Quote from: minifrij on January 28, 2018, 04:08:39 PM

Quote from: endlasuresh on January 28, 2018, 03:07:14 PM

So the merit system is for totally free or should use as one wishes?

The Merit system is intended to be used if you find a post, or the person posting it, constructive and beneficial to the forum. I do agree that this is very general, however whether it is abuse or not does - I think - depend on the people involved.

Quote from: endlasuresh on January 28, 2018, 03:07:14 PM

Here I see someone offering signature campaign on merit base system.

Providing that the merit system is used as intended, and how the signature campaign was run, that could be a completely legitimate way to use Merit.

For example, if a user is running a signature campaign and would only accept users over a certain threshold of merit then it would be absolutely fine. Since given merit is intended to be used as a way to gauge post quality, only accepting users with a high amount of merit would be a fairly decent way to weed out shitposters.
However, if a user was running a signature campaign and required each participant to give him merit to get paid then it would be wrong and the user would likely be warned/punished for such.

Quote from: Thule on January 28, 2018, 04:07:28 PM

I gave them a choice and once the 24h is over i'm going to make it massivly public how Lauda is abusing and scamming people.

This should be fun.

Quote from: Slow death on January 28, 2018, 04:15:25 PM

Quote from: endlasuresh on January 28, 2018, 03:07:14 PM

So the merit system is for totally free or should use as one wishes?

Read here: Merit & new rank requirements

The first line from the above link says

In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks.

So both are cheating in order to achieve higher ranks.
50 points for a single post ?