Quote from: morvillz7z on September 17, 2018, 02:27:28 PM

Quote from: Welsh on September 17, 2018, 12:36:51 PM

I imagine we'll be catching a few alt accounts meriting each other in the next few days.

Exactly, already seeing full members randomly giving 1 merits, a bit surprised i haven't seen someone offer rep up service in 'Marketplace' yet. lol.

Quote from: xtraelv on September 17, 2018, 12:58:32 PM

Just when I thought the endless merit posts in Meta were over....

~~40ish~~ 60 i give up type of number new merit-related topics and it's been just a couple of hours. God have mercy. I'm afraid to ask, but how many Jr.Members did we have...24hrs ago?

Wonder what will be the long term effect. I struggle to believe that signature campaign abusers with thousands of accounts, will be stopped by the new ranking requirements. Possibly a minor inconvenience for them, as they are likely to find a way, whether it's buying/trading merit or hacking accounts. We can expect countless jr.members accounts with 200+ activity and single merit hoarding signature campaigns again in less than 5 months.

edit:

It didn't take long:

Already reported, a troll?

It's sad and pathetic to read this barely 2 days into the new regime for ranking up. Humans will always look for ways to cheat the system. Unfortunately, a lot of people will get scammed in the process. I see no reason why anyone should try to buy a merit to rank up. My gut feelings tells me that newbie account was created by someone who's ranked up already and is using that as a pseudo in order not to get busted.

I'm still a newbie and will NEVER attempt to buy my way up. It's never been in my character to do such, even in the outside world.