I personally think that the system of merit points that the forum started to work with is launched after a precise study.
It has been started after years of shitposting by account farmers trying to make money - which was observed quite long back but was not attacked with iron fists till now.
A lot of users are making stupid posts with no useful content just to ameliorate their ranks and earn much more money.
If they cant rank up they wont make money. Forget about trying to spam the forum to rank up. You need quality content and stuff that other people in the forum find "engaging" in order to gain merit. Slow and steady growth of the accounts.
The forum becomes full with empty content posts. So i do believe in this new technic which represents a control system that fixes the upgrade criteria.
Dont really get you - you mean to say that the merit system is causing the people to stop posting? Well for shitposters thats true but for quality posters its false.