This merit system has made the spam posting worse in some ways. People are copy pasting long responses, and then making rambling posts saying the same thing over and over in hopes to get more merit.
Sorry buddy but I believe I was asking about shit post and how you categorized them as one, I was not asking about how does merit work since it was discussed also by everyone else out of the meta discussion page.
(but I believe your reply is purposely intended to answer on how to lessen or remove this kind of posts *referring to the title* by stating the fact that merit existed to do such so.
But on the point that bounty hunters make their answers long is that the campaign itself said that you need to have atleast one hundred character long, lesser than that will not be counted, so don't blame them if they add more words beside on their main answer.