I personally think that the system of merit points that the forum started to work with is launched after a precise study.
A lot of users are making stupid posts with no useful content just to ameliorate their ranks and earn much more money.
The forum becomes full with empty content posts. So i do believe in this new technic which represents a control system that fixes the upgrade criteria.
Yeah! Pretty agree, this new merit system are meant to build control over users of bitcointalk. It is also a fair assessment for me to rank up properly and reasonably. This is much better rather than letting users to rank up then as a snap of a finger they will lose their accounts due to negative trust given for making less quality posts.