This one clearly hasn't so why does he get bashed to implement them?
This was answered in the first post:
Dude... stop paying spammers, problem solved.
IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB TO DEAL WITH THIS. You're abusing the forum by flooding it with spam and now you want the "community" to do the work for you for free. GTFO.
Increasing merit requirements and negative trust have nothing to do with spam. That's BS