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I think merit system is very good thinking by admin of bitcointalk.org. By merit system anybody can know his posting quality when another person give merit for his quality post.

But if anybody misuse this merit and sell it by money its fully opposite of forum rules and regulation and i think it should be punishment for that.

There's already a punishment as tagging the account of merit abusers. It's not easy to spot it however, if its blatantly obviously at some point, DT members will not be hesitant to give that account a red paint. However, I'm not really sure about the red trust is effective though, because if you go around bounties, there are still campaigns accepting participants even though they have a red trust.

Merit abusers will always be here as most of them are after for what they will earn if they will rank up. If you are not greedy, you will just do your job and use the community to your advantage. Learn more about the world of crypto and maybe, contribute to this community if you already have something that you can share with.

This is the very reason why merit was put into place in the beginning, to really deter newbies from joining bounty campaigns because they are notorious for their shit posting which the mods and admins doesn't like.

Red trust might help but I'm still seeing a lot of members with red trust still carrying signatures and are in a bounty campaign. So this abuse of merit trading/selling will continue, so we need to be very vigilant. And if we noticed something fishy then I urge everyone to report it as well.

Merrit system did help but i can still see newbies that constantly spamming around the forum and not exactly on bounty altcoin section . anyway , the merrit selling/trading cant also be terminated permenenty because even if some reported it on this forum they can still sell merits on other external sites and groups .

Good thing that merrits history can now be seen because this tool can help detect if a user is an merrit abuser or legit .