I find it highly annoying when people complain about merit, and they haven't bothered to spell check the word.
Google:
Did you mean: merritt I talk in my sleep, and and my wife asked me who is that Merrit I am talking to whole night, I didn't know what to say, she asked me am I cheating her with Merrit and finally I had to tell her about my relationship with Merrit.
That leaves only one solution: she should sign up too, and share your relationship with Merrit.
Any post or thread about merit where it complains about it should be deducted the creator of the complain 1 Merit,
and if he does not have any then there are minus merits!
But.... Among all the serious posts, I love to be able to show some sarcasm once in a while! Merit turned out to be the best way to do so

Actually paying one merit to start any thread (not just merit-related) might be a good idea.
If that would have been implemented from the start, I would have lost 31 Merit. A small price to pay for a cleaner forum! And, on average, I've earned much more Merit per thread, which would make 1 Merit per thread a good
investment.
Why are the Newbie zombie spambots in this thread not nuked yet? I've reported one saying this: "
There's a plague of Newbie accounts in the last 2 pages of this thread, writing generic shitposts, rewriting other posts, or it's just a word-mixing-bot. Many accounts were created on the same date, all spamming in a similar manner. Please check the thread, and nuke all that deserve it." (I don't usually create reports this long)
Let's see what happens.