Re: How to avoid useless posts ?

The thing is, some Member rank and even up to Sr Member rank also post useless reply for signature bounty sake.
Merit will definitely help for accounts level Jr Member and below but those with Member rank and above, I don't see Merit as an effective solution to get rid of useless post from existing higher ranked member.

It might not be and that's why there are other options being looked in to, such as the trusted members of the forum being able to tag accounts as spammers, that's just one of many suggestions you'll find looking through the meta section. There's no solution that's going to work for everything but merit should at least be a start.

it seems merit is not collusion proof. I dont know the solution other than more mods.. but that doesnt seem to be sustainable

Of course it's not, and especially on bitcointalk where 30% of accounts are alts and 80% are garbage shitposters. But at least it's a system that might do some good.

I've been at odds with these scumsucking boogerbags since day one, and there's no perfect way to combat shitposting short of eliminating sig campaigns--and that won't happen. So report shitposts when you see them and give out merit to people who actually deserve it.

Merit can't really be a solution to eliminate or reduce shit posts but it can delay ranking up of forum members who are making shit posts just to reach quotas in signature campaigns. I think this merit thing is really useful to people who exert effort in posting replies with constructive words and they really deserve to rank up by giving them merit points but, totally eliminating shit posts is really hard to do and yes reporting shit posts are the only solution to lessen shit posts as well as shit posters.