Hahaha you hit the nerve, I was thinking also, if I would be Stock with Jr. Member for a year with thousand of post and no one gives me merit, I'll be laughing stock, just asking if we could get merit in another way if no one gives me and I'm not planning to buy point from others, because we need also to rank up because you'll be Stock with. . 5 stake every bounty end.... You know my point?
Do you want to say that there will not be enough participants for bounties ? I guess that is not true because of two reasons:
1) There are already huge number of members and above rank who got these ranks be default.
2) A lot of new members are getting merits and ranking up.