By friends he probably means "friends" aka alt accounts. Doing so will be rife amongst farmers and multi-accounters now but it will also just be one more tool for suspicious users to find alt accounts. You shouldn't really give points unless a person deserves it but it is ultimately up to you how you give out points, friend or not, but also up to the community whether you are giving them out just to help "friends" rank up and how to punish that.
Still, we cannot neglect the fact that there are people in this forum that are friends in real life. Even I have
friends close friends here. I could easily ask merit from them but that wouldn't be necessary if I could post something relevant to the discussion, right?
Agree with you, lots of account farmers will do that to make their account easily to ranked up and will be able to enter in signature campaign which are their main purpose in this forum.
They are already doing that. Some were tagged already.
If the whole idea is to reward quality posing users, and slow spam down. Then farming for it, or giving it to someone just because they are your friend should be against the rules, however would be hard to prove. So it is likely just unethical.
sorry, but am i missed something about the rules this "merit" works, where to find it ?
and i think it's hard to read, the people think and you think it's different like you called it good post and help you but the other people didn't
There are no rules regarding the abuse of Merit, for now, since this is just a new system of the forum. I doubt there will be because theymos wants the community to have their freedom in giving out merits. DT Members, on the other hand, will exercise their power to stop/lessen the abuse of giving merits.