I am yet to understand what merit farming is and how it is done.
Is it by creating alt accounts? If yes, that is account farming. Also, how will creating more accounts accumulate merits to the existing account?
The way I understand it, a user creates multiple alt accounts and can send merits back and forth between them.
Imagine a scenario where I was on the forum before the launch of the merit system and I got airdropped merits on at least 2 of my accounts, I can create other alt accounts and send merit between them to raise the rank of all of them.
User A, B and C are part of a merit farm;
A sends 10 merits to B who now has 5 smerits that they can send to C, C now has 2.5 smerits to send and continue the cycle. If they are not merits sources and they did not have multiple legendary accounts at the start of the merit system, they would in out in no time.
I got the clue, but as you also noted that it would be possible only if the user received initial merit airdrop. I have had about the merit airdrop, when it happened, did it also come with the expected smerits? Like I you are airdropped 200 merits, will you automatically have 100 smerits? If no, it means it cannot farm the merit.
Again, I think the merit farm will only work for a merit source ad you noted. Someone that has 100+ activities but below 50 merits will find it more difficult to come up with quality posts if created another account. Infact the more account he creates the more shit his posts will become.