Quote from: Ratimov on October 13, 2022, 02:47:35 AM

What a wonderful merit overflow I have just observed. Cheesy

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Just a wonderful merit overflow, most likely, to his alt. Cheesy

This user's password was reset recently.
This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.

That was an excellent observation. Most probably an account has never had a password reset and woken up after a long period and also sent 34 merit to another user within the space of 1 minute Grin

Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on October 14, 2022, 06:53:50 AM

In any case, this was not done by chance. We will soon be convinced of this and understand what purpose was pursued. Earlier, he also sent out 10 merits to new accounts for completely trifling posts. But all his accounts are now asleep. I think that the new idea will also fall asleep soon.

I agree, this was not dome either by chance or in error.

Sooner or later any connected accounts will unravel, in the end they always do. By sending merits from one alt-account to another, they hope to build rank but the haste of those behind the sock-puppets is usually a major factor in their downfall.

Quote from: FatFork on October 15, 2022, 09:35:09 AM

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on October 15, 2022, 07:55:36 AM

I am going to distrust you exactly for the reason of your strong urge of leaving feedback. There are no other reason. You are possibly a good fella in the community.

I don't think this is the best way to use your custom Trust list. "You should exclude users who leave inaccurate feedback." ^[reference] , but I guess that's your prerogative and you can do whatever you want with your trust list as far as I'm concerned. Although I'm not entirely sure what I did to step on your toes, I don't really care.

You did nothing and you did not step on his toes. He is an attention-seeking troll as you probably know from other threads where he and his buddies were defending the indefensible while spouting nonsense about me and other members that challenged them. For what it is worth, him distrusting you is meaningless because the troll himself is untrustworthy.

Quote from: Ratimov on October 16, 2022, 05:20:08 PM

FatFork, I support your neutral tag, thanks for bringing this to your attention. In this case, this is a clear abuse of the merit system, and in 2018, red tags were left for such cases immediately, so the neutral tag, written without any insults, it really is the place to be. But arguing with those who have double standards in the use of trust system, in my opinion, is pointless. Cheesy

You are right, it is a clear abuse of the merit system and it most probably should be addressed and noted.

As for those that have double standards in the trust system (such as the troll following FatFork around), you are absolutely correct, it is pointless to either debate, engage with or argue because they are not worth giving any attention to. Speaking of which, I found this feedback that was left for you somewhat laughable because it is ridiculous and should never have been left but when they are driven by revenge the trolls and attention-seekers do weird things:

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 16, 2022, 10:54:08 PM

Noone agrees 100% about anything on this forum I don't think. You're always going to have those whom agree with a decision made, Those who disagree, and those who don't care or stay neutral in a situation. You'll never make anyone happy.

There is no doubt about it, getting 100% consensus on any or most subjects or issue in the forum is probably impossible.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 16, 2022, 10:54:08 PM

In this case I would stay neutral unless it is proven the 2 accounts involved are alts( it looks obvious but not 100%). Without absolute proof I wouldn't want to take the chance on damaging someones reputation forever as we all know it's hard to get back to positive once accused. I do find it odd that neither account involved have made a post here, so the 1st place I would start would be by sending them both a pm to this thread and getting their response. Then go from there.

That sounds like a reasonable take on the situation and I respect that view.

I would go a little further, after he has been alerted via PM I would be expecting the puppeteer to post in this thread using both accounts justifying the situation using an explanation worthy of me eating popcorn and enjoying the scene akin to watching a movie on the cinema. I could possibly even nominate him for a best actor award as his drama unfolds but that all depends on the quality of post he makes trying convince us beyond reasonable doubt the accounts are not connected Grin

Quote from: shasan on October 27, 2022, 09:05:05 PM

Quote from: saxydev on October 14, 2022, 05:31:50 AM

Why does it matter? How merit helps him to scam? There are no vouches on his profile.

There is no scam right now and now it may not help to scam. But the sender of the merit is a scammer and also sent tremendous merit (34) to a newbie account. It may rank up and use to scam again. For a newbie account, with vouch cant help with scamming without a good rank.

I completely agree with your statement.

At the moment from what I have read in the thread, I would conclude the purpose of the sending the merits is probably to assist in ranking up the account for farming purposes which would then be used for signature campaigns and bounties or for something else including nefarious purposes.