For example, Delphinus awarded crocus a merit point to get him out of newbie hell after reviewing his post history:
Here you go. I've gone through your post history. You're posts aren't perfect, but it's pretty clear you're a real account with a long post history of on-topic comments.
Definitely deserve to be a jr. member
Wow I've got merit thanks sir for checking my post history, I will post more quality post to have a great and helpful community.
While crocus can string together words into an intelligible sentence or two, most, if not all, of his/her replies are merely rehashing what a thousand other people (or bots) have said on the hundreds of other pages in these spam megathreads.