Quote from: Welsh on Today at 03:59:31 PM

The problem was, that other users voting saw this as an opportunity that they could abuse it, which not only artifically increased the votes for certain users, but it also could have potentially reduced the votes for other users in the running if that user was going to vote anyway.

Thing is, you didn't have to be genius to predict what will all this vote-meriting lead to. Just some common sense, but as we can see its not so common.

Quote from: Ratimov on Today at 04:47:17 PM

I agreed to this offer, but not as a merit source, because I think that these posts are not worth spending on them merit, which gave me theymos for valuable posts.

Oh, so you agree that these posts are not merit worthy, yet you are meriting them nevertheless. And yeah, merit that you earn via other members is not any less worthy than the ones you are getting as a merit source.

Quote from: Ratimov on Today at 04:47:17 PM

Somehow, at the beginning of this contest, icopress wrote to me that I should not support only those who vote for me, but if I support, then everyone

Once again you prove that your moral compass is completely off, if you have any. You have to be told what is right and wrong, and even several times before you get it, this is just another example of it.