Quote from: Pablo-wood on Today at 06:47:58 PM

I am not in any way disputing the fact that spamming exist. But since it is exclusively up to the user to figure out which post deserves merit or not, the best we can do is to report.

I think it would be great if LoyceV or TryNinja scrapes posts that got merited over an X-amount or if certain users keep getting a tiny number of merits through the users (If these users meriting are low ranked but keep on meriting the same person again and again for useless posts) then there something can be done, I don't know if such feature still exists. It will not provide a lot at first, but it will be good enough for someone to follow the trail and report here after this behavior keeps repeating itself.

Quote from: Pablo-wood on Today at 06:47:58 PM

I am yet to figure out the criteria for earning merit because based on how long I have been consistent, I am discovering that what seem constructive to a specific user might be unnecessary or spam to another.

Criteria for earning merit, to be honest: Even if I don't understand it entirely, I've noticed that self-conscious users will get more merit.

Quote from: Pablo-wood on Today at 06:47:58 PM

Moderators have a big role to play here. How about expressly reporting the moderators so actions can be taken almost immediately while you still have an archive of the post kept for reference.

Sometimes, I have seen even from Ninjastic.space topics/posts have not been archived after they've been deleted here on the forum by the OP or the moderators, so it might not work every time. You also don't need mods to interfere everywhere; they've their work to do.

Do you mean checking if mods delete the post you report that got a merit for being unworthy, do you have a reason for meriting a spam post, taking the mod's decision into consideration?

I don't know what tools people should use to trace unworthy merit posts; if there are any, then it would be better if we mention those in these threads based on more suggestions that might get us results for the betterment of the forum and might get someone to develop more tools.

I will mention those tools in the first post, thinking I should've made a 2nd reserved post for the materials for the hunters.