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.
Are you sure about this? I have not received such message before.
I have never received such kind of Message before since I joined this forum, and I don't believe it happens because anything we do here are all transparent and is the duty of every member of forum to protect it by reporting that person, awarding merits to anyone is not by anything but because of what the person have contributed to the forum, so if you are a good poster no need in trading merit it will come automatically,
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.
Pay for merit? I will blame the newbies. Why buying merits? It is not different from buying an account.
I quite agree with you, if I have money to buy merits then why can't I buy the all account, I don't see any sense of what he has said by saying they pay for merit, even though they are doing it definitely the merit buyer have to be a good poster and if the buyer is a good poster then what is the essence of buying merits, I know for sure no one can merit a shitpost and go free, without called to order.