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?
Nope it is impossible to merit yourself.
The purpose of the implementation of the merit system is for forum users to strive creating/making meaningful threads and discussions that would warrant a merit from users. With this merit, this enables these users to rank-up their forum rank the more they receive merits. If the system was designed to be able to merit yourself, then this destroys the entire purpose on why it was implemented in the first place.
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.
Well technically, you can merit
yourself if you have two (2) accounts that have merits to send on. But if you do not have any alternate accounts, then meriting yourself is impossible in any way.