I think everyone can have a chance to rank up; when I read about the new merit system my first thought was "ok, gg, I'll never reach the next rank".. my second thought was "ok, let's try and put some effort on my next posts, let's try to give something to this forum"
I made few posts and I got rewarded; as long as people keep sending sMerits I think it's definitely possible, a lot harder but still possible
That's it. That's the way Merits and sMerits circulate in the merit system, right? With the new system, users might feel hard, just a little bit difficult, to be ranked up, but it is really possible.
Old users seems to feel dissapointed simply and partially because the system launched at the wrong time, at least for their specific cases. However, new users don't care about the time, right? They will start from all zeros, including zero post, zero activity, zero merit score. They have so much time to collect enough activities, merits for themselves.
Let's adapt to merit system.