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.
This is the problem. Posting on a forum is not a job.
Most of the time I have been on this forum I have not had a paid signature. I used to use it for referral links so I know my signature gets a lot of hits. But as I've been spending more time on the forum lately and I thought why not get a little bonus payment. The difference is I would be here posting regardless. I consider it renting out valuable advertising space rather than getting paid to post.
It is true but sad to say that it is becoming like that here. Well, you can't blame them all for wanting to have a little compensation while they are posting and putting much effort to be as informative and helpful to other members. It's just that many of us here got greedy and just here for the reward that comes along with advertising and forgot about the essence of this forum. Shitposting for the sake of their post count and not thinking entirely about what they've just posted, if it will be useful or not.