Quote from: serhio_coin88 on September 19, 2018, 09:05:48 PM

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And to solve this problem, I propose to the administration of the forum to introduce mandatory periodicity (for example, 1 merit per week) of receiving a merit by all forum participants, regardless of rank.

Quote from: serhio_coin88 on September 20, 2018, 01:15:27 PM

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First option:
Obligatory receiving of 1 merit during a week of activity for all participants, regardless of rank.

The second option:
For get the rank of junior member make it mandatory to receive 2 merits, and since this will have a short-term effect, then continue to add 1 merit

~~Allowing people to automatically gain merit, regardless of their posting quality, would completely undermine the purpose of the merit system.~~

~~If someone manages to stick around the forums for weeks on end, writing dozens of posts, without receiving even a single merit... than there's usually very good reasons for that.~~

Edit: Disregard the above, I misinterpreted OP.

Quote from: BQ on September 20, 2018, 01:56:20 PM

Isn't "spam" (as it's generally not literal spam, not advertisement etc it's just very useless posts), a good way for the site to grow in terms of .. outsider perspective?

Not really. The more a forum drowns in shitposts, the less interesting it is to people who actually want to use it and to companies wanting to advertise their services. Fluffing a community's activity with shitposts may work in the short term, but eventually it will catch up with you.