How can it be considered as conflict of interest?
The way I see it is members receiving merits from merit sources are being grateful from the merits they have received therefore they are giving merits as a way of showing gratitude.
The more merits they are receiving means the more merits they can sent back again.
This is merit trading. This is the conflict I was talking about.. it's positive only to who is involved in this trade...
But this is not happening. At least I have never seen it.
And merit sources have more smerits than good posts to merit.