Time wasted via post making can't be considered as a measurable criteria to reward someone that has ambiguous post with off point, the major factor we have to consider to reward a post is it contribution to the forum, actually some person's join BTT community without having the pre knowledge of bitcoin but within the forum they are enable to explain and expatiate or analyse the objectives of bitcoin, i think what the forum needs is contribution that will enhance benefit, educative measure to other people and especially our offsprings ( newbies), a larger comment without reasonable point is useless because it has no benefit to people or anyone
There is no point in repeating what I have already written in a previous post, but we cannot generalize things and say that something is a quality post or not, or that that post deserves 1 or 2 merits or deserves nothing. Everyone should read the post and try to understand it (and few read, even fewer of them understand what they read) before deciding whether the post is good, bad or just signature spam.
Do you know that some post's mislead some people, so such ambiguous post's that carries no vital information can be emulate or adopt by new users, so it's absolutely wrong to gather information that's not encouraging and post to the community, i prefer a meaningful short comment or post than all this big for nothing comments that's not understandable.
Of course, it can often be seen that someone writes a wall of text, all with the intention of hiding a link in it or just shilling a service - such a post not only has absolutely no value, but also violates the rules of the forum on advertising in posts. The forum as a community should work to try to steer individuals in the right direction, and this is done by every member who has good and fair criteria when it comes to valuing someone's contribution to the forum.
New members (and some old ones) are certainly confused when they see that logically poor quality posts are rewarded with merit - but merit is not always a measure of quality, but can be a reward for someone being funny, sarcastic or maybe even rude at some point.