I haven't been much around the last couple of months and all of a sudden a Merit system has been integrated. I think it works fine. If I compare the quality of posts in main boards, now it's much more helpfull than it used to be.
But it looks like the spam moved to the local boards. If I take a look at the Dutch boards, lots of s****y projects are posted there. I also see a lot of spam and discussions that, in my opinion, don't belong on Bitcointalk. Also I see a lot of bounty hunters over there, posting things you can't take serious.
Can we do something about this and introduce a Merit system for local boards only? So that it is also needed to post quality on those local boards and prevent people from posting spam and worthless content?
Or is this just a problem for the local Dutch board?
I think it's in the users hand to bring good quality posts in the local boards, In the past months i have been making some good quality posts in the Spanish boards, sometimes i start discussions just to try to get people more involved and even i make a giveaway with a post talking about brainwallets. So, not only sharing the knowledge, i'm doing that on a dynamic way.
Is easy for all to complain about the post quality and spam, and after chewing it a lot, I think the best thing to do is to fix things with our own hands, and give an example to the newbies about how it should be done.
So, if your local board is filled with spam, bring them a nice post, for sure you can do it.