Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.
"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.
Keep contributing!
Yeah merit system is quite an effective system to be introduced in the forum as its definitely gonna increase the quality of posts made by the members of the forum and the quality of the forum in the whole. I loved the basic idea behind this concept but it will be effective till people start to abuse this system by trading merits for money. I think the administrator of the forum will have something in order to control this misuse and stop this from happening.