Does merit is really the answer to stop the farming and spam messages?
If not, then what is the best solution that can offer by the anti merit to stop the spam and farming accounts?
Every against for the new order should have a better solution that can suggest which is better than this not just simply saying against it.
The merit system has both good and bad sides. The new system avoids spamming and farming accounts. It stops users from posting non-sense on the forum, people will avoid posting unrelated posts on topics, and people will try harder to make constructive posts. However, the bad side of the merit system is that, giving merits to other users would make you a suspect for having an alt account, only few members get merit because some people are not even willing to merit posts that deserve it. Some people would still abuse this system by selling out their send able merits. Will take you a lot of time before ranking (especially those who are just a week away before this was implemented.)
Of course, each new system has it's own ups and downs, let's just see as time passes by how people will adopt on it and how will the officers adjust the new system to make it more effective.