Bounty managers who don't do their job and pay spammers are the reason we have the Merit system. Making them merit sources would be just as bad as removing Merit entirely.
Exactly my point, bounty managers should have been the people to implement good post in the forum, but most of them don't care about the spam post in the forum, they care about their marketing in the forum, if they care about the forum, how can they ask the signature members to make a minimum of 15 - 20 post per week? assuming the signature campaign have 300 members, that will translate into 300 X 20 = 6,000 post per week for that bounty alone. Spam freely forum should have started with the bounty managers, but most of them are not living by it.