Very interesting to see the reactions to the newly introduced concept of merit as an additional indicator of account maturity and quality beyond just pure number of posts / activity. While this was introduced to increase post quality it has of course created a counter movement and a market place for "trading" merit - for money.
So this is just a reminder for everyone that the introduction of merit is a GOOD thing because it will help improve the quality of this forum for everybody.
"Trading" merit will undermine this and render it eventually useless.
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I don't even know such thing exist on the forum but if it truly exist as you've claimed. I must say it's really a bad thing to do (both buyers and sellers). Probably the seller got to that stage using illegitimate way too. I still don't know why most people are always in hurry to get ranked.
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