It is hard only for shitposters. Someone with the sense of writing quality posts will have no problems though. And, it needs equal efforts for a newbie or a Sr. member to rank up after the Merit system has been implemented. So anyone with any rank can only rise up if they can contribute something to the forum, otherwise they should find some other source to earn a few bucks instead of wasting their time here as it won't work anymore for them (I'm talking about signature campaign spammers).

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Hey, how did you get those Merits?   Don't tell me you are a quality poster. Do you have any friends here in the forum?   I guess so.



P.S: Sorry for being off-topic in the second portion of my post.