Is stingers still a merit source?
Not anymore. That's clear abuse, awarding merit for political reasons rather than any idea of quality. There are many examples of such merit abuse made by merit source and even some DTs to support a political opinion and you know that.
For example:
This post shows that there is a lot of efforts put into explaining a situation by a low-ranked member and receives zero merits for his effort-full post. On the other side, just an arrogant and unuseful answer to this here gets 11 merits. Also, the reply of rickbig4 suggests to an active person here to leave the forum, which is worth 0 merits.
There are many such cases of merits abuse happing to support the political discussion.
OO what I am saying there is a whole merit-circle out there, But still no action on the abuse from theymos. While I was removed from being a merit source within some hour of sending merits to the people who are working hard to stop the trust abuse. Great judgment
