Just wondering are you admins allowing people or freelancers to get paid via Merit if the client doesnt have money and can only pay using his Merit? or this will result into an instant ban? Please let us know to avoid violation.
Thank you
No, this isn't allowed. It will be consider merit sale if you pay to freelancers. Obviously this is violation of rules. Merit system implemented to build a spam free decent forum. Not for sale or trade.
If caught similar case, admin have right to demerit. All send send merit will burn from receiver and sender will get tag. I am not sure about ban. If they are normal user or merit source rules is same for all. If I am not wrong, admin did before like this. But there should be strong evidence.
Here is admin answer;
Since it was a large amount and a clear-cut case, I deleted those merit sends
As I've said before, I'm not really worried about it. Especially at those high prices (plus the risk of being red-tagged), it's enough of a barrier that it should still serve its intended function of creating a significant cost/barrier for garbage-posters.
BTW, if any merit source goes rogue and sells a ton of merit, then I will probably go through the transaction graph and undo all of the transactions touched by that sold source-merit. Merit ain't no immutable cryptocurrency!