Let's be serious now 17 since the merit was introduced what about the previous years. Also I don't think it is worth giving merit to a legend since he is already at the top level. I'm sure many others see it the same way.

The idea has merit and you can still post on the junior boards.

Perhaps we can bring it down to 50 merit.

I see things getting worse so I don't see we have any option but to introduce something like this.

I see no actual valid reason to not introduce it.

There has been no good rebuttal so far.

People claiming there can be workarounds is fine but they require more hassle, time and money in most cases this will cause a reduction in the things we all want to see reduced.

Imagine if reporting to a mod is the only way forward. It is just not feasible to have such a manual system for such volume.

The noob jail was removed because it was manual and of course too much work. Still it was something we all had to go through.

The 50 merit is not as bad as a noob jail because you will have many good posters in there still building their 50 merit and the quality will be far higher on the entire board because bot spammers and puppet accounts will have less and less reason to exist.