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.
Advising anyone to use have a alt account with the main purpose of using it for self meriting ones own account is a very wrong thing to do knowing full well it's against the forum's rules of the merit system. Any member caught up in the act with evidence, the consequence is always an ugly one.
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.
In every community their would always be those with deviant behavior as part of a whole. For such persons they should be reminded that nothing hides under the sun for ever.
It would be very helpful if measures were taken to prevent self meriting as I just explained.
I strongly believe that there are measures already in place for such and if you should do some thorough check you will see some few cases.