aTriz and Lauda just got merit! by
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26/01/2018, 22:30:24 UTC Congratulations to the happy couple! So this is how the merit system looks like in practise:
aTriz rewarding Lauda with 50 merit points for a 'shitpost' (not my choice of word, but often used by those type of people) like this:
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Half an hour later Lauda answering aTriz with 20 merit points only for opening a simple bounty thread in November:
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Klaaas also wanted to get merit with Lauda and gave his all away for only one commercial opening post:
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Does anyone doubt that any member outside the established circle would get tagged red for such merit farming?
This is just one example of what I mean when I write about abuse of the merit system and abuse of the trust system by the established members.