I'm curious, are you saying that you believe account farming is no longer possible/does not happen anymore since the merit system?
It's still possible, but from what I understand from the above statement, it was more possible and less stress-free back then, where most of the things you needed to do were just post whatever garbage that you could just to get the required activities, and you would be ranked with such a method before the merit system.
Well, I asked as to say this:
or an account farmer from back when that was still possible.
Insinuates that it doesn't happen anymore, which is a bold statement. It comes as no surprise that he didn't double down on his statement.
It was very easy to farm as many accounts as they could compared to the merit system in place, where you need to farm merit before you can succeed in farming accounts. No system is 100% accurate, but it's clear what the merit system has done.
Do you think it would be fair to say that the only people who could possibly farm accounts would be merit sources and those with a lot of merits already, or an account farm that was never caught? Do you think that it happens, and if so, do you think that it's a problem? I'm asking as I've been researching the topic and I'm interested to hear opinions from other members.