Why majority of the post here is about merits??
Its because users are having trouble to increase their rank, with the new system being a requirement for ranking an account which most users here in this are here for the sole purpose of joining the signature campaign. It hurts users with mass accounts cheating signature and bounty campaign for money.
Two solutions, removing signatures globally, or charging a fee per post for anybody with paid or unpaid signatures.
Removing signature globally will kill this forum from having visitors. We all know that having signature campaign is the one the brings traffic to this forum unlike other crypto relative forum. Without enough traffic advertiser wont waste money to put ads here which is necessary to pay all the bills for maintaining the forum.
Forum doesn't need money or traffic, this place used to be the one place, where all the Core and other developers used to be active, people were coming here, because they needed to discuss Bitcoin with the experts. signature campaigns were using that to advertise. now there are only the people posting with signatures for the money, devs are not here anymore, and the few still around are busy with young camgirls.