Quote from: mdayonliner on March 25, 2018, 06:24:29 AM

Quote from: jackg on March 24, 2018, 12:53:12 PM

Quote from: digaran on March 24, 2018, 03:43:56 AM

$5 per merit, you should donate $5 per sold merit to the forum. selling merits to garbage posters would cost the forum, you should cover that cost. if you are going to pay, try to buy a copper membership and send $250 to that address if you have sold 50 merits.
This link will take you there. note that forum is not asking you to do this, I am suggesting you to do this and then show your TXID to the person who has left you negative trust. show some remorse. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

That's not actually a bad idea in order to act as an incentive to stop users from trying to sell/buy merit. Get both members to do it, not just the seller.

- You do realise this will create more mess? Someone with money can be ranked easily.
i.e:
1. You can be a Hero member if you are willing to spend $2500 to the seller plus $2500 to the forum. So it will cost only $5000 to have 500 merits to become a hero member. And someone who will spend $5000 to become a hero member will defiantly do everything to get return of his investment = scamming with may be ICO project?
2. Same way to become a Legendary member you are going to spend only $10,000. If you have solid plan to scam people then spending these $10,000 can return you million.

-Now come to anther point. How would you think you will be able to identify all these merit seller/buyers? The forum will be a kios.
Bad idea, sorry.

Not finding all, just the ones you can find.
You forget it's not against forum rules to farm/sell accounts or to have alts here. Charging $10000 or ~1BTC is more expensive than buying a legendary account outright (depending on account quality).

You don't need to find all to convince people to not do something, you just need to find "most" to show you're making some sort of impact to those who participate in this sort of thing.