I see some of your recent post and i know that you are good at english speaking and you deliver it good, but it is only a reply for others. In my opinion, it is good if you can make a thread about some trending topic or make some analysis and deliver it in a statistic that can attract a lot of discussion, i see so many of member doing that right now. Remember to make it good and not a same topic as others, or it would be categorized as spammy thread.
I know that I should open a new thread and very controversial one to get much attention from members. But when I browse the forum I see all topics already there. I am 5 years on BTT and created only 7 topics. Sometimes when I look at a new account and I see that he is 3 months here and already opened 25 threads I can't stop laughing. I have almost one year followed BTT forum without registration. I have spent a lot of time to educate myself about Bitcoin and Litecoin because only this 2 coins were in existence and to mine at this time. After I have registered took me about a half year to learn how to post quality content, answers. This was the first forum I have ever registered.
I agree that something has to be done with spam and accounts farming. Let's hope that in few months we all learn how to use merit system and finally members will award others with their precious merits for valuable content not only because they are friends or know each other. As for now a lot of merits come from merit sources and legendary members. Other people are holding their merits for a better occasion, I think.
Lately, I have supported one member and after some time he quotes my post and says "Thanks you helped me a lot I appreciate this" and continues discussion asking me questions but not awarded my post with merits. I didn't support him to receive merits. I put myself in his situation and just thought that this will be fair to do. Didn't thought about merits when I was writing my supporting post. But later I started to think about this situation and +1merit screams louder than 1000 words. Something like this happens to me not the first time that I am quoted, people engage in discussion with me but rarely somebody gives merits.
I haven't made a lot of friends here in all these years because I thought that forum is not a social media portal. My big mistake.
Like I said let's hope that with time abusers will have no more merits to give and random members get used to this system and there will be no problem for anybody to give a merit or two to somebody who helped you or just for the post you liked.