And obviously, posting, merit & earning attached each other. For earning good you have to rank up & earn merit, for earning merit you have to make quality post. We can not even eliminate one of these. All of these helping forum keep emphatic, we can't deny also that.
Today, there is very low odds for shit posters to get acceptance for their applications in high-paying campaigns, that pay for their participants through
BTC. The fact is over months, more than one year since January of 2018, when merit system born and actively effective works in the forum, we have seen hundreds of self-promoted users, from Member to even Legendary. Especially, some of them even started from zero (Newbies and zero merit), them moved up to Hero members. That's amazing fact. They have built a new generation of self-promoted users, that spread from low rank (Member) to high rank (Hero and Legendary), and that generation have been more competitive than the old ones include many shitposters.
There are even some guys are totall self-promoted users, like @iasenko, @Coolcryptovator, and more. They could not reach those ranks, if they did not dedicate their time to engage with forum contributions, within continuous months.