You do realise that people can ask for payments in order to send other users merits
That must be beyond
faux pas: It must result in an instant automatic permaban.
It cant always be caught; but it should be made risky enough that no craven blackguard with a high-value account would find it economical.
It will happen and a lot more than what you think Merit system is bad for the forum and its somethign I would never ever use again
I dont know you; but a reasonable person might ask if your opinion of what is bad for the forum might be coloured by your being a Jr. Member with zero merit, as you are at present.
EditP.S., to be clear about my own biases or lack thereof, all my current merit was earned by me; none came from any prior status. I ranked up to Member at the the activity rollover yesterday, 30 January. This may be easily verified by anybody who examines my post history and calculates the activity periods.
I used to run forums although not for crypto and I can tell you a lot of the users post for their own interests not the forum interests. As you can see just from the posts allready users are getting stung by the merit system. At the end of the day its up to the owner/s of the forum how they run but from my experience merit causes nothing but problems on forums.