Maybe, OP wanted to tell us that most of the spam are from Ranked members rather newbies.
Partly yes but, once (
alt/farmed) newbie spammers find it impossible to rank up, they might stop.
Member to Legendary spammers may eventually stop their spam business once they got listed in
SMAS or campaign managers established stricter requirements.
In addition to what @
FlightyPouch said, the most notable effect is now there's less newbie accounts that spam the
megathreads which may not be the majority of the spammers, but still a good immediate result.
Since there aren't too much new spammers joining, something like
SMAS will become more efficient by the
easier filtering job.
Perhaps, since spam has been being brought by bounties, and 0 merit to become a Jr Member to be able to join Altcoin bounties can be achieved by spamming, +5 merit should be required for newbies to become Jr and increase the Member merit requirement.
What I am trying to implement into campaigns I manage is users must have merits to join. I currently am allowing users without merits to join(partially), but have started paying higher rates to users with merits. Eventually I will make it a requirement to have merits in order to join campaigns I manage. I would also like to go as far as you must earn merits each week to stay in a campaign.
If all managers do something like I mentioned above, then eventually these shit accounts are phased out and not making any money anymore rendering their accounts useless. With the merit system being fairly new, I can't go full fledged merit crazy on everyone yet. Gotta give ppl a little time to earn some.
I am curious if a
Member (
10Merit) made it through the next rank
Full Member (
+90 earned Merit) is eligible to the full member slot since his 100merit was earned, not rank default.
A Full Member with 100 merit (
+90 total in the merit history) is better than a Full Member with 105 merit (
+5 in the Merit History), right?