Why did they actually introduce measures and what are its main functions?
There you go (Official announcement by Theymos)
I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
Do not beg for merit excessively.
One more thing, Theymos said that he has already consider about the last solution if merit system failed to control spammers, totally remove signature campaigns out of the forum, totally destroy this industry to destroy spammers.