Quote from: mikeywith on April 04, 2020, 12:14:43 AM

To be honest, even after 2 years of being around, the "rules" are still confusing to me.

If you read the Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules it has no rules regarding the trading of merit, however, there is another pinned topic FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

It literally states:

Quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Selling merit is disallowed.

Do I think that is a forum rule even though it's not in the rules' topic? YES. Am I 100% right about it? No clue.

As far as I know, merit trading is not forbidden, but discouraged. Please see below a quote of LoyceV

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Selling merit isn't against the rules, but could get you red trust. Theymos said not to worry about merit trading too much, in the long run they won't have any sMerit left. Let them spend $100 on 5 Merit, that's not doing them any good, they're just wasting their money.

And another quote of theymos (which, in my opinion, denies the rule mentioned by you).

Quote from: theymos on February 03, 2018, 06:20:54 PM

Merit sales, transfers to aliases, back-and-forth trading, etc. are not much of an issue. All illegitimate merit will decay, and will account for a tiny and very expensive fraction of the total merit economy. It's basically a rounding error; fight it where convenient, but waste no sleep over it.

Quote from: Stedsm on April 07, 2020, 06:43:24 PM

Isn't it looking like a "new merit cycler" being formed here? Roll Eyes

I don't think so. If it was though, they should wear Foxpup's Merit Cycling Club avatar, which is not the case here