The merit system is very useful but we just need to leverage the power of it a little more.

You can learn lot's of stuff here still. I learned about scare quotes just the other day. These are like magic. You can use them to get people red trust or just mutate anything they didn't say into a ban if you are lucky.

Now the best idea would be scrap merit and ban all sigs. Sadly NO WAY IN HELL THE PHARMACIST WILL POST WITHOUT GETTING PAID.
He has told me that in no uncertain terms.

Only noobs must not spam for bucks.