Quote from: LoyceV on July 02, 2018, 07:47:55 AM

Quote from: pkmoney on July 02, 2018, 07:36:37 AM

Just checked the list of participants and got lots of people have been accepted in semux's list. Here is the list of participants listed by semux where people with airdropped merits accepted.

Let me check the first 5:

Code:

2884. 11 Merit received by liotmaan (#689832) from 1 unique users in 2 transactions
13918. 1 Merit received by crimealone (#206556) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
170054 received nothing
181270 received nothing
8206. 3 Merit received by investgarant (#1108727) from 2 unique users in 3 transactions

Now let's check their Merit history in details:
liotmaan (#689832)
2 Merit for a link that redirects to a referal link > Reported to moderator.
9 Merit from the same user for saying "Where's the github".
crimealone (#206556)
1 Merit for a post in Chinese
investgarant (#1108727)
3 times 1 Merit for 3 posts in Russian.

I think it's safe to conclude requiring merit is NOT a solutation against spam, if it's an automated system that accepts anybody.

Whats wrong with merit in Russian or Chinese ?

Also they ask 10+ merit, it would be easiest to say they don't accept people under Member rank, as many BMs already does...