Hi everyone. Its been long time since providing merit system. Firstly i thought its good idea. To improve your rang you should write good quality posts to get merit. It means less shit posting here, less spam. But what we see now? Nobody gives you this, people started to sell merit. You can just buy it with horrible ptice, 1 merit - 10$. So you have only 2 ways: buy merit or buy account, and you can be banned abusing forum ruless. Or stay with your rang forever. Whad do you think now about this system a few month later after providing?
To be fair, with or without the merit system, some are still selling their bitcointalk accounts.
On selling merits, it is unfortunate that some people would do this as I am sure this is not purpose why the system was put in place. I do not think forum admins can prevent this. I guess we'll just have to see what measures they will implement to somehow minimize this.