The reality is, merits are not for longest post you can construct, rather its for ideas that are useful to readers especially to those who already know what cryptos is all about and just looking for additional information.
Well, that seems now the old members of bct forums will have a great advantage and new users will try to earn reputation really hard
and I'd say 100 merits for full member is to harsh imho..
Your posts are fairly average (just skimming recent ones) and it's also mainly posts in the alts boards, giveaway/bounty threads and off topic so the 100 merit target is quite high for you. I think generally all positions are quite high (other than the member rank, 10 is about right for that one) and would worry about reaching them myself if I wasn't legendary by the time the system came into effect.