I don't know the rational behind not meriting posts in the gambling board especially now that casinos are the major companies advertising in the forum. It is understandable that there are lots of spamming and low quality post there but there is no way to deny the fact that some great and informative post are also found in that board.
Some posters may not agree with this but I see it just as you said it. They always have one, two or more complaints about gambling boards. Also that is how trading discussion is.
Anyways, it is not up to me to decide for any merit source what constitute a quality post and where to spend their smerit. So as long as the forum is running and merits is circulating in other boards, it is fine, users just have to spread their post to the general boards to increase visibility and also earn merits.
People also post on other boards and their posts got merited. I could remember that I posted often on exchanges board before while I am also good in trading discussion and gambling discussion but those other two boards just lacks merits. I received merit on exchanges board quite often.
90% of the posts if not 95% are quota spam which would deserve getting moved to the trashcan rather than merit.
The whole board is infested with people recycling the previous posts and making their 3 lines look like they are interested in that sport or gambling when in fact they don't even have a clue about gambling in general nor did they ever gamble on a sport.
Seriously now, you see that many posts that would qualify for merit there daily?
There are good posters on gambling boards, only what you can say is that spam is also common there, but that does not mean that there are no good posters there also. I have been posting on the board and I noticed low merit distribution there. I even see you hardly visit there, probably because you do not like gambling but just for awhile. We do not need to post in a professor-like way before we receive merit. On technical board, I can argue with you that many posts are repeated just as people are facing issues which has been discussed before but spam there is almost 100% non-existent there.