That's not what I'm saying. I am saying that a member that favors the interests of advertisers over the interests of the community does not deserve to be a merit source, period.
I must tell you that my intention was not to say that he favors the advertisers by sending them merits or something like that. You misunderstood my words, I said that because a manager need to convince the advertisers to advertise on a forum which isn't a simple thing. The manager has to convince them that they will get good results if they advertise on a forum like this.
Favor in my words is more like helping those advertisers to grow on this forum, and I guess now you got my words. Nothing is wrong in that approach because advertisers are paying huge money in order to get results and a manager tries his/her best to give best results to those advertisers by accepting the active participants of the forum. Favor doesn't mean that he doesn't give importance to the interests of the community.
In fact, I believe Icopress is one of those managers who gives so much importance to the interests of the community. He's not only a good manager but also a very good human being and I believe someone like Icopress will surely be a very good merit source of this forum.