Quote from: FatFork on Today at 10:47:16 AM

How is that merit abusing?

Because such an approach devalues posting as such. The assessment of the post itself fades into the background, and things that are not related to the merit, such as the user's activity, to whom how much he gave what, to whom he is friends, and so on, come to the fore. This is all rubbish and should be discarded if we are talking about posting evaluation. Many Merit Sources forget that the forum has entrusted them with finding valuable posts and sending merit to those posts, thanks to which the user can declare himself as a quality poster, because he has a lot of merite received.

And here we get the following situation, a person can write satoshi-level posts, but they don’t give him merit, because he doesn’t distribute it to anyone. Who are we looking for here, posters or distributors?

With its smerits, Merit Source can do anything, distribute according to its invented rules, up to the absurd. But forum merit, kindly distribute it as it should be, from the point of view of the usefulness of posting, and not with the filling of the gag that the merit source is trying to fill its system for distributing merits among users.