Quote from: The Pharmacist on February 03, 2018, 04:27:20 AM

I'm still on the fence with regards to the merit system, which is why I haven't been slinging the red trust much lately. We all knew good & well that merit was going to get traded, but I do believe there are some people here who don't understand how the system works and who may have sent more merit points than usual. I know I did at first when the system came into existence. Having said that, there are some rather obvious merit sales, or exchanges between alt accounts, and those probably deserve a negative trust. I fully support Lauda & actmyname in their crusade against these abominable jokers.

I'm not going to get involved in this just yet, but it may happen. I think even with the shenanigans, it's still a good system that can work to limit shitposters' ability to rank up, and it'll be much harder to farm accounts this way.

I agree, when a system doesn't have explicitly stated rules, that typically means that how it works is up for the community to decide. Unless you are a merit source, in a sense I think its fair game how you want to use your merit. You have to earn it in the first place, so if you want to sell it, transfer it to your friends or your other account, or whatever, so be it. However on the other hand, people have always left negative feedback for account farmers to try and dissuade their accompanying spammy behavior, so with merit making it pretty openly apparent which accounts have ties to one another, its not outrageous to say that strange merit behavior could be linked to less than ideal account behavior.

More than anything, I really think it comes down to whether or not its typically acceptable to tag owners of multiple accounts with negative trust, just because they own multiple accounts. Second comes whether or not trading/selling merit is generally acceptable, and to what extents.