There's a lot of users are abusing merit points, if you can't notice some of them are continues doing this. But the list given in this thread are only suspected so it means that most that the evidence given are not yet proven. I was sad because some of users are continues in buying merit or they can exchange with the others. I advise to them stop doing that because karma was always on the back. Maybe you improve your post, give the best quality you can and be creative and informative your post to easily earn merit points.

No one is guilty here until proven but everyone has to know that there is some kind of control here and if you don't follow the rules sooner or later you gonna get caught, and there will be consequences.

I think that the damage to the system that the standard user can do to the is very limited, since eventually they would run out of merit. Only merit sources can possible cause the system to malfunction by selling large amounts of merit, and I am sure those will be under certain scrutiny.

USER PROFILE : mellon & others as listed.
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=339752
PROOF: See merit profiles. Evidence of merit trading, particularly across ANN threads. Some users with negative trust involved. Farming suspicion based on common ANN threads and participation in campaigns.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=769913	steepdev	all merit sent to mellon for ANN threads	ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=639205	sibnia	receives all merit from mellon and proceeds to send it at large to BOMG on various ANN thread. BOMG proceeds to send it back to mellon closing the circle.	CLEAR ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1033117	BOMG	recieves merit from sinia, sends it to mellon and Firstby1 in several ANN threads. Merit trading with SvetikB, merit trading with Floyd Money, trading merit with First1by.	CLEAR ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=988901	First1by	Directly trading merit with BOMG in several ANN threads. Trading with PALADYN	CLEAR ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1212054	PALADYN	Directly trading merit with BOMG and First1by	ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=224226	Doging	All merit to BOMG and First1by, many on ANN threads	ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1105316	SvetikB	Merit trading with BOMG, some in ANN threads	ABUSE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1182161	Floyd Money	Merit trading with BOMG	ABUSE

Others likely to be implied   
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=864125   ckorbba
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1059348   Spaffin


MISCELLANEOUS:There may be more.

USER PROFILE : alia_armelle
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1764044
PROOF:

Sent in the last 120 days
17 February 2018, 08:07:08: 1 to nullius for Ciphersex 101 [NSFW]
16 February 2018, 17:00:10: 16 to nullius for Alia’s merit challenge: Forum destiny awaits thee!


Received in the last 120 days
Today at 03:43:09: 1 from nullius for Re: Watch me gamble with your money, (possibly) naked!
17 February 2018, 13:41:52: 2 from nullius for Re: Ciphersex 101 [NSFW]
17 February 2018, 09:03:04: 2 from nullius for Re: Ciphersex 101 [NSFW]
17 February 2018, 05:48:42: 1 from nullius for Re: Will Bitcoin Hit $20K in few weeks time?
17 February 2018, 05:32:24: 1 from nullius for If you were a parent, would you teach your kid about BTC?
17 February 2018, 01:31:50: 1 from nullius for Re: All CryptoCurrencies are scam?
16 February 2018, 17:08:28: 1 from nullius for Re: Why the merit system is heavily lopsided in favour of older users
16 February 2018, 17:07:38: 1 from nullius for Re: If it's all just FUD, then...
16 February 2018, 17:02:24: 1 from nullius for Re: What is privacy ? Why does it matter
16 February 2018, 17:01:19: 1 from nullius for Re: THIS DISCORD CAN MAKE YOU A CRYPTOBILLIONAIRE !!!
16 February 2018, 17:00:30: 1 from nullius for Re: Why not compare Bitcoin with money?
16 February 2018, 16:57:54: 1 from nullius for Re: Need a $500 loan pegged to USD, in BTC
16 February 2018, 16:57:08: 1 from nullius for Re: Goodbye Bitcoin Hello Blockchain

That is very suspicious. He sends her sMerits one by one and she sends him sMerits back. I think you should watch them.

Thanks for the very kind words. Can you explain why? I did not claim that there is an abuse. I'm just saying that it is very suspicious.

Edit: Oh, you changed your post. Before that you called me dumb.  





Do you call this high quality? 

Very good excuse. 


Wait a moment. I thought the merit system was introduced to reward high quality posts. However, when I look at the rewarded posts, I have to say that they DO NOT are high quality.

PS: Good that you know what capabilities I have.  
PPS: You can continue discussing. I will not respond to your posts anymore. It's not worth it.

Are sMerits not be used here as a kind of payment form? That's a serious question.

Yes, I understood that. But now everyone could argue that they would send sMerits for reason X. If that is the case, the merit system makes no sense and in this case, this thread makes no sense. On the one hand, other people are taged negatively (justifiably) because they reward shitposts with sMerits, but on the other hand, such behavior is tolerated? That makes no sense to me.

Even you are a quality posters or shitposter there are no different, because like what the thread says it was abused.
That thing was create a lot of question in to my mind:

1. How they can says that users are abused the merit system without enough and concrete evidences?

2. Is linked enough to says that users are abusing the merit system?

3. Are giving merit to the users are fair? (If you have a lot of friends in bitcointalk you can possible gain a lot of merit even you are shitposter or not, right?)

4. I can see that even you have a good poster or quality poser if you are not popular bitcointalk you can't gain merit. That's why even how hard you worked if there's no people appreciate you, you have no chances to earn merit, right?