1 - Newbie starts a topic - copy/paste content from bitcoin-related article + link (so no plagiarism), no own thoughts nor any other contribution. Is it treated as spam and should it be reported to mods, or is it allowed and we should just ignore it?
2 - Would you reward a Newbie with his 1st merit point, if you see a decent post of his and/or engagement in discussion, but his posting history is, in vast majority, bounty-campaign proof posts? Do you consider such people as spammers, or you just ignore campaign-report posts? After all, they don't pollute the forum and are contained in dedicated threads.
1.I don't consider it as completely spam,maybe it is some helpful information required for the forum people but there is no effort from the person so it doesn't deserving merits in my opinion but some newbies copy paste very old articles which was already exhausted in that case we need to report them for spamming.
2.We can count the newbies among the crowd who is really creating helpful posts or topics in that case I may reward them with merits if he doesn't get any merit for that post.