I strongly support merit system, but I found that your topic contains several incorrect view about the system and its impacts on forum users.
You should have more objective opinion about this issue.
Partially right! Spammers who have changed their attitude actually made less spamming threads. Nevertheless, there are lots of newcomers, who keep spamming the forum, in particular shadow places of the forum (altcoins boards/ child boards).
-I can see that the system really less the spam post.
Agree! Mass merit farmings tagged and all accounts banned permanently by hilarious moderators (I don't remmeber exact name of moderators).
-Some of the farmers get tagged.
Adaptive spammers changed and be more constructive users in the forum. Good effects on part of spammers.
-I also notice that almost all of the members have increased their post quality.
For skills to learn about forum structures, skills to improve yourself and post quality, please read:
TMAN's guide to getting meritsFull Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)~
So I started to research and study very hard to make some good quality of post and help newbies then someone merited me of my post and Im so happy then I start to think on how I can help the forum and try to report some merit abusers without the intention to get some merits but just to help the community.
Contributing to the forum first, don't pay attention to your constructive threads. Some day, merits will come. Pay your attention to read informative threads, topics, articles, etc.; spend your time to learn, to compose more constructive threads, instead of focusing on whether or when you will receive merits.
Then one day, I realized that I am really now a part of this community and by doing all of that I receive some merits. And I also notice that Im better than other people before that calls me a shitposter, crybaby etc..
That's one of the best effects of merit system.
I also realized that this merit system help's me a lot to learn easily, merit system push me to research and study the forum.