Thank you for the full description, I was not aware Merit was so important. Hope to get to Member status one day 
Its so important to rank up and if you want to be accounted with your post that's a way to give reward for people who are contributing valuable post through the entire forum. And member will be a peanut to you once you starting to post valuable and informative things that are helping others to gain knowledge or help them with their problems, you can surely be there.