Thanks to merit system...i have lost all hopes now to rank up any way close to Sr.Member or even Full member ever...i think the users like me are in huge disadvantage now...because i dont think many users care about giving merit to anyone...i think if givers are 10 and recievers are thousands or even more in the ratio..even if some day i get lucky and some one give me merit...it will take many decades to reach Sr.Member like that...
Also the fact that a user can give only half the merit he recieved and all those concepts i think are huge disadvantage for a user like me...
I know this issue has been raised many times and i shared my feeling which is this is really unfair for all the users like me
Your first target should be to achieve the member rank which requires only 10 merit points. You have got 0 so far and thus you are doing something wrong for sure. Please do not spend your energy on wrong things. You are wasting time on something you cannot control i.e change in the forum rules. I am sure that the admin will make necessary changes to the merit system if he feels like. Based on the past threads making similar complaints like the one you made, I think it will take at least 5-r months.