It is not all about merit as a payment system rather a reward on doing and helping on the forum.
Read this:
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
Merit is not meant to be a form of payment, we've got Bitcoins for that.
If you are familiar with the principles of teaching which talks about the negative and positive reinforcement
We have red and green trust, bans and merit. I'd say these principles are already in use.
Thus, it is my way of helping the forum from spammer especially in the local threads
You can help by reporting bad posts (click "Report to moderator" under the post).
Like for example i could do private message on those people who are spamming, low quality post, and trolling could be reprimanded using private messages.
These are not the kids in your classroom, spammers won't care about your PM.
And I guess promoting healthy environment for the forum is not an easy job. You guys are just doing great just as much i want to share some inputs on this forum unfortunately it is an epic fail. LOL
Seeing your post history reminded me of hilariousandco's post:
Spam can come in many forms, but a typical spammer's posts will often follow some sort of pattern which will be immediately obvious upon inspection and will usually consist of one or two sentences of rehashed opinion posted as fast as possible with the minimal amount of effort being put in.
Almost all your posts are 5 lines long, that can only mean you're aiming to type a certain length, hoping it won't look spammy.