Quote from: allahabadi on May 06, 2018, 07:14:54 AM

They are exchanging merits; no doubt, but why make an entire new thread on it?

Is it some novel thing or a shit post that is getting merited? I believe it is the mutual appreciation of art. Unless you can prove that they are alts; I don't find anything objectionable.

I said it in my post above: I had posted it on his list, but i thought it was inactive and i remove it. Although i also saw others make an entire thread for merit abuse, so i thought i could do it, if i'm wrong making this thread, i'll gladly close this thread and post it on the killyou72 thread

Quote from: Revenant 02 on May 06, 2018, 10:19:41 AM

Well, it's not like we intentionally traded merits, or like we talked about it. Anyobsss and I had worked together multiple times before. There are times when the number of people asking for my service gets really overwhelming that I alone can't handle like 5 or more orders placed in a day, so I had to ask for another designer's help and it turned out to be Anyobsss. Now since some of the projects in his service thread technically came from me, I decided why not give him some merits for helping me out. In return I have helped him too since he was paid for doing those signatures. As you can see, I sent him the merits first. He probably saw it and decided to give me the equal amount of merit, probably because he appreciates it, but it's not like I begged him to send merits back to me. Is it prohibited to send back to the person who sent you merits? Would it be automatically considered as merit trading? I would want to know.

Although if it's as you say, there're 2 factors that can be interpreted as merits exchange (at least for me):

It was the same amount
It was to a thread of service

I think there were other ways to appreciating the help Anyobsss gave you, like the Trust System

Quote from: Revenant 02 on May 06, 2018, 10:19:41 AM

P.S. I just noticed you're a fellow designer. Good luck with the service though. Maybe we can work together too someday. Anyways, keep up the good work.

Thanks, i also wish you the best and hope to work with you someday (don't think i'm trying to lighten the situation with this comment)

Quote from: digaran on May 06, 2018, 12:32:38 PM

Let them send some merits for their nice designs. let people see their merits, who cares? they are not merit sources. let them have fun. it's not meriting
Garbage posts. it's not like they have traded hundreds of merits this way? because I only see 20-25 merits on each one of their designing threads.
Just don't tag them for this.

If i remember correctly, the merits system was made to improve post quality (and things that help the community, i've seen that people give merits to do infographics about the merits system). Yes, they've good designs but there was another way to appreciate the help they were receiven, as i said before, by the Trust System. Are you trying to say that if they aren't merits souces, they can do merits exchanges?