Without coming up with a Merit Ponzi scheme I'll doubt I'll be ranking up anytime soon.
There is infinite number of merits. There are merit sources who are receiving smerits every month so they can merit posts. You can't invest in merit, you can't buy merit, merit don't have end, btw do you know what ponzi scheme is?it would be interesting to see actual numbers, maybe who/how many people are getting promoted to a new rank, before to say blindly "it works" ?
I see only few members+ got enough merit to rank up, but merit is only 2 weeks old you can't expect to see results in such short time period.I fully do not understand this merit system, Please let me know whether newbie or jr member can give merit to any one?
By default, newbies and junior members don't have merits, but for every 2 smerit they receive they can send 1 smerit to other users. Rankings are very hard to achieve now, it will be another 3+ years until I see Hero now..haha
If you continue to write short posts it might take 6+ years 