I'm pretty sure 99.X% of the shits who post in the altcoin section would not agree with this.  It's not a bonus for them, it's a full time career that they are intent on milking until the opportunities stop presenting themselves.

On a positive note:  when the above mention shits do start buying merits, it is usually from members who make it a habit of doing so.  That makes it a lot easier for DT members to tag if they wish to.  Buying merit is thus pretty risky, because while you might end up with more merit, you might also get a nice fat red shiner to go along with it.  That more or less ruins the account (and I do love seeing that).

When you see a typical shit poster laying a fat one down, especially in the meta section where they stick out like a sore dick, and they have more merits than you'd expect from an englishless poster in the english part of bct, you have a dam good idea of how they got that merit.  It's true that they might have acquired it in the transylvania section, but a quick glance at the merited posts will reveal the truth.