Merit is created for anti-shitposter not for trading and how does it go now? It currently benefit for most of high rank member in bitcointalk forum.
Later on, new members, beside spend a lot of time, have to spend their own money to buy sMerit to reach a higher rank. What a failed system.
Example: if you was in bitcointalk forum a few years ago, you posted a lot of under-quality posts and you earned Legendary Rank, so it is unfair with new people joining this forum now.
Sr, Hero Member, and Legendary start planing on selling their sMerit score and their account with a ton of money.
Currently, another problem is occurred. Merit system has been questioned a lots. Group of people, they will cheat by giving their own team member, partner, friends their Merit score, even their posts are spam posts. How are bitcointalk dev gonna control that?
Good luck with your Merit score and congratulation to those who reached Sr, Hero Member, Legendary rank one more time
Nobody asked those shitposting monkeys to buy merits, accounts, or anything else. And they're not even supposed to and will get tagged if caught.
Higher ranked members tend to make the best posts. Noobs tend to end up here because another monkey told them there's a free lunch on bitcointalk. So they post in huge megaspam threads
that no one reads, and then they wonder why they're not getting merits. Stupidity at its finest.
I very much like the Darwin aspect of all this. I giggle with glee.