Someone created a thread about a merit ponzi that made me laugh:
If you feel this merit system is as dumb as it sounds, then you got my merit. Make a comment, +1 merit. Upvote the last comment, and hopefully the next comment will do the same. Maybe then you can rank up in this forum and actually be noticed. Its gonna take double the time and effort, but if your already posting here, then you know that.
Looks like somebody is about the be banned.
More sources can and will have to be added over time and this includes local board merit sources as quality posters in those languages will suffer, but the merit system is only a month old and will have some growing pains for a while but is probably nothing that can't be fixed.
I was trying to figure out how to do just that earlier in this thread, but it was shot down rather hard. Whatever is thought up as a source will need to be unbiased as well as not have the ability to be abused which is going to be very difficult.