zeref dragneel will never earn merit. Ever. I just left a neutral "shitposter" tag on his profile as well. This supports my thesis that shitposters have no clue how bad their posts are, nor why they're not getting merits. And dragboob here is getting put on ignore, which I would advise everyone to do.
I am curious by this, do you watch anime @The Pharmacist ? His name comes from anime called fairy tail and it is about magic,
dragon ,and
boob, so
dragboob is kinda a good word to refer to this member

And i am totally agree that some people doesnt have a clue about the quality of their posts and sometimes they are over confidence, well maybe because they dont learn enough because they are too busy to earn. Even some of higher rank doesnt have enough confidence to says " my post is good but i dont get merits". This kind of overconfidence newbie really deserves an ignore.
Why not put account that opened for bounties access limit to alternative cryptocurrencies only, because that is what required to earn rewards in most campaign anyway, and use this merit system to control their posting quality there.
Just put button on member profile page asking if the account is for bounty hunting purpose and set their account access accordingly, once this is up we should report any account promoting program out of alternate cryptocurrencies and set their account to bounty hunter.
Account that are not created for bounty or as some of us put it "learning" just go as normal using the old system.
Once again, this is not a forum to earn money, it is for a bitcoin lover and other crypto enthusiast to engage and do something good for the community. Making a criteria like that will encourage people to earn money only without engaging to each other, without learning process, etc. And who would merit them if they all dont give a contribution (high quality posts etc) to this forum and can only join into single board? The best chance they have will be the higher ranks that do bounty too and the chance there will be a lot of merit farming will be higher.
So from me, merit is working, not perfect, but merit doing a great job in this first month, i hope it will have a greater impact from this moment.