Its good to see the thread here is active. Week 8 begin, so far so good...

Well I guess this merit award or point whatever you call it to given for us guys as notification that our job or post is being recognize, it was given purposely to praise you for your good post and for those who has not so high merit will get a chance to do even better quality post, well I hope this will not bring discrimination at all, How about the people give effort in every post to give a chance or hope to be ranked up. so if this issue happen then sorry for everyone that cant afford to buy merit

Hello guys i saw some newbie has a merit points haha.what do you think?they buy it or not?because anyone who had merit points can be transfer to other people or sell them to other people.

If this is the case,  it is very unfair to us people who really work hard to gain  merits.  I suggest that Admin people should really look into this and come to a solutions that should resolve this issue.

you are right, merit system does reduce the number of spamer
but, the negative impact of merit system is that we will be very long to raise rank, because it requires a lot of merit.
and I have seen, not all good posts get merit.
if you make a good post. but people who read do not like it, then you will not get merit.

I am a huge fan of DeepOnion and what they are aiming to achieve this year. I can't wait until their mobile wallets are released, and eventually smart-contract capabilities. DeepSend will be coming soon as well, which is very unique feature for this cryptocurrency. The DeepVault option in the wallet is also unique and a game changer. With quite a small supply of total onions, comparing this coin to other privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash, I believe DeepOnion can easily achieve $100 if not higher. Monero and DeepOnion have somewhat similar supply of coins, and Monero has been as high as $460+ with a 7.3bln market cap. It may take quite some time for DeepOnion to reach these levels, but it would not surprise me. I think 2018 will be a big year for DeepOnion!

I don’t see anything wrong in noobies acquiring merit. I don’t understand why you automatically jump to conclusion it was bought? Merit is not panacea to provide information about accoun authority, its a tool to prevent mass account farming.

OMG I also won 10 xrb tried to withdraw and it says need to deposit 1 xrb, Im about to buy for now 1 xrb but I hesitate first thats why I search about it and I found this thread lol anybody here who tried to deposit 1 xrb? Im afraid its a real scam. 

Yes, merit is not for sale because selling merits isn't prohibited or acquired. I think those bitcointalk users who sell bitcoin will be punished, I don't think so.

I also won 10 xrb today. With the same scenarios. They ask me to deposit atleast 1xrb. And I searched in the google for the review and I can't find it.

Hahaha that's really funny. Thanks for the heads-up guys! Going by the responses, definitely not legit, and thanks to this thread we have our answer.

Fraud, I checked my balance on raiblocks using the wallet the bot provided but there's none eventhough the bot said I won 10 XRB. I tried withdrawing but I can't because not verified, I can only verify if I deposit 1 XRB. So 99% scam.

Well they can try and cheat just to earn some merits, but we have to consider that they are only giving sMerits and the Merits are only given by those that are authorized to be Source Merits. Also have to consider that the system already provided tracks of the sMerits or Merits that are or being given, its easy for us to monitor if someone or some people are abusing the use the sMerits.

This concludes that the system is absolute and can not be jeopardized, to think that they've already made a defense mechanism to the system.