The changes has seen this forum getting less spam but it is not just enough most just get merit and go back to there old way I feel that after someone is merited that person should be on probation or so by another different person without sentiment and observe the persons post for a while on till the probation period is over
The credibility of the forum is second to none
I'm not sure about a probationary system, but I don't think one merit is enough to be able to earn from posting here. It's fine for moving up from Newbie to Junior Member, but I think we should require ten merit and to become a Member before you can get a signature and start earning from posting. Getting one merit is far too easy and you can pretty much beg, borrow, buy, trade or even steal a merit (copy a great post, hope someone merits it, then remove post). Job done. When one is all you need people will just try their damnedest to get it in whatever which way they can then revert back to their previous ways of shitposting. Trying to beg or buy ten merit is significantly harder, especially for a shitposter, but not really for a great poster. A great poster could get that with a great post or two. A bot or the worst of the worst of posters has no chance and would be quite expensive to purchase and ten times more difficult to abuse. We also still need to punish ICO campaigns who will continue to pay Junior Members for spam, because one merit certainly isn't going to stop them from spamming once they've achieved it and campaigns are still going to keep on paying spammers the as long as we tolerate it.