Right! Merit system won't decrease spamming threads; but it will increase quality of threads in large scale. That's enough (at least for me) for the forum.
Far from being a fact. There are people who think their post is good, but it is objectively not. So after noticing it won't bring them merit they will do another one (and in repeat). So instead of one useless post which people used to do to get 1 merit (which was equivalent to activity) they will do 2-10 posts.
What did you imply by saying "in need of merit"? I guess you wanted to mention merit beggars. Honestly, they don't deserve merit points, so please forget it.
It is clearly what I implied - there are many merit eligible posts and people merit ones, which don't need it. Nothing about beggars, you got it wrong.
Something like abuse the topic to complain, cry, moan about merit system with hopelessly hope that merit system will be inactivated in the forum. No chance, so let's accept the system.
In case of crying and moaning - yes, there is no chance for changing. But if make it constructive, like I tried, someone from stuff may consider it reasonable.