Quote from: digaran on March 28, 2018, 08:19:23 AM

Quote from: DarkStar_ on March 27, 2018, 03:10:47 PM

Quote from: digaran on March 27, 2018, 05:04:27 AM

You want me to provide links to thousands of merit transactions? they are public, you can see it for yourself. I'm telling them, what they are doing is wrong. why would I report them to moderators? merit is not moderated (only sources are being moderated). what I'm asking is for a clarification on new rules or lack thereof. I know there are circles of friends, groups of friends governing this forum. theymos being the high king.

Just some decent proof, maybe in the form of screenshots and circumstantial evidence. No one's asking for each individual merit transaction. The Reputation board would like to hear about my "friend" meriting, and I'm sure theymos would love to as well, and the Known Alt Accounts of Anyone thread would greatly value your contributions in exposing my alt accounts.

I think I'm capable of writing a quality post (I hope anyway); would it not be much simpler and "suspicious" for me to write a good post on my supposed alt, and for me to merit it with my main account? Seems much easier than jumping through hoops with a 'challenge', convincing BTCforJoe to let my alt win (unless BTCforJoe = DarkStar_ Shocked

) just for 8 merits.

Did I even mention your name? did I say that you are abusing your source merits? I'm saying that we shouldn't ask people to post for merits, would any of the participants in Joe's challenge accept to post without any merit prize?

You're stating that I'm not using my merits properly by sponsoring the challenge, and specifically link to that challenge, which is an attack against me.

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

I'm not reporting them as merit farmers, abusers. you should decide for yourself. I'd say there is not enough of similar threads, while we have 80 merit sources, I couldn't find more than 10 topics. maybe most of the sources are doing what was expected from them.

Also apparently giving a few merits out to people through some method of distribution other than straight up meriting posts is laziness and wrong. A synonym for abuse is 'misuse', so yes, you are saying that I'm abusing my source merits.

Quote from: digaran on March 23, 2018, 12:00:29 AM

Of course, thank others, I'm saying to all the sources, if you are not up for the task to help theymos, why did you sign up for it?

Quote from: digaran on March 28, 2018, 08:19:23 AM

I'm saying that we shouldn't ask people to post for merits, would any of the participants in Joe's challenge accept to post without any merit prize?

If the challenge didn't exist, those members would very likely still be posting. His challenge isn't really forcing people to post more (7 posts in a week is very reasonable for someone semi-active). There were also quite a few people who wanted to join in the 18ish hours between his announcement and my decision to sponsor 8 merits, showing not many would join without a large merit prize. The original prize if I remember correctly was 1 merit to first place, which is a negligible amount.