I really doubt this comes into the mind of most people. Most higher ranked accounts care little to nothing about merit. It is useless for me to hoard it. I would rather give it out to those that deserved it and help reward quality contributions thus cleaning up the forum in the process.


Anyone caught selling merit will have their reputations ruined by negative feedback. No respectable member is likely to bother engaging in sales.


Only trusted users can really be trusted to be a merit source and hand it out en mass. If we just gave it out to everybody and anybody then people would just exploit it which defeats the purpose. You suggested that every account over 3 months gets a merit point every day but people would just create hundreds of accounts, wait 3 months, then distribute the merit between their accounts or sell them on themselves.


People shouldn't be getting merit for the same old newb questions that have been asked and answered hundreds of times before. Most info can be found by searching or reading the stickies anyway which they often don't do.