A fairly good system to help out on the ranking system. But not too sure if it is a good one because I personally think that the one where activities are slowly accumulated through time and not by the amount of post will encourage the community here to see long term.

Is there an official post to fully explain how the whole 'Merit' system works? Hope the 'Merit' system is full proof to prevent spams of merit scores on bitcointalk account just to achieve a higher rank. Much worse is that I foresee people are selling their Merit votes for some benefits or so.

Most importantly we should try to achieve genuine growth of ranks in the forum and encourage good quality post for the forum to blossom.

*And I tried pressing the "merit" button and we can actually merit our own post?  I wouldn't dare to merit myself incase I get demerit instead