I think you mean merited replies here. You are right about this. A lot of members here started giving merits in bulk to their friends or alt accounts just to rank up those accounts. I really do not see any point in the admin allowing members to be able to send 50 merit points for a single response. It  looks like that the admin might have left this loophole intentionally so as to trap the scammers. If he makes this thing clear in the next update and issues permanent bans for such accounts, I will be the happiest soul on the earth.

Yea ofcourse I think that would compell them to research more and more to have good post that will enrich their knowledge

Don't want to get merit for btc trading rather I would like to get them for next semester LOL

Its a great post from Kaar. BTCBTC

As for me not much considered system of motivation to write good posts. After all, merit can be regarded as a resource. And any resource can be sold, buy, give, take, and so on . Don't get me wrong, but you'd better make merit more personal.

I’d say that life is possibly unfair in general. Depending on when and where were born, your focus and odds in life change radically and it is up to you to try to change that situation. Obviously, your personal environment is going to play its role here, as are your relations with other people. We were not all born clones of each other and thus life spans out in different ways for each of us.

The same thing happens here. We were not all created as users from an initial genesis at the same time. The higher ranks have been around for some time and that needs to count for something. Of course you’ll find counter examples of high ranked members that still carry on with their non-contributive posting habits like in the old days, but these I have encountered to be not that many really.

The forums has moved on from a trivial no-brainer ranking-up system, to a meritocracy. That is obviously going to be more difficult, but like as stated, so is life and so we need to adapt.

The best thing that merit system has affected new users (newbies) in the forum is stopping them to start such non-sense topic.
Newbies should spend their time to read more topics, especially from Jet Cash, TMAN, Lauda, etc.
For newbies' starts, I suggest they should read those following helpful topics:
1) Newbies – Read before posting (Lauda)
2) TMAN's guide to getting merits
3) Tips – Guides for forum search This one is extremely important for newbies.
4) Unofficial rules of bitcointalk forum Please read it to avoid unexpected violations on forum rules.

I feel the need to say something about there "I agree with you" posts, because it's annoying me more than merit posts by themselves.






Look, we know what merit does and why's it implemented, just as well we know that the post is good because of merit given to him. There's no need for you to point the obvious to us.

Merit is not there to be chased after, because no matter how hard you try, if you can't post quality posts you won't get merit. Also, no one's forcing anyone to post quality posts. Can you post one liners and "I agree" posts? Yes. Therefore no one's forcing you but you won't get far with that.

One more thing. Think of merit as something of a marker. Don't pay attention to it, don't write just for merit and don't stress about it that much, because that number depends only on you and you can't force it to go up.

Its quite worrisome to be reduced to newbie after months of staying in bitcoin. I do think this development will be of help to newbie at least to be able to read other people's post before posting theirs. The main problem is that everybody wants to post and those that have merits are finding it difficult to give out their merits