Why not make Merit and sMerit crypto tokens?
It's pointless, over complicated, doesn't need to have the properties of a token, and should be free to give, and not cost gas or whatever the fee is called for other chains with tokens.
To be honest I don't really want to post anything. I just want to lurk around and choose my participation on my own and I have been around bitcoin for a long time yet my rank is "only" member. The requirements of bitcointalk and signature campaigns force many people ,including myself, to make really dumb ass posts. The entire system of "activity" and "merits" actually creates the very thing it tries to prevent because it creates an incentive for people to create signature campaigns around ranks which require posts, including shit-posts, to participate in.
Then don't post. Rank doesn't matter if you just lurk. Better than the countless one liners you have in your past history.