I don't understand 100% what is merit system but through this thread, i am able to do so. Although it affects my ranking flow to go up, i still think it is for the best. We can atleast minimize spamming and will be encouraged to do quality posts. It is for the good of all and also for the new members to come, so that when they enter the forum, they can extract good and quality information about tge quiries on their minds.
To simplify you need to earned merit depends on your ranks needed. For example: Your currently position is Jr Member, you need to earned 10 merits before you promote into Member position. So even you have 120 activities if you can't collect merits base on your respective position, you can't ranked up. Even your activities is good for Hero Member, you can't ranked up.
It is a big challenges to us, because they need to evolve with our own. We need to shared our fruitful idea to others not shitty, because if we become contented to our position or else we can't grow up.
So take this merits systems as new challenges, cheer up for the growth of our community. I know all of them can do this.
You are correct, but how about us who have red trust, how can we ranked up? because of this negative trust most of the users can't believe and trust us. Yes merit points can given to us but the sad reality is still we can't join in some campaign. So whatever rank ups happen to us, whatever merits we received, we can't grow up because of this negative feedback appears in our accounts.