I'm not in favor of restricting or removing posting rights for lower ranked members in Meta, or in any other board for that matter. I don't think it's fair to punish the handful of interested and non-shitposting newbies because of the actions of others. I am, however, in favor of removing signatures from everything below Member rank, requiring 10 merits (or perhaps more) to display a signature. This does not restrict anyone from getting involved in the forum, and means only the good newbies will ever rank up enough to join a campaign, thereby greatly reducing campaign spamming.

TMAN is right, however - the word is spreading that Meta is the place to go to earn merits. Just look at this thread from a few hours ago in Altcoin Discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5046582.0



We need to be selective about handing out merits to beggars, whilst also reporting these threads for deletion.