Hi,
I thought merit would help with the spam but i still see as much crap from newbies as before.
Took a look at marketplace and found out why! Jr. member accounts are being sold as well. And for third world the sum is probably quite decent.
Maybe Theymos was to kind, and there should be 5 merit as requirement for jr.member.
If you cant earn any merit your probably should not even be jr. member. It is hard to get merit, but 5 merit should be possible for most people over time.
Unless they only post meaningless shitposts and in bounty threads off course but cant say i feel sorry for thoose

Merit system is just like having a pretty face on facebook and getting like from it and If you didn't have that pretty face then no likes for you. Sometimes it's also for fame, or friendliness. I don't think that if you post high quality comments here you would get merited, it's just that you need some friends to send you merits or some people you could make fun of. It's not the quality, it's people on people.