That is a good idea somehow but my opinion before that we need a clear path to go legendary for even newbies who working hard.but with the merit system a person who working hard can not earn merit and up their forum ranks no one give merits for good posts and some shitposts have bunch of merits soo we need a great solution for motivate who try to do good thing in forum in any rank
A new rank, with a merit award requirement, might help this situation, as the people with the largest bank of merits would have to distribute to 'level up'.
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You have to help yourself by writing something that is not filler, spam or junk.