May sound silly but has anyone tried meriting themselves on a discussion they start. I noticed that the option to merit a post is still available on a post we make, I wanted to try it out, but I do not want to default, so I decided to come ask first.
Is it possible to merit yourself?
Yes, you can merit yourself but you would need two accounts for it. A lot people do this on the platform and they get away with it. People own multiple accounts and once they get merited on one account, they send that merit to their other account. This is very unfair because it denies other people who actually deserve the merits.
It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.
It is not exactly self-meriting, mate. It's owning multiple accounts, from which you send merits to one another. I would not say that lots of people do this on the platform and they get away with it. Once, when merit system was only presented, that was an issue as far as I concerned. But this is against forum rules and nowadays there are a lot of people who make sure that this does not happen and report to moderators in case it is happening. Measures have been taken quite a long time ago and such accounts are just get banned.