I tagged the first two of those idiots, who are quite obviously engaged in merit abuse. Both of them have only written one-line shitposts exclusively, which indicates to me that they're on bitcointalk for the money, and not for the community, knowledge dissemination, discussion, or any other good reason.
The third one, SparkyU, I'm not so sure about--and my feedback doesn't carry weight anyway.
OP, I do appreciate you taking the time to point out merit abusers, and yeah I think everyone is aware at this point that there's gaming of the system going on. That was to be expected on a forum where scamming isn't banned, trust abuse is rampant, people think it's just peachy that one individual can take 2 sides of a 3-sided escrow deal, and account sellers thrive. But let's knock 'em down one by one. Thanks for identifying these guys.
My response is...
The third one, SparkyU, I'm not so sure about--and my feedback doesn't carry weight anyway.
OP, I do appreciate you taking the time to point out merit abusers, and yeah I think everyone is aware at this point that there's gaming of the system going on. That was to be expected on a forum where scamming isn't banned, trust abuse is rampant, people think it's just peachy that one individual can take 2 sides of a 3-sided escrow deal, and account sellers thrive. But let's knock 'em down one by one. Thanks for identifying these guys.
1. I didn't know anything I was doing was against any rules, I thought your merits were your own and you could do whatever you wanted with them. If that isn't the case then I have to plead ignorance and I sincerely wasn't aware of it. I guess I have to look over the merit rules more in depth since everyone seems to be throwing a hissy fit. I had other concerns at the time when merits were introduced and didn't really read much up on it.
2. I was contacted asking if someone could trade for my merits. I said sure, why not. Again I didn't have much interest in them so I got rid of them as my understanding was you're going to lose them at some point anyways. Use them or lose them. I've been on other forums with similar point systems where you could trade them without issue.
People are acting like it's some malicious plot, lol. It's not that serious to me, I didn't honestly give it another thought until one of those guys sent me a message there was a thread about it. Also OP should've messaged me too if it was such an issue, instead he decided to neg me without any communication. What a real nice guy...
Like you mentioned The Pharmacist, there are a lot more serious things going on in the forum that people should be fighting against first.