Quote from: vlad230 on March 26, 2018, 06:03:26 PM

Since you also mentioned my thread, I can comment on it.

Although I'm not a merit source (I'm not an old enough member here to be one), what I'm trying to do is bring more visibility to the people posting especially in the altcoin sections. These sections are very low in merit sources.

Another reason is that I want to put my merits (I have just a few of them) to better use and select the most appropriate posts that would deserve merits.

What's wrong with that?

Nothing, because there is no rule, guideline officially being announced by the admin.

Quote from: DarkStar_ on March 26, 2018, 06:57:34 PM

Quote from: digaran on March 26, 2018, 05:30:09 PM

This one is facked up, not a source, encouraging 25 members to post 7 each and then he would give a cash and merit prize only to 3 of them. his excuse for not applying to become a source is that moderators are busy. yes but you could've helped them by not generating 154 useless posts.

You do realize that it's very likely those posts would have been made anyway, right? I'm just going to leave this post here:

Quote from: DarkStar_ on March 23, 2018, 03:29:23 AM

RE: The whole merit source thing

First week merit rewards were paid out of my sMerits, not my source merits. I've been somewhat busy recently, so last week's came out of my source. My point is that this is not the only place I'm distributing merits. If you check the Most Generous Merit Sender stats, I am rank 8, which is above the majority of the sources. I'm also not that large of a source; I'm below average. If I had no starting/earned sMerits, I would not have been able to fulfill my end of the bargain for the first week.

Go complain that other merit sources aren't doing their job first, as there are quite a few people on the most merit sent list that are under the average monthly generation. They've burned their source merits, which I would say is much worse than meriting people for good posts. (I assume that was an attack at me, given that I'm the source sponsoring the first place prize for this challenge)

I've checked the posts of those who I've merited through this as well, and I agree that they are good posts, I would not be doing this otherwise. I don't think it would be wise or easy for Joe to farm his own accounts (assuming he has them) without posting "nullius style" posts, and if you were going to do that, you'd get merits anyway. The winners for the past 2 weeks deserve merits in my opinion. My "sponsorship", if you can even call it that is not guaranteed, I could technically pull out of it at any second. If only spammers were left, I'd definitely pull out.

Not just you or just sources, I'm talking to everybody, we all have been given power and we all are favoring our friends. thousands of people are lined up to get a chance at receiving merits, we are picking our friends, alt accounts. when you are giving merits to random members, they'd get tagged for attempting to farm merits, when our friends or partners are doing the same, we wouldn't tag them, we would even defend them.