Right! merit system can only prevent spammers to move up to higher positions in the forum. And it can not be successful on its own, need to have cooperative factors like merit abusement's reporters, etc.

there are hundreds of spammers, shitty posters work around shadow places of the forum and show their shits.

I don't think so. Everyone should be treated equally.
I don't deny the fact that real newbies have to start from zero, learn everything before matured enough to discuss with higher ranked users in serious issues.
But I think you should spend your precious minutes to think about users, who joined the forum long time ago, knowledgeable, but lost their accounts.
Then they have to (only one option) to create new account) to join the forum again and discuss (or better if help others). Is it really necessary to require them to spend at least 6 months or one year to join serious boards in the forum? Honestly, I don't think it should be like that.

I think you should lock the topic because I see no need to discuss more about the OP suggestion (sorry for saying those words, my friend).
Or you can let the topic opened several days to see what will happen before locking it.
Take the topic as your trial and get experience.
 

I don't agree. Should ban all of them, both main and alt accounts because they all abuse merit system and the forum rules.

That's it. That is what I forgot to mention in my thread. Thank you.

For the topic creator,

I don't think that I can write something better than those two topics.
So, I simply give you links to those topics:
Full Member thanks to merit system (from iasenko, who ranked up to Full Member around 2 months after the launch of merit system)
TMAN's guide to getting merits

TMAN shows you great tips to improve English skills to be better writen-English member, which also help you to easily express your ideas. Express your ideas better, more correctly will, in turn, increase your probability to earn merits. If no one can understand you or they have to spend lots of time to think about meanings under your threads; you will probably never receive merits from them. Because of your threads make them annoying.

Iasenko, presents you detailed steps to grow up in the forum (tips to search basic stuffs of the forum, how to contribute to the forum, how to earn merits, how to avoid violations on forum rules, how to earn merits, and more).

Hope my thread helps you, fella!

Hello,
I totally agree that spammers and account farmers, alt-accounts should be controled, prevented to rank up, and should be banned if seriously abused/ violated the forum rules.
However, I don't agree that we should have merit give-away contests for reporting merit abusers officially like your suggestion.
Why?
Those sort of contests will contribute to create a new generation of un-knowledgeable users, who mainly or simply focus on screening to find abusers. Instead, they should do both: screening abusers and learning knowledge.
I don't deny the fact that screening abusers are good stuffs, but it is not good if they only focus on this tasks (I use the word 'task' because they might do this due to there are available merit-give-away contests for finding merit-abusers. Users like this are merit beggars, nothing more.

Just my opinion, so let's take it easy if you don't agree with my stance!

Someone like this guy:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1807652
His main tasks in the forum is reporting merit abusers  

Edited:
One more case study:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1068464
This guy posted most of his threads in Russian board. I don't know Russian, so I can not verify his thread quality but maybe low quality. Small part of his threads written in English mostly focus on reporting merit abusers (in fact, he did almost the same in Russian local board).

I have a feeling that both of you come from one person due to same effects you put into two threads. Furthermore, over-used/ abused bold, underlined, italicized, highlighted like this might make readers feel uncomfortable, annoying.
Please avoid over-using them.

Noted: Sorry if my thoughts are wrong about both of you.

Threads should be constructive, high-quality (boring because it has been recommended repeatedly in the forum); and in-context helpful.
I think one thread is only helpful if it occurs at the right place, and right time.
Some users find a topic, read the OP, then jump  directly to answer the OP question; I dont' think it should be like this because the OP question maybe anwered already somewhere in the topic.

I hate infographics, something like the most annoying stuffs in the forum, especially when it is overused by spammers.

Be careful! And please don't turn to merit beggars, don't bother those merit give-away contests with PMs, nonsense threads.