2. No merit sending is allowed from nominees to users which nominated them. This should improve dramatically the accuracy of results and offenders will have to support a penalty. For each merit sent, 1 vote is deducted. So for example, if in the voting topic Alice sent 5 merits to those who nominated her in any category, then we will not count these votes (but the rest of the votes that are addressed to other nominees will be taken into account). In addition, if a user voted for Alice in two categories, then the votes for each of the categories will be unaccounted for.
Is this rule still necessary? Since there is no money to be won by being nominated, there's no financial incentive to "buy" it through Merit.
More importantly:
You
must explain why you are nominating a user.
➥ Note.
I see many good posts that are worth reading, and thus deserve to be Merited.