Merit system is the best idea to prevent spammers from making free money(bounties).
Merit prevents shitposters from ranking up. It does not control the spam. Spam and shitposting is controlled by our mods who have to clean up the diarrhoea of the bounty spammers. What is ironic is that some people come to this forum to make some cash through these bounties and feed their lowlife families - but if you ban them form the forum for shitposting then they start complaining and call it "racism"
I would suggest that there should be a merit requirement or rank to enter the bounties section for further spam prevention.
This is promote more merit trading because of the people who want to join the campaign but is being opposed from doing so because of merit requirement.