I posted to suggest another possibility. Human nature manifests itself in a variety of forms.

I believe the answer is to restrict merit awards to a maximun of 2 at a time, or possibly 5, but certainly no more than that.
It would impact in two ways,
Good Impact : It would stop users from sending fake merits as 50 for single line posts.
Bad Impact : It would allow shit posters to do more one line posts so they can get multiple merits points by their fake senders.This would indeed increase shit-posting on the forum.
There are still some cheating gaps that can be done, but if we can be selective and also watch over I think it can be reduced. I have seen a lot of events and this proves that the level of merit buying is still found. Indeed we should not think negatively and should think that it is the appreciation that is gained when there are others who feel helped. But clearly for me a post shit is not worth it to get merit. So it can be said that every post that gets merit points should be supervised and investigated about the truth. If it can be applied and there is a real action then we will be able to further reduce scammers and spammers in this forum.