It baffles me how much they don't try to learn. I mean, probably one single day of reading and studying about bitcoin could probably be enough knowledge to somewhat earn merits. But nooo. They would prefer to complain instead with them saying that high-ranked members are biased, and that they only merit other people with high ranks. If anything, I actually prefer giving away merits to lower ranks. But unfortunately only a small percentage actually deserves it.
It may be helpful if there is a way bounty manager could be made to adjust their bounty rules to reflect a more decent forum, Asking a minimum of 15-25 post per week will invariably encourage spam. Imagine 100 participants, that will mean 1500-2500 for just a single project. Do that for just 100 ICOs, it gives you 150k-250K/week. There is no way we wont have spams with such rules.
5-7 post per week sounds reasonable to me.It's ok to just read what other persons are saying sometimes and respond only when you need to say something different
As much as how the fewer posts per week would work in decreasing spam, that's the opposite of what the advertisers want. They made campaigns for their project/site to gain more publicity; so of course they would want their bounty applicants to post as much as possible, for more publicity.