given a negative feedback or not.

https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns

If you've figured out so quickly that the tag is invalid, you'll also be able to see and parse these transactions.
By the way, why create a second theme in the meta? Don't answer, fisherman.

https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5689/56890079.html


https://bscscan.com/address/0xfa2240A14e40Fd7620856C56A9ED65cf89710e19
https://bscscan.com/address/0xccf6ea7f0715b8cd20cfad7e11b15c5cea89691a#tokentxns


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5383519.msg59113894#msg59113894

Another interesting fact is that it appears that all of these members are GPU mining with solar power and batteries. What are the chances of that?

How does this still justify your tag

Please explain because I never cheated and want justification for your tag

You are all the ones who were cheating. I will not comment anymore.

Please stop beating around the bush and bring forth justifiable evidence that I'm directly link to an account on the forum and I will tender an apology else this is a total DT abuse and demand that your tag be reviewed

Please if you want to tag me, it should be for a justified reason and not simply because I received a random merit from a random user.

I respect you so much and I don't expect something of such from you and even trying to shy away from the thread, please review your tag on my profile please

[lovesmayfamilis]

Please stop beating around the bush and bring forth justifiable evidence that I'm directly link to an account on the forum and I will tender an apology else this is a total DT abuse and demand that your tag be reviewed

Please if you want to tag me, it should be for a justified reason and not simply because I received a random merit from a random user.

I respect you so much and I don't expect something of such from you and even trying to shy away from the thread, please review your tag on my profile please

Have you seen the transaction evidence? All transactions were completed on the same day by all accounts that you belong to. Of course, I can agree that you are not the real owner of this account, since I see your password change, but this in no way means that you are not related to the farm with which you participated in the bounty at the same time. I understand your disappointment that the purchase of 50 merits and this account is (probably) what cost you dearly, but I can't help but see your person's involvement in all these cheating events.

and demand that your tag be reviewed

Please do this.

[CryptoATM]

Please stop beating around the bush and bring forth justifiable evidence that I'm directly link to an account on the forum and I will tender an apology else this is a total DT abuse and demand that your tag be reviewed

Please if you want to tag me, it should be for a justified reason and not simply because I received a random merit from a random user.

I respect you so much and I don't expect something of such from you and even trying to shy away from the thread, please review your tag on my profile please

Have you seen the transaction evidence? All transactions were completed on the same day by all accounts that you belong to. Of course, I can agree that you are not the real owner of this account, since I see your password change, but this in no way means that you are not related to the farm with which you participated in the bounty at the same time. I understand your disappointment that the purchase of 50 merits and this account is (probably) what cost you dearly, but I can't help but see your person's involvement in all these cheating events.

and demand that your tag be reviewed

Please do this.

You are indeed unbelievable
Is transaction completion now an acceptable reason to red tag account ?

Are you trying to shift the story to Bought merit and change of account ownership ?

Please I'm pleading that you review your tag as I don't deserve a red tag

Thank you

[adultcrypto]

What is clear in this case is that the allthingsluxury is a hacked account. Those merits were sendable merits in the account that were quickly sent to new accounts the hacker might be Farming.  There is rarely any possibility that someone will coincidentally share 50 merits to a small account in a local board he was not active in. It is a matter of time before more information emerges from those new accounts because the forum is very sensitive.

[TokenTikas]

while all of his "colleagues" were caught abusing the bounty. We can expect further merit exchanges from these accounts to our alternative accounts.

While raising one issue, another possible cheating concern also came up. What makes it more suspicious to me is that the user is not active on the forum but immediately showed up to post right after being mentioned. That part really feels unusual. My question is, when he received 50 merit for such a post, shouldn’t he have been curious himself about why that kind of post got so much merit? Also, since there are links to bounty abuse issues, it raises more doubts and it feels possible that he might have other alternative accounts on the forum.

[m2017]

Recently, I was going through posts on my local board and I noticed something that felt a bit strange. A simple reply post was given 50 merit, which honestly surprised me. I don’t understand how a regular reply like that could receive such a high amount of merit. If the post was really outstanding then it would make sense but in this case, it doesn’t seem deserving of 50 merit at all.

How do you intend to determine abuse in the subjective evaluation of posts when assigning merits? I don't rule out abuse, but it's completely unclear to me how the BTCitcointalk-community will determine whether merits for a given post are "correct" or "incorrect"? What will be the standard?

Explain to me what, in your opinion, a post must contain to be considered "outstanding"? Or what kind of post must it be to receive 50 merits?

I'm not trying to justify those users who award 50 merits for an "unremarkable post", but rather, I'm trying to maintain neutrality and come to some understanding of what rules (written or informal) actually exist on the forum for assigning merits for posts.

Not only that, after sending 50 merit, the same person also sent 20 merit to another simple post. It felt suspicious to me, so I checked the profile and saw that the person suddenly became active and started giving out merit like that.

How do you all see this merit system being used? To me, it feels like there might be some misuse happening. Normally, people get merit as a reward for good posts but giving that much merit to such simple posts looks quite questionable.

This requires the intervention of bitcointalk detectives and a thorough investigation before jumping to conclusions.

[lovesmayfamilis]

This requires the intervention of bitcointalk detectives and a thorough investigation before jumping to conclusions.

Knowledge of higher mathematics is not needed here. The science called "psychology," also, to some extent, sometimes suggests the following actions of such accounts, which "accidentally" received a large amount of merit.

First of all, CryptoATM now has the opportunity to transfer its merits to its accounts. This would be a great reason to take a closer look at everyone who gets these merits. Seeing this, I deliberately stop the transfer of merits in the "right" direction for CryptoATM, in the hope that he will spend them "randomly."

In addition, all those accounts that have already received merits from this generous "donor" also fit the title of alternative accounts, since some similarities in the "handwriting" are noticeable.

Finally, the fact that an account that has barely woken up, as TokenTikas correctly noted, immediately appears and objects to this topic, clearly indicates that it has other accounts that are frequent visitors to this section. Take, for example, someone who borrowed an amount for a month that is simply impossible to pay off with one account.

And yes, CryptoATM, I'm certain this account didn't belong to you before.
You can't "respect" what I do, after all that we've done to your farm, from whose owner you bought such a "worthless" account.

[CryptoATM]

This requires the intervention of bitcointalk detectives and a thorough investigation before jumping to conclusions.

Knowledge of higher mathematics is not needed here. The science called "psychology," also, to some extent, sometimes suggests the following actions of such accounts, which "accidentally" received a large amount of merit.

First of all, CryptoATM now has the opportunity to transfer its merits to its accounts. This would be a great reason to take a closer look at everyone who gets these merits. Seeing this, I deliberately stop the transfer of merits in the "right" direction for CryptoATM, in the hope that he will spend them "randomly."

In addition, all those accounts that have already received merits from this generous "donor" also fit the title of alternative accounts, since some similarities in the "handwriting" are noticeable.

Finally, the fact that an account that has barely woken up, as TokenTikas correctly noted, immediately appears and objects to this topic, clearly indicates that it has other accounts that are frequent visitors to this section. Take, for example, someone who borrowed an amount for a month that is simply impossible to pay off with one account.

And yes, CryptoATM, I'm certain this account didn't belong to you before.
You can't "respect" what I do, after all that we've done to your farm, from whose owner you bought such a "worthless" account.

I have come to realize that you are judging from the past experience of others which absurdly wrong.

You might be good with what you do but please I am telling you boldly that you are totally wrong in this case and tagging me red is equally wrong.

The one basic reason you tagged me was for receiving 50 smerits from an inactive account which I have no single relationship with and now you have to second your action with the excuse that my account is a farmed account simply because no one wanted to hold the token their payment was made with from a bounty campaign

This is really unfair and this is total oppression and abuse of DT

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while all of his "colleagues" were caught abusing the bounty. We can expect further merit exchanges from these accounts to our alternative accounts.

While raising one issue, another possible cheating concern also came up. What makes it more suspicious to me is that the user is not active on the forum but immediately showed up to post right after being mentioned. That part really feels unusual. My question is, when he received 50 merit for such a post, shouldn’t he have been curious himself about why that kind of post got so much merit? Also, since there are links to bounty abuse issues, it raises more doubts and it feels possible that he might have other alternative accounts on the forum.

Yes, I completely agree with you on this. No matter how meticulously a thief steals, he leaves some kind of evidence.

I am a new person in this forum, I am not very knowledgeable about anything, but I am revealing some things based on what I have learned or what has come to my attention. That is, if we look at the merit transactions of the people who have sent merit to CryptoATM, we will see that some people have given their merit repeatedly and all the accounts are similar in terms of transactions.

Especially if we talk about SuperBitMan's account, we will see. Although we did not find SuperBitMan's transactions with CryptoATM, almost all the accounts that have transacted with CryptoATM have transactions with SuperBitMan. It seems to me that SuperBitMan and CryptoATM may have been connected to each other from some point in time. I would like to raise this issue and present one thing to you, that all these accounts may be related to each other and they may be abusing Merit.

Emjay24

• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5445913.msg66040664#msg66040664
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5500380.msg66000838#msg66000838
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488107.msg64734193#msg64734193

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Su-asa

• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5376945.msg65980496#msg65980496
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5561682.msg65962863#msg65962863
• https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5563097.msg65954665#msg65954665

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Please forgive me if there is any mistake in my comment.