I'd say require at least 1 Merit to post in the altcoin section.
Paid bumping services have evolved after recent changes to deal with them. They went from 35 accounts per thread to about 500. It has completely broken the altcoin board.
Spammers create thousands of accounts at a time now.
That'll make for spam on the bitcoin section.
If a user makes 200 alts and has 200 airdropped smerit then they could have 200 bots ready to go and then the bot spamming business becomes qujite a prevmium one with high prices for bot spamming...
Can we not just get managers to click "additional options" >"self-moderated topic"?