Pretty much every thread in the general discussion has a post from a bounty account that posts only to increase their postcount
Threads and posts are seriously like this..
thread: "will bitcoin rise in price ?"
posts: "bitcoin is an old cryptocurrency blablablablablablabla and i believe bitcoin price will reach XXXXXXX this year" (believe so much that dont buy, but spam posts to get bounties worth few cents of shit coins"
its pretty much impossible to have a productive thread when the posts are not even related. You come up with a point during a thread but no one even read it.. they just open the thread and click reply and write lots of lines (because short replies are not well seen) without even taking in consideration whats been going on in the thread
how can we have a productive forum ? will bitcointalk have to end bounty deals ?
Merit is designed with the intention of trying to tackle this but it will take some time. I think the biggest change will come when signature campaigns start to only accept members plus (yes I see that happening because JR's can no longer have links in their signatures). At that point it will be pointless posting on an account below member unless it's something constructive. Of course there will still then be many members+ who are in signature campaigns but it will certainly be a start.
dont you think this would still keep people posting horrible posting to achieve a higher tier ?