Quote from: Pmalek on February 24, 2022, 11:22:46 AM

I didn't vote last year. I forgot, but maybe I wouldn't have even if I didn't forget. This year I voted because I got tagged by icopress, so I put that on my to-do list. ~

The situation is same here. I made the plan to submit my vote at this time when my name was mentioned by ‘icopress’ in that (All users who have earned at least 50 merit in the last year are mentioned, in the hope that those using the bot will be notified.)
But, lately it is true that many forum members are just submitting their vote to get merits! I haven't submitted my vote to get merits, still I received merits from two forum members.

Quote from: Welsh on February 24, 2022, 11:54:12 PM

Although, I think it has been made quite clear that some are looking to earn merit that way. I'm definitely not questioning the integrity of the user they've voted for, I don't think that's the issue here as a lot of them are actually pretty respectable users, and probably do deserve to get voted in.

Indeed, the respectable members deserve to be voted. But the respectable forum members shouldn't give merits to those people who are giving votes to them (I'm not accusing everyone). They should at least check the activity of the users before giving him merits.

Quote from: Welsh on February 24, 2022, 11:54:12 PM

I don't think there needs to be any action taken against anyone voting or anyone meriting for votes, I don't think that's something that even needs any in depth discussion, ~

But some actions need to be taken in this case. And some depth investigation is also needed to check if anyone else has done the same thing or not.

User preikaler had submitted his vote on 7th February for the first time and received merits from “mole0815, Ratimov, Mitchell, EFS, cygan”. Probably he has deleted his previous submission and submitted a new vote today. cygan and Ratimov has given him merits again today! I believe his intention is to get merits only. Click here to see his two voting posts at Ninjastic.

These abusers can do anything to take benefits from the forum. But the respectable members should show more responsibilities in this situation. I didn't expect it from Ratimov. Maybe he forgot to check the activity of preikaler before giving him merit again.

Quote from: icopress on February 25, 2022, 10:49:17 PM

Forgive me for deviating from the topic, but I am leading to the fact that I will be counting votes from ~snip~.

The general and innocent people suffer much for these dirty politics and war. Praying to see the peace all around the world.