Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
Why does merit matter to you? If you came to this forum to learn about Bitcoin, participate in discussions and just get involved, then it really shouldn't make any difference to you.
It seems merits don't matter to you huh? You know full well that most of us here, want to have an alternative source of income besides our job and while it is true that we are participating in different discussions in the forum, we want to earn while we are at it, through signature campaigns, trading investing and etc. Seeing you have a signature on your profile, you can easily understand my point here.
In bitcointalk forum there are really good posts even that does not earn atleast single point of merits.and there are many spam and off topic posts that earn bunch of merits.
And even some forum users does not give merits for quality posts and they share merits with only there friends for some shit posts
Some forum users who tried to make quality posts are now demotivate with this situation
The merit system has produced good results that will benefit us "Members" as a whole. Shitposters are getting banned and giving it more time, I'm sure that we will see less of spams posts on different boards in this forum.