This merit thing will not prevent shitposter from ranking up. If a person is a good quality poster but no one wants to give him/her merit theres nothing he/she can do with that. Unlike those one liner posters and shitposters they will still get merit if the member wants to give him merit. I saw a lot of shit post and one lined post that recieved merits.
I do not expect .....
I see someone will benefit from people who have smerit but unfortunately smerit is given to someone who does not create a quality message