Hi all. I was reading about all the merit related topics for some time, for the obvious reason.
I found there is such a thing as merit abuse, when highly merited users create alt accounts and give them merit, trade merit or exchange merit back and forth.
Wouldn't it be cool to treat merit as a sort-of-currency and a "meriting" as a transaction which requires some fee? Say, to give 10 merit you need to pay 1 merit fee and this fee is going to be destroyed?
What you think guys?
This is a tough one, but this will really change the game. Merits will increase their value and it is much more hard to get one and reward one even though the person getting a merit is worthy to receive one. It would be hard for the one rewarding the merit. Yes it can be a prevention, but it will cause risks. Its much better to just report people abusing it rather than letting others suffer the consequences.
The place here has actually become a snobish bully club, and more and more are leaving the forum due to this. The problem is high ranked people on their high morale horses pointing fingers are meanwhile doing the exact same thing they accuse others of but do not get any repercussions from it since they practicly 'know' all of the other hero members etc. Since they have more merits to send they easily spread their merits around so it doesn't show up when given it a glance but does when you look properly, here look:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3162720.msg33010310#msg33010310And none of the other high ranked members want to meddle in it out of fear of starting a negative trust war among themselves, so they pretend to not see these activities of the high and mighty.