I'm not the owner but I know what he thinks. if you want to buy merits, go to Steem, you could buy something like the merits we have here.
Not the owner's idea, mine only. would you pay $5 per merit and accept to be banned if you posted garbage according to me? you wont be able to complain when you are banned, my word would be the final word.

If you buy merits and post garbage and get banned, people would say, theymos is scamming people by taking their money and then banning them. merits come from the admin, people would blame the admin if you could buy merits, they would say, theymos is collecting money. they wouldn't say, forum members are greedy and are trying to profit from this forum, farming accounts to sell or selling merits to farm accounts to sell.