Quote from: The Pharmacist on August 11, 2018, 05:35:40 PM

Look at all these one-line shitposters giving their barely coherent opinions on how bad the merit system is! This is an excellent example of how these noobs have no clue why they're not going to rank up. They think the merit system is biased and unfair, but they're not seeing what the rest of us are seeing--zero effort, zero talent, zero sense posts that will land you on people's ignore lists.

I'm having a hard time convincing myself that these posters aren't alt accounts, because the shitposts in this thread all sound the same and the usernames kind of follow a pattern (some of them) of WordxWordy. I haven't checked the account registration dates, but I'm betting most of them will be registered right around the same time.

There's some serious farming going on here. This is some straight up sweatshop shift work:

Just look at all these one liner shitposting account farmers on this page and the previous:

Quote from: VindictiveFelony on August 10, 2018, 11:09:38 PM

It's a common thing and we cannot help it. If you look at other platforms you will find that all of them has this selling points or merits business. I think we can do nothing in this case.

Quote from: ToxicMaxi on August 10, 2018, 11:39:04 PM

Yeah i have also saw this and this looks really irritating to me. Same things happens in Facebook, reddit, twitter, etc. I wish we have a monitoring system to prevent these things.

Quote from: Champeon on August 11, 2018, 12:37:43 AM

Take it positively rather than being against the system. It is a way of encourage others about their activity, join those topics and give your perception then other people will merit you if they like your opinion. Its interesting.

Quote from: CrownCandy on August 11, 2018, 01:18:00 AM

Merit is a good way to encourage someone to participate more. But nowadays some people manipulate it and people start not to trust this. Its really bad.

Quote from: LuckyOctopus on August 11, 2018, 01:05:45 AM

Merit is not that bad system. You can utilize it. You can encourage people through it. But its true recently merit system is squeezed.

Quote from: VainDots on August 11, 2018, 12:07:02 AM

I think there are still some people who get their merits by sharing useful information. Those who goes for shortcuts, will be lost in the long run. So we should follow the authentic rules and regulations.

Quote from: Flin+piclo on August 11, 2018, 10:48:40 AM

This is really sad if people are upto buying merit. The purpose of merit was to encourage good posts. If this has become a means of business too then the forum should have a look into this matter and stop this as soon as possible..

Quote from: coppied on August 11, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Merit is not popular among the peoples and it need to be eliminated. i believe it will change in near future.

Quote from: CryptoTwinkleton on August 11, 2018, 11:47:25 AM

Nowadays Merit losing their popularity because they are not maintains their performance. People want to bitcointalk in this platform.

Quote from: PureBull on August 11, 2018, 12:05:43 PM

I would say its getting manipulated day by day. Some people are using it in a wrong way which leads to state where we cant easily trust the number of merit someone got. So it must be trustworthy for betterment of us.

Quote from: Lisedc on August 11, 2018, 12:18:23 PM

Based on this merit system is good I think because it will motivate people and encourage people also poor quality post will be reduce. I think it will be a good decision.

Quote from: ImpulseGhost on August 11, 2018, 12:23:11 PM

Some people nowadays are selling merits to others. This is a very bad practice indeed. If it happens we will lose the trust on the merit system. Though I doubt the number of people who still have trust on merit system.

Quote from: Shative on August 11, 2018, 12:33:29 PM

I think merit system will help to reduce the unnecessary post or which is low quality based on this it will motive the person who is knowledgeable and who really work hard for this.

Quote from: Satisfyingvalley on August 11, 2018, 12:43:05 PM

I understand why you reacting like this ,unfortunate but it is true that whenever you will try to do something like this it will cause problems in merit system , but we all are hoping that very soon this problem will be solved

Quote from: DireFolloW on August 11, 2018, 12:44:52 PM

It is strictly prohibited to sell merits. Unfortunately this kind of incidents occur. But I still believe to earn merit by posting quality posts. We all must use our knowledge to create quality posts to earn merit.

Quote from: PredictableAttic on August 11, 2018, 08:24:37 PM

The best way to benefit from crypto investment is to use your merit. You will benefit from your knowledge and skills. Your merit will take you to a good position.