Quote from: JollyGood on Today at 05:56:50 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 01:06:44 AM

Took your advice and only gave him 13 even though I could have done 50.

Forgive me if I am missing something here but did Poker Player actually give any advice aimed at you? I have read his post and cannot work out why you seem to have concluded anything from his comments equating to you giving merits to icopress (or anyone else) in order to support him.

Furthermore, I cannot think of any reason why you would give merits to support icopress or anyone else. How does support even work unless you are a merit source that reviews posts and helps members rank up by giving merits and the merits are all used. In that case members might give merits to help the rank up process for worthy posts but other than that I cannot see find any valid reason.

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 03:24:28 PM

Yeah I could continue to support him with merits. I likely will do that.

A lot of the disagreement by me with this thread is my Accounting and IRS training. Which define a merit source act as a signature manager as a conflict of interest.

Much like the bill payer in a business should not be the bill collector. Separation of duties is the concept.

So far I gave him 63 merits .

I am curious, how do you think your 63 merits supported him?

63 merits = 31 merits to give out.