Too many see this forum as a source of income. Too many just came for this. Some are advertising ICOs, some are paid to sell news to affect the market (sometimes FUD, sometimes "when we reach 1,000,000?"). Some are here for various bounties or signature campaigns. The result is a lot of nonsense that makes the useful info get buried somewhere.

The merit system will not work overnight. The merit system will be abused. But at the end the amount of nonsense will start to drop, or at least stay under certain levels.
And with that the amount of auto-translated posts should also decrease, since they have the smallest chance to get merit.

We need patience. Until then there's a simple solution: ignore user.