Reporter badge already has proposed by admin. Most likely he is working on it. One merit for 500 good report isn't big deal for forum. I don't think new people will encourage to make report only for single merit. Those can make 500 good report they can make one quality post and will receive more than one merit. So merit is not main fact for that. Those are reporting now they will continue even there is no reward. Actually we are reporting what we don't like really. Obviously its good for forum.
On the other hand detect spam post will very hard for spambie. So they will report wrong post and mod will too busy. It will be more better if we can motivate peoples for make good post. Even here is merit system peoples still doing spam so we can't stop spammer by the way. Just we can try to motivate them.
But who wants a reporter badge ? seriously the psychology of that is just not great.
I face serious scammers and scamming projects face on. Spammers and sig chasers are often probably desperate and poor individuals/kids who i do not feel good about reporting at all. Or if they are bots you will never stop them with reporting because they don't need any requirement to shill post with others fake conversations for the icos coding them out.
I would rather have myself a promoter badge or something to indicate I am giving merits to worthy people from the junior boards I would introduce. Or rather just one board that is clearly clearly needed an alt discussion junior board. Senior alt board ( current one would require 5 or 10 merit to post on)
the alt discussion board is the one that has been destroyed... bitcoin discussion is still usable really.