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.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.
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.
So both are cheating in order to achieve higher ranks.