2. Trading of merits:
Most of us will receive a random DM by users offering exchange saying they will share a merit to your account from their alternative account and ask you to share merit on their account. Never indulge in this activity as moderators can easily identify it and your account may be blacklisted and sometimes newbie are cheated on this context as there are group who will ask you to pay for merit and end up running away with your money once you pay it.
Trading merit is the main reason why newbies lose their accounts, but it's not a bad thing in the forum because it's the only way some people can move up the ranks. However, trading merit doesn't require you to trade something with someone and then ask them to send it back to you;
Trading merits is not the same as sending out your smerits to the post that deserves to be merited. Because when you are talking about merit trading, that is, when you send some of your smerits to someone and expect the return of the exact amount of smerit that you sent out, I have searched the forum and I didn’t see any where in which they said something like that is allowed to do, and you can see that we have some cases on the forum where they drag some account that they are abusing the merits system, so those people are the ones that do the thing you are talking about, and if it’s allowed to do, they won’t call them out for such cases.
Many people who have been here for longer than a month or a year are still in this position because they did not understand the forum.
Understanding the forum is not the reason why some people did not receive merit; some people lack the knowledge on how to compose meaningful information that people give them merits, and you know merits are a reward for any helpful content on the forum, so those people still have a long way to go as they need to learn well so that they will know what the forum expects from them. They should write some meaningful content, and people will appreciate their effort by sending them merit.
I hope you know there is a difference between trading merit and giving out merit freely to post’s that is worth it. Trading of merit is disallowed, lots of people’s accounts have been tagged on the forum here just because they were caught sending merits to their alt accounts, which is very wrong. The merits system wasn’t created because they wanted us to be trading our smerit.
It is not disallowed by the forum. Users can do it and theymos said he knows there is dark market and if there is a dark market for merit exchange, he feels fine about it.
Only forum community are against it, discourage it because it will create unfair forum where shit posters can rank up by buying or exchanging
Allowed? How and when? Because I haven’t come across anything like that, don’t you think this forum will not go as wanted again? We will lack meaningful content, and that is why people in the community did not support such an act. However, theymos said you will be the one to risk your account to get a red flag, which means you will risk your account, and from there, possibly you may lose your account if we find out that is what someone did to get to such a rank, so let me ask: did you want your account to get tagged?