Yeah, some due diligence is needed. The thing is they might make a really good post that would normally deserve some merit, but once they've received that merit they are just going to fall into old habits, and spam again because they've got their goal, and can continue earning via bounties.
Agree 100%. I'm already seeing some questionable posts from demoted noobs being merited, and I think all merit sources new and old should be a little less trigger happy. I understand Theymos wants the sources to be somewhat liberal with their sMerits, but some of these posts are just bloated messes like
this one. Then again, I don't know if chillcott got made a merit source or what the story is there. He could not be a source, he could be an alt, he could be a friend.
Whatever it is, though, that post sucked IMO. People often mistake post length for post quality, and that is NOT the case.