That's definitely true, all of what you said.

Regardless of what OP thinks is or isn't going on here with respect to the merit system, I have to say this:  Things are better now than they were before January 2018 when the merit system was dropped on us like the 10 commandments from Moses.  Even if there is shitpostin'-a-plenty, which there still is.  The fact is that the new system is making it harder for the idiots to rank up their whole stable of alts, and thus it makes it harder for them to farm accounts--harder to sell them, buy them, you name it.  I suspect many of the signature campaign spammers just haven't realized yet that they're not getting a "job promotion" within the next decade and haven't gotten around to giving up yet.  But they will.

Plus I've most certainly seen that many users have improved their posts dramatically.  That in and of itself is good news for bitcointalk.

And speaking of snip, you best throw them hands in the warshing-machine and cut them funky-ass fingernails before posting a picture of them on bitcointalk.  Yeesh!