So... summing up for most of you activity seems to have almost no metter...
And despite my intention expressed in topic of this thread... we came back to merit again ;-)
A more effective idea to remove bounties from spoiling the forum would be to remove the ability to merit in bounty threads or boards.
I like the idea of removing the ability to merit in bounty threads very much! It pisses me off when I see post with twitter/facebook raport or even airdrop application rewarded with merit. It's such a shamelss behavior.... One sholud at least pretends writing one post in any other topic. So cutting this possibility off (as well as not counting bounty posts to activity parameter) would make me feel a little bit better.
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It will not resolved the problem try to figure out if it will happen then where will these people go? Spamming on META section just to get merit!
It's already happen, but at least some of them try to write something in full sentences with any meaning.