Right! Merit system won't decrease spamming threads; but it will increase quality of threads in large scale. That's enough (at least for me) for the forum.
1) It will not decrease shit posts number, may be even increase it. Why? Simply because new merit system doesn'trestrict anyone from posting and only fews trying to gain it, while all the rest don't give a f :)ck and keep generating tons of posts.
What did you imply by saying "in need of merit"? I guess you wanted to mention merit beggars. Honestly, they don't deserve merit points, so please forget it.
Something like abuse the topic to complain, cry, moan about merit system with hopelessly hope that merit system will be inactivated in the forum. No chance, so let's accept the system.
3) The guys (mostly that are already who have enough merit to take a bath with it) who saying something like "it's not hard to be exceptional poster and get merit" - all of your merit is gained by exceptional quality posts..?