The newbies, especially the ones who wanted to increase their rank are struggling with the limitations that some are spending money to buy copper.
Patience and perseverance is the key to increase your level. Every achievement that comes from hard work is sweeter than those things you had easy. It is so fulfilling that you started from the bottom and you are slowly going up to the top. No person can become adult immediately no matter how much they want it because there are certain things we learn while we grow up and priceless experiences. We must learn to take things slowly, limitations are made because it gives us lessons that everything does not come unlimited.

Merit is playing its own role in the ground although it needs to be improved,
there were valid points coming from the members.
If you analyse past one months members activity then it is really clear that lots of improvements we are seeing. When you trust a group of people and allow them to make decision for you then you have to accept what they decide despite it's right or wrong. We human always get biased when it comes to make a decision.
This current system would be a better one if we could make better decision on giving sMerit to someone, although the current merit system needs some twist to improve in my opinion. Some members are really misusing the merits.