Humble BTCforJoe, you are helping low ranking members to farm merits, if you remove the merit and cash prizes from your challenge, nobody would participate. if they wont participate, they are there to farm merits then.
Looks like you can't read english properly the whole reason for it is to remove spam and shitposts from the forum.
It's even mentioned clearly
This challenge was designed to help eliminate spam and shitposts from the forums.
In return, you could be rewarded for posting quality content and contributing to BitcoinTalk.
If you posts are good and contributing to the forum you deserve merit because that's why it was created in the first place
If you see abuse post it for everyone to see and discuss.
According to digaran,
sponsoring merits as a merit source for a challenge like Joe's counts as abuse.
Different people have different opinion i don't understand why does it even matter just ignore this dude he just grudge against joe and nothing else so he's making different claims against him