Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.
"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.
Keep contributing!
If for any reason, Merit givers start trading "Merits", then the main purpose of the Merit system will fail. People will start dropping unnecessary posts just because there is money to buy the merit. The essence/idea of quality and matured posts will vainsh with time. People drop reasonable discussions on this platform and this helps solve major Cryptocurrency issues and other related financial issues, by the time people needs to pay for to earn merits, that means this platform might loose its genunity and Realness overtime. Let Merit givers take out time to read discussions and award merits to those who deserve them, that is why they are merit givers, they should not be tired of doing so. Merits giver should not be mentally lazy of reading discussions, then try to diversify into selling of merits for posts. For me it is not Just.