I hope everyone will read this thing, so they can learn to give some opportunity to other for them to grow also. Merit system is a good thing to maintain the quality of this forum but people should be fair no matter what your rank is, even if someone are having red trust as long as its a good post he still deserve it.
I think higher rank is fair enough sending their smerit they tossed merit to the deserving people who did constructive post that may help many members of the forum.
But of course there are some members send their merit to their friends "alt account" helping to ranked up and will be qualified to join in signatute campaign which is their main purpose in this forum.
We need to work hard for our own asses and dont beg for it.
That is the inevitable right now, every condition must have a weakness loophole. But I think it can be minimized by increasing our active role to the forum, we can provide feedback on some quality posts and also not. I think that is one way to avoid that. With the enactment of this system can actually reduce spammers and scammers, it is very helpful to improve the quality level of a forum. Yes here are many people who are looking for money with the agreed level account requirements, it is risky because as you say that alt accounts can make a system lied to. Once again that feedback we provide is the thing we must do in order to improve this system.